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)