Katharina Zahner-Ritter

Biographic Data

ID1719561
NAMEKatharina Zahner-Ritter
GIVEN NAMESKatharina
FAMILY NAMEZahner-Ritter
SIGNATUREZAHNER-RITTER K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Konstanz
ORCID0000-0003-1954-6436
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Intonational Focus Marking by Syrian Arabic Learners of German

    Open AccessZarah Kampschulte, Angelika Braun et al.ARTICLELanguages2025References: 60

    Acquiring prosodic focus marking in a second language (L2) is difficult for learners whose native language utilizes strategies that differ from those of the target language. German typically uses pitch accents (L+H*/H*) to mark focus, while (Modern Standard) Arabic preferably employs a syntactic strategy (word order) or lexical means. In Syrian Arabic, a variety which is predominantly oral, pitch accents are used to mark focus, but the distributi…

  • How children speak with their voice assistant Sila depends on what they think about her

    Open AccessAnja Gampe, Katharina Zahner-Ritter et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2023

    Children encounter artificial intelligence , e.g., voice assistants , at an increasingly younger age. However, we know far too little about children's communicative behavior with a voice-only interaction partner and whether and how their assumptions about the interaction partner predict how they communicate. To address these aspects, we ran a treasure hunt game with 50 5-6-year-olds who were guided through the hunt by a voice-only interaction par…

  • Three Kinds of Rising-Falling Contours in German wh-Questions

    Open AccessKatharina Zahner-Ritter, Marieke Einfeldt et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Communication2022

    The intonational realization of utterances is generally characterized by regional as well as inter- and intra-speaker variability in f0. Category boundaries thus remain “fuzzy” and it is non-trivial how the (continuous) acoustic space maps onto (discrete) pitch accent categories. We focus on three types of rising-falling contours, which differ in the alignment of L(ow) and H(igh) tones with respect to the stressed syllable. Most of the intonation…

  • The prosodic marking of rhetorical questions in Standard Chinese

    Open AccessKatharina Zahner-Ritter, Yiya Chen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Phonetics2022Cited by: 1References: 54

    The present study investigates the prosody of information-seeking (ISQs) and rhetorical questions (RQs) in Standard Chinese, in polar and wh-questions. Like in other languages, ISQs and RQs in Standard Chinese can have the same surface structure, allowing for a direct prosodic comparison between illocution types (ISQ vs RQ). Since Standard Chinese has lexical tone, the use of f0 as a cue to illocution type may be restricted. We investigate the pr…