Feldhausen, I., Trouvain, J. & Zahner-Ritter, K. Prosody for teaching French as a foreign language: Identifying needs among teachers (under revision, submitted 31.07.2023)
Journal Papers (peer-reviewed)
Einfeldt, M., Sevastjanova, R., Zahner-Ritter, K., Kazak, E., & Braun, B. (2023). The use of Active Learning systems for stimulus selection and response modelling perception experiments. Computer Speech & Language, 101537. doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2023.101537
Gampe, A., Zahner-Ritter, K., Müller, J., & Schmid, S. (2023) How children speak with their voice assistant Sila depends on what they think about her! Computers in Human Behavior. DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2023.107693
Zahner-Ritter, K., Chen, Y., Dehé, N., & Braun, B. (2022). The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese. Journal of Phonetics, 95, 101190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2022.10119. open access
Zahner- Ritter, K., Zhao, T., Einfeldt, M., & Braun, B. How experience with tone in the native language affects the L2 acquisition of pitch accents. Frontiers in Psychology. open access
Zahner-Ritter, K., Einfeldt, M., Wochner, D., James, A., Dehé, N., & Braun, B. (2022). Three kinds of rising-falling contours in German wh-questions: Evidence from form and function. Frontiers in Communication (open access and data)
Braun, B., Czeke, N., Rimpler, J., Zinn, C., Probst, J., Goldlücke, B., Kretschmer, J., & Zahner-Ritter, K. (2021). Remote testing of the familiar word effect with non-dialectal and dialectal German-learning 1–2‑year-olds. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. (open access)
Kutscheid*, S., Zahner-Ritter*, K., Leemann, A. & Braun, B. (2021). How prior experience with pitch accents shapes the perception of word and sentence stress. Language, Cognition, Neuroscienc. (* = shared first authorship) (article) (data and analyses scripts) Dehé, N., Braun, B. Einfeldt, M. Wochner, D., Zahner-Ritter, K. (2021). The prosody of rhetorical questions: A cross-linguistic view. Linguistische Berichte)
ManyBabies Consortium (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (Online first: March 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809
Zahner, K., Kutscheid, E. & Braun, B. (2019). Alignment of f0 peak in different pitch accent types affects perception of metrical prominence. Journal of Phonetics, 74, 75-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2019.02.004
Braun, B., Dehé, N., Neitsch, J., Wochner, D. & Zahner, K. (2019). The prosody of rhetorical and information-seeking questions in German. Advance Online Publication. Language and Speech. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830918816351.
Zahner, K., Schönhuber, M. & Braun, B. (2016). The limits of metrical segmentation: intonation modulates infants' extraction of embedded trochees. Journal of Child Language 43(6), 1338-1364. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000915000744
Thesis
Zahner, K. (2019). Pitch accent type affects stress perception in German: Evidence from infant and adult speech processing. Dissertation. Konstanz: University of Konstanz. online
Proceedings Paper (peer-reviewed)
Kudera, Jacek, Zahner-Ritter, K., Engel, J., Elsässer, N., Hutmacher, P., Worstbrock, C. (2023). Speech enhancement patterns in human-robot interaction: A cross-linguistic perspective". Proceedings of Interspeech 2023 (Dublin, Ireland), 4783-4787.
Weirich, M. & Zahner-Ritter, K. (2023). Indexing femininity in vowel acoustics: A comparison between speakers in eastern and western parts of Germany. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), Prague, Czech Republic.
Nuscheler, J.D, Elsässer, N., Braun, A. & Zahner-Ritter, K. (2023). Acoustic characteristics of dog-directed speech: The role of individual empathy level and personality traits. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2023), Prague, Czech Republic.
Braun, B., Dehé, N., Einfeldt, M., Wochner, D. & Zahner-Ritter, K. (2021). Testing acoustic voice quality classification across languages and speech styles. Proc. of Interspeech. Brno, Czechia.
Jakob, M., Braun, B., Zahner-Ritter, K. (2021). In-group advantage in the perception of emotions: Evidence from three varieties of German. Proc. of Interspeech. Brno, Czechia.
Einfeldt, M., Sevastjanova, R., Zahner-Ritter, K., Kazak, Ekaterina, Braun, B. (2021). Reliable estimates of interpretable cue effects with Active Learning in psycholinguistic research. Proc. of Interspeech. Brno, Czechia.
Zahner, K., Xu, M., Chen, Y., Dehé, N., Braun, B. (2020). The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese. Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP10), Tokyo, Japan, 389-393. (paper)
Bellinghausen*, C., Betz*, S., Zahner, K.*, Sasdrich, A., Schröer, M., Schröder, B. 2019. Disfluencies in German adult- and infant-directed speech. Proc. of the 1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS), Sønderborg, Denmark, 44-46. (* = shared first authorship). (paper)
Zahner, K. & Yu, J. (2019). Compensation strategies in non-native English and German. Proc. of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), Melbourne, Australia, 1670-1674. (paper)
Zahner, K. & Braun, B. (2018). F0 peaks are a necessary condition for German infants’ perception of stress in metrical segmentation. Proc. of the 17th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST 2018), Sydney, Australia, 73-76. (paper)
Braun, B., Wochner, D., Zahner, K. & Dehé, N. (2018). Classification of interrogatives as information-seeking or rhetorical questions. Proc. of the 17th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST 2018), Sydney, Australia. 125-128. (paper)
Yu, J. & Zahner, K. (2018). Truncation and compression in Southern German and Australian English. Proc. of the 19th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2018), Hyderabad, India, 1833-1837. (paper)
Braun, B. & Zahner, K. (2018). The distribution and prosodic realization of verb forms in German infant-directed speech. Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan, 4094-4099. (paper)
Kember, H., Grohe, A.-K., Zahner, K., Braun, B., Weber, A. & Cutler, A. (2017). Similar prosodic structure perceived differently in German and English. Proc. of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, 1388-1392. (paper)
Zahner, K., Kember, H. & Braun, B. (2017). Mind the peak: When museum is temporarily understood as musical in Australian English. Proc. of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2017), Stockholm, Sweden, 1223-1227. (paper)
Zahner, K., Schönhuber, M., Grijzenhout, J. & Braun, B. (2016). Pitch accent type affects lexical activation in German: Evidence from eye tracking. Proc. Speech Science Technology (SST 2016), Sydney, Australia, 185-188. (paper)
Zahner, K., Schönhuber, M., Grijzenhout, J. & Braun, B. (2016). Konstanz prosodically annotated infant-directed speech corpus (KIDS corpus). Proc. of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP8), Boston, USA, 562-566. (paper)
Zahner, K., Pohl, M. & Braun, B. (2015). Pitch accent distribution in German infant- directed speech. Proc. Interspeech, Dresden, Germany. 46-50. (paper)
Invited presentations
Zahner-Ritter, K. (2023). Modelling intonational categories. Phonetic Colloquium Bielefeld (Prof. Petra Wagner, 02/2023).
Zahner-Ritter, K. (2023). Three kinds of rising falling contours in German. Evidence from form and function. Linguistischer Arbeitskreis Köln (LAK; Prof. Sophie Repp, 01/2023).
Zahner-Ritter, K. (2022). Analysing fixations in a visual-world eye tracking paradigm – Why GAMMs are a good choice! CLaS Eye-tracking Workshop 2: Data analysis and statistical approaches Macquarie University, Sydney (Dr. Laurence Bruggeman)
Zahner-Ritter, K. (2022).„Hi Sila“ – Wie Kinder mit Sprachassistenten kommunizieren. Kolloquium Institut für Germanistik, Universität Jena.
Zahner-Ritter, K. (2022). Word learning in light of dialectal exposure, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Newcastle (02/2022).
Zahner-Ritter, K. (2022). How exposure to regional variation influences early word form recognition: Towards unravelling the nature of early lexical representations in ‘bi-varietal’ children, Linguistics Colloquium, University of Alberta (01/2022).
Zahner-Ritter, K. (2021). Replicating the familiar word effect using an App and automatic coding of fixations, University of Potsdam, Babylab Colloquium (Prof. Barbara Höhle, 07/2021).
Zahner, K. (2020). Early perception of intonation: Evidence for language- specific processes. Invited talk at the Linguistics Colloquium, Essen University (01/2020).
Zahner, K. (2019). The effect of pitch accent type on stress processing: Towards unravelling the underlying mechanisms. Invited talk at the Phonetic Colloquium, University of Cologne, Germany (04/2019).
Zahner, K. (2017). How pitch accent type affects stress perception: infants (and adults). Invited talk at the Macquarie University , Sydney Australia (11/2017).
Zahner, K. (2016). Pitch accent type affects the perception of lexical stress in German: Evidence from offline and online paradigms. Invited talk at the Western Sydney University, MARCS Institute (Prof. Anne Cutler), Sydney Australia (12/2017).
Zahner, K. (2016). When high pitch matters most: Evidence for a pitch-based segmentation strategy. Invited talk at the Western Sydney University, MARCS Institute, Sydney Australia (12/2016).
Presentations at conferences (peer-reviewed)
2022 Fünfgeld, S., Braun, A., & Zahner-Ritter, K. (2022). Akustisch-phonetische Muster verbaler Ironie: Eine kontrastive Untersuchung zweier deutscher Regionalakzente. Vortrag auf der Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P), Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.11576/PUNDP2022-1012
Kampschulte, Z., Kleen, C., Elsässer, N., Manzoni-Luxenburger, J., Albert, A., & Zahner-Ritter, K. (2ß22). Question or Statement? Interpretation of truncated nuclear falling contours by L2 listeners compared to German natives. Vortrag auf der Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P), Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.11576/pundp2022-1055
Nuscheler, J. D., Zahner-Ritter, K., & Braun, A. (2022). Akustische Eigenschaften von dog-directed speech unter Berücksichtigung der individuellen Empathiefähigkeit der Sprecher*innen. Poster auf der Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P), Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.11576/PUNDP2022-994
Worstbrock, C., Arndt-Lappe, S., & Zahner- Ritter, K. (2022). Eine sogenannte Insta-Prosodie? Eine akustisch-prosodische Analyse von gesprochenen Instagram-Kommentaren. Poster auf der Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P), Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.11576/pundp2022-1026
Zahner-Ritter, K., Trouvain, J., & Feldhausen, I. (2022). Prosodie für den fremdsprachlichen Französisch-Unterricht: Zum Bedarf bei Lehrkräften.Poster auf der Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P), Bielefeld.https://doi.org/10.11576/pundp2022-999
Zahner-Ritter, K., & Weirich, M. (2022). Geschlechterrollenbild und phonetische Variation: Ein Vergleich zwischen Sprecher*innen im Osten (Jena) und Westen (Trier) Deutschlands (JETRI). Poster auf der Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P), Bielefeld. https://doi.org/10.11576/PUNDP2022-1021
Meyer, V. Zahner-Ritter, K., Kanngießer, D. & Weirich, M. (2022). Die JETRI-Studie: Geschlechterrollenbilder und phonetische Variabilität im Osten (Jena) und Westen Deutschlands (Trier). Poster auf der Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprechwissenschaften, DGSS, Jena.
Zahner-Ritter, K., Kutscheid, S. & Braun, B. (2022). How experience with high and low pitch accents affects the cue weights in stress processing: Evidence from exposure-test paradigms using eye-tracking. Talk at 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (W8: Lexical and fixed word stress), University of Bucharest.
James, A. & Zahner-Ritter, K. (2022). The phonetics of sentence-level stress in German and English: A comparison between L1 and L2 productions. Talk at 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (W8: Lexical and fixed word stress), University of Bucharest.
Kiefer, L., Zahner-Ritter, K. & Braun, B. How dialectal variability affects early word form recognition – Testing mono- and bi-varietal children via an App. Poster at the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD). San Sebastian, Spain.
Braun, B., Dehé, N., Einfeldt, M., James, A., Kazak, E., Sevastjanova, R., Wochner, D., Zahner-Ritter, K. What makes a question rhetorical? Evidence from a multiple-cue perception experiment. Talk at the Workshop on "Non-canonical Interrogatives across Languages: Prosody, Semantics, Pragmatics", University of Tartu, Estonia.
2021 Zhao, T., Einfeldt, M., Braun, B. & Zahner-Ritter, K. Can Chinese learners of German imitate tonal alignment contrasts in nuclear accents? Talk at the Phonetik and Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, University of Frankfurt.
Manzoni-Luxenburger, J. & Zahner-Ritter, K.. Luxembourgish speakers under time pressure – Evidence for truncated intonational patterns. Talk at the Phonetik and Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, University of Frankfurt.
Zahner-Ritter, K. & Gampe, A. “Hi Sila!” – Do children differ in their style of speech when talking to a human vs. a robot? – Preliminary evidence from 5-year-olds. Talk at the Phonetik and Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, University of Frankfurt.
Zahner-Ritter, K., Einfeldt, M., Wochner, D, James, A. Dehé, N. Braun, B. Testing the distinctiveness of nuclear rising-falling contours in German – Integrating evidence from form and function. Talk at the Phonetik and Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, University of Frankfurt.
Gampe, A. & Zahner-Ritter, K. Differences between human- and robot- directed speech and communication? Evidence from 5-year-olds. Poster at DevMoCon (Development in MOTION online conference), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (MOTION), virtual conference.
Zahner-Ritter, K., Jakob, M., Lindauer, M., & Braun, B. (2021) Phonological variability child-directed-speech is not affected by recording setting: Preliminary results on Southern German and Swiss German. Talk at the Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2021), Barcelona, virtual conference.
Braun, B., Fischer, U. & Zahner, K. (2021) Do features of child-directed speech correlate with children’s success in building towers? Talk at the Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2021), Barcelona, virtual conference.
Kutscheid, S., Zahner, K., Leemann, A. & Braun, B. (2021) Different pitch accents affect perceived focus position in German wh-questions. Poster at the Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2021), Barcelona, virtual conference.
2014-2020 Zahner, K., Kutscheid, S. & Braun, B. (2020). Towards unravelling the source of the bias for high pitch in stress processing: Evidence from an exposure-test paradigm using eye-tracking. Talk at the Phonetik and Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, University of Trier.
Braun, B. & Zahner, K. (2020). Prosodic classification of serious and non-serious game situations using infant-directed-speech. Talk at the Phonetik and Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, University of Trier.
Zahner, K., Einfeldt, M., Dehé, N., Braun, B. (2020). Imitating alignment differences in German nuclear accents – is (L+H)* a category? Poster at the Workshop "Situating phonological contrast within the production-perception loop", Satellite Event to LabPhon 2020, Vancouver, Canada.
Einfeldt, M., Sevastjanova, R., Zahner, K., Dehé, N., Braun, B. (2020). Active learning systems as a solution for stimulus selection and data modelling in complex behavioural study designs? Talk at the Workshop "Cue weighting: Thinking outside the box", Satellite Event to LabPhon 2020, Vancouver, Canada. Zahner, K., Xu, M., Dehé, N., Braun, B. (2019). Prosodic cues to rhetorical questions in Mandarin Chinese: f0, duration, voice quality. Talk at the Phonetik and Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, University of Düsseldorf.
Rimpler, J., Zahner, K., Braun, B. (2019). Compression of falls in L1 Greek productions of statements and polar questions: possibilities for future research on L2 German prosody. Poster at the Phonetik and Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum, University of Düsseldorf.
Czeke, N., Zahner, K., Rimpler, J., Braun, B., Frota, S. (2019). German infants fail to discriminate Portuguese rising vs. falling contours. Poster at the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2019), Potsdam, Germany.
Zahner, K. (2019). The effect of pitch accent type on German infants’ stress perception: Summing up. Poster at the Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD 2019), Potsdam, Germany.
Braun, B., Wochner, D., Zahner, K. & Dehé, N. (2018). Classification of interrogatives as information-seeking or rhetorical questions. Talk at the 17th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST 2018), Sydney, Australia.
Zahner, K. & Braun, B. (2018). F0 peaks are a necessary condition for German infants’ perception of stress in metrical segmentation. Talk at the 17th Speech Science and Technology Conference (SST 2018), Sydney, Australia.
Zahner, K. & Braun, B. (2018). F0 is not enough - when museum does not activate musical in Australian English. Poster at ProsLang - Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties, 29-30 November 2018, School of Languages and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington (VUW), New Zealand).
Zahner, K. (2018). Pitch accent type affects stress perception in German: Evidence from infant and adult speech processing. Poster at the workshop on Prosodic variation across languages: The state-of-the-art in comparative prosodic research, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Yu, J. & Zahner, K. (2018). Compression and truncation in Australian English and Southern German. Poster at the workshop on Prosodic variation across languages: The state-of-the-art in comparative prosodic research, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Braun, B. & Zahner, K. (2018). The distribution and prosodic realization of verb forms in German infant-directed speech. Poster at the 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018), Miyazaki, Japan.
Kember, H., Grohe, A.-K., Zahner, K., Braun, B., Weber, A. & Cutler, A. (2017). Similar prosodic structure perceived differently in German and English. Talk at Interspeech 2017 Stockholm, Sweden.
Zahner, K., Kember, H. & Braun, B. (2017). Mind the peak: When museum is temporarily understood as musical in Australian English. Talk at Interspeech 2017 Stockholm, Sweden.
Zahner, K., Schönhuber, M., Grijzenhout, J. & Braun, B. (2017). How pitch accent type affects stress perception in German infants. Talk in Symposium on "Prosody in Early Language Acquisition" IASCL 2017 (International Congress for the Study of Child Language) Lyon, France.
Zahner, K., Kember, H., Cutler, A. & Braun, B. (2017). Museum or musical? – Pitch accent type affects word recognition in Australian English. Poster at PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) Cologne, Germany.
Zahner, K., Schönhuber, M., Grijzenhout, J. & Braun, B. (2016). Pitch accent type affects lexical activation in German: Evidence from eye tracking. Talk at Speech Science Technology (SST 2016) Sydney, Australia.
Zahner, K., Schönhuber, M., Grijzenhout, J. & Braun, B. (2016). When high pitch matters most - Stress perception in German infants. Talk at the MARCS Institute (Speech and Language Meeting), Sydney Australia (November, 7th).
Zahner, K., Schönhuber, M., Grijzenhout, J. & Braun, B. (2016). High pitch signals word onsets for German 9-month-olds: Evidence for a pitch-based segmentation strategy. Talk at TIE (Tone and Intonation) Kent, UK.
Zahner, K., Pohl, M. (2015). Are all low-pitched syllables perceived equally? - Evidence from German 9-month-olds. Poster at PaPe (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) Cambridge, UK.
Zahner, K., Pohl, M. (2015). Only high-pitched stressed syllables are good (prominent?) word onsets for German 9- month-olds: intonation modulates the extraction of embedded words. Talk at ICPL (International Conference “Prominence in Language”) Cologne, Germany.
Zahner, K., Pohl, M. & Braun, B. (2015). Only high-pitched stressed syllables are good word onsets for German infants. Talk at WILD (Workshop on Infant Language Development) Stockholm, Sweden. Zahner, K., Braun, B. & Pohl, M. (2014). How high pitch affects lexical processing in German adults - evidence from eye-tracking. Poster at P&P10 Konstanz, Germany.
Zahner, K., Pohl, M. & Braun, B. (2014). Pitch accent type and metrical stress in infant speech segmentation. Poster at AMLaP Edinburgh, UK.
Zahner, K. (2014). The Role of Intonation in Infants' Speech Segmentation. Poster at Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition (X. EMLAR), Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Zahner, K. (2014). Die Rolle der Intonation bei der kindlichen Wortsegmentierung - Macht der Ton hier die Musik? Talk at the Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende (5. STaPs), Mainz, Germany.
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