Current Research Topics
- Phonetics and Phonology of Kiezdeutsch
- Reductive Phenomena in Fast Speech in German
- Prosodic Restructuring in Slow Speech in German
- Prosodic Expressions of Focus in Complex Tone Languages
Member of the following research projects
- since 01/2008
Constituent Based Boundary Phenomena (PB1, ZAS) - 09/2003 - 06/2007
Signalparametrische Ausprägung von Hervorhebung und Gliederung lautsprachlicher Äußerungen im Sprachvergleich (D3, SFB632 Informationsstruktur, HU Berlin & Univ. Potsdam - 03/1994 - 09/2004
Name Pronunciation in the German Bell-Labs Text-to-Speech Module (Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey) - 10/1995 - 09/1997
Development of Segmentation Criteria and Corpus Annotation schemes for spontaneous and read US-English Corpora. AT&T Laboratories (Drs. J. Hirschberg & B. Grosz, Murray Hill, New Jersey).
