Phonetics Events
Phonetics Colloquium
Research findings and ongoing work in phonetics are presented in the form of lectures and discussions in our colloquium. It usually takes place from 2:15 to 3:45 PM.
For questions and suggestions please contact Jürgen Trouvain.
Winter semester 2024/25
Please note that the location changes from talk to talk in this semester. Some talks will be given at the Innovation Centre (building A2.1) in room 3.04.| 6 Nov 2024 in A2.1 (R. 3.04) | Sascha Schäfer (UdS) | The individual lay listener as a variable in speaker discrimination tasks |
| 20 Nov 2024 in C7.2 (R. 5.09) at 11:00 am (unusual time) | Radek Skarnitzl (Charles University Prague) | How implicit attitudes affect our perception of speakers |
| 27 Nov 2024 in A2.1 (R. 3.04) | Khalil Iskarous (U of Southern California Dornsife, Los Angeles) | Getting dynamical theories of prosody to talk to each other |
| 4 Dec 2024 in C7.2 (R. 5.09) | Jürgen Trouvain (UdS) |
The diversity of phonetic sciences over 100 years reflected by three pioneers: Louise Kaiser – Ilse Lehiste – Anne Cutler |
| 8 Jan 2025 in A2.1 (R. 3.04) | Cécile Fougeron (U Sorbonne, Paris) | Changes in speech throughout adulthood |
| 15 Jan 2025 in A2.1 (R. 3.04) | Tabea Thies (U Cologne) | Beyond the belt: tracking speech breathing with electromagnetic articulography |
| 5 Feb 2025 | Wei Xue (UdS) | TBA |
Conferences and Workshops
Scientific events organized by the phonetic research group:
- Workshop on Slavic Prosody
November 21-22, 2024, Saarland University
(organized by Bistra Andreeva)
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~andreeva/SlavicProsody/SP_WS.html - Workshop on Judeo-Spanish
July 12-13, 2024, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
(organized by Christoph Gabriel, Jonas Grünke, Susann Fischer and Bistra Andreeva)
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~andreeva/PROJEKT_HOMEPAGE/workshop.html - Prosodic features of language learners' fluency
July 1, 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius and Nivja de Jong)
https://l2fluency.lst.uni-saarland.de/ - Limits and Benefits of Information-Theoretic Perspectives in Spoken Communication
August 19, 2023, Dublin, Ireland
(organized by Bistra Andreeva, Omnia Ibrahim, Bernd Möbius, James Whang and Ivan Yuen)
https://lbit2023.lst.uni-saarland.de/ - 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. WS 8:
Lexical and fixed word stress
August 24-25, 2022, University of Bucharest, “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics"
(organized by Mirena Patseva, Bistra Andreeva and Vesela Chergova)
https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022/calls-workshop-proposals/ - Workshop Measurement of Speech Respiration and Speech Preparation Phases
February 18-19, 2020, Saarland University
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain and Bernd Möbius)
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~trouvain/Workshop_2020.html - Third International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research
September 13-14, 2019, Vienna
(organised by Michael Pucher, Jürgen Trouvain, and Carina Lozo)
https://hscr19.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/ - ESSV 2017 - 29. Conference "Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung"
March 15-17, 2017, Saarland University
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Ingmar Steiner and Bernd Möbius)
http://essv2017.coli.uni-saarland.de/ - Workshop on Feedback in Pronunciation Training
November 5-6, 2015, Hofgut Imsbach
(organized by Jeanin Jügler, Jürgen Trouvain, and Bernd Möbius)
http://www.ifcasl.org/feedback_workshop.html/ - International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research
September 4-5, 2015, TU Dresden
(organized by Rüdiger Hoffmann and Jürgen Trouvain)
http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/ias/systemtheorie-und-sprachtechnologie/hscr-2015/ - Satellite Workshop on Phonetic Learner Corpora
August 12, 2015, ICPhS Glasgow
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Frank Zimmerer, Mária Gósy, and Anne Bonneau)
http://www.ifcasl.org/workshop.html/ - 4th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-verbal Vocalisations in Speech
April 14-15, 2015, TU Twente
(organized by Khiet Truong, Dirk Heylen, Jürgen Trouvain, and Nick Campbell)
https://laughterworkshop2015.wordpress.com/ - International Workshop on Multilinguality in Speech Research: Data, Methods and Models
April 8-11, 2014, Schloss Dagstuhl
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius, and Ingmar Steiner)
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/dagstuhl-14/ - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech
October 26-27, 2012, Trinity College Dublin.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Khiet Truong and Nick Campbell)
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-12/ - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Interactional Vocalisations in Speech
February 27-28, 2009, Representation of the Saarland, Berlin.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain and Nick Campbell)
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-09/ - 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)
August 6-10, 2007, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Bill Barry (chair) and Jürgen Trouvain (local organiser))
http://www.icphs2007.de/ - Interdisciplinary Workshop on The Phonetics of Laughter
August 4-5, 2007, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain and Nick Campbell)
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-07/ - Non-Native Prosody: Phonetic Description and Teaching Practice
2005, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain and Ulrike Gut)
Program - Symposium for Bill Barry's 60th anniversary
April 2003, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Jaques Koreman, Martin Grice, and Bistra Andreeva)
Abstracts of the Symposium - Workshop on Phonetics & Phonology in Automatic Speech Recognition
March 1-3, 2000, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Jaques Koreman, Bistra Andreeva, and Katrin Kirchhoff)
Proceedings of the Workshop (PHONUS 5) - English Pronunciation Training at German Universities, Colleges of Education and Polytechnics
September 25-28, 1995, Sonnenberg International Centre, St. Andreasberg/Harz.
(organized by Bill Barry and Tony Addison)
Proceedings of the Workshop (PHONUS 2)