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Dr. Simon Wehrle

Institut für Linguistik - Phonetik
Herbert-Lewin-Straße 6
50931 Köln

E-Mail: simon.wehrleSpamProtectionuni-koeln.de
(or: simon.wehrle84SpamProtectiongmail.com)

Postdoc in Project A02 of the SFB 1252 Prominence in Language

PhD project completed in January 2022 (summa cum laude); funded by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

Revised and expanded monograph newly published as:

Conversation and intonation in autism: A multi-dimensional analysis
(Studies in Laboratory Phonology 14). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10069004 
 

Publications

2024

  • Simona Sbranna, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (in print). A multi-dimensional analysis of backchannels in L1 German, L1 Italian and L2 German. Language, Interaction, and Acquisition.
  • Malin Spaniol, Simon Wehrle, Alicia Janz, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (accepted). The influence of conversational context on lexical and prosodic aspects of backchannels and gaze behaviour. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • Elina Savino, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (accepted). The prosody of Italian newsreading: a diachronic analysis. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands.

2023

  • Simon Wehrle (2023). Conversation and intonation in autism. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10069004
  • Martine Grice, Simon Wehrle, Martina Krüger, Malin Spaniol, Francesco Cangemi & Kai Vogeley (2023). Linguistic prosody in autism spectrum disorder—An overview. Language & Linguistics Compass, e12498. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12498
  • Simon Wehrle, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2023). Backchannels in conversations between autistic adults are less frequent and less diverse prosodically and lexically. Language and Cognition, doi:10.1017/langcog.2023.21.
  • Simon Wehrle, Franceso Cangemi, Alicia Janz, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2023). Turn-timing in conversations between autistic adults: typical short-gap transitions are preferred, but not achieved instantly. PLoS ONE 18(4): e0284029.
  • Simon Wehrle, Martine Grice & Kai Vogeley (2023). Filled Pauses Produced by Autistic Adults Differ in Prosodic Realisation, but not Rate or Lexical Type. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-06000-y
  • Simon Wehrle, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2023). Characteristics and distribution of silent pauses in conversations between autistic and non-autistic dyads. Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Simon Wehrle & Christopher Sappok (2023). Evaluating prosodic aspects of oral reading proficiency in schoolchildren: effects of gender, genre and grade. Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Malin Spaniol, Alicia Janz, Simon Wehrle, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2023). Multimodal signalling: the interplay of oral and visual feedback in conversation. Proceedings of ICPhS 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • Simona Sbranna, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (2023). The use of Backchannels and other Very Short Utterances by Italian Learners of German. Proceedings of XVIII AISV Conference “The position of the speaker in interaction: attitudes, intentions, and emotions in verbal communication”, Naples (Italy).
    (Franco Ferrero Award for best article)
  • Stefano Coretta, Joseph V. Casillas (...), Simon Wehrle et al. (2023). Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science.

2022

  • Simon Wehrle (2022). A brief tutorial for using Wiggliness and Spaciousness to measure intonation styles. OSF; retrievable at osf.io/5e7fd.
  • Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2022). New evidence for melodic speech in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Lisbon, Portugal, 37-41.
  • Simona Sbranna, Eduardo Möking, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (2022). Backchannelling across Languages: Rate, Lexical Choice and Intonation in L1 Italian, L1 German and L2 German. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Lisbon, Portugal, 734-738.

2021

  • Simon Wehrle (2021). A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Conversation and Intonation in Autism Spectrum Disorder. PhD Thesis, University of Cologne (Germany).

2020

  • Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Harriet Hanekamp, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2020). Assessing the intonation style of speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Tokyo, Japan, 809-813.
  • Juliane T. Zimmermann, Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Martine Grice & Kai Vogeley (2020).  Listeners and Lookers: Using pitch height and gaze duration for inferring mental states. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Tokyo, Japan, 290-294.

2018

  • Rie Asano, Pia Bornus (...), Simon Wehrle et al. (2018). Spring School on Language, Music and Cognition: Organizing Events in Time. Music & Science, 1, 1-17.
  • Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Martina Krüger & Martine Grice (2018). Somewhere over the spectrum: between singsongy and robotic intonation. In: Alessandro Vietti, Lorenzo Spreafico, Daniela Mereu, Vincenzo Galatà (Eds.): "Il parlato nel contesto naturale" - Proceedings of 14th Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce Conference 2018, 179-194, Bolzano, Italy.

2017

  • Anna Bruggeman, Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Dina El Zarka & Martine Grice (2017). Unifying Speaker Variability with the Tonal Center of Gravity. Proceedings of Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P) 13, Berlin, 21-24.

2016

  • Francesco Cangemi, Dina El Zarka, Simon Wehrle, Stefan Baumann & Martine Grice (2016). Speaker-specific Intonational Marking of Narrow Focus in Egyptian Arabic. Proceedings of the 8th Speech Prosody Conference, Boston, 335-339.

2015

  • Kieu-Phuong Ha & Simon Wehrle (2015). Bericht über den Nachwuchsworkshop „Vietnamesische Sprache und Kultur“. a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne Jahrbuch 2014-2015.

Talks

2023

  • Simon Wehrle (2023). Speech melody in autism – overview, assessment and validation. Invited talk, Bilingualism and Developmental Linguistics research group, The University of Edinburgh, November 2023.
  • Simon Wehrle, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2023). Conversational and intonational characteristics of dialogue between autistic adults. IPC 18 (18th International Pragmatics Conference), July 2023, Brussels (Belgium).
  • Christopher Sappok & Simon Wehrle (2023). Perceptual and acoustic correlates of oral reading proficiency in German schoolchildren—a longitudinal study on fluency and intonation style. Research Colloquium IfL-Phonetik, University of Cologne, July 2023.
  • Alicia Janz, Simona Sbranna, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (2023). The effect of conversational setting on backchannel feedback. 45. Jahrestagung der DGfS, March 2023, Cologne (Germany).
  • Francesco Cangemi, Martine Grice, Valeria Lucarini, Malin Spaniol, Kai Vogeley & Simon Wehrle (2023). Very Short Utterances in clinical interviews with patients with schizophrenia. 19th AISV conference, February 2023, Lecce (Italy).

2022

  • Martine Grice & Simon Wehrle (2022). Prosody and Interaction in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Invited lecture, CCLS Lecture Series, November 2022, Cologne (Germany).
  • Alicia Janz, Simon Wehrle, Simona Sbranna & Martine Grice (2022). The lexical and intonational realisation of backchannels is less constrained in spontaneous than task-based conversation. 4th ISAPh, September 2022, Lund (Sweden).
  • Simon Wehrle, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2022). Characterising conversations between autistic adults – a multi-dimensional approach. LabPhon 18, June 2022 (virtual).
  • Martine Grice & Simon Wehrle (2022). Prosody and Conversational Behaviour in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Keynote speech, 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, May 2022, Lisbon (Portugal).

2021

  • Simon Wehrle, Martine Grice & Kai Vogeley (2021). Backchannels and Filled Pauses in Autism Spectrum Disorder. 1st International Conference on Tone and Intonation (TAI), December 2021, Sønderborg (Denmark).
  • Simona Sbranna, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (2021). Developing L2 Interactional Competence: Turn-taking across proficiency levels. Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P) 17, September 2021, online (/Frankfurt).
  • Simon Wehrle (2021). Turn-taking and backchannelling in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Invited talk, Research Colloquium IfL-Phonetik, University of Cologne, January 2021.

2020

  • Simon Wehrle (2020). Turn-Taking in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Promovierenden-Forum Gesellschaft und Kultur, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, November 2020.

2019

  • Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (2019). Distribution and prosodic realisation of backchannels in L1 and L2 German. Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P) 15, September 2019, Düsseldorf.

2018

  • Simon Wehrle, Timo B. Roettger & Martine Grice (2018). Exploring the dynamics of backchannel interpretation: The meandering mouse paradigm. ProsLang: Workshop on the Processing of Prosody across Languages and Varieties. November 2018, Wellington, New Zealand.
    (Award for Best Student Paper)
  • Simon Wehrle (2018). Dialogue management and intonation in autism and second-language speech. Invited lecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, November 2018.
  • Francesco Cangemi, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (2018). Same intonational categories, different phonetic indices. RFP 2018 - 16th Annual Conference of the French Phonology Network. June 2018, Paris.
  • Simon Wehrle (2018). Prosody and Communication in High-Functioning Autism and Second Language Speech. Talk, Doktorandenforum Kultur der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, March 2018, Wittenberg.

2017

  • Simon Wehrle (2017). Speaking across the Spectrum: Prosody and Communication in Asperger Syndrome and Second Language Speech. P&P 13 / Junge Phonologie in Deutschland (JuPiD) 2017, September 2017, Berlin.
  • Simon Wehrle, Timo B. Roettger & Martine Grice (2017). Tracking the Perceptual Effects of Backchannel Behaviour in Asperger Syndrome and Second Language Speech. ProPro 2017: Processing Prosody Across Languages, Varieties and Nativeness, August-September 2017, Tübingen.

2016

  • Simon Wehrle (2016). Non-Natives, Non-Neurotypicals and Other Individuals: Prosody in Second Language Speech and Asperger Syndrome. Talk, Paris-Cologne Collaborative Meetings at Atelier de Recherche sur la Parole, Université Paris Diderot, November 2016, Paris.
  • Dina El Zarka, Francesco Cangemi & Simon Wehrle (2016). Prosodic Correlates of Narrow Information Focus in Egyptian Arabic. Talk, Workshop Prosody and Information Structure in Stuttgart, März 2016, Stuttgart.

Poster Presentations

2023

  • Simona Sbranna, Simon Wehrle, Tobias-Alexander Herrmann, Anastasia Bauer, Jana Hosemann & Sonja Gipper (2023). Predictability of head movements as feedback signals in signed and spoken languages. LingCologne 2023.
  • Alicia Janz, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (2023). Response tokens in the lab and in the wild: evidence from task-based and spontaneous conversations. 5th PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) conference, June 2023, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • Malin Spaniol, Alicia Janz, Simon Wehrle, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2023). Investigating the relation between backchannels and gaze in dyadic conversations: A multimodal approach. MMSYM 2023 (1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium), April 2023, Barcelona (Catalonia/Spain).
  • Malin Spaniol, Simon Wehrle, Martine Grice & Kai Vogeley (2023). Multimodale Kommunikation zwischen Menschen mit Autismus. WTAS 2023 (14. Wissenschaftlichen Tagung Autismus-Spektrum), March 2023, Freiburg (Germany).

2021

  • Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2021). Dialogue Management in Autism Spectrum Disorder. 4th PaPE (Phonetics and Phonology in Europe) conference, June 2021, online (/Barcelona).

2020

  • Alicia Janz, Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (2020). Effects of unexpectedness on turn-transitions in adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP) 2020, 12-18 December 2020.

2018

  • Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi & Martine Grice (2018). Why so quiet? The nature and significance of silent gaps in second language communication. Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond, November 2018, Aix-en-Provence.
  • Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2018). The timing of turn-taking in high-functioning autism. Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P) 14, September 2018, Vienna.
  • Simon Wehrle & Francesco Cangemi (2018). Transfer the floor: the timing of turn-taking in high-functioning autism. Spring School on Language, Music and Cognition, February-March 2018, Cologne.

2017

  • Juliane Zimmermann, Martina Krüger, Simon Wehrle, Kai Vogeley & Martine Grice (2017). Communication in Asperger Syndrome focusing on pragmatic prosody. Poster presentation, Sychronization in Communication Systems, June 2017, East Lansing, Michigan.

2016

  • Simon Wehrle, Francesco Cangemi, Martine Grice & Kai Vogeley (2016). Individual Behaviour in Encoding and Decoding Prosodic Prominence. Poster presentation, LingUnite 2016 RWTH Aachen, Oktober 2016, Aachen.

2015

  • Simon Wehrle & Martine Grice (2015). Backchannels in Map Tasks in L1 German, L1 Vietnamese & L2 German. Poster presentation, Workshop on Vietnamese Prosody, August 2015, Cologne.

Outreach

  • Presentations at “FORAUS—Forum Autismus” (discussion forum for autistic adults), September & December 2022 (further planned for 2023), University Hospital Cologne (Germany).
  • KölnerKinderUni 2018/2019: introducing children to linguistics and phonetics; in the 2019 instalment, joint project with Ensemble Musikfabrik and public performance

Teaching

  • WS23/24 MA Seminar Laboratory Phonology
  • (Planned) Hauptseminar Conversation and Intonation in Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • WS 19/20 Guest Lecture Seminar Laboratory Phonology
  • SoSe 19 Hauptseminar Communication in Autism (with Martine Grice and Juliane Zimmermann)
  • WS 18/19 Guest Lecture Hauptseminar Continuity in Phonology 
  • WS 17/18 Seminar Phonetic Aspects of Second Language Speech (with Martine Grice)
  • WS 16/17 Seminar Phonetic Aspects of Second Language Speech (with Martine Grice)
  • Co-supervision of ten BA theses and one MA thesis on the topics of phonetics, intonation, conversation, second language speech and autism

Other Academic Activities

  • Co-organization of several international conferences and workshops
  • Programme committee member and reviewer for various conferences
  • Ad-hoc reviewer for various linguistic journals
  • English language editor for various academic journals and for PhD theses
  • Translation of scientific articles, university materials/administrative documents, grant applications, etc.

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