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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Im DFG-Projekt "Prosodisch-akustische Natürlichkeit in Face-To-Face-Interaktionen in virtuellen Umgebungen mit Embodied Conversational Agents in verschiedenen Situationstypen (PIA)" ist eine Promotionsstelle (65%) zum 01.01.2027 für 3 Jahre besetzen. Bewerbungsfrist: 30.09.2026 uni.koeln/E4XAZ

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Our lab was represented with two talks at LabPhon 20 🇨🇦

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Dr Lena Matyjek @lmatyjek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A bit late (social media aren't my thing), but... It was a pleasure to co-chair a symposium on Multimodal Coordination in Naturalistic Social Interactions with @antoniahamilton.bsky.social , @judithholler.bsky.social and Simon Wehrle @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social at #ESCAN2026 @escaneu.bsky.social!

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

As a follow-up initiative of the lecture series on Storytelling, organised by Anna Bonifazi (Diskurs Linguistik) and Sonja Gipper (Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft) in the Institute of Linguistics, Simon Wehrle has been invited to give a presentation on neurodiversity and language.

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is a new paper 📄 from our lab, which we hope will help researchers save time and improve reproducibility in studies of cognitive and linguistic individual differences.

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Fresh 📄 Our lab's new publication on the prominence cueing potential of edge tones in German. Read it in LabPhon 👇

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Today is the first day of Speech Prosody 2026, and we’re excited to be part of it — joining online this year! 🌍💻 We’re proud to share all contributions from our lab, including talks, posters, and collaborative work presented throughout the conference. 👇 You can find all our contributions below.

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

+++ open doctoral postion +++ Project A08 “The Role of Pauses in Prominence Marking” of the Collaborative Research Center 1252 „Prominence in Language" seeks to fill a doctoral position (65%, 25.89 hours/week) from August 01, 2026 until July 31, 2029. Application deadline: 05.06.2026 uni.koeln/G4J2T

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

📣New paper! In a corpus of conversational interaction, we found a different rhythm of turn-taking in autistic speaker pairs, along with an effect of conversational context. Across groups, speakers adjusted silent-gap length to balance interactional preferences with communicative efficiency.

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A new book chapter by Aviad Albert and Martine Grice has been recently published by Cambridge University Press. 📕 The chapter appears in a new collection of contemporary perspectives on rhythm in language, edited by Lars Meyer and Antje Strauß.

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Last month, Simon Wehrle presented joint work with Malin Spaniol, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice at INSAR 2026, the world's largest autism research conference in Prague 🇨🇿. It was a great chance to learn about the latest research in the field and connect with colleagues from around the world! 🤩

Poster presentation at INSAR 2026 - "Autistic dyads produce longer silent gaps and less mutual gaze: Evidence from face-to-face interaction.

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

🎉 Big congratulations to Malin Spaniol! On Monday, October 6th, Malin successfully defended her PhD thesis: ✨ "Face to Face: Exploring Human Social Interaction through Gaze, Speech, and Neurodiversity" We’re proud of her achievement and excited to see where her research journey takes her next! 👏🥳

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We’re proud to celebrate @marialialiou.bsky.social ’s dissertation being published as a book with Language Science Press! Even better, it’s open access—making research accessible to all. Congratulations, Maria! 🎉

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

On Wednesday, Simon Wehrle gave a talk on "Autism and (what it can teach us about) prosody" in the Speech Prosody Lecture Series (sprosig.org/lectures.html). Don't worry if you missed it, you can still watch it on Youtube: www.youtube.com/live/vAMy_Y4...

Poster advertising a talk by Simon Wehrle in the Speech Prosody Lecture Series entitled Autism and what it can teach us about prosody.

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🎉Fresh from the press 📄 New paper out from our lab, led by Martine Grice. Martine and her co-authors (M. Savino, M. Lialiou, A. Albert, & P. Schumacher) investigated the perception of prominence in words with different focus structures in Italian. 🧵(1/3)

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

🎉The IPA PhD Thesis Award Committee announced the winner of the IPA Thesis Award 2024: (Our) Simona Sbranna, from the University of Cologne, with a thesis titled 'Developing linguistic competence in second language learning: Fluency and prosody in Italian learners of German’. (1/2)

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

📣The CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" is now advertising 12 PhD positions (2025-2028) in multiple different projects. The application deadline is January 17. Find more information below: sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/about-the...

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

In this week's colloquium, our @marialialiou.bsky.social gave a talk on the attention-orienting function 📢of domain-final rises 🎵 and the role of individual variability 👥, presenting evidence from pupillometry 👁️.

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The call for the fellowship program 2025 at the CRC "Prominence in Language" in Cologne is out now! See the link below for more details!

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Today, we welcomed Valentina Schiattarella from the University of Naples, L'Orientale to our kolloquium. Valentina gave a talk on Prosody in Siwi Berber🎵. She is also currently a visiting fellow at the SFB 1252 here in Cologne!

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

New paper out from our lab led by Juliane Zimmermann. Juliane and her co-authors (T. M. Ellison, F. Cangemi, S. Wehrle, K. Vogeley, & M. Grice) write about lookers and listeners on the autism spectrum: the roles of gaze duration and pitch height in inferring mental states 🧵(1/5)

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ifl-phonetik.bsky.social @ifl-phonetik.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Next week (2-3/12)🗓️, Simon Wehrle, from our lab, will give an invited keynote talk 🧑‍💼at the Multimodality in Social Interactions (2.0) workshop in Marseille 🇫🇷. The talk will be on Gaze, intonation, and turn-taking across neurotypes and conversational contexts. 🧵(1/2)

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