Susanne Fuchs
Biographic Data
| ID | 5887497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Fuchs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Fuchs |
| SIGNATURE | FUCHS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1065-5903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Horn, Eva, Bergthaller, Hannes, (2020). The Anthropocene
Horn, Eva, Bergthaller, Hannes, (2020). The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities, Routledge, 2020, 192 pages, 14 B/W illustrations. US$44,95 ISBN: 9781138342477
Laugh is in the air
Laughter is a ubiquitous vocal behavior and plays an important role in social bonding, though little is known if it can also communicate romantic attraction. The present study addresses this question by investigating spontaneous laughter produced during a 5-min conversation in a heterosexual speed-dating experiment. Building on the posits of Accommodation Theory, romantic attraction was hypothesized to coincide with a larger number of shared laug…
Sorge and Faust
Susanne Fuchs Wellesley College Susanne Fuchs Department of German Studies Founders Hall 412 Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, MA 02481 sf102{at}wellesley.edu
(Non)conventional aspects of language and their relation to general linguistics
Bad Environmentalism
Review of: Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age , Nicole Seymour (2018) Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-51790-389-3, p/bk, $26.95 ISBN 978-1-51790-388-6, h/bk, $108.00
Phonetics and phonology of soft ‘g’ in Turkish
The present study aims to approach soft ‘g’, a highly disputable sound in Turkish phonetics and phonology, from a multidimensional perspective by (i) analysing its historical development, (ii) investigating its distribution in a dictionary of Modern Turkish, and (iii) studying its acoustic realization. In the Ottoman script soft ‘g’ was represented with two letters: , pronounced [ɣ], was used in the context of preceding back vowels V back _(V bac…
Negative intraoral pressure in German
Phonemic clicks are geographically limited to the African continent, but non-phonemic clicks can also occur in languages spoken elsewhere. One of the phonetic peculiarities of clicks is that they involve negative intraoral pressure. The current study is a survey of instances of negative intraoral pressure excursions in German, a European language which is known to show instances of weak clicks in consonant sequences. Data of spontaneous speech in…
How intraoral pressure shapes the voicing contrast in American English and German
This study examines intraoral pressure for English and German stops in bilabial and alveolar place of articulation. Our subjects are two speakers of American English and three speakers of German. VOICING is the main phonological contrast under evaluation in both word initial and word final position. For initial stops, a few of the pressure characteristics showed differences between English and German, but on the whole the results point to similar…
Retroflexion of Voiced Stops
The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory requirements for voiced alveolar or dental stops can cause tongue tip retraction and tongue mid lowering and thus retroflexion of voiced front coronals. This retroflexion is shown to have occurred diachronically in the three typologically unrelated languages Dhao (Malayo-Polynesian), Thulung (Sino-Tibetan), and Afar (East Cushitic). In addition to the diachronic cases, we provide sync…
Rate effects on aerodynamics of intervocalic stops
This paper is a first attempt towards a better understanding of the aerodynamic properties during speech production and their potential control. In recent years, studies on intraoral pressure in speech have been rather rare, and more studies concern the air flow development. However, the intraoral pressure is a crucial factor for analysing the production of various sounds. In this paper, we focus on the intraoral pressure development during the p…
How do voiced retroflex stops evolve? Evidence from typology and an articulatory study
The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory and aerodynamic requirements for voiced but not voiceless alveolar or dental stops can cause tongue tip retraction and tongue mid lowering and thus retroflexion of front coronals. This retroflexion is shown to have occurred diachronically in the three typologically unrelated languages Dhao (Malayo-Polynesian), Thulung (Sino-Tibetan), and Afar (East-Cushitic). In addition to the diachr…
Papers in phonetics and phonology
ZASPiL 49.2008 contains 9 articles
Das problemzentrierte Interview
AuszugBeim problemzentrierten Interview handelt es sich um eine offene, halbstrukturierte Befragung, die die Befragten möglichst frei zu Wort kommen lässt, aber auf eine bestimmte Problemstellung zentriert ist, auf die der oder die Interviewleiterln immer wieder zurückführt (). Diese Interviewform geht auf Witzel zurück, der sie als Teil einer Methodenkombination aus Interview, biographischer Methode, Gruppendiskussion und Fallanalyse im Rahmen e…
Speech production and perception
This special issue of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics contains a collection of papers of the French-German Thematic Summerschool on "Cognitive and physical models of speech production, and speech perception and of their interaction". Organized by Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin), Jonathan Harrington (IPdS Kiel), Pascal Perrier (ICP Grenoble) and Bernd Pompino-Marschall (HUB and ZAS Berlin) and funded by the German-French University in Saarbrücken this su…
Articulatory correlates of the voicing contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German
This work investigates laryngeal and supralaryngeal correlates of the voicing contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German. It further studies laryngealoral co-ordination observed for such productions. Three different positions of the obstruents are taken into account: the stressed, syllable initial position, the post-stressed intervocalic position, and the post-stressed word final position. For the latter the phonological rule of final de…
On the complex nature of speech kinematics
Studying kinematic behavior in speech production is an indispensable and fruitful methodology in order to describe for instance phonemic contrasts, allophonic variations, prosodic effects in articulatory movements. More intriguingly, it is also interpreted with respect to its underlying control mechanisms. Several interpretations have been borrowed from motor control studies of arm, eye, and limb movements. They do either explain kinematics with …
Influence of the Palate Shape on Articulatory Token-to-Token Variability
Articulatory token-to-token variability not only depends on linguistic aspects like the phoneme inventory of a given language but also on speaker specific morphological and motor constraints. As has been noted previously (Perkell (1997), Mooshammer et al. (2004)), speakers with coronally high "domeshaped" palates exhibit more articulatory variability than speakers with coronally low "flat" palates. One explanation for that is based on perception …
Papers in phonetics and phonology
Table of Contents: T. A. Hall (Indiana University): English syllabification as the interaction of markedness constraints Antony D. Green: Opacity in Tiberian Hebrew: Morphology, not phonology Sabine Zerbian (ZAS Berlin): Phonological Phrases in Xhosa (Southern Bantu) Laura J. Downing (ZAS Berlin): What African Languages Tell Us About Accent Typology Marzena Zygis (ZAS Berlin): (Un)markedness of trills: the case of Slavic r-palatalisation Laura J.…
Mechanisms of contrasting Korean velar stops
The Korean stop system exhibits a three-way distinction in velar stops among /g/, /k'/ and /kh/. If the differentiation is regarded as being based on voicing, such a system is rather unusual because even a two-way distinction between a voiced and a voicless unaspirated velar stop gets easily lost in the languages of the world especially in the case of velar stops. One possibility for maintainig this distinction is that supralaryngeal characterist…
Germany
This chapter examines labour market regulation in Germany. It argues that there is no clear evidence to support claims that labour laws reduced the flexibility of the labour market. Although deregulation did not yield positive employment effects, neither did it have the destructive effects claimed by opponents. The relaxation of requirements for fixed-term contracts neither boosted employment nor destroyed social cohesion.
Negative intraoral pressure in German
Phonemic clicks are geographically limited to the African continent, but non-phonemic clicks can also occur in languages spoken elsewhere. One of the phonetic peculiarities of clicks is that they involve negative intraoral pressure. The current study is a survey of instances of negative intraoral pressure excursions in German, a European language which is known to show instances of weak clicks in consonant sequences. Data of spontaneous speech in…
Retroflexion of Voiced Stops
The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory requirements for voiced alveolar or dental stops can cause tongue tip retraction and tongue mid lowering and thus retroflexion of voiced front coronals. This retroflexion is shown to have occurred diachronically in the three typologically unrelated languages Dhao (Malayo-Polynesian), Thulung (Sino-Tibetan), and Afar (East Cushitic). In addition to the diachronic cases, we provide sync…
Phonetics and phonology of soft ‘g’ in Turkish
The present study aims to approach soft ‘g’, a highly disputable sound in Turkish phonetics and phonology, from a multidimensional perspective by (i) analysing its historical development, (ii) investigating its distribution in a dictionary of Modern Turkish, and (iii) studying its acoustic realization. In the Ottoman script soft ‘g’ was represented with two letters: , pronounced [ɣ], was used in the context of preceding back vowels V back _(V bac…
Germany
This chapter examines labour market regulation in Germany. It argues that there is no clear evidence to support claims that labour laws reduced the flexibility of the labour market. Although deregulation did not yield positive employment effects, neither did it have the destructive effects claimed by opponents. The relaxation of requirements for fixed-term contracts neither boosted employment nor destroyed social cohesion.
Mechanisms of contrasting Korean velar stops
The Korean stop system exhibits a three-way distinction in velar stops among /g/, /k'/ and /kh/. If the differentiation is regarded as being based on voicing, such a system is rather unusual because even a two-way distinction between a voiced and a voicless unaspirated velar stop gets easily lost in the languages of the world especially in the case of velar stops. One possibility for maintainig this distinction is that supralaryngeal characterist…
Papers in phonetics and phonology
Table of Contents: T. A. Hall (Indiana University): English syllabification as the interaction of markedness constraints Antony D. Green: Opacity in Tiberian Hebrew: Morphology, not phonology Sabine Zerbian (ZAS Berlin): Phonological Phrases in Xhosa (Southern Bantu) Laura J. Downing (ZAS Berlin): What African Languages Tell Us About Accent Typology Marzena Zygis (ZAS Berlin): (Un)markedness of trills: the case of Slavic r-palatalisation Laura J.…
Speech production and perception
This special issue of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics contains a collection of papers of the French-German Thematic Summerschool on "Cognitive and physical models of speech production, and speech perception and of their interaction". Organized by Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin), Jonathan Harrington (IPdS Kiel), Pascal Perrier (ICP Grenoble) and Bernd Pompino-Marschall (HUB and ZAS Berlin) and funded by the German-French University in Saarbrücken this su…
Articulatory correlates of the voicing contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German
This work investigates laryngeal and supralaryngeal correlates of the voicing contrast in alveolar obstruent production in German. It further studies laryngealoral co-ordination observed for such productions. Three different positions of the obstruents are taken into account: the stressed, syllable initial position, the post-stressed intervocalic position, and the post-stressed word final position. For the latter the phonological rule of final de…
On the complex nature of speech kinematics
Studying kinematic behavior in speech production is an indispensable and fruitful methodology in order to describe for instance phonemic contrasts, allophonic variations, prosodic effects in articulatory movements. More intriguingly, it is also interpreted with respect to its underlying control mechanisms. Several interpretations have been borrowed from motor control studies of arm, eye, and limb movements. They do either explain kinematics with …
Influence of the Palate Shape on Articulatory Token-to-Token Variability
Articulatory token-to-token variability not only depends on linguistic aspects like the phoneme inventory of a given language but also on speaker specific morphological and motor constraints. As has been noted previously (Perkell (1997), Mooshammer et al. (2004)), speakers with coronally high "domeshaped" palates exhibit more articulatory variability than speakers with coronally low "flat" palates. One explanation for that is based on perception …
Das problemzentrierte Interview
AuszugBeim problemzentrierten Interview handelt es sich um eine offene, halbstrukturierte Befragung, die die Befragten möglichst frei zu Wort kommen lässt, aber auf eine bestimmte Problemstellung zentriert ist, auf die der oder die Interviewleiterln immer wieder zurückführt (). Diese Interviewform geht auf Witzel zurück, der sie als Teil einer Methodenkombination aus Interview, biographischer Methode, Gruppendiskussion und Fallanalyse im Rahmen e…
Rate effects on aerodynamics of intervocalic stops
This paper is a first attempt towards a better understanding of the aerodynamic properties during speech production and their potential control. In recent years, studies on intraoral pressure in speech have been rather rare, and more studies concern the air flow development. However, the intraoral pressure is a crucial factor for analysing the production of various sounds. In this paper, we focus on the intraoral pressure development during the p…
How do voiced retroflex stops evolve? Evidence from typology and an articulatory study
The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory and aerodynamic requirements for voiced but not voiceless alveolar or dental stops can cause tongue tip retraction and tongue mid lowering and thus retroflexion of front coronals. This retroflexion is shown to have occurred diachronically in the three typologically unrelated languages Dhao (Malayo-Polynesian), Thulung (Sino-Tibetan), and Afar (East-Cushitic). In addition to the diachr…
Papers in phonetics and phonology
ZASPiL 49.2008 contains 9 articles
How intraoral pressure shapes the voicing contrast in American English and German
This study examines intraoral pressure for English and German stops in bilabial and alveolar place of articulation. Our subjects are two speakers of American English and three speakers of German. VOICING is the main phonological contrast under evaluation in both word initial and word final position. For initial stops, a few of the pressure characteristics showed differences between English and German, but on the whole the results point to similar…
Retroflexion of Voiced Stops
The present article illustrates that the specific articulatory requirements for voiced alveolar or dental stops can cause tongue tip retraction and tongue mid lowering and thus retroflexion of voiced front coronals. This retroflexion is shown to have occurred diachronically in the three typologically unrelated languages Dhao (Malayo-Polynesian), Thulung (Sino-Tibetan), and Afar (East Cushitic). In addition to the diachronic cases, we provide sync…
Negative intraoral pressure in German
Phonemic clicks are geographically limited to the African continent, but non-phonemic clicks can also occur in languages spoken elsewhere. One of the phonetic peculiarities of clicks is that they involve negative intraoral pressure. The current study is a survey of instances of negative intraoral pressure excursions in German, a European language which is known to show instances of weak clicks in consonant sequences. Data of spontaneous speech in…
Phonetics and phonology of soft ‘g’ in Turkish
The present study aims to approach soft ‘g’, a highly disputable sound in Turkish phonetics and phonology, from a multidimensional perspective by (i) analysing its historical development, (ii) investigating its distribution in a dictionary of Modern Turkish, and (iii) studying its acoustic realization. In the Ottoman script soft ‘g’ was represented with two letters: , pronounced [ɣ], was used in the context of preceding back vowels V back _(V bac…
Bad Environmentalism
Review of: Bad Environmentalism: Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age , Nicole Seymour (2018) Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-51790-389-3, p/bk, $26.95 ISBN 978-1-51790-388-6, h/bk, $108.00
Sorge and Faust
Susanne Fuchs Wellesley College Susanne Fuchs Department of German Studies Founders Hall 412 Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, MA 02481 sf102{at}wellesley.edu
(Non)conventional aspects of language and their relation to general linguistics
Laugh is in the air
Laughter is a ubiquitous vocal behavior and plays an important role in social bonding, though little is known if it can also communicate romantic attraction. The present study addresses this question by investigating spontaneous laughter produced during a 5-min conversation in a heterosexual speed-dating experiment. Building on the posits of Accommodation Theory, romantic attraction was hypothesized to coincide with a larger number of shared laug…
Horn, Eva, Bergthaller, Hannes, (2020). The Anthropocene
Horn, Eva, Bergthaller, Hannes, (2020). The Anthropocene: Key Issues for the Humanities, Routledge, 2020, 192 pages, 14 B/W illustrations. US$44,95 ISBN: 9781138342477
Philosophy (14 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · German (7 works) · History (6 works) · Consonant (5 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)