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Schreibt uns eine E-Mail! zuzweitgedacht@protonmail.com! // In dieser Folge berichten wir, was wir über Ostern bei unseren Verwandten erlebt und gehört haben. Mit festem Schuhwerk stapfen wir an einem Transporter vorbei und besuchen kuriose Orte, die nur über einen Lautwandel erreichbar sind: die Bahahamas, den Fluchhafen und den Bonhöffer Platz. Wir definieren den Haplo(lo)giebegriff neu und urteilen über die spanische Orthographie. Auch Männerthemen wie Militärkekse und schwarze Taschentücher kommen natürlich nicht zu kurz.

The Research Focus "Language: Birth and Decay" is concerned with how the sounds of speech are acquired by infants and young children in first language acquisition, how such acquisition stabilizes in healthy individuals, and how such patterns may dissolve following the onset of brain lesions. Spoken language is a defining human behaviour, and it is the very basis of our interaction with the environment as well as of our identity as individuals. For this reason, it is important to understand both how this faculty emerges during child development and the highly damaging effect that speech disorders have on so many aspects of life. Error patterns when language is learnt and when it unravels in speech disorders also provide a unique window to the mind, and are of prime importance for our emerging understanding of how linguistic diversity arises, how languages change, and how physiology and cognition interact to form the sound patterns of human language. Yet speech acquisition and disorders remain poorly understood because they are usually investigated separately from basic research on speech production and perception in healthy individuals. One of the Research Focus’ principal objectives is to overcome this divide by inviting leading scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds to consider how to develop unified models of child speech acquisition, of the mature speech production and perception system, and of speech disorders. The involved researchers intend to lay the foundations for a comprehensive research program in which modern experimental phonetic thinking hooks up with neurobiological and clinical reasoning, while embracing linguistic diversity. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 25.06.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Dr. Josef Rauschecker | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Adrian Danek

The Research Focus "Language: Birth and Decay" is concerned with how the sounds of speech are acquired by infants and young children in first language acquisition, how such acquisition stabilizes in healthy individuals, and how such patterns may dissolve following the onset of brain lesions. Spoken language is a defining human behaviour, and it is the very basis of our interaction with the environment as well as of our identity as individuals. For this reason, it is important to understand both how this faculty emerges during child development and the highly damaging effect that speech disorders have on so many aspects of life. Error patterns when language is learnt and when it unravels in speech disorders also provide a unique window to the mind, and are of prime importance for our emerging understanding of how linguistic diversity arises, how languages change, and how physiology and cognition interact to form the sound patterns of human language. Yet speech acquisition and disorders remain poorly understood because they are usually investigated separately from basic research on speech production and perception in healthy individuals. One of the Research Focus’ principal objectives is to overcome this divide by inviting leading scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds to consider how to develop unified models of child speech acquisition, of the mature speech production and perception system, and of speech disorders. The involved researchers intend to lay the foundations for a comprehensive research program in which modern experimental phonetic thinking hooks up with neurobiological and clinical reasoning, while embracing linguistic diversity. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 20.05.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Marilyn Vihman, Ph.D. | Moderation: Dr. Felicitas Kleber

The Research Focus "Language: Birth and Decay" is concerned with how the sounds of speech are acquired by infants and young children in first language acquisition, how such acquisition stabilizes in healthy individuals, and how such patterns may dissolve following the onset of brain lesions. Spoken language is a defining human behaviour, and it is the very basis of our interaction with the environment as well as of our identity as individuals. For this reason, it is important to understand both how this faculty emerges during child development and the highly damaging effect that speech disorders have on so many aspects of life. Error patterns when language is learnt and when it unravels in speech disorders also provide a unique window to the mind, and are of prime importance for our emerging understanding of how linguistic diversity arises, how languages change, and how physiology and cognition interact to form the sound patterns of human language. Yet speech acquisition and disorders remain poorly understood because they are usually investigated separately from basic research on speech production and perception in healthy individuals. One of the Research Focus’ principal objectives is to overcome this divide by inviting leading scientists from different disciplinary backgrounds to consider how to develop unified models of child speech acquisition, of the mature speech production and perception system, and of speech disorders. The involved researchers intend to lay the foundations for a comprehensive research program in which modern experimental phonetic thinking hooks up with neurobiological and clinical reasoning, while embracing linguistic diversity. | Center for Advanced Studies LMU: 22.04.2015 | Speaker: Prof. Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel, Ph.D. | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ziegler

This thesis is concerned with the mechanisms by which pre-aspiration changes into post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish. In this variety pre-aspiration is the result of the weakening of syllable final /s/ before a voiceless stop (e.g. [ˈpasta] -> [ˈpahta]). An apparent-time study was carried out to investigate whether there is a sound change in progress from pre- to post-aspiration ([ˈpahta] -> [ˈpatha]) in Andalusian Spanish. An acoustic analysis of isolated words (e.g. espanto, estado, escapa) produced by younger and older Eastern and Western Andalusian speakers was carried out. The results provided evidence for a sound change in progress by which pre-aspiration is gradually giving way to post-aspiration. Further durational analyses suggest that the sound change is more advanced in Western than in Eastern Andalusian Spanish, and that post-aspiration lengthening and pre-aspiration shortening are not directly linked. A perception experiment was carried out to test whether listeners of Andalusian Spanish use post-aspiration to distinguish /t/ and /st/ in the minimal pair /pata/-/pasta/. Younger listeners and Western Andalusians, who produced a longer post-aspiration, were also more sensitive to post-aspiration as a cue to /st/ than Eastern Andalusians and older listeners. The aim of a second perception experiment was to test how listeners of Argentinian Spanish, a non-post-aspirating variety, perceive pre- and post-aspirated stops. The results suggest that in a stimulus [ˈpahtha] with pre- and post-aspiration, post-aspiration is perceptually more prominent. These findings support a model of the Andalusian sound change in which not only articulatory but also perceptual factors are involved.

2012 ist das Jahr der Nachhaltigkeit, das die Forschung für den schonenden Umgang mit den natürlichen Ressourcen in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Die LMU-Chemikerin Sonja Herres-Pawlis beispielsweise sucht nach Verfahren, mit denen sich umweltschonende Kunststoffe aus nachwachsenden Rohstoffen effizienter und umweltfreundlicher als bislang herstellen lassen. Einsichten - Der Forschungsnewsletter zeigt ihnen außerdem, wie die Phonetiker Jonathan Harrington und Marianne Pouplier den Lautwandel in den Sprachen der Welt mit naturwissenschaftlichen Methoden analysieren. Er lässt den Kosmologie Viatcheslav Mukhanov die explosionsartige Ausbreitung des Weltalls nach dem Urknall begründen und den Chronobiologen Till Roenneberg, warum der "soziale Jetlag", ein Leben gegen die innere Uhr, krank macht. Und Norbert Nedopil schließlich, Forensischer Psychiater und einer der gefragtesten Gerichtssachverständigen Deutschlands, zeichnet im Interview die Genese von Gewalt nach.