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! 🎉

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...

🎉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 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!

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)

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)