I am a researcher in Research Unit 5757: Weak Elements in Phonology, Project WE 5 - Unlearning distributions of weak elements: Evidence from German-Turkish learners of L3 French based at the University of Mainz.
My research focuses on the production and perception of prosodic prominence. During my doctoral studies, I have been particularly interested in inter-individual variability in the use of prominence. Recently, I have developed an interest in multimodal prosody and the contribution of gestures to prominence marking.
News
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TAI proceedings paper out now
Our TAI 2025 proceedings paper (co-authored by Stefan Baumann) is out now! You can read it here. In this paper, we combine insights from a production and a perception study to investigate form- and meaning-related aspects of prominence in German. We find that lexical newness and the initial sentence position boost the prosodic prominence of a word in production, while the perception of prominence is crucially influenced by prosodic form, especially accent status, word duration, and pitch accent type, but not by meaning directly.
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New position
Big news! Last week I started my new position at the University of Mainz in Project WE 5 - Unlearning distributions of weak elements: Evidence from German-Turkish learners of L3 French as part of the Research Unit 5757: Weak Elements in Phonology. I am especially excited to return to working on Turkish prosody, a topic that I have been interested in since my Master’s studies at the University of Würzburg.
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