Prof Dr Oliver Niebuhr
Oliver worked with us as an ER on Project 4, at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, from Sept 2007 - April 2009.
He is now the Junior Professor of Spoken Language Analysis at the University of Kiel, Germany.
Email: niebuhr AT linguistik.uni-kiel.de
Website: www.linguistik.uni-kiel.de/Niebuhr_index.html
Research areas and interests comprise:
- Perception of speech melody in German and other languages. The following questions are of special interest:
- What are the functional components of speech melody?
- How are they coded with regard to different contexts and interactions between melodic and segmental events?
- The separation of micro- and macroprosody and their reintegration into the perception of communicative categories. - Perception of accent and phrasing, especially from the following points of view:
- Melodic and non-melodic forms of accent and their functional differences.
- The "constructive" component (i.e. signal external cognitive processes) in the perception of accent and phrasing. - Prosodic models and phonologies, in particular the (further) development of the Kiel Intonation Model (KIM) as well as its labelling system PROLAB.
- Perception and cognitive processing of (speech) stimuli; e.g. parallels between auditive and visual processing, the status of categorical perception.
- Functional anatomy and physiology of the larynx; generation and modification of vocal fold vibrations.
Involved in: » Project 4: Perceptual salience of FPD: Cross-linguistic comparison of contextual sensitivity
