Aug Jul Primary school Primary school education at Grundschule Kenn in Kenn/ Trier

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1 Curriculum Vitae Name Date/place of birth Volker Dellwo 10 th of April 1972/ Trier, Germany Address 6 Cecilia Road phone (office): London, E8 2EP phone (private): volker@phon.ucl.ac.uk Education & Degrees March present PhD in phonetics (in progress) PhD work is currently being in a final stage at the Institute for Communication Research and Phonetics of Bonn University under the supervision of Prof. Wolfgang Hess and Dr. Petra Wagner. The work is on acoustic correlates of rhythm in the speech signal and is mainly based on the construction of a copus (BonnTempo-Corpus; see publications) comprising speech from different languages at different speech rates. The results of rhythmical changes according to speech rate are currently being evaluated in perception tests. PhD is expected to be finished early Oct May 2000 Masters course in phonetics and linguistics Masters course in the Department of Phonetics as well as the English and German language department at Trier University with the following focus: a.) Phonetics: Empirical and experimental methods in articulatory, acoustic, and auditory phonetics as well as forensic phonetics. Mainly studied with: Prof. Hermann Künzel and Prof. Jens-Peter Köster. b.) English and German linguistics: Methods of corpus linguistics. Mainly studied with: Prof. Michael Stubbs and Prof. Hermann Gelhaus Title of M.A.-thesis (70 pages 7 months): Native language influence on auditory speaker recognition ability of linguistically naïve listeners. (Supervisors: Prof. H. Künzel & Dr. H. Masthoff) Oct Sep English and German studies for language teaching Degree course at Trier University in English and German language studies with the aim of the German Staatsexamen for teaching English and German at grammar school (Because of high interest in phonetics and linguistics I switched to the masters course in phonetics and linguistics, above, after the second year). Aug May 1991 Grammar school Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Trier finishing with the German Abitur (A-levels) focusing on English, Chemistry and fine Arts Aug Jul Primary school Primary school education at Grundschule Kenn in Kenn/ Trier Visiting student inland and abroad October 2001 Postgraduate visitor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (Edinburgh University) Making of video and speech recordings in the recording studio of the department for the combined analysis of acoustic and visual aspects in speech (published as Edinburgh Interviews ; cf. Dellwo, 2003 & forthcoming). page 1

2 April September 1998 University of the Saarland/ Saarbrücken Visiting student in the Phonetics Department taking courses on phonetics and phonology with Prof. William Barry and Dr. Martine Grice. Oct June 1997 University of Edinburgh and the Centre for Speech technology research (CSTR) a.) Visiting student at the linguistics department at Edinburgh University. Major project work on categorical perception with Dr. Alice Turk in course on concepts in advanced phonetics rated: 1 st. b.) Visiting student at Celtic department. First year of the degree course for Celtic with Scottish Gaelic as a living celtic language. Overall mark of the degree examinations of the first year: 1 st. c.) Visiting student in MSC classes by Steven Isard from CSTR on speech processing, recognition and synthesis. March 1996 Cobuild publishers and Birmingham University Visiting undergraduate researcher at Cobuild for the collection of collocational data on selected English words in the Bank of English. This project work was part of the position as an undergraduate research assistant for Prof. M. Stubbs at Trier University (see below). Jan July 1995 University of Santiago de Compostela and the Galician language institute a.) Studies in Galician and Spanish language at the respective departments. Examinations passed successfully for both languages. b.) Project work supervised by Dr. M. Gonzalez Gonzalez (director of the Galician language institute) on vowel formants in Galician language and influence of native language on average pitch production. Project was marked by course supervisor in Trier with a 1 st. July 1994 Summer course on Galician language and culture Course on Galician language and literature as well as social and cultural aspects of Galician society at the University of Santiago de Compostela in cooperation with the Galician language institute. Examinations passed with success. July 1993 and August 1994 Summer courses on Gaelic language and culture Two two-week summer courses at the Sabhal Mor Ostaig (Highland and Island University) on Gaelic language and culture. Academic work experience October 2003 present Lecturer in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London a.) Teaching mainly aspects of acoustics as well as signal and systems theory for speech and hearing to students of audiology, speech therapy and medicine (see below for details) b.) Researching in the field of speech rhythm measurements. January May 2003 Visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences at City University London Teaching one Lecture on acoustic Phonetics in replacement for Dr. Gea de Jong. March 2002 Nov 2003 Researcher in the Department of Communication Research and Phonetics at Bonn University a.) Maintaining and administering a research project on the perception of syllable prominence funded by the German Research Council (DFG) and supervised by Dr. Petra Wagner. b.) Teaching concepts of digital signal processing and database constructions for rhythm studies to undergraduate students of phonetics, computational linguistics, and informatics (see below for details). page 2

3 June 2000 Feb Researcher in the English Language Department at Jena University a.) Building an audio-visual database for research on acoustic and visual aspects in speech. b.) Teaching of phonetics/phonology to undergraduate students of English language and supervising exams and project work of these courses. Main aspects in teaching were acoustic phonetics and basic concepts of speech signal processing (see below for details). Jan. June 1999 Assistant teacher at Menntaskólin í Reykjavík/ Iceland a.) Teaching German language and basic concepts of linguistics and phonetics to students at pre-university level (17-21). b.) Perception experiments (forensic speaker recognition experiment) as part of a data collection procedure for M.A. thesis at Trier University (see above). Oct Sep & Oct April 1998 Conferences, summer-schools Research assistant at Trier University Assisting Prof. Michael Stubbs in research on collocations (mainly on a synchronic level but occasionally also on a diachronic level), cultural keywords, and comparative corpus studies (English/ German). 4 th 8 th of October th ICSLP 2004: International Conference of Speech and Language Processing Place: ICC Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea Poster: The BonnTempo-Corpus and Tools: A database for the analysis of speech rhythm and rate. 4 th of June 2004 The Architecture of the Language Faculty Place: University College London, London, UK Poster: The BonnTempo-Corpus and Tools: A database for the analysis of speech rhythm and rate. 24 th 26 th of March 2004 BAAP 2004: Annual Meeting of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians Place: Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK 27 th 29 th of August th Linguistic Colloquium: International conference on linguistics and phonetics Place: University of Budapest/ Budapest/ Hungary Oral paper: Measuring Rhythm: A Variation Coefficient for DeltaC 3 rd 10 th of August 2003 ICPhS 2003: International Conference of Phonetic Sciences Place: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona/ Barcelona/ Spain Oral paper I: Relationships between speech rate and rhythm Oral paper II: Tools for a combined analysis of speech and gesture 29 th of May to 1 st of June MILCA Summer School for Computational Linguistics Place: University of Tübingen/ Tübingen/ Germany Course taught: Digital Signal Processing with MatLab 17 th of May rd German Galicia-Day: Conference on Galician language, literature and culture Place: University of Trier/ Trier/ Germany Oral paper: The web-page of the German Galician Society page 3

4 19 th 21 st of Feb Further education workshop for English language teachers in Thüringen/Germany Place: University of Jena/ Germany Course taught I: Languages, Accents and Dialects in Scotland Course taught II: Bagpipes in Great Britain 25 th -27 th of Sep th Linguistic Colloquium: International conference on linguistics and phonetics Place: University of Jena/ Germany Oral Paper: Auditory and phonetic perception in the discrimination of vowels in a word environment 18 th 22 nd of June 2001 Orage 2001: International conference on speech and gestures Place: University of Aix-en-Provence/ France Participation without presentation 19 th -21 st of May nd German-Galician-Day: Conference on Galician language, literature and culture Place: Free University of Berlin/ Germany Oral paper: Native language influence on auditory speaker recognition ability by linguistically naïve subjects: Galician subjects compared to Canadian English, Chinese, and Icelanders. 16 th of May st German Galician-Day: Conference on Galician language, literature and culture Place: University of Heidelberg/ Germany Oral paper: The Galician bagpipe as a member of a European bagpipe family. October th International Conference on Galician Language Studies Place: University of Trier/ Germany Participation without presentation 11 th 15 th of August 1995 Summer school of the German society for computational linguistics on modern methods in corpus analysis Place: University of Bonn/ Germany Courses attended: a. Morphology and Tagging, b. Statistical access to corpora, c. Corpora of spoken language University courses taught University College London (Department of Phonetics & Linguistics) term /05 Speech Production, Acoustics & Perception Planning & construction of course (term 1) as well as teaching of lectures, laboratory sessions, and tutorials on a weekly basis. Signals & Systems for Speech and Hearing (Aud S001) Teaching of lectures, laboratory sessions and tutorials Speech Production (SSM) Teaching of lectures and tutorials Acoustics of Speech and Hearing (B215) Speech Perception (C315) term /04 Acoustics of Speech and Hearing (B214) Speech Production (SSM) Teaching of lectures, laboratory sessions, and tutorials page 4

5 Psychoacoustics of Music (SSM) Teaching of lectures and tutorials term /04 Signals and Systems for Speech and Hearing Teaching of lectures, laboratory sessions and tutorials Speech Perception (C315) and laboratory sessions on a weekly basis Acoustics of Speech and Hearing (B214) London City University (Department of Language and Communication Science) term /04 Acoustic Phonetics Course type: lecture Course content: Elements of general acoustics and acoustic phonetics. Areas covered: spectrograms, acoustic cues of vowels and consonants, laryngography, speech perception (categorical perception). Bonn University (Department of Communication Research & Phonetics) winter term 2003/04 Measuring rhythm in the speech signal: theory and practice Course type: lecture with labs Course language: German & English Course content: Theoretical analysis of speech rhythm measures (eg. PVI, %V & C) and application in lab sessions to corpus material. summer term 2003 Analysing and understanding audio signals Course language: German Course content: Analysis of audio signals with MatLab Software. Creation, analysis and concatenation of basic signals. Filtering of signals. Creating spectrograms from waveforms (DFT & FFT). Course was co-taught with two colleagues of the department (Stefan Breuer M.A. & Christian Weiß M.A.). Jena University (Department of English and American studies) winter term 2001/02 Introduction to Phonetics Course language: English Course content: Introduction to theoretical and applied areas of phonetics consisting of a theoretical part (taught by myself) and a tutorial with practical exercises (taught by native speaker of English, Bonnie Broughton). Emphasis in the theoretical part was on acoustic phonetics and digital signal processing. summer term 2001 Introduction to Phonetics Course language: English Course content: Intorduction to theoretical and applied areas of linguistics consisting of a theoretical part accompanied by lab sessions. In the theoretical part students acquired basic concepts of articulatory, acoustic and auditory phonetics. In the lab course students acquired basic digital signal processing tasks using Praat software and learned how to perform basic measurements (e.g. of pitch, intensity, etc.) in the speech signal. winter term 2000/01 Describing by Transcribing Interaction Course language: English & German Course content: Introduction to the analysis of acoustic and visual page 5

6 information in the speech signal focusing on methods for transcribing video data. winter term 2000/01 Introduction to Phonetics Course language: English Course type: lecture with lab sessions Course content: (equivalent with Introduction to Phonetics in summer term 2001) Grants awarded University College London, Graduate School Grant covering travel expenses for the above mentioned participation at ICSLP 2004 in Korea. International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) Conference grant covering accommodation and conference fees for the above mentioned participation at ICSLP 2004 in Korea. European Union - Lingua C Full grant to pay for living and travelling expenses for the above mentioned stay at Menntaskolin í Reykjavík /Iceland. German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Full grant to pay for living and travelling expenses for the above mentioned stay at the University of Edinburgh Students Award Agency for Scotland (SAAS) Grant to pay for the study fees at the obove mentioned academic year at Edinburgh University. University of Santiago de Compostela Full grant to pay for living expenses and study fees for the above mentioned stay at the University of Santiago de Compostela. Galician Government (Xunta de Galicia) Full grant to pay for living, travelling expenses, and study fees for the above mentioned summer course on Galician language in Santiago de Compostela. Publications (2004) BonnTempo-Corpus and BonnTempo-Tools: A database for the analysis of speech rhythm and rate. In: Proceedings of ICSLP, Jeju Island/Korea. (submitted) Speech Rhythm as a Function of Rate in Three Languages: A Rate Normalised Measure of Variation in Consonantal Duration. In: UCL Working Papers in Phonetics and Linguistics. (in press) Rhythm and speech rate: A variation coefficient for C. In: Proceedings of the 38. linguistic Colloquium, Budapest (2003) Tools for a combined analysis of speech and gestures. In: Proceedings of the 15 th ICPhS, Barcelona. (2003) Relationships between language rhythm and speech rate. In: Proceedings of the 15 th ICPhS, Barcelona. (2000) Der Einfluss der Muttersprache auf die auditive Sprechererkennungsfähigkeit linguistisch naiver Personen. Magisterarbeit, University of Trier. page 6

7 Memberships and Posts since June 1998: Member of the German-Galician Association (Association for the study of the language, literature, and culture of Galicia) since May 2001: Member of GeVoix (Association for speech and gesture research) since September 2002: Member of ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) since May 2003: Secretary of the German-Galician Association since June 2003: Member of IPA (International Phonetic Association) Languages native language spoken & written basic knowledge German English, Spanish, Galician Gaelic (Scottish), Icelandic, French Referees Prof. Stuart Rosen Department of Phonetics and Linguistics University College London 4 Stephenson Way NW1 2HE London stuart@phon.ucl.ac.uk phone: Prof. Wolfgang Hess Department of Communication Research and Phonetics Bonn University Poppelsdorfer Allee 47 D Bonn wgh@ikp.uni-bonn.de phone: page 7