The main aim of this project is to explore the relationship between semantic-pragmatic and prosodic properties of words on the basis of metrical strength relations. Production and perception experiments will test the influence of (i) utterance-external factors that serve to boost or inhibit the prominence value of a word and (ii) the utterance-internal prosodic context in order to shed light on the interdependence between prenuclear and nuclear accents in the rhythmic organization of German utterances.

Publications

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.