Bianca Maria Sell

Publications & Presentations

Publications

• Lange, Robert; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine; Lüdeling, Anke  (2024) Schwa realisation in verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech  In: Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft [DOI] [ViVo]

  Abstract Word-final schwa in German inflectional suffixes shows varying realisations in spontaneous speech – from full realisations with varying duration to no realisation. While previous research has identified numerous social, distributional, and grammatical factors influencing the variation of phonetic variables in general, it remains unclear how fine-grained functional differences in different registers specifically affect schwa realisation. In this corpus-based study, we compare schwa realisation in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech – free conversation and task-based dialogues – which differ only in their communicative goal and therefore have different functional requirements. We find that schwa is rarely realised, though slightly but significantly more often in free conversation than in task-based dialogue. Other factors also promoting schwa realisation across both situations are less frequent verbs and sequences, and IP-final position.

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• Pescuma, Valentina Nicole; Serova, Dina; Lukassek, Julia; Sauermann, Antje; Schäfer, Roland; Adli, Aria; Bildhauer, Felix; Egg, Markus; Hülk, Kristina; Ito, Aine; Jannedy, Stefanie; Kordoni, Valia; Kühnast, Milena; Kutscher, Silvia; Lange, Robert; Lehmann, Nico; Liu, Mingya; Lütke, Beate; Maquate, Katja; Mooshammer, Christine; Mortezapour, Vahid; Müller, Stefan; Norde, Muriel; Pankratz, Elizabeth; Patarroyo, Angela Giovanna; Plesca, Ana-Maria; Ronderos, Camilo R.; Rotter, Stephanie; Sauerland, Uli; Schulte, Britta; Schüppenhauer, Gediminas; Sell, Bianca Maria; Solt, Stephanie; Terada, Megumi; Tsiapou, Dimitra; Verhoeven, Elisabeth; Weirich, Melanie; Wiese, Heike; Zaruba, Kathy; Zeige, Lars Erik; Lüdeling, Anke; Knoeferle, Pia; Schnelle, Gohar  (2023) Situating language register across the ages, languages, modalities, and cultural aspects: Evidence from complementary methods  In: Frontiers in Psychology [DOI] [PDF] [ViVo]

  In the present review paper by members of the collaborative research center ‘Register: Language Users’ Knowledge of SituationalFunctional Variation’ (CRC 1412), we assess the pervasiveness of register phenomena across different time periods, languages, modalities, and cultures. We define ‘register’ as recurring variation in language use depending on the function of language and on the social situation. Informed by rich data, we aim to better understand and model the knowledge involved in situation- and function-based use of language register. In order to achieve this goal, we are using complementary methods and measures. In the review, we start by clarifying the concept of ‘register’, by reviewing the state of the art, and by setting out our methods and modeling goals. Against this background, we discuss three key challenges, two at the methodological level and one at the theoretical level: 1. To better uncover registers in text and spoken corpora, we propose changes to established analytical approaches. 2. To tease apart between-subject variability from the linguistic variability at issue (intra-individual situation based register variability), we use within-subject designs and the modeling of individuals’ social, language, and educational background. 3. We highlight a gap in cognitive modeling, viz. modeling the mental representations of register (processing), and present our first attempts at filling this gap. We argue that the targeted use of multiple complementary methods and measures supports investigating the pervasiveness of register phenomena and yields comprehensive insights into the cross-methodological robustness of register-related language variability. These comprehensive insights in turn provide a solid foundation for associated cognitive modeling.

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• Belz, Malte; Sell, Bianca Maria; Lange, Robert; Mooshammer, Christine; Lüdeling, Anke  (2023) BeDiaCo (L1-L1) und CoNNAR (L1-L1/L2). Freie und aufgabenorientierte spontansprachliche Dialoge in direkter und videobasierter Kommunikation  In: Neue Entwicklungen in der Korpuslandschaft der Germanistik. [ViVo]
• Terada, Megumi; Sell, Bianca Maria; Lange, Robert; Müller, Miriam; Belz, Malte  (2023) Documentation and annotation guidelines of CoNNAR Version 1  In: REALIS: Register Aspects of Language in Situation [ViVo]
• Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi  (2023) Acoustic measures of non-native addressee register for mid to high proficient English learners of German  In: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague Congress Center [ViVo]
• Lüdeling, Anke; Mooshammer, Christine; Lange, Robert; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi  (2023) Corpus of Non-Native Addressee Register (CoNNAR). Version 1 [ViVo]
• Sell, Bianca Maria; Belz, Malte  (2022) Picture materials of anthropomorphic animals for the use in speech production and perception experiments [DOI] [PDF] [ViVo]

  These picture materials consist of 10 sets à 4 drawn similar yet slightly different pictures. The picture materials were designed as stimuli for the use in speech production and perception experiments and depict different anthropomorphic animals in curious situations. All pictures are available as JPEG and PNG files.

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• Sell, Bianca Maria; Oliviera, Maggie Bullock  (2022) PDF and PSD files of DiapixGEtv picture materials – German version adapted to elicit tense vowels [DOI] [PDF] [ViVo]

  This zipped folder contains PDF and PSD files of our translation of the DiapixUK picture materials by Baker & Hazan (2011) - adapted to elicit tense vowels in German (DiapixGEtv). For our purpose we only modified the written information when making adjustments to the original DiapixUK versions of the files. Our aim was to include as many tense vowels [i:, e:, a:, o:, u:] as possible while remaining subtle enough so as not to alert the participants to our research focus . The additional documentation contains information on the translation process and an overview over the adapted text parts containing target vowels in stressed syllables including the target word with its target vowel and pronunciation as well as its meaning in English. In order to facilitate further adaptation/modification each item in the PSD files is in a separate layer. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – SFB 1412, 416591334

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• Belz, Malte; Zöllner, Alina; Terada, Megumi; Lange, Robert; Adam, Lea-Sophie; Sell, Bianca Maria  (2021) Dokumentation und Annotationsrichtlinien für das Korpus BeDiaCo [DOI] [ViVo]

  BeDiaCo contains topic-led and task-led spontaneous dialogues of 36 participants as well as two read word lists per subject. The main corpus BeDiaCo_m contains 16 subjects not known to each other in a co-present face-to-face situation. The subcorpus BeDiaCo_v contains 20 subjects known and familiar to each other in a co-present face-to-face situation and, additionally, in a spatially separated videoconference situation. The corpus contains audio and TextGrid files and is annotated by employing a multi-layer  architecture. In addition to a diplomatic transliteration and its phonetic segmentation, further annotation levels contain, for example, annotation values for filler particles, intonation phrases, dialogue structure, word types, and the realization of inflection.

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Presentations

• Terada, Megumi; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria  (2023) Acoustic measures of non-native addressee register for mid to high proficient English learners of German  In: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague Congress Center [ViVo]
• Terada, Megumi; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria  (2023) Acoustic measures of non-native addressee register for mid to high proficient English learners of German  In: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS). Prague Congress Center [ViVo]
• Belz, Malte; Lüdeling, Anke; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi; Lange, Robert  (2022) Das Berlin Dialogue Corpus (BeDiaCo) und das Corpus of Non-Native Addressee Register (CoNNAR) – themen- und aufgabenorientierte spontansprachliche Dialoge in direkter und videobasierter Kommunikation  In: IDS-Methodenmesse 2022 [PDF] [ViVo]
• Belz, Malte; Lüdeling, Anke; Mooshammer, Christine; Sell, Bianca Maria; Terada, Megumi; Lange, Robert  (2022) Das Berlin Dialogue Corpus (BeDiaCo) und das Corpus of Non-Native Addressee Register (CoNNAR) – themen- und aufgabenorientierte spontansprachliche Dialoge in direkter und videobasierter Kommunikation  In: IDS-Methodenmesse 2022 [PDF] [ViVo]
• Sell, Bianca Maria; Mooshammer, Christine; Lüdeling, Anke; Oliviera, Maggie Bullock; Lange, Robert  (2022) Non-Native Addressee Register in German  In: 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe - ICLaVE|11 [ViVo]
• Sell, Bianca Maria; Mooshammer, Christine; Lüdeling, Anke; Oliviera, Maggie Bullock; Lange, Robert  (2022) Non-Native Addressee Register in German  In: 11th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe - ICLaVE|11 [ViVo]
• Lüdeling, Anke; Lange, Robert; Sell, Bianca Maria; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine  (2021) The phonetic realisation of verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech  In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2021) [ViVo]
• Lüdeling, Anke; Lange, Robert; Sell, Bianca Maria; Belz, Malte; Mooshammer, Christine  (2021) The phonetic realisation of verbal inflection in two dialogue registers of German spontaneous speech  In: Kolloquium SFB1412 (2021) [ViVo]