Trends in Phonetics and Phonology ─ Studies from German-speaking Europe

This volume was inspired by the 9th edition of the Phonetik & Phonologie conference, held in Zurich in October 2013. It includes state of the art research on phonetics and phonology in various languages and from interdisciplinary contributors. The volume is structured into the following eight sections: segmentals, suprasegmentals, articulation in spoken and sign language, perception, phonology, crowdsourcing phonetic data, second language speech, and arts (with inevitable overlap between these areas).

Adrian Leemann is a visiting scholar at the Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. He currently works in the project ‘The contribution of segmental and suprasegmental cues in the recognition of a speaker’s dialect’, sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He was the principal investigator of Voice App (voiceapp.ch) and had the technical lead in Gruezi, Moin, Servus (sprachatlas.spiegel.de).
Marie-Jose Kolly is a PhD student at the Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich. She was formerly a visiting student at LIMSI-CNRS in Paris to work on her PhD on temporal and rhythmic characteristics of second language speech, with a mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She was a co-investigator in Voice App as well as in Gruezi, Moin, Servus.
Stephan Schmid is a Senior Researcher at the Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, where he teaches linguistic phonetics and Romance linguistics. He previously worked as research fellow at the Centro di dialettologia of the University of Padua (Italy) and as visiting professor at the Universities of Konstanz and Freiburg (Germany).
Volker Dellwo is Assistant Professor of Phonetics at the Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, where he leads a number of research projects on segmental and suprasegmental characteristics of speech. He previously worked as a Lecturer in Phonetics at University College London and as a researcher at Bonn and Jena Universities.