Projects

PROP (Prosodische Prominenz – Klassifikation, Gradienz, Relativität)

Scholarships, Grants and Awards

• 11/2018: Promotionsstipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
• 07/2018: Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS) - Stipendium für die Organisation eines Workshops ('Workshop on respiratory movement measures in speech')
• 07/2018: Fakultätspreis der Universität zu Köln (Philosophische Fakultät) für die Masterarbeit zum Thema: Alter und Sprechmotorik: Eine akustische und artikulatorische Analyse.

Memberships

• Association for Laboratory Phonology (ALP)
• Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS)

PhD Project

Effects of Aging on Speech

Publications

2019

• Baumann, Stefan & Jane Mertens (2019). The influence of information status on the prosody of sentence topics. Oral presentation at workshop Encoding varieties of topic and focus: The role of contrast and information status, DGfS Conference, 7 March 2019, Bremen.
• Mertens, J., Hermes, A. & D. Mücke, D. (2019). Velocity profiles and prosodic variation in younger and older speakers. Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2019, 17-19 June 2019, Lecce, Italy.
• Baumann, Stefan, Jane Mertens & Janina Kalbertodt (to appear). Informativeness and speaking style affect the realization of nuclear and prenuclear accents in German. Proceedings 19th ICPhS, Melbourne.

2018

• Hermes, A., Mertens, J. & D. Mücke (2018). Age-related effects on sensorimotor control of speech production. Interspeech 2018, 2-6 September 2018, Hyderabad, India, 1526-1530
• Baumann, Stefan & Jane Mertens (2018). Do prenuclear accents reflect meaning differences in German? Poster presentation at ProMAix2018 (Workshop on Prosody and Meaning: Information Structure and Beyond), 8 November 2018, Aix-en-Provence

2017

• Hermes, A., Mücke, D. & J. Mertens (2017). Ageing in speech motor control: An EMA Study. Vortrag. 11th International Seminar on Speech Production, 16-19 October 2017, Tianjin, China.
• Baumann, S., Mertens, J. & J. Kalbertodt (2017). How ornamental are German prenuclear accents? Vortrag. PaM17, 4 October 2017, Konstanz.
• Hermes, A., Mücke, D. & J. Mertens (2017). Ageing effect on speech motor control. Posterpräsentation. 7th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, 5-8 July 2017, Groningen, Netherlands.
• Mertens, J., Hermes, A. & D. Mücke (2017). How does ageing affect articulatory coordination in simple and complex syllable onsets? Posterpräsentation. TABU Dag 2017, 22-23 June, Groningen, Netherlands.
• Baumann, S., Mertens, J. & J. Kalbertodt (2017). The influence of information status on prenuclear accents. Posterpräsentation. PaPE 2017, 14 June 2017, Cologne.

Fachschaftsrat

Member of Fachschaft Linguistik und Phonetik since WS 2014