Contact
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333
e-mail: cissewski@eva.mpg.de
Publications
Grawunder, S., Crockford, C., Kalan, A. K., Clay, Z., Stoessel, A., & Hohmann, G. (2019). Response to Garcia and Dunn: No evidence that maximum fundamental frequency reflects selection for signal diminution in bonobos. Current Biology,29(15), R734-R735. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S., Crockford, C., Clay, Z., Kalan, A. K., Stevens, J. M., Stoessel, A., & Hohmann, G. (2018). Higher fundamental frequency in bonobos is explained by larynx morphology. Current Biology,28(20), R1188-R1189. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Seifart, F., Meyer, J., Grawunder, S., & Dentel, L. (2018). Reducing language to rhythm: Amazonian Bora drummed language exploits speech rhythm for long-distance communication. Royal Society Open Science,5(4): 170354. ![]() | |
Bose, I., Grawunder, S., & Schwarze, C. (2018). Alles RElativ oder relaTIV? Sprachwandel, (Standard-) Aussprache und DaF-Unterricht. In S. M. Moraldo ( BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S. (2017). The Caucasus. In R. Hickey ( DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Asmus, S., & Grawunder, S. (2017).Vowel length in Welsh monosyllables, its interrelation with Irish and other related problems: An acoustic study and its didactic implications. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press. BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., Schwarze, C., & Tworek, A. (2017). Persuasives Handeln im Spannungsfeld von Rhetorik und Phonetik. Studia Linguistica XXXV,Sonderheft. BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., Uomini, N., & Crockford, C. (2017). Phonetische und korpus-linguistische Methoden bei der Analyse vokaler Kommunikation von freilebenden Schimpansen im Tai National Forest. In J. Trouvain ( BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S. (2015). Von "singenden Neandertalern" und "redenden Affen". Zur Evolution von Singen und Sprechen. In Singen und Sprechen (pp. 11-29). Berlin: Logos Verlag. BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S. (2015). Фонетические характеристики (неназализованных) гласных в бежтинском языке. Грамматика бежтинского языка. BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., & Kettel, S. (2015). Anmoderieren/Überleiten/Antexten. Was passiert zwischen Meldung und Bericht in Hörfunknachrichten? SPIEL: eine Zeitschrift zur Medienkultur. Neue Folge,1(1/2), 151-170. BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., Asmus, S., & Anderson, C. (2015). On the correlation of acoustic vowel and coda duration in Modern Welsh C(C)VC monosyllables. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (![]() |
Brown, L., Winter, B., Idemaru, K., & Grawunder, S. (2014). Phonetics and politeness: Perceiving Korean honorific and non-honorific speech through phonetic cues. Journal of Pragmatics,66, 45-60. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Roettger, T., Winter, B., Grawunder, S., Kirby, J., & Grice, M. (2014). Assessing incomplete neutralization of final devoicing in German. Journal of Phonetics,43, 11-25. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S. (2014). Wie schaukt a Pruag aos? - Stabile phonetische Unterschiede in Wortformen nach Auslautverhärtung in Tirol. In I. Bose, & B. Neuber ( BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., & Golluscio, L. (2014). ¿Lengua o hablante? – Investigando las alternancias coronal-velares en vilela. LIAMES,14, 41-72. ![]() | |
Grawunder, S., Oertel, M., & Schwarze, C. (2014). Politeness, culture, and speaking task – paralinguistic prosodic behavior of speakers from Austria and Germany. In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Speech Prosody: Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody (pp. 159-163). BibTeX Endnote | |
Lancia, L., & Grawunder, S. (2014). Tongue-larynx interactions in the production of word initial laryngealization over different prosodic contexts: A repeated speech experiment. In S. Fuchs, M. Grice, A. Hermes, L. Lancia, & D. Mücke ( BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S. (2013). Intensity slopes as robust measure for distinguishing glottalic vs pulmonic stop initiation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,134(5), 4069-4069. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2012). The phonetic profile of Korean formal and informal speech registers. Journal of Phonetics,40(6), 808-815. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S. (2012). On the Physiology of Voice Production in South-Siberian Throat singing – Extended Abstract. The Phonetician,101/102, 25-32. Retrieved from http://isphs.org/1973.html. BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., & Hannken-Illjes, K. (2012). Die Kunst im Nicht-Künstlerischen und die Sprechwissenschaft in der GAL - Etwas mehr als ein Tagungsbericht. Sprechen: Zeitschrift für Sprechwiss., Sprechpädagogik, Sprechtherapie, Sprechkunst,29(53), 33-36. BibTeX Endnote |
Aralova, N., Grawunder, S., & Winter, B. (2011). The Acoustic Correlates of Tongue Root Vowel Harmony in Even (Tungusic). In Wai-Sum, Lee & Eric Zee ( BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S. (2011). Die Erforschung des Sprechens mittels Nachrichtenkorpora: die Nachrichtenarche der ARD. In I. Bose, & D. Schwiesau ( BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., Winter, B., & Atoyebi, J. (2011). Voicing of Labiovelar Stops in Yoruba. In Wai-Sum, Lee & Eric Zee ( BibTeX Endnote | |
Rötter, T. B., Grawunder, S., & Winter, B. (2011). The Robustness of Incomplete Neutralization in German. In Wai-Sum, Lee & Eric Zee ( BibTeX Endnote | |
Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2011). The polite voice in Korean: searching for acoustic correlates of contaymal and panmal. In H.-M. Sohn ( BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S., & Winter, B. (2010). Acoustic correlates of politeness: prosodic and voice quality measures in polite and informal speech of Korean and German speakers. In Speech Prosody 2010. Retrieved from http://speechprosody2010.illinois.edu/papers/100316.pdf. BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., Simpson, A., & Khalilov, M. (2010). Phonetic characteristics of ejectives - samples from Caucasian languages. In Susanne Fuchs, Martine Toda, Marzena Żygis ( BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., Simpson, A., & Khalilov, M. (2010). Phonetic characteristics of ejectives – samples from Caucasian languages. In S. Fuchs ( BibTeX Endnote |
Blevins, J., & Grawunder, S. (2009). *KL > TL sound change in Germanic and elsewhere: Descriptions, explanations, and implications. Linguistic Typology,13(2), 267-303. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S. (2009).On the Physiology of Voice Production in South-Siberian Throat Singing. Berlin: Franke & Timme. BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S. (2009). The role of frequency as trigger in contact induced language change. In Proceedings of the International Conference "Teoretičeskie i metodičekie problemy nacional'no-russkogo dvuyazyčia" (pp. 388-392). BibTeX Endnote | |
Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2009). The physics of politeness: approaching politeness from a phonetic perspective. In Proceedings of the 24th Conference of THE ASSOCIATION FOR KOREAN STUDIES IN EUROPE (AKSE) (pp. 200-206). BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S. (2008). The phonetic nature of prosodeme qualities in Ket (Yeniseic). In Proceedings of XXV DULZON readings conference '08 (Sravnit'elno-istoričeskoe i tipologičekoe izučenie yazykov i kultur, Sbornik naučnyx trudov kafedry yazykov naradov Sibiri, TOM4) (pp. 223-228). BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S., & Bose, I. (2008). Average speaking pitch vs. average speaker fundamental frequency reliability, homogeneity, and self report of listener groups. In P. A. Barbosa ( BibTeX Endnote | |
Simpson, A., & Grawunder, S. (2008). Intraoral Pressure Variation in Nasal-Plosive and Plosive-Plosive Sequences in German. In R. Sock, S. Fuchs, & Y. Laprie ( BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S., Bose, I., Hertha, B., Trauselt, F., & Anders, L. C. (2006). Perceptive and acoustic measurement of average speaking pitch of female and male speakers in German radio news. In Interspeech 2006. Bonn: ISCA. BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S. (2005). On the physiology of voice production in South-Siberian throat singing. PhD Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle. BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S. (2003). Comparison of Voice Production Types of Western Overtone Singing and South Siberian Throat Singing. In 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1698-1702). BibTeX Endnote | |
Grawunder, S. (2003). Der südsibirische Kehlgesang als Gegenstand phonetischer Untersuchungen. In E. M. Krech, & E. Stock ( BibTeX Endnote |
Grawunder, S. (1999). Die Erforschung eines besonderen Stimmgebrauchs - Obertongesang versus Kehlgesang. Diploma Thesis, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle. BibTeX Endnote |
In preparation
Grawunder: KL/*TL and KN/*TN-Cluster realization in an areal perspective | |
Grawunder, Alieva, Khalilov: Weak and strong fricatives in Chamalal. | |
Grawunder, Abdulaev: Pharyngealization and pharyngeals in Tsez. | |
Grawunder, Mutalov: Pharyngealization and pharyngeals in Itsari Dargi | |
Grawunder, Abdulaev, Müller: Illustration of the IPA - Tsez. | |
Grawunder, Forker, Abdulaev, Khalilova, Khalilov: Gemination in Tsezic languages - phonetic analysis of samples from Bezhta, Hinukh and Tsez. | |
Grawunder, Winter, Lancia, Voigt: Labio-velar stops in Yoruba - acoustic, electroglottographic, aerodynamic and articulatory evidence. | |
Grawunder, Naumann: Clicks with noisy accompaniment in West !Xoon (Taa). | |
Grawunder, Ghosh: Phonetic Structures of Gta' (Munda). | |
Grawunder: Acoustic characteristics of Ket prosodemes. | |
Atoyebi, Grawunder: Illustration of the IPA - Òko. | |
Grawunder: Pharyngealization and uvularization in some East-German dialects. |
Presentations
05/2016 | Melodies beyond fundamental frequency and formants beyond vowels. Towards the typology of throat-singing. Kolloquium zu Ehren Prof. Manfred Krifkas, ZAS, Berlin. |
05/2016 | Häufigkeit und Ausprägung des *KL > TL Wechsels im ostmitteldeutschen Sprachraum. Sprach-wissenschaftliche Vorträge am Institut für Germanistik in Leipzig (SPIGL), Universität Leipzig. |
12/2015 | Wieviel Kontrast ist nötig? – Zur gezielten Analyse subphonematischer Variation bei der Beschreibung arealer und soziolinguistischer Varietäten. Linguistisches Kolloquium, Institut für Skandinavistik, Frisistik und Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. |
08/2015 | On the correlation of acoustic vowel and coda duration in Modern Welsh C(C)VC monosyllables. together with Asmus, S., C. Anderson. XVIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Science (ICPhS), Glasgow. |
03/2015 | Tonsprachen. invited talk. ESSV, KU Eichstätt |
06/2014 | Von singenden Neandertalern und redenden Affen. Zur Evolution von Singen und Sprechen. invited talk at 12. Leipziger Symposium for Kinder und Jugendstimme, Universität Leipzig |
12/2013 | Grawunder, S. Intensity slopes as robust measure for distinguishing glottalic vs pulmonic stop initiation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5):40694069. ASA Meeting, San Francisco DOI |
12/2013 | with Winter, Bodo, Brown, Lucian, Idemaru, Kaori. Perceiving politeness from speech acoustics alone: A cross-linguistic study on Korean and English. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(5):40724072. ASA Meeting San Francisco DOI |
10/2013 | New methods to explore the complexity of the behavior of the larynx and its interaction with breathing factors and configuration of the tongue. together with L. Lancia. talk at 4th summer school on "Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior, Aix-en-Provence 4th SPP summer school |
10/2013 | Speaker and areal specific paths of acquiring neutralization of final stops in German. talk at 4th summer school on "Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior, 4th SPP summer school, Aix-en-Provence |
10/2013 | Language or Speaker? Investigating coronal-velar alternations in Vilela together with Lucía Golluscio. poster presentation at 4th summer school on "Speech Production and Perception: Speaker-Specific Behavior, 4th SPP summer school, Aix-en-Provence |
09/2013 | Community-basierte Ansätze zur Standardisierung von Dialekten und Minderheitenvarietäten. talk at 2. Sektionentagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik e.V. 19.-20. September, RWTH Aachen |
08/2013 | Stop contrasts in Kurmanji Kurdish. Testing the ejective hypothesis.together with A. Geumann, C. Celebi, D. Stilo and G. Haig. talk at International conference of Iranian Languages, ICIL5, Bamberg |
06/2013 | Ejektive in den Sprachen des Kaukasus. invited talk at Institut für Empirische Sprachwissenschaft, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Main) |
11/2012 | Kehlgesang in Südsibirien. Analysen zur Ethnographie eines Stimmgebrauchs. invited talk at Germanistisches Institut, Universität Innsbruck |
10/2012 | What does a Frad look like? - Targeting the effect of incomplete neutralization. together with L.Lancia. talk at Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P8), Jena University |
03/2012 | Coronal-velar stop alternation in Vilela (Alternancia de oclusivas coronal-velar en vilela). together with L. Golluscio. talk at annual meeting of the Argentinian linguistic society, San Luis, Argentina |
08/2011 | The Robustness of Incomplete Neutralization in German. together with T. Röttgen, B. Winter. talk at ICPhS XVII (17-21 August 2011), Hong Kong |
08/2011 | Voicing of Labiovelar stops in Yoruba. together with B. Winter, J. Atoyebi. talk at ICPhS XVII (17-21 August 2011), Hong Kong |
08/2011 | The Acoustic Correlates of Tongue Root Vowel Harmony in Even (Tungusic). together with N. Aralova, B. Winter. talk at ICPhS XVII (17-21 August 2011), Hong Kong |
06/2011 | Vertical larynx position in cineradiographic data Correlating laryngeal height, glottal closure and vowel height. together with L. Lancia Assessing. Poster presentation at the 9th ISSP (June 20-23 2011), Montreal, Canada |
06/2011 | Phonetische Forschung an gesprochenen Nachrichten. invited talk at Linguistisches Kolloquium, Jena University |
05/2011 | The frequency distribution of selected phonological features in the Caucasus area. talk at Conference on Caucasian languages (May 13 -15, 2011), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
10/2010 | The Frequency Code Revisited: Are the Universalist Claims Substantiated? together with B. Winter. talk at "Phonetics Universals" conference, MPI EVA Leipzig |
10/2010 | Final Lengthening and Hesitation Signals in Korean Politeness Registers. together with B. Winter. poster presentation at P&P conference (15/16 Oct 2010), Frankfurt/Main |
10/2010 | Akustische Korrelate von Prosodie und Stimmqualität in höflichen vs. informellen Äußerungen bei Koreanern. together with B. Winter. talk at DGSS-Jahrestagung 2010 "Interpersonelle Kommunikation: Analyse und Optimierung" (09.10.2010), Uni Halle |
10/2010 | Phonetische Untersuchungen in Nachrichtenkorpora am Beispiel der NArche. together with I. Bose. talk at DGSS-Jahrestagung 2010 "Interpersonelle Kommunikation: Analyse und Optimierung" (10.10.2010), Uni Halle |
08/2009 | "The phonetic structure of lexical and grammatical Tones in Ghulfan (Kordofan-Nubian)." together with Williams, R., Jakobi, A., Comfort, J. Invited talk for NEW APPROACHES TO NUBIAN LANGUAGES AND HISTORY at WOCAL 6. |
08/2009 | "On the distribution of glottalization in the languages of the Caucasus typological and phonostatistical arguments." together with M. Cysouw. Talk accepted for ALT8, Berkeley |
06/2009 | The Physics of Politeness: Approaching Politeness from a Phonetic Perspective. together with B. Winter. Talk at the 24th Conference of the AKSE. |
05/2009 | "The role of frequency as trigger in contact induced language change". Talk at the International Conference "Teoretičeskie i metodičekie problemy nacional'no-russkogo dvuyazyčia"(27-29 May) DGU and RAN, Makhachkala |
03/2009 | Pharyngealization and Pharyngeals in Tsez.together with A. Müller, A. Abdulaev |
03/2009 | The Physics of Politeness: Approaching Korean Politeness from a Phonetic Perspective.together with B. Winter. 31st DGfS, Osnabrück |
12/2008 | Intraoral pressure variation in nasal-plosive and plosive-plosive sequences in German. together with A. Simpson. Poster at the 8th ISSP, Strasbourg |
08/2008 | "Evaluation of subjective measures in speech education/training and diagnostics the perception of average speaking pitch". at AILA'08, Essen |
07/2008 | "Voice production modes and vocal tract shape in South-Siberian throat-singing". invited talk at Acoustics'08, Paris |
06/2008 | "Clicks with noisy accompaniment in West !Xoon". together with C. Naumann. poster presentation at Acoustics'08, Paris |
06/2008 | Tomsk: Phonetic (re-)analysis of prosodeme qualities in Ket (Yeniseic). talk at XXV DULZON Readings conference, Tomsk |
03/2008 | "Pitch, speech rate and rhythm as speaking style characterizing parameters in German news presentation". together with H. Engert, H.Kaiser., S. Unger and Ines Bose. poster presentation |
09/2007 | Subjektive und semiobjektive Messmethoden in der Sprechwissenschaft. Abstract. annual meeting of GAL, Hildesheim, Germany |
09/2007 | "Towards the prosodic structure of words in Gta' (Munda)". Workshop "Phonological Words in South Asia and Southeast Asia". Leipzig University, Leipzig |
06/2007 | "A typology of throat singing". invited Institute-seminar talk at MPI EVAN, Leipzig |
06/2007 | Die Phonetik des Kehlgesangs. invited talk at U Trier |
01/2007 | "Pharyngealized Prosodeme Quality in Ket (Yeniseic)." Poster presentation at the LSA meeting,in Anaheim, CA. |
12/2006 | "Phonation Types - conceptional thoughts about a typologically oriented data base of linguistic voice quality." Work-in-progress talk at Linguistics Department MPI EVAN, Leipzig |
10/2006 | "Gta' phonetics and phonology". joined talk with Arun Gosh. Work-in-progress talk at Linguistics Department MPI EVAN, Leipzig |
09/2006 | "Ethnografie von Paralinguistika bei Sprach- und Dialektobsoleszenz". Jahrestagung der GAL 2006, Münster, Germany |
06/2006 | Charakterisierung des R-Lauts im Nordostthüringischen - ein Werkstattbericht.19. Sprechwissenschaftliche Fachtagung, 100 Jahre Fachgeschichte an der Universität Halle |
01/2006 | "How to make good audio recordings in the field?". workshop at LSA meeting, in Albuquerque |
5/12/2005 | Zur Physiologie der Stimmproduktion im südsibirischen Kehlgesang. dissertation defense presentation |
06/2004 | Dialektskizze der nordostthüringischen Mundart von Höhnstedt. Handout im Saalkreis Seminar Dialektgeographie des Deutschen, Germanistik, Uni-Halle |
08/2003 | "A comparison of voice production types of 'western' overtone singing and South Siberian throat singing". 15th ICPhS, Barcelona |
05/2003 | "Tofa - Documenation of an endangered language in Siberia". Linguistisches Kolloquium at Halle University |
11/2002 | "Throat-singing in South Siberia". invited talk, overtone singing festival at Haus der Kulturen, Berlin |
06/2002 | "Phonetic Features and Typology of South Siberian and Mongolian Throat Singing". invited talk at Linguistics Dep. of Ulan-Baator University |
11/2001 | Zur Ethnographie der paralinguistischen Eigenschaften des Sprechens. invited talk at Ehrenkolloquium in the honour of Prof. Eva Maria Krech |