The volume includes state of the art research on phonetics and phonology in various languages and from interdisciplinary contributors. It is structured into the following eight sections: segmentals, suprasegmentals, articulation in spoken and sign language, perception, phonology, crowdsourcing phonetic data, second language speech, and arts.

Adrian Leemann is a visiting scholar at the Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge. He currently works in the project ‘The contribution of segmental and suprasegmental cues in the recognition of a speaker’s dialect’, sponsored by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He was the principal investigator of (voiceapp.ch) and had the technical lead in (sprachatlas.spiegel.de). Marie-José Kolly is a PhD student at the Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich. She was formerly a visiting student at LIMSI-CNRS in Paris to work on her PhD on temporal and rhythmic characteristics of second language speech, with a mobility grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation. She was a co-investigator in as well as in . Stephan Schmid is a Senior Researcher at the Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, where he teaches linguistic phonetics and Romance linguistics. He previously worked as research fellow at the Centro di dialettologia of the University of Padua (Italy) and as visiting professor at the Universities of Konstanz and Freiburg (Germany). Volker Dellwo is Assistant Professor of Phonetics at the Phonetics Laboratory, Department of Comparative Linguistics, University of Zurich, where he leads a number of research projects on segmental and suprasegmental characteristics of speech. He previously worked as a Lecturer in Phonetics at University College London and as a researcher at Bonn and Jena Universities.

Contents: Jürgen Trouvain: On clicks in German – Ole Schützler: Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling – Daniel Friedrichs/Dieter Maurer/Heidy Suter/Volker Dellwo: Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels – Conceição Cunha/Jonathan Harrington/Sylvia Moosmüller/Julia Brandstätter: The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German – Julia Brandstätter/Christian H. Kaseß/Sylvia Moosmüller: Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German – Yshai Kalmanovitch: The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation – Melanie Weirich/Adrian P. Simpson: Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German – Nadja Schauffler/Antje Schweitzer/Katrin Schweitzer/Petra Augurzky: Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study – Petra Augurzky/Arndt Riester/Fabian Tomaschek: Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure – Hansjörg Mixdorff/Ryoko Hayashi/Saori Ushiyama: Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners – Tim Bressmann: The poor man’s MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images – Felipe Venâncio Barbosa/Janice Gonçalves Temoteo/Rodrigo Rossi Nogueira Rizzo: What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language – Fabian Tomaschek/Hubert Truckenbrodt/Ingo Hertrich: Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances – Christina Otto: Vertical variation in East Thuringian - Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz – Daniel Duran: Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods – Mitsuhiro Nakamura: Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis – Laurence Voeltzel: Dissimilation in Western Nordic – Marie-José Kolly/Adrian Leemann: : Communicating dialectology to the public - crowdsourcing dialects from the public – Ingrid Hove/Adrian Leemann/Marie-José Kolly/Volker Dellwo/Jean-Philippe Goldman/Ibrahim Almajai/Daniel Wanitsch: : «My voice - my dialect» – Frank Zimmerer/Jürgen Trouvain: «Das Haus» or «das Aus»? - How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German – Milena Insam/Barbara Schuppler: Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech - A case study report – Mikhail Ordin/Leona Polyanskaya/Petra Wagner: Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study – Volker Dellwo/Stephan Schmid: Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals – Ursula Ritzau: The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish – Kostis Dimos/Leopold Dick/Volker Dellwo: Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre – Dieter Maurer/Heidy Suter/Daniel Friedrichs/Volker Dellwo: Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions.