Sven Grawunder MPI EVA Leipzig

Sven Grawunder

research fellow (scientist)
[speech scientist, phonetician]

Department of Linguistics
Max Planck Institut for evolutionary Anthropology
(MPI EVA),
Leipzig, Germany

short CV:

1990-1999 study of Speech Science, Phonetics, German Linguistics, Japanology at Halle University and Netherlands Studies and Central Asian Studies at Leipzig University
1992-1993 civilian service at the clinics for Otorhinolaryngology, University Halle
1998-1999 therapist work as speech pathologist/therapist
1999 diploma in speech science at Halle University
1999-2000 study of Medical Physics at Halle University
2000-2004 research associate at Institute for Speech Science & Phonetics, Halle University
2000-2004 team member of the ALTAI-SAYAN-LANGUAGE-and-ETHNOGRAPHY-PROJECT [ASLEP (TOFA)]
a DOBES Project funded by Volkswagen-Stiftung and hosted at MPI EVAN Leipzig
2005 PhD in Speech Science at Halle University
2005-2008 postdoctoral researcher at MPI EVA Leipzig
12/2008-8/2009 guest researcher at MPI EVA Leipzig
2010 guest at Research training group GRK DFG 1624/1 "Frequency effects in language"
since 8/2009 research fellow (scientist) at MPI EVA Leipzig

research interests:

corpora based quantitative analysis of speaker & speaking variability
typoplogy of linguistic voice quality / phonation types and tonal feature composition
dialectology, areal typology, (socio)linguistic accomodation and
ethnography and linguistic anthropology of endangered language communities
phonetic lab work (EPG, EGG, ultrasound, aerodynamics)
articulatory and physiological investigation in linguistic phonetic fieldwork (EPG, EGG, ultrasound, aerodynamics)
human paralinguistic vocal behaviour and phonetics of throat singing, throat games, overtone singing

current research projects:

areal typology of glottalization, gemination, labialization and pharyngealization in the area of the Caucasus and Transcaucasus (including languages like Ingush, Bezhtl'a, Tsez, Dargwa, Avar, Georgian, Svan, Kurdish) [joint work with Don Stilo, MPI EVAN, Leipzig]
phonetics and tonology of Ket [joint work with Ed Vajda, Western Washington U]
phonetic-phonemic variation in Vilela [joint work with Lucía Golluscio, U Buenos Aires]
gemination and sibilants in Bangla (Bengali) [joint work with Arunkumar Ghosh, Burdwan University]
phonetic description of Gata', Remo & Santali (Munda languages in CE-India) [joint work with Arunkumar Ghosh, Burdwan University]
phonetic structures of Dargi [initially joint work with Helma van den Berg(†)]
phonetic description of Ghulfan [joint work wit Robert S. Williams, The American University in Cairo]
phonetic structures of Tsez, Bezhtl'a [joint work with M. Khalilov (AcadSc Makhachkala, Daghestan), Arsen Abdulaev, I. Maddieson (U New Mexico), A. Simpson (U Jena)]
varieties of Tofa, Tuvan, Khakas [joint work with K. David Harrison, Swarthmore and Gregory D. Anderson]
phonetics (ejectives, phonation types, laryngeal-velar coordination) of Western !Xóõ [joint work with Christfried Naumann, MPI EVAN, Leipzig]
prosodic and morphophonemic features in NE-Thuringian (Mansfelder Mundart) and N-Saxonian (Ostmeissnisch)[ongoing data collection and description, joint field work Christoph Walter]
acoustic-phonetic correlates of rhythmic features [joint work with René Schiering (U Leipzig), Ines Bose(U Halle)]

fieldwork:

Tuva (Russia) 1998, 2000, 2001 (Tyvan)
Khakassia (Russia) 1998, 2000 (Khakas)
'Tofalaria' (Russia, Irkutskij Oblast,) 2000, 2001 (Tofa)
Mongolia 2002 (varieties of Tyvan in Mongolia)
Germany 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010 (Saxonian and Thuringian varieties of German)
India 2006 (Santali, Gata', Bangla)
Namibia 2006 (Western !Xóõ)
Egypt 2007 (Ghulfan/Unču, a language from Sudan)
Dagestan (Russia) 2009 (Tsez, Hinuq, Kumyk, Lezgi)

publications:

Grawunder, S., Hannken-Illjes, K., 2012. Die Kunst im Nicht-Künstlerischen und die Sprechwissenschaft in der GAL – Etwas mehr als ein Tagungsbericht. sprechen - Z. f. Sprechwisseschaft, -pädagogik, -therapie, -kunst, J. 29, Heft 53, 33-36.
Winter, B., Grawunder, S. 2011: The polite voice in Korean: searching for acoustic correlates of contaymal and panmal. In: 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, CLSI publications, Stanford, CA.
Grawunder, S., Winter, B., Atoyebi, J. 2011. Voicing of Labiovelar stops in Yoruba. Proceedings of the ICPhS XVII 17-21 August 2011 Hong Kong, 767-770. (PDF)
Aralova, N., Grawunder, S., Winter, B. 2011. The Acoustic Correlates of Tongue Root Vowel Harmony in Even (Tungusic). Proceedings of the ICPhS XVII 17-21 August 2011 Hong Kong, 240-244. (PDF)
Röttger, T., Winter, B. and Grawunder, S. 2011. The Robustness of Incomplete Neutralization in German. Proceedings of the ICPhS XVII 17-21 August 2011 Hong Kong, 1722-1725. (PDF)
Grawunder, S. 2011. Die Erforschung des Sprechens mittels Nachrichtenkorpora – Die Nachrichtenarche der ARD. In: Ines Bose, Dietz Schwiesau (Hg.) : Nachrichten schreiben, sprechen, hören. Forschungen zur Hörverständlichkeit von Radionachrichten. Frank&Timme: Berlin. (PDF draft)
Schwiesau, D., Grawunder, S., Bose, I. 2011. Die Nachrichtenarche der ARD. In: Ines Bose, Dietz Schwiesau (Hg.) : Nachrichten schreiben, sprechen, hören. Forschungen zur Hörverständlichkeit von Radionachrichten. Frank&Timme: Berlin. (PDF draft)
Grawunder, S., Winter, B. 2010. Acoustic correlates of politeness: prosodic and voice quality measures in polite and informal speech of Korean and German speakers. Proceedings of the International Conference for Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago 5/2010, Speech Prosody 2010 100316:1-4. (PDF)
Grawunder, S., Simpson,A., Khalilov, M. 2010. Phonetic characteristics of ejectives – samples from Caucasian languages. In: TURBULENT SOUNDS - An interdisciplinary guide (Interface Exploration Series, 21), Fuchs, S., Toda, M. & Zygis, M. (eds.), Berlin: Mouton deGruyter, 209-244. material
Winter, B., Grawunder, S. 2009. The Physics of Politeness: Approaching Politeness from a Phonetic Perspective. Proceedings of the 24th Conference of THE ASSOCIATION FOR KOREAN STUDIES IN EUROPE (AKSE), Leiden, 200-206.
Grawunder, S. 2009. The role of frequency as trigger in contact induced language change. Proceedings of the International Conference "Teoretičeskie i metodičekie problemy nacional'no-russkogo dvuyazyčia", Makhachkala, 388-392.
Blevins, J., Grawunder, S. 2009. *KL > TL sound change in Germanic and elsewhere: Descriptions, explanations, and implications. Linguistic typology, 13 (2), 267–303. link supp. material
Grawunder, S. 2009. On the Physiology of Voice Production in South-Siberian Throat Singing – Analysis of Acoustic and Electrophysiological Evidences. Berlin: Frank & Timme. (PDF, publisher, amazon)
Simpson, A., Grawunder, S. 2008. Intraoral pressure variation in nasal-plosive and plosive-plosive sequences in German. Proceedings of the 8th ISSP, Strasbourg, 125-128.
Grawunder, S. 2008. The phonetic nature of prosodeme qualities in Ket (Yeniseic). Proceedings of XXV DULZON readings conference '08 (Sravnit'elno-istoričeskoe i tipologičekoe izučenie yazykov i kultur, Sbornik naučnyx trudov kafedry yazykov naradov Sibiri, TOM4), Tomsk, 223-228. (Manuscript PDF)
Grawunder, S., Bose, I. 2008. Average Speaking Pitch vs. Average Speaker Fundamental Frequency – Reliability, Homogeneity, And Self Report Of Listener Groups. Proceedings of the International Conference Speech Prosody 2008, Campinas Brazil 5/2008, 763-766. (PDF) (poster) material
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.
Proceedings of the Interspeech 2006 — ICSLP, Pittsburgh 9/2006, 885-888. (PDF)
Grawunder, S. 2005. On the Physiology of Voice Production in South-Siberian Throat Singing – Analysis of Acoustic and Electrophysiological Evidences.
unpublished PhD thesis, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle.
Grawunder, S. 2003. Der südsibirische Kehlgesang als Gegenstand phonetischer Untersuchungen. In:
Gegenstandsauffassung und aktuelle Forschungen der halleschen Sprechwissenschaft, eds. Eva-Maria Krech and Eberhard Stock, 53-91. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. (Manuskript)
Grawunder, S. 2003. Comparison of Voice Production Types of ‘Western’ Overtone Singing and South Siberian Throat Singing. Paper presented at 15th ICPhS, Barcelona, 1698-1702.(PDF)
Grawunder, S. 1999. Die Erforschung eines besonderen Stimmgebrauchs - Obertongesang versus Kehlgesang. Unpublished Diploma, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle/S. (HTML-Version) (PDF)

forthcoming papers:

Grawunder, S. 2012 (in print): On the Physiology of Voice Production in South-Siberian Throat singing – Extended Abstract. The Phonetician.
Winter , Grawunder (under review): The phonetic profile of Korean Polite Speech

in preparation:

Grawunder, Müller, Abdulaev: Pharyngealization and Pharyngeals in Tsez.
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, Atoyebi, Lancia, Voigt: Labio-velar stops in Yoruba - acoustic, electroglottographic, aerodynamic and articulatory evidence.
Grawunder: Type and Token frequency as predictors for areal distribution of features - Glottalization in the languages of the Caucasus.
Grawunder, Naumann: Clicks with noisy accompaniment in West !Xoon (Taa).
Grawunder, Ghosh : Phonetic Structures of Gta' (Munda).
Grawunder, Winter: Paralinguistic and Phonetic correlates of polite speech in Korean, German and Russian
Grawunder: Acoustic characteristics of Ket prosodemes.
Atoyebi, Grawunder: Illustration of the IPA - Òko.
Grawunder: Pharyngealization and uvularization in some East-German dialects.
Seifart, Grawunder, Bibiko: Phonetic structures of Bora Drumm-language

talks & presentations:

(08/2011) together with T. Röttgen, B. Winter The Robustness of Incomplete Neutralization in German, talk at ICPhS XVII 17-21 August 2011 Hong Kong.
(08/2011) together with B. Winter, J. Atoyebi Voicing of Labiovelar stops in Yoruba, talk at ICPhS XVII 17-21 August 2011 Hong Kong.
(08/2011) together with N. Aralova, B. Winter The Acoustic Correlates of Tongue Root Vowel Harmony in Even (Tungusic), talk at ICPhS XVII 17-21 August 2011 Hong Kong.
(06/2011) together with L. Lancia Assessing vertical larynx position in cineradiographic data – Correlating laryngeal height, glottal closure and vowel height, poster presentation at the 9th ISSP, Montreal, Canada, June 20-23 2011
(06/2011) invited talk at Linguistisches Kolloquium Phonetische Forschung an gesprochenen Nachrichten, 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.
(01/2011) together with N. Aralova Does Even has ATR? – Testing phonological hypotheses in an endangered language. CUNY Conference On The Phonology Of Endangered Languages, 12.-14. Januar 2011, New York.
(10/2010) together with B. Winter, The Frequency Code Revisited: Are the Universalist Claims Substantiated? talk at "Phonetics Universals" conference, MPI EVA Leipzig.
(10/2010) together with B. Winter, Final Lengthening and Hesitation Signals in Korean Politeness Registers poster presentation at P&P conference, Frankfurt/M., 15/16 Oct 2010.
(10/2010) together with B. Winter, Akustische Korrelate von Prosodie und Stimmqualität in höflichen vs. informellen Äußerungen bei Koreanern talk at DGSS-Jahrestagung 2010, "Interpersonelle Kommunikation: Analyse und Optimierung", Uni Halle, 09.10.2010.
(10/2010) together with I. Bose, Phonetische Untersuchungen in Nachrichtenkorpora am Beispiel der „NArche“ talk at DGSS-Jahrestagung 2010, "Interpersonelle Kommunikation: Analyse und Optimierung", Uni Halle, 10.10.2010.
(8/2009) together with Williams, R., Jakobi, A., Comfort, J.: "The phonetic structure of lexical and grammatical Tones in Ghulfan (Kordofan-Nubian)." Invited talk for NEW APPROACHES TO NUBIAN LANGUAGES AND HISTORY at WOCAL 6.
(8/2009) together with M. Cysouw: "On the distribution of glottalization in the languages of the Caucasus – typological and phonostatistical arguments. Talk accepted for ALT8, Berkeley.
(6/2009) together with B. Winter: The Physics of Politeness: Approaching Politeness from a Phonetic Perspective. Talk at the 24th Conference of the AKSE.
(5/2009) "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.
(3/2009) together with A. Müller, A. Abdulaev: Pharyngealization and Pharyngeals in Tsez. Poster at the International Workshop on Pharyngeals & Pharyngealisation, Newcastle University.
(3/2009) together with B. Winter: The Physics of Politeness: Approaching Korean Politeness from a Phonetic Perspective. 31st DGfS, Osnabrück.
(12/2008) together with A. Simpson: Intraoral pressure variation in nasal-plosive and plosive-plosive sequences in German. Poster at the 8th ISSP, Strasbourg.
(8/2008) "Evaluation of subjective measures in speech education/training and diagnostics – the perception of average speaking pitch". at AILA'08, Essen.
(7/2008) invited talk at Acoustics'08, Paris:"Voice production modes and vocal tract shape in South-Siberian throat-singing"
(6/2008) together with C. Naumann: "Clicks with noisy accompaniment in West !Xoon" (poster presentation at Acoustics'08, Paris)(poster PDF)
(6/2008) talk at XXV DULZON Readings conference, Tomsk: Phonetic (re-)analysis of prosodeme qualities in Ket (Yeniseic).
(3/2008) "Pitch, speech rate and rhythm as speaking style characterizing parameters in German news presentation" poster presentation together with H. Engert, H.Kaiser., S. Unger and Ines Bose (poster PDF)
(9/2007) „Subjektive und semiobjektive Messmethoden in der Sprechwissenschaft“ annual meeting of GAL, Hildesheim, Germany (Abstract PDF)
(9/2007) "Towards the prosodic structure of words in Gta' (Munda)" - Workshop Phonological Words in South Asia and Southeast Asia, Leipzig University, Leipzig
(6/2007) "A typology of throat singing" invited Institute-seminar talk at MPI EVAN, Leipzig
(6/2007) „Die Phonetik des Kehlgesangs“ invited talk at U Trier
(1/2007) "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 Ling. Dep. MPI EVAN Leipzig
(10/2006) joined talk with Arun Gosh "Gta' phonetics and phonology" Work-in-progress talk at Ling. Dep. MPI EVAN Leipzig
(9/2006) „Ethnografie von Paralinguistika bei Sprach- und Dialektobsoleszenz". Jahrestagung der GAL 2006, Münster, Germany (Abstract PDF)
(6/2006) 19. Sprechwissenschaftliche Fachtagung 100 Jahre Fachgeschichte an der Universität Halle
„Charakterisierung des R-Lauts im Nordostthüringischen - ein Werkstattbericht“ (PDF, 2,5MB)
(1/2006) workshop at LSA meeting in Albuquerque "How to make good audio recordings in the field?" (PPT, 8MB)
(5/12/2005) dissertation defense presentation „Zur Physiologie der Stimmproduktion im südsibirischen Kehlgesang“ (PPT, 11MB)
(6/2004) „Dialektskizze der nordostthüringischen Mundart von Höhnstedt im Saalkreis“ Seminar Dialektgeographie des Deutschen, Germanistik, Uni-Halle (Handout)
(8/2003) 15th ICPhS, Barcelona "A comparison of voice production types of 'western' overtone singing and South Siberian throat singing" (PPT, 2,5MB)
(5/2003) Linguistisches Kolloquium at Halle University "Tofa - Documenation of an endangered language in Siberia"
(11/2002) invited talk at Berlin, Haus der Kulturen, overtone singing festival "Throat-singing in South Siberia"
(06/2002) invited talk at Linguistics Dep. of Ulan-Baator University "Phonetic Features and Typology of South Siberian and Mongolian Throat Singing"
(11/2001) invited talk at Ehrenkolloquium in the honour of Prof. Eva Maria Krech: „Zur Ethnographie der paralinguistischen Eigenschaften des Sprechens“

teaching:

co-supervised diploma thesis:
- Christoph Walter (presum. 2012) 'Phonetische Beschreibung der Umgangssprache in Blochwitz (Sachsen) [prelim. title]'
- Caroline Schniggenfittig (2011) "Untersuchung zur Validität und Reliabilität von experimentellen Sprechproben anhand akustischer Parameter"
- Birgit Hertha (2005) "Auditive und akustische Untersuchungen zur den mittleren Sprechtimmlagen von Nachrichtensprechern im öffentlich-rechtlichen und privaten Rundfunk"
- Franziska Blumtritt (2003) "Verschiedene Gesichtspunkte zum Problem 'Stimme bei Mann-zu-Frau-Transsexuellen'"
co-supervised BA-/MA thesis:
- Kettel (2011) ""
- Sumburane (2011) "Lauterwerb zwischen Standard und Variation: Eine Fallstudie zur kindlichen Variation zwischen Standard und Dialekt im obersächsischen Sprachraum"
- Völlger (2011) "Ein Modell für die Stimmerzeugung beim Sygyt" MA thesis
courses:
- phonetic analyses in fieldwork (Uni Leipzig, SS 2010)
- phonetic segmental transcription (undergraduate level)(WS 2001/2; SS 2003)
- phonetic suprasegmental transcription (SS 2002; SS 2004) (undergraduate & graduate level)
- introduction to acouctic phonetics (undergraduate level) (SS2003)
- paralinguistic analysis (WS 2003/4, WS 2005/6) (graduate level)
- phonetic analysis (graduate level) (WS2002/3, SS 2005)
- experimental phonetics (graduate level)(WS 2004/5)
- pathophonetic analysis [clinical phonetics](WS 2001/2; SS 2005, WS 2006/7) (graduate level)
lectures:
- phonetic analysis "Phonetikanalysen" (lecture series, undergraduate level)(SS 2011, U Leipzig)
- phonetic field methods (3 sessions as part of B. Bickels field-methods seminar (SS 2007, U Leipzig))
- Vom Atem über's Ohr zum Laut - Die Arbeitsgebiete der Phonetik [From breath to ear to sound - the working field in phonetics] lecture as part of the introductory course to Romance studies Prof. E. Burr, SS2008, U Leipzig
- Grundelemente der Phonetik und Phonologie [Basic elements of phonetics and phonology] lecture as part of the introductory course to Romance studies with Prof. E. Burr, WS2008/09, U Leipzig
seminars:
- Acoustic and prosodic analysis - Using Praat as a universal tool (invited course at University of Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico)(8-12/1/2007)
- Praat as tool for phonetic analysis (invited course at Seminar for Speech Science and Phonetics, Halle University)(11-12/7/2008)

memberships:

GAL e.V.(German assoc. of applied linguistics) Currently I'm the president of the division "Phonetics and Speech Science"
IPA International Phonetic Association (lifetime member)
ISCA International Speech Communication Association
LSA Linguistic Society of America
ASA Acoustic Society of America
gbs Gesellschaft für bedrohte Sprachen e.V.
mdvs mitteldt. verband für sprechwissenschaft e.V.
ALT Association for Linguistic Typology

scripts & stuff:

PRAAT
TIPA cheat sheet (draft version 0.1 ) - Sorry, the .TEX-file got lost!
Table musical note-hertz-cent ( *.xls )

links (to my other websites):

www.fonetik.de more or less a mirror of this site