Research Projects

URPP Funded Projects

Project(s)

PhD Candidate

Development of accommodation in speech and language in early language acquisition

Ibrahim, Omnia,

Dr.

Structures in Child-Directed Speech and their Impact on Child-Language Acquisition

Ruest, Olivier,

MA

Postdoctoral Project(s)

Researcher

Code-mixing in Tuatschin (Rhaeto-Romance)

Cathomas, Claudia,

Dr.

Rhythmic accommodation in a dialect contact situation. Acoustic and Perception Studies in Grison and Zurich German

Pellegrino, Elisa,

Dr.

Dialect contact and linguistic accommodation

Ruch, Hanna,

Dr.

Third-Party Funded Projects

	Project	Principal Investigator	Funding Source	Period
1	The Role of Expressive Audio-Visual Information on Face-Voice and Voice-Face Identity Matching (link to study description)	Volker Dellwo, Elisa Pellegrino	Stiftung für Wissenschafliche Forschung, UZH	01.09.2021–31.08.2024
2	Voice Identity Across Speaking-Styles in Persian: Factors Affecting Voice Recognition by Humans and Machines	Volker Dellwo, Homa Asadi	ZHAW Leading House South Asia and Iran	04.05.2020–30.04.2021
3	Multi-modal Speech Sensing Based on 2D and 3D Optical and Acoustic Signals for Identity Recognition and Authentication	Volker Dellwo	SNSF-Spark link	01.02.2020–31.03.2021
4	The Dynamics of Indexical Information in Speech and its Role in Speech Communication and Speaker Recognition (link to project page)	Volker Dellwo	SNSF link	01.12.2019–30.11.2023
5	The Development of Verb-Initial Structures Cross-Linguistically: Insights from Austroasiatic (link to project page)	Mathias Jenny	SNSF link	01.02.2018–31.01.2021
6	Voice Theft: Chances and Risks of Digital Voice Technologies (link to project description)	Volker Dellwo & Sascha Frühholz	SNSF Digital Lives link	01.12.2018–30.11.2020
7	Predicting the Outcomes of Dialect Contact Using Agent-Based Modelling	Hanna Ruch	SNSF Scientific Exchanges link	01.11.2017–30.04.2018
8	The Greater Burma Zone – A Transitional Zone of Languages and Peoples (link to project page)	Mathias Jenny	SNSF link	01.03.2014–28.02.2018
9	WP Accommodation within NCCR Evolving Language, as part of project "cooperation" in theme 3 "social cognition" (link to NCCR page-Theme 3)	J. Burkart, V. Dellwo	NCCR Evolving Language	ongoing