Matteo Schmelzer B.A.

Research Focus

• Phonetics (Intonation and Prosody)
• Multimodal Interaction
• Conversation Analysis
• Corpus and Computational Linguistics

Publications, talks, and posters

2026

• Boesch, Svea, Schmelzer, Matteo, Janzen, Solveigh, Grice, Martine, & Jording, Mathis. (2026). Joint Attention as an Emerging Phenomenon of Multichannel Communication. Poster at MMSYM 2026, University of Leuven.
• Lorenzen, Janne, Baumann, Stefan, Schmelzer, Matteo, Pelageina, Nadia, & Grice, Martine. (2026). Multimodal marking of information status in unscripted dialogue – lexical form is key. Poster at MMSYM 2026, University of Leuven.
• Schmelzer, Matteo, Spaniol, Malin, Wehrle, Simon, & Grice, Martine. (2026). Co-occurrence of head nods and vocal backchannels in German conversations. Talk at MMSYM 2026, University of Leuven.
• Bösch, Svea, Schmelzer, Matteo, Janzen, Solveigh, Jording, Mathis, & Grice, Martine. (2026). The role of mutual gaze in establishing joint attention in non-verbal communication. Poster at the 23rd European Conference on Eye Movements, Ulm, Germany.

2025

• Schmelzer, Matteo. (2025). Multimodal feedback signals in dyadic conversations [Bachelor’s Thesis, University of Cologne]. https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/79856

Employment

• Jan. 2026 –: Student research assistant for CUE (DFG priority programme UGAZE), at IfL Phonetik, Universität zu Köln
• Nov. 2024 – Dec. 2025: Student research assistant for A02 Individual Specificity (SFB 1252), at IfL Phonetik, Universität zu Köln
• Dec. 2021 –: Student research assistant for HeidelGram, at Englisches Seminar I - LS für Diachrone Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Universität zu Köln

Education

• 2025 –: Universität zu Köln: MA Linguistik
• 2022 – 2025: Universität zu Köln: 2-Fach BA Linguistik und Phonetik & English Studies
  Thesis: Multimodal feedback signals in dyadic conversations (supervisor: Prof. Martine Grice)