MA Theses
2023:
- Hendrik Behrens-Zemek: Automatic speaker and dialect recognition
- Friederike Hohl: Crosslinguistic differences in amplitude envelope modulation spectra in rhetorical and information-seeking questions
2021:
- Tianyi Zhao: Analysis of the alignment differences of L2 German speakers in German pitch accents
- Simone Nopens: Detecting fake accents in police interrogations
2020:
- Meike Rommel: Pitch alignment in declaratives and polar questions in standard vs. heritage Icelandic (Supervisor: Nicole Dehé, Second Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
2019:
- Gloria Esposito: The intonation of information-seeking and rhetorical questions in German. An investigation of spontaneous speech data (Supervisor:Nicole Dehé, Second Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
2017:
- Angela James: The Prosody of Narrow Focus for German L2-Learners of English (Supervisor: Bettina Braun, Second Supervisor: Tina Bögel)
- Adele Ruder: The influence of prosody on audiobook listeners (Supervisor: Nicole Dehé)
2016:
- Clara Huttenlauch: The Purpose Shapes the Vocative: Prosodic Analysis of Productions in Colombian Spanish (Supervisor: Bettina Braun, Second Supervisor: Ingo Feldhausen)
- Marianne Kusterer: Prosodic cues to question interpretation: The influence of pitch accent and voice quality on the interpretation of rhetorical questions (Supervisor: Bettina Braun, Second Supervisor: Nicole Dehé)
- Sabrina Scheu: The Prosody and Pragmatics of Question Tags in English (Supervisor: Nicole Dehé)
2015:
- Sophie Egger: The impact of Pitch Accents on the Identification of Word Stress in German (Supervisor: Bettina Braun, Second Supervisor: Carsten Eulitz)
- Aline Ruß: Stimmqualität als Marker für Nichtmuttersprachlichkeit (Supervisor: Bettina Braun, Second Supervisor: Janet Grijzenhout)
2014:
- Gesche Böhnke: Vokallöschung als Funktion von syntaktischer und prosodischer Phrasierung im Isländischen (Supervisor: Nicole Dehé, Second Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
- Patricia Eder: Vokallängenkontraste im Deutschen (Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
- Brigitte Häusle: Neurolinguistik evidence for differences in the preattentive processing of lexically specified and underspecified consonants (Supervisor: Carsten Eulitz, Second Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
- Tonio Kellner: What conditions case assignment? On the processing of an artificial language (Supervisor: Miriam Butt, Second Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
- Jana Schlegel: Mit Kind und Kegel ins mentale Lexikon: Eine Untersuchung der Speicherung und Produktion deutscher Paarformeln (Supervisor: Bettina Braun, Second Supervisor: Nicole Dehé)
- Stephanie Vogel: Entlastung des Arbeitsgedächtnisses durch Nutzung von Bildern anstelle von Text (Supervisor: Bettina Braun, Second Supervisor: Miriam Butt)
2013:
- Ann-Kathrin Grohe: Familiarity Effects of Voice and Intonation on Lexical Processing (Supervisor: Bettina Braun, Second Supervisor: Carsten Eulitz)
- Nicola Herrmann: Das Hohenlohische als dialektales Übergangsgebiet (Supervisor: Nicole Dehé, Second Supervisor: Ellen Brandner)
- Teresa Christina Kieseier: Initial Strident-Stop Clusters in Child Speech. A Production Study with German Monolingual and German-English Bilingual Preschoolers (Supervisor: Janet Grijzenhout, Second Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
- Verena Köppel: The offset off intonation patterns in prenuclear accents in German (Supervisor: Bettina Braun, Second Supervisor: Nicole Dehé)
- Gintare Lideikyte: Analyse der Intonation in den Slogans der deutschen Fernsehwerbung mithilfe der GToBI-Theorie (Supervisor: Nicole Dehé; Second Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
- Adam Urbach: Wie beeinflusst der epistemische Gehalt die Bildung von Fragen? (Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
2012:
- Joanna Müller: Prosodische Analyse gesprochener Sprache in Hörbüchern (Supervisor: Nicole Dehé; Second supervisor: Bettina Braun)
- Samuel Schweizer: Semantic priming of complex verbs: Effects of transparency (Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
2011:
- Diana Hahn: Lautsymbolismus im Spracherwerb (Supervisor: Bettina Braun)
- Ingobert Michael Kölbl: Linguistic Changes in the Peterborough Chronicle (Second supervisor: Nicole Dehé)
- Michael Merz: Die r-Epenthese im Bairischen zwischen Syntax und Phonologie (Second supervisor: Bettina Braun)
2010:
- Wen-Hsuan Chiao: Perception of four level tones by Taiwanese, Vietnamese and German listeners (Supervisor: Bettina Braun); winner of DAAD award.
- Tobias Galts: The phonological encoding of Mandarin Chinese tonal contrasts by different non-native speaker populations (Second supervisor: Bettina Braun); winner of VEUK award.
- Sabine Geiselmann: Studien zur Vokalreduktion im Italienischen (Supervisor: Bettina Braun)