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🎉 Big congratulations to Malin Spaniol!
On Monday, October 6th, Malin successfully defended her PhD thesis:

✨ "Face to Face: Exploring Human Social Interaction through Gaze, Speech, and Neurodiversity"

We’re proud of her achievement and excited to see where her research journey takes her next! 👏🥳
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We’re proud to celebrate @marialialiou.bsky.social ’s dissertation being published as a book with Language Science Press! Even better, it’s open access—making research accessible to all. Congratulations, Maria! 🎉
Just published "Prosody and attention orienting: The role of rising intonation in speech processing" by Maria Lialiou #openaccess #silp langsci-press.org/catalog/book...
October 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
On Wednesday, Simon Wehrle gave a talk on "Autism and (what it can teach us about) prosody" in the Speech Prosody Lecture Series (sprosig.org/lectures.html). Don't worry if you missed it, you can still watch it on Youtube: www.youtube.com/live/vAMy_Y4...
September 12, 2025 at 1:56 PM
🎉Fresh from the press 📄

New paper out from our lab, led by Martine Grice. Martine and her co-authors (M. Savino, M. Lialiou, A. Albert, & P. Schumacher) investigated the perception of prominence in words with different focus structures in Italian. 🧵(1/3)
August 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🎉The IPA PhD Thesis Award Committee announced the winner of the IPA Thesis Award 2024: (Our) Simona Sbranna, from the University of Cologne, with a thesis titled 'Developing linguistic competence in second language learning: Fluency and prosody in Italian learners of German’. (1/2)
January 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Reposted
📣The CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" is now advertising 12 PhD positions (2025-2028) in multiple different projects. The application deadline is January 17. Find more information below: sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/about-the...
Vacancies
sfb1252.uni-koeln.de
December 19, 2024 at 9:05 AM
📣The CRC 1252 "Prominence in Language" is now advertising 12 PhD positions (2025-2028) in multiple different projects. The application deadline is January 17. Find more information below: sfb1252.uni-koeln.de/en/about-the...
Vacancies
sfb1252.uni-koeln.de
December 19, 2024 at 9:05 AM
New paper publication from our lab! Simona Sbranna, Aviad Albert and Martine Grice investigate prosodic marking of information status in Italian learners of German using the ProPer toolbox! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
December 17, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Congrats, Aviad! 🥳
I am very happy to announce that my book is among the winners of the 2024 Offermann-Hergarten prize for published dissertations from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cologne. I couldn't be more grateful! 🙏
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December 16, 2024 at 8:02 AM
In this week's colloquium, our @marialialiou.bsky.social gave a talk on the attention-orienting function 📢of domain-final rises 🎵 and the role of individual variability 👥, presenting evidence from pupillometry 👁️.
December 12, 2024 at 3:24 PM
The call for the fellowship program 2025 at the CRC "Prominence in Language" in Cologne is out now! See the link below for more details!
FYI: Fellowships 2025 | Collaborative Research Centre 1252 "Prominence in Language", University of Cologne, Germany: The Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1252 “Prominence in Language” at the University of Cologne in Germany invites applications for short-term fellowships available between April…
FYI: Fellowships 2025 | Collaborative Research Centre 1252 "Prominence in Language", University of Cologne, Germany
The Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1252 “Prominence in Language” at the University of Cologne in Germany invites applications for short-term fellowships available between April and December 2025. We invite applications for two types of fellowships:…
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December 9, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Today, we welcomed Valentina Schiattarella from the University of Naples, L'Orientale to our kolloquium. Valentina gave a talk on Prosody in Siwi Berber🎵. She is also currently a visiting fellow at the SFB 1252 here in Cologne!
December 3, 2024 at 4:22 PM
New paper out from our lab led by Juliane Zimmermann. Juliane and her co-authors (T. M. Ellison, F. Cangemi, S. Wehrle, K. Vogeley, & M. Grice) write about lookers and listeners on the autism spectrum: the roles of gaze duration and pitch height in inferring mental states 🧵(1/5)
November 27, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Next week (2-3/12)🗓️, Simon Wehrle, from our lab, will give an invited keynote talk 🧑‍💼at the Multimodality in Social Interactions (2.0) workshop in Marseille 🇫🇷. The talk will be on Gaze, intonation, and turn-taking across neurotypes and conversational contexts. 🧵(1/2)
November 26, 2024 at 3:36 PM