🎉 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! 👏🥳
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! 🎉
Simon presented recent analyses of interactions between (German-speaking) autistic adults to 1) illustrate what appear to be typical features of prosody and conversation in autism, and 2) reflect on what these results and the methods used to uncover them can teach us about (research on) prosody.
Poster advertising a talk by Simon Wehrle in the Speech Prosody Lecture Series entitled Autism and what it can teach us about prosody.
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...
Their results are very interesting with implications for phonological theory. Find the paper here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (3/3)
Specifically, native listeners of the Bari variety of Italian, and German learners of Italian, rated the perceived prominence of object nouns in broad and narrow focus and post-focally using a visual analogue scale. (2/3)
🎉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)
The applications submitted for the first edition of the IPA PhD Thesis Award were of very high quality, and thus the task of the committee was extremely difficult. We congratulate the winner and all the other applicants for the high standards achieved. (2/2)
🎉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)
📣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...
📣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...
New paper publication from our lab! Simona Sbranna, Aviad Albert and Martine Grice investigate prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German using the ProPer toolbox! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congrats, Aviad! 🥳
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 👁️.
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!
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!
The authors have since, however, been in exchange about their research findings as part of a discussion forum for autistic adults, and in subsequent studies have started including the subjective experiences of autistic participants in their analyses and interpretation.
Hi Todd, unfortunately not, this study originated a few years ago and the authors were not able to ensure participatory research.
The paper is open-access and can be found here: frontiersin.org/journals/com... (5/5)
Overall, autistic participants relied more on gaze duration, and individual differences emerged across all groups, with distinct profiles for "Lookers," "Listeners," and "Neithers" showing varied preferences for gaze or pitch. (4/5)
This study used an eye-tracking 👁️experiment to explore how gaze duration 👀and pitch height 👄influenced judgments about object importance. (3/5)
How do autistic and non-autistic individuals interpret non-verbal social cues like eye gaze and speech intonation? This is the main question the authors answer in this paper. (2/5)
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)
If you are in Marseille, you can join the workshop for free, otherwise, you can attend virtually. Program, abstracts and other information about the workshop can be found here: multimodalityinsocialinteractions20.wordpress.com 🧵(2/2)
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)
