I hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Goethe University Frankfurt and previously worked as a Research Associate at the University of Stuttgart. In 2023, I transitioned into a new role in research data management (RDM) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). See my CV for further details.

My research interests lie in the area of phonetics and phonology, in particular speech prosody: How do speakers encode meaning by means of suprasegmental phonetic features, such as pitch and duration, and how do listeners interpret these features as linguistic forms? I have conducted research on the prosodic patterns in languages as diverse as German, Hungarian, Tswana, and Javanese. The main focus is on prosodic phrasing, syntax-prosody interface relations, and the prosodic encoding of information structure. Check out my publications for details.

I teach courses related to my research interests. Each winter term, I teach a phonetics course at the School for Speech Therapy of the Tübingen University Hospital. From 2013 to 2022, I taught seminars in General and English Linguistics at the University of Stuttgart.


Recent publications

  • Edited volume Prosodic boundary phenomena appeared in June 2023 in the series Studies in Laboratory Phonology (Language Science Press):
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    I edited this volume book in collaboration with researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the University of Potsdam. It is grounded in a workshop that we held in 2021 at the annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS). The chapters cover selected topics on the production and comprehension of prosodic cues in various populations and languages, presenting cross-linguistic evidence as well as evidence from non-native listeners, infants, adults, and elderly speakers.

  • Conference paper Correlation of prosodic boundary cues in German appeared in August 2023 in Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences:
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    This study investigates how durational and F0 cues expressing intonation phrase boundaries are correlated in German. We observed a negative correlation between pause duration and pre-boundary lengthening and a positive correlation between pause duration and F0 range, which suggests that prosodic boundary cues are produced in coordination. The paper was presented as a poster at the ICPhS 2023 in Prague.