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Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin

@labphon-zas.bsky.social
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Our research is devoted to biological, linguistic & social aspects of speech production, perception & its reception, as well as language attitudes & linguistic stereotypes #sociolinguistics, #multimodality, #speech prod., #perception, #sounds, #acoustic

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Hannah mit Helm @hannahrrativ.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In this paper with Lara S. Burchardt & Ludger Paschen, today published 🤩in #ANYAS we compare speech rhythms in 48 languages on a broad temporal scale (Inter-Onset-Interval) and find that it is consistent and actually comparable to various non-human animal rhythms. doi.org/10.1111/nyas...
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We analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds.,...
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Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin @labphon-zas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Considering the whole body, including #postural stability affects acoustics of #speech, but not #fluency related measures, see new work in JASA. Thanks for this team effort with Mingtong, Eric & @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. The corpus is #OA on doi.org/10.5281/zeno... pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...
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Perturbing postural stability affects acoustic properties but not fluency of adult speech production during face-to-face interaction
Physical constraints, particularly those that challenge postural stability and control, may measurably influence speech production. This experimental study inve
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New #OA corpus doi.org/10.5281/zeno... by Mingtong Li, Jiahao Eric Yang, @suzanneaussems.bsky.social. In short: 60 adults (30 pairs) play an interactive word guessing game. What is special: The clue giver is in situations under postural (in)stability (standing on the ground or on a wobble board)!!
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The corpus includes videos using multiple camera angles (motion analysis), lapel microphones (speech), and a gyroscope attached to the wobble board (balance). Clue-giver and guesser speech was transcribed in detail at the trial-level and transcripts are part of the corpus.
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
If you are interested in carrying out a #multimodal experiments with more or less expertise - check this out (authors of the SPP #ViCom) “Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework” is now published and is available at doi.org/10.1177/2515...
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Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework - Anastasia Bauer, Patrick C. Trettenbrein, Federica Amici, Aleksandra Ćwiek, Lisa-Marie Krause, Anna K...
Contemporary research on language and communication has expanded beyond its traditional focus on spoken and written forms to encompass signing, gestures, facial...
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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Now published! We studied the relationship between movement and sound in the singing Siamang, by multi-source acoustic-kinematic tracking two juvenile individuals from Jaderpark Tierpark Germany. escholarship.org/content/qt10... @mouniakehy @marcogamba.bsky.social @andrearavignani.bsky.social
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Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin @labphon-zas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
🎉 New paper out by a member of our group! Are speakers sensitive to lexical bias effects in their own auditory feedback? And do such effects shape speech production? 🚨 Spoiler in the title! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #phonetics #auditoryfeedback #lexicalbias
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Lexical Bias Effects do not Influence Responses to Real-Time Temporal Auditory Feedback Perturbation - Miriam Oschkinat, Eva Reinisch, Philip Hoole, 2026
In speech perception, listeners tend to hear real words rather than non-words on a physically balanced real word—non-word continuum (lexical bias effect). Bourg...
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Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin @labphon-zas.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Are you interested in how people #cheer for long distance runners? There are some specific #prosodic patterns, nicely explained by Marzena Zygis from #ZAS also for laymen. run.outsideonline.com/road/road-ra... If you want to read the paper, it is here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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The Way You Cheer on Runners Is Objectively Weird (and Beneficial). Science Explains
A recent study found that cheering is an incredibly unique form of speech with four main patterns. Which do you prefer?
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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
🎓✨ Students — This One’s for You! ✨🎓 Are you planning to attend the 190th ASA Meeting in Philadelphia? Don’t let travel costs hold you back, there are funding opportunities available to help you get there! acousticalsociety.org/philadelphia-…
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Jenneke van der Wal @jennekevanderwal.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Also, did you know that our wonderful Journal of African Languages and Linguistics is open access? Via subscribe to open (S2O) anyone has access this year! @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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Journal of African Languages and Linguistics
Starting 2025, Journal of African Languages and Linguistics will be transferred to Gold Open Access on a year-by-year basis. All articles will thus immediately appear under the Creative Commons licens...
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Šárka Kadavá @sarkadava.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
You can read the preprint here 👉🏼 sarkadava.github.io/docs/Kadava_... [6/6]
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Šárka Kadavá @sarkadava.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Starting at the top: your head literally changes your voice. 🧠 Tilting your head up raises your pitch — because your laryngeal muscles are physically connected to the muscles that move your head. Check out the new paper from @acwiek.bsky.social and @susfuchs.bsky.social in Open Mind! [2/6]
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The Scope and Limits of Iconic Prosody: Head Angle Predicts f0 Changes While Object Size Effects Are Absent
Abstract. The relation between the fundamental frequency of the voice (f0) and vertical space has been shown in previous studies; however, the underlying mechanisms are less clear. This study investig...
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Some knowledge that was new to me while writing this review with my colleagues: 1. The respiratory system, i.e. how thorax and abdomen work together is very different in young infants 2. Empirical data on the coordination between motion and breathing are very limited
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Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin @labphon-zas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Analysing cheering events for marathon runners... How would cheer them? Our colleagues studied prosodic patterns of cheering. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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The prosody of cheering in sports events: the case of long-distance running
Since cheering has not yet been systematically investigated from a phonetic perspective, this study explores its acoustic characteristics by focusing on a specific type of cheering: inciting calls dir...
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Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin @labphon-zas.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
A new study from our lab - connecting f0 with head motions: The Scope and Limits of Iconic Prosody: Head Angle Predicts f0 Changes While Object Size Effects Are Absent url: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...
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The Scope and Limits of Iconic Prosody: Head Angle Predicts f0 Changes While Object Size Effects Are Absent
Abstract. The relation between the fundamental frequency of the voice (f0) and vertical space has been shown in previous studies; however, the underlying mechanisms are less clear. This study investig...
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Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin @labphon-zas.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
New study just out in Linguistic Typology on word-internal pauses in 44 languages! We found that pausing within word units is surprisingly common cross-linguistically, especially around prefixes. Check out the paper for all the details! (Open Access!) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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The ubiquity of word-internal pauses
This paper presents a cross-linguistic survey of 738 word-internal pauses in 44 languages from DoReCo, a multilingual corpus of spontaneous speech. Word-internal pauses are attested in a variety of co...
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ZAS Berlin @zasberlin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Am 11.12.2025 wurde Prof. Dr. Angelika Wöllstein in die „Wall of Fame“ des ZAS aufgenommen: eine Ehrung für Menschen, die das Institut besonders geprägt haben. Sie war 2016–2023 Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats des ZAS (6 Jahre Vorsitz) und heute noch Ombudsperson Das ZAS sagt Danke!
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Aleksandra Ćwiek @acwiek.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social "Scope and limits of iconic prosody." It all started in 2018. First results at CogSci 2019, then for my PhD. This is a complete re-analysis! doi.org/10.1162/OPMI... Thanks to @susfuchs.bsky.social Manfred Krifka, and Cornelia Ebert 💛 + editors + reviewers
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The Scope and Limits of Iconic Prosody: Head Angle Predicts f0 Changes While Object Size Effects Are Absent
Abstract. The relation between the fundamental frequency of the voice (f0) and vertical space has been shown in previous studies; however, the underlying mechanisms are less clear. This study investig...
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
How to elicit natural speech in different communicative settings in a controlled laboratory setting? Cool work in progress using virtual reality was presented by Miriam Oschkinat from #SFB1412 today at the linguistics CRC networking meeting in Bielefeld hosted by #CRC1646 @labphon-zas.bsky.social
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wimpouw @wimpouw.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.
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Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin @labphon-zas.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If you are interested in f0, have a look at the new paper from our lab on f0 across generations in 717 German speakers. pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/arti...
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Register effects of imagined addressees on f0 across generations
This study analyzed fundamental frequency (f0) data from 717 German speakers, collected via the Plapper smartphone app, to investigate phonetic variation as a f
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
New preprint, a review of infant #vocal and #motor #rhythm research, a suggestion to include #respiration in future research. It us work with Elina Rubertus, Aude Noiray and Laura Koenig www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Towards a fuller integration of respiratory rhythms into research on infant vocal and motor development
PDF | Rhythm organizes many human motor activities from before birth and continues to shape development throughout infancy. In this review, we examine... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...
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Acoustical Society of America @asa-news.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This open-access book will serve as a valuable resource for students and researchers in animal ecology seeking to incorporate acoustics into their research toolkit, as well as for environmental managers in industry and government. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Underwater scene with coral reef, colorful fish, and an scientific instrument capturing animal sounds for behavioral study.
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Susanne Fuchs @susfuchs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Are lifetime changes in mean f0 (high or low pitched voice) of female speakers due to hormonal changes or age? It's not hormones, according to a study presented at #interspeech2025 by Melanie Weirich and Adrian Simpson from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...
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ISCA Archive - Investigating effects of sex hormones, cycle phases and age on female fundamental frequency
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Laboratory Phonology Group at ZAS in Berlin @labphon-zas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Neuer Podcast von Elina Rubertus, jetzt am @zasberlin.bsky.social in unserer Gruppe über Wege in den Beruf, verschiedene Rollen als Wissenschaftlerin und Mama. Hört gerne rein!!!
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Aleksandra Ćwiek @acwiek.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
What a pleasure it was to join the Across Acoustics podcast by Kat Setzer from @asa-news.bsky.social together with @susfuchs.bsky.social We talked about our special issue on #iconicity and #sound #symbolism. It was lots of fun! Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1537384/epis... #langsky #linguistics
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Iconicity and Sound Symbolism - Across Acoustics
For a long time, it was believed that words were mostly arbitrary symbols. However, with advances in our ability to study speech, it has become clear that we must reconsider the fundamental relationsh...
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