Despite the rapidly growing body of research on sound symbolism, one issue that remains understudied is whether different types of sensory information …

Despite speaking dialects of the same language, Persian speakers from Tajikistan cannot read Persian texts from Iran and Afghanistan. This is due to …

This paper presents our submission to the SIGMORPHON 2023 task 2 of Cognitively Plausible Morphophonological Generalization in Korean. We implemented …

This study investigates the Turkish partial reduplication phenomenon, in which the reduplicant is derived by prefixing C₁VC₂ syllable, where C₁V are …

Alcohol intoxication facilitates inhibition of one’s first language (L1) ego, which may lead to reduced individual differences among second language …

Alcohol is known to impair fine articulatory control and movements. In drunken speech, incomplete closure of the vocal tract can result in …

We review and elaborate an account of consonantal strength that is founded on the model of speech as a modulated carrier signal. The stronger the …

Project summary: A range of recent Anglophone novels are located at the edge of English, fostering connections to other languages such as French, Hindi, Italian, Kiswahili, Mandarin or Spanish. The project seeks to introduce students in the Master’s degree programmes “Comparative Studies” and “Literary Translation” to the potentials of approaching multilingual narratives by employing computer-based digital humanities methods derived from corpus linguistics and natural language processing.

The project “Choose Your Own Adventure: Teleporting to a Virtual Phonetics Laboratory” by Prof. Dr. Kevin Tang, Dr. Chris Geissler and Eoin O’Reilly will be funded by the E-Learning Förderfonds.

We are creating a new set of web-based interactive learning units in phonetics and phonology. These serve two purposes: supplementing student learning in the English Linguistics Basismodul, and providing review material for intermediate/advanced-level courses.

The project, “Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South: Tailoring Education and Research through Natural Language Understanding”, involves the reformatting and annotation of 500 oral histories of African Americans from the Gulf South, representing the stories of people who lived through the transatlantic slave trade up to the present day, as well as the development of a new web search interface and 150 curriculum modules for K–12 educators.

Speech as a non-invasive biomarker could provide researchers and clinicians with new means to capture fine changes in speech articulation patterns associated with linguistic phenomena in the normal population or functional changes in articulation in individuals with disorders.

The NVIDIA Academic Hardware Program The NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program endeavors to advance education and research by: Enabling groundbreaking, innovative, and unique academic research projects with world-class computing resources.