Our central research topic will be the division of labour between speech and gesture in the expression as well as perception of multimodal prosodic prominence relations. We will gain insights on whether the contribution of pitch accents and beat components of hand, head and eyebrow gestures as a function of meaning-related factors is additive or compensatory in nature. The same set of semantic-pragmatic and syntactic factors will be examined in (a) a TED Talk, (b) a comparison between monologic and dialogic communication and (c) native (German) speech versus speech by language learners (French learners of German).

Publications

2024

• Baills, Florence & Stefan Baumann. 2024. Prosody and head gestures as markers of information status in French as a native and foreign language. OSF.
• Baumann, Stefan & Janne Lorenzen. 2024. Boosting or inhibiting - How semantic-pragmatic and syntactic cues affect prosodic prominence relations in German. PLOS ONE 19(4). e0299746.
• Lorenzen, Janne & Stefan Baumann. 2024. Does communicative skill predict individual variability in the prosodic encoding of lexical and referential givenness? In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024. Leiden.
• Lorenzen, Janne, Simon Roessig & Stefan Baumann. 2024. Paradigmatic and syntagmatic effects of information status on prosodic prominence – Evidence from an interactive web-based production experiment in German. Frontiers in Psychology 15. 1296933.

2023

• Baills, Florence, Stefan Baumann & Patrick Rohrer. 2023. The Relation between Pitch Accent Types, Head Movements and Perceived Prosodic Prominence in L2 French. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 4145–4149. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International.
• Im, Suyeon, Jennifer Cole & Stefan Baumann. 2023. Standing out in context: Prominence in the production and perception of public speech. Laboratory Phonology (Special Collection on Prosody and Speech Processing across Languages and Varieties) 14(1). 1-62.
• Lorenzen, Janne, Simon Roessig & Stefan Baumann. 2023. Redundancy and Individual Variability in the Prosodic Marking of Information Status in German. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1320–1324. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International.
• Röhr, Christine, Stefan Baumann & Martine Grice. 2023. Intonational preferences for lexical contrast and verum focus. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1578–1582. Prague, Czech Republic: Guarant International.

2022

• Kügler, Frank, Stefan Baumann & Christine T. Röhr. 2022. Deutsche Intonation, Modellierung und Annotation (DIMA) – Richtlinien zur prosodischen Annotation des Deutschen. In Cordula Schwarze & Sven Grawunder (eds.), Transkription und Annotation gesprochener Sprache und multimodaler Interaktion, 23–54. Tübingen: Narr.
• Lorenzen, Janne, Simon Roessig & Stefan Baumann. 2022. Information status and tonal context jointly modulate prosodic prominence relations in German. In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, 7-11, 23-26 May, Lisbon, Portugal.
• Röhr, Christine T., Stefan Baumann & Martine Grice. 2022. The Influence of Expectations on Tonal Cues to Prominence. Journal of Phonetics 94. 101174.

2021

• Baumann, Stefan, Jane Mertens & Janina Kalbertodt. 2021. The influence of informativeness on the prosody of sentence topics. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 6(1): 95, 1–28.