• Phonetics and Phonology of Intonation
• Prosody and (Neurocognitive) Language Processing
• Information Structure: Interrelation of Semantics, Pragmatics and Prosody
• Annotation and Modelling of German Intonation (GToBI, DIMA)
• Annotation of Information Status

Projects

I was/am involved in the following projects:

• SFB 1252 Prominence in Language (Phase I: 2017-2020; Phase II: 2021-2024), Project A01: Intonation and attention orienting:  Neurophysiological and behavioural correlates (01/2017-08/2023)
• DFG GR 1610/5 (Phase I: 2009-2013; Phase II: 2013-2016), DASS: Degrees of Activation and Focus-Background Structure in Spontaneous Speech – The Relation between Prosodic Marking and Syntactic and Semantic Structure Building (03/2010-12/2006)

2024

• Lialiou, M., M. Grice, C. T. Röhr & P. B. Schumacher. 2024. Auditory Processing of Intonational Rises and Falls in German: Rises are Special in Attention Orienting. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 36(6). 1099–1122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_02129

2023

• Röhr, C. T., M. Grice & S. Baumann. 2023. Intonational Preferences for Lexical Contrast and Verum Focus. In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1578-1582. Guarant International. [pdf]

2022

• Kügler, F., S. Baumann & C. T. Röhr. 2022. Deutsche Intonation, Modellierung und Annotation (DIMA) – Richtlinien zur prosodischen Annotation des Deutschen. In C. Schwarze & S. Grawunder (eds.), Transkription und Annotation gesprochener Sprache und multimodaler Interaktion, 23-54. Tübingen: Narr.
• Röhr, C. T., M. Savino & M. Grice. 2022. The Effect of Intonational Rises on Serial Recall in German. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2022, 759-763, DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-154. Lisbon, Portugal. [pdf]
• Röhr, C. T., S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2022. The Influence of Expectations on Tonal Cues to Prominence. Journal of Phonetics 94. 101174. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101174

2021

• Ehret, J., A. Bönsch, L. Aspöck, C. T. Röhr, S. Baumann, M. Grice, J. Fels & T. W. Kuhlen. 2021. Do Prosody and Embodiment Influence the Perceived Naturalness of Conversational Agents’ Speech? ACM Transactions on Applied Perception 18(4): 21. 1-15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3486580

2020

• Röhr, C. T., S. Baumann, P. B. Schumacher & M. Grice. 2020. Perceptual Prominence of Accent types and the Role of Expectations. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, 366-370, DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2020-75. Tokyo, Japan (online conference). [pdf] [video presentation]
• Röhr, C. T., I. Brilmayer, S. Baumann, M. Grice & P. B. Schumacher. 2020. Signal-Driven and Expectation-Driven Processing of Accent Types. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience 36(1). 33-59. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1779324

2019

• Kügler, F., S. Baumann, B. Andreeva, B. Braun, M. Grice, J. Neitsch, O. Niebuhr, J. Peters, C. T. Röhr, A. Schweitzer & P. Wagner. 2019. Annotation of German Intonation: DIMA Compared with other Annotation Systems. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain & P. Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), 1297-1301. Melbourne, Australia. [pdf]

2018

• Thies, T., C. T. Röhr, S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2018. Prosodic Marking of Information Status in Picture Story Descriptions. In M. Belz, C. Mosshammer, S. Fuchs, S. Jannedy, O. Rasskazova & M. Żygis (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Phonetics & Phonology in German-speaking countries (P&P 13), 193-196. Berlin: Humboldt-Universität. [www] [pdf]

2016

• Röhr, C. T. 2016. The Information Status of Nominal and Verbal Expressions: Intonational Evidence from Production and Perception in German. University of Cologne: Dissertation. https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/9146/
• Röhr, C. T., T. Thies, S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2016. Prosodic Marking of Information Status in Task-Oriented Dialogues. In Proceedings of the 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P12), 168-171. München, Germany. [www] [pdf]

2015

• Baumann, S. & C. T. Röhr. 2015. The Perceptual Prominence of Pitch Accent Types in German. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 298, 1-5. Glasgow, UK: The University of Glasgow. [pdf]
• Baumann, S., C. T. Röhr & M. Grice. 2015. Prosodische (De-)Kodierung des Informationsstatus im Deutschen. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft 34(1). 1-42. [www]
• Kügler, F., B. Smolibocki, D. Arnold, S. Baumann, B. Braun, M. Grice, S. Jannedy, J. Michalsky, O. Niebuhr, J. Peters, S. Ritter, C. T. Röhr, A. Schweitzer, K. Schweitzer & P. Wagner. 2015. DIMA – Annotation Guidelines for German Intonation. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhs 2015 (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 317, 1-5. Glasgow, UK: The University of Glasgow. [pdf]
• Röhr, C. T., S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2015. The Effect of Verbs on the Prosodic Marking of Information Status: Production and Perception in German. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, vol. 384, 1-5. Glasgow, UK: The University of Glasgow. [pdf]

2013

• Röhr, C. T. 2013. Information Status and Prosody: Production and Perception in German. In M. Balbach, L. Benz, S. Genzel, M. Grubic, A. Renans, S. Schalowski, M. Stegenwallner & A. Zeldes (eds.). Working Papers of the SFB632, Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS), vol. 17, 119-141. Potsdam: Universitätsverlag Potsdam. [www] [pdf]

2011

• Röhr, C. T. & S. Baumann. 2011. Decoding Information Status by Type and Position of Accent in German. In Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), 1706-1709. Hong Kong, China. [pdf]

2010

• Röhr, C. T. & S. Baumann. 2010. Prosodic Marking of Information Status in German. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody, vol. 100019, 1-4. Chicago, USA. [pdf]

2009

• Röhr, C. T. 2009. Prosodische Markierung von Informationsstatus im Deutschen. Cologne, Germany: University of Cologne MA thesis. [pdf]

2023

• Röhr, C. T., M. Grice & S. Baumann. 2023. Intonational Preferences for Lexical Contrast and Verum Focus. Talk at the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, Czech Republic, 7-11 August.
• Lialiou, M., M. Grice, C. T. Röhr & P. B. Schumacher. 2023. Brain Indices for Processing Rising and Falling Pitch: An MMN Study. Talk at the 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 2-4 June. [Abstract]

2022

• Lialiou, M., M. Grice, C. T. Röhr & P. B. Schumacher. 2022. An MMN Study on Auditory Processing of Rising and Falling F0 in Speech. Poster presentation at the 13th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics (ExLing), Paris, France, 17-19 October. [Abstract]
• Lialiou, M., M. Grice, C. T. Röhr, I. Brilmayer & P. B. Schumacher. 2022. Are Rises Special in Attention Orienting? Some Evidence from Boundary Tones in German. Poster presentation at the 28th International Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2022), York, UK, 7-9 September. [Abstract]
• Röhr, C. T., M. Savino, T. M. Ellison & M. Grice. 2022. The Role of Intonation in Attention Allocation in Serial Recall. Poster presentation at the 3rd International Conference Prominence in Language (ICPL 3), Cologne, Germany, 2-3 June. [Abstract]
• Röhr, C. T., M. Savino & M. Grice. 2022. The Effect of Intonational Rises on Serial Recall in German. Talk at the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 23-26 May.

2021

• Ehret, J., A. Bönsch, L. Aspöck, C. T. Röhr, S. Baumann, M. Grice, J. Fels & T. W. Kuhlen. 2021. Do Prosody and Embodiment Influence the Perceived Naturalness of Conversational Agents’ Speech? Talk at the ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2021 (SAP), Rennes, France, 16-17 September (online conference).
• Aspöck, L., J. Ehret, S. Baumann, A. Bönsch, C. T. Röhr, M. Grice, T. W. Kuhlen & J. Fels. 2021. Prosodic and Visual Naturalness of Dialogs Presented by Conversational Virtual Agents. Poster presentation at the DAGA 2021 - 47. Jahrestagung für Akustik, Vienna, Austria,15-18 August.
• Röhr, C. T., S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2021. Expecting the Unusual: The Prosodic Interpretation of Contextual Information. Talk at the 4th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference, Barcelona, Spain, 21-23 June (online conference). [Abstract]

2020

• Röhr, C. T., S. Baumann, P. B. Schumacher & M. Grice. 2020. Perceptual Prominence of Accent types and the Role of Expectations. Talk at the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody 2020, Tokyo, Japan, 25 May - 31 August (online conference). [video presentation]

2019

• Kügler, F., S. Baumann, B. Andreeva, B. Braun, M. Grice, J. Neitsch, O. Niebuhr, J. Peters, C. T. Röhr, A. Schweitzer & P. Wagner. 2019. Annotation of German Intonation: DIMA Compared with other Annotation Systems. Talk at the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australia, 6-10 August.
• Röhr, C. T., S. Baumann, M. Grice & P. B. Schumacher. 2019. Signal- and Expectation-based Processing of Pitch Accent Types. Poster presentation at the 3rd Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE) conference, Lecce, Italy, 17-19 June. [Abstract]
• Röhr, C. T., M. Grice, S. Baumann & P. B. Schumacher. 2019. The Role of Prosody in the Processing of Prominence in Contrastive Structures. Talk at the 41. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Bremen, Germany, 6-8 March. [Abstract]
• Röhr, C. T., I. Brilmayer, S. Baumann, M. Grice & P. B. Schumacher. 2019. Signal- and Expectation-based Processing of Prosodic Prominence. Talk at the 1st. SFB-Networking Köln - Potsdam - Saarbrücken, Potsdam, Germany, 14-15 February.

2018

• Röhr, C. T., H. Niemann, S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2018. Prominence Marking Depends on Expectations. Talk at the 14. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P 14), Wien, Austria, 6-7 September. [Abstract]
• Röhr, C. T., H. Niemann, S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2018. Prosodic Cues in Expectation-Driven Prominence Marking. Poster presentation at the 2nd International Conference Prominence in Language (ICPL 2), Cologne, Germany, 11-13 July. [Abstract]
• Röhr, C. T., 2018. The Information Status of Nominal and Verbal Expressions: Intonational Evidence from Production and Perception in German. Talk at the Colloquium Phonology, Institut für Linguistik, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 24 January.

2017

• Thies, T., C. T. Röhr, S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2017. Prosodic Marking of Information Status in Picture Story Descriptions. Poster presentation at the 13. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P 13), Berlin, Germany, 28-29 September.

2015

• Baumann, S. & C. T. Röhr. 2015. The Perceptual Prominence of Pitch Accent Types in German. Talk at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), Glasgow, UK, 10-14 August.
• Kügler, F., B. Smolibocki, D. Arnold, S. Baumann, B. Braun, M. Grice, S. Jannedy, J. Michalsky, O. Niebuhr, J. Peters, S. Ritter, C. T. Röhr, A. Schweitzer, K. Schweitzer & P. Wagner. 2015. DIMA – Annotation Guidelines for German Intonation. Talk at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), Glasgow, UK, 10-14 August.
• Röhr, C. T., S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2015. The Effect of Verbs on the Prosodic Marking of Information Status: Production and Perception in German. Talk at the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII), Glasgow, UK, 10-14 August.

2014

• Röhr, C. T. 2014. The Effect of Verbs in the Prosodic Marking of Information Status: Production and Perception in German. Talk at the Workshop Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on the Interrelation of Syntax, Semantics and Prosody, CCLS, University of Cologne, Germany, 1-2 December.
• Röhr, C. T., S. Baumann & M. Grice. 2014. The Effect of Verbs in the Prosodic Marking of Information Status: Production and Perception in German. Talk at the 6th European Conference on Tone and Intonation in Europe (TIE), Utrecht, 10-12 September. [Abstract]
• Röhr, C. T. 2014. The Effect of Verbs in the Prosodic Marking of Information Status: Production and Perception in German. Talk at the Doktorandenkolloqium, IfL Phonetik, University of Cologne, Germany, 7 July.

2012

• Grice, M., H. Lohnstein, C. T. Röhr, S. Baumann & A. Dewald. 2012. The Intonation of Verum Focus and Lexical Contrast. Talk at the 8. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum (P&P 8), Jena, Germany, 12-13 October. [Abstract]

2011

• Röhr, C. T. 2011. Information Status and Prosody: Production and Perception in German. Talk at the SFB 732 Colloquium, Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), University Stuttgart, Germany, 14 December.
• Röhr, C. T. 2011. Information Status and Prosody: Production and Perception in German. Talk at the Workshop on Information Structure: Empirical Perspectives on Theory, SFB 632 Information Structure, Potsdam, Germany, 2-3 December. [Abstract]
• Röhr, C. T. & S. Baumann. 2011. Decoding Information Status by Type and Position of Accent in German. Talk at the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong, China, 17-21 August.
• Röhr, C. T. 2011. Information Status and Prosody in German. Talk at the Linguistisches Doktorandenkolloquium, ZSM, University of Cologne, Germany, 8 July.

2010

• Röhr, C. T. 2010. Prosodic Marking of Information Status in German. Poster presentation at the Cologne International Workshop on Prosody, University of Cologne, Germany, 1-3 July.
• Röhr, C. T. & S. Baumann. 2010. Prosodic Marking of Information Status in German. Poster presentation at the 5th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Chicago, USA, 11-14 May.

University of Cologne:

• SS 2023: Übung "Prosodische Analyse" (BA)
• SS 2022: Übung "Prosodische Analyse" (BA)
• SS 2021: Übung "Prosodische Analyse" (BA)
• WS 2020/21: Projektseminar "Laboratory Phonology" (MA)
• SS 2020: Übung "Prosodische Analyse" (BA)
• WS 2019/20: Seminar "Prosodische Prominenz" (BA)
• SS 2019: Übung "Prosodische Analyse" (BA)
• SS 2018: Übung "Prosodische Analyse" (BA)
• WS 2017/18: Projektseminar "Laboratory Phonology" (MA)
• SS 2017: Übung "Prosodische Analyse" (BA)
• SS 2016: Übung "Prosodische Analyse" (BA)
• SS 2015: "Grundkurs Prosodische Analyse" (Gruppe 1 & 2) (BA)
• SS 2014: "Grundkurs Prosodische Analyse" (Gruppe 1 & 2) (BA)
• WS 2013/14: Freiwilliges Tutorium zu "Einführung in die Phonetik und Phonologie I" (BA)
• SS 2013: "Grundkurs Prosodische Analyse" (Gruppe 1 & 2) (BA)
• WS 2012/13: Freiwilliges Tutorium zu "Einführung in die Phonetik und Phonologie I" (BA)
• SS 2012: "Grundkurs Prosodische Analyse" (BA)
• WS 2011/12: Freiwilliges Tutorium zu "Einführung in die Phonetik und Phonologie I" (BA)
• SS 2011: Seminar "Intonation: Theorie und Methoden" (BA)
• WS 2010/11: Freiwilliges Tutorium zu "Einführung in die Phonetik und Phonologie I" (BA)
• SS 2010: Seminar "Intonation und Annotation" (BA)
• WS 2009/10: Freiwilliges Tutorium zu "Einführung in die Phonetik und Phonologie I" (BA)
• SS 2009: Übung "Phonetik und Phonologie" (BA)"; "Übungen zur akustischen Analyse gesprochener Sprache" (Magister)
• WS 2008/09: Freiwilliges Tutorium zu "Einführung in die Phonetik und Phonologie I“ (BA); ZP-Tutorium (Magister)
• SS 2008: Übung "Phonetik / Phonologie" (BA): Tutorium zur Zwischenprüfung (Magister)
• WS 2007/08: Tutorium zur Zwischenprüfung (Magister)
• SS 2007: Tutorium zur Zwischenprüfung (Magister)