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Dr Adrian Leemann

Formerly at Lancaster University

  1. 2020
  2. Published

    A typology of laterals in twelve English dialects

    Kirkham, S., Turton, D. & Leemann, A., 20/07/2020, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 148, 1, p. EL72-EL76 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  3. 2018
  4. Published

    The size of the tongue movement area affects the temporal coordination of consonants and vowels— A proof of concept on investigating speech rhythm

    Tomaschek, F. & Leemann, A., 11/2018, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters. 144, 5, p. 410-416 7 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    Regional variation of /r/ in dialects of Swiss German

    Leemann, A., Schmid, S., Studer-Joho, D. & Kolly, M-J., 09/2018, Proceedings of Interspeech 2018. Interspeech, p. 2738-2742 5 p. 1065. (Interspeech 2018).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  6. Published

    The role of segments and prosody in the identification of a speaker’s dialect

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Nolan, F. & Li, Y., 1/05/2018, In: Journal of Phonetics. 68, p. 69-84 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. Published

    l/-vocalisation in Lucerne Swiss German dialects: a sociophonetic analysis using big data

    Zihlmann, U. & Leemann, A., 16/02/2018, Proceedings of the Conference on Phonetics & Phonology in German-speaking countries (P&P 13). Belz, M., Mooshammer, C., Fuchs, S., Jannedy, S., Rasskazova, O. & Zygis, M. (eds.). Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, p. 201-204 4 p. (Proceedings of the Conference on Phonetics & Phonology in German-speaking countries (P&P 13)).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  8. Published

    Visual input trumps auditory input: teaching English intonation

    Portmann, L. & Leemann, A., 16/02/2018, Proceedings of the Conference on Phonetics & Phonology in German-speaking countries (P&P 13). Belz, M., Mooshammer, C., Fuchs, S., Jannedy, S., Rasskazova, O. & Zygis, M. (eds.). Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, p. 149-152 4 p. (Proceedings of the Conference on Phonetics & Phonology in German-speaking countries (P&P 13)).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  9. Published
  10. Published

    The English Dialects App: the creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J. & Britain, D., 2018, In: Ampersand. 5, p. 1-17 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  11. Published

    Using impact to make impact? experiences from a dialect crowdsourcing project

    Britain, D., Leemann, A. & Kolly, M-J., 2018, Applying Linguistics : Language and the Impact Agenda. McIntyre, D. & Price, H. (eds.). London: Routledge

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  12. 2017
  13. Published

    Grüezi, Moin, Servus – Wie wir wo sprechen

    Leemann, A., Elspass, S., Möller, R. & Grossenbacher, T., 15/12/2017, Rowohlt. 176 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  14. Published

    Listeners use temporal information to identify French- and English-accented speech

    Kolly, M-J., Boula de Mareüil, P., Leemann, A. & Dellwo, V., 02/2017, In: Speech Communication. 86, p. 121-134 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    Analyzing geospatial variation in articulation rate using crowdsourced speech data

    Leemann, A., 1/01/2017, In: Journal of Linguistic Geography. 4, 2, p. 76-96 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    Editorial in Multiplicity of Cues and Functions in Prosody

    Leemann, A. & Post, B., 2017, In: Laboratory Phonology.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorialpeer-review

  17. 2016
  18. Published

    ‘Chend’ met <e> – ‘Kind’ mit <e> using Big Data to explore phoneme-to-grapheme mapping in Lucerne Swiss German

    Zihlmann, U. & Leemann, A., 1/10/2016, Phonetik und Phonologie: 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie in Deutschsprachigen Raum. Draxler, C. & Kleber, F. (eds.). 12 ed. p. 236-240 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  19. Published

    Big Data for analyses of small-scale regional variation: A case study on sound change in Swiss German

    Leemann, A. & Kolly, M-J., 1/10/2016, Phonetik und Phonologie: 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie in Deutschsprachigen Raum. Draxler, C. & Kleber, F. (eds.). 12 ed. p. 99-103 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  20. Published

    Identifying a speaker's regional origin: the role of temporal information

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J. & Nolan, F., 31/05/2016, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Speech Prosody (SP2016). p. 1081-1085 5 p. (Speech Prosody 2016).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  21. Published

    Crowdsourcing language change with smartphone applications

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Purves, R., Britain, D. & Glaser, E., 4/01/2016, In: PLoS ONE. 11, 1, e0143060.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. 2015
  23. Published

    Speaker-invariant suprasegmental temporal features in normal and disguised speech

    Leemann, A. & Kolly, M-J., 12/2015, In: Speech Communication. 75, p. 97-122 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Rhythmic variability between speakers: articulatory, prosodic and linguistic factors

    Dellwo, V., Leemann, A. & Kolly, M-J., 03/2015, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 137, 3, p. 1513-1528 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    The recognition of read and spontaneous speech in local vernacular: the case of Zurich German dialect

    Dellwo, V., Leemann, A. & Kolly, M-J., 01/2015, In: Journal of Phonetics. 48, p. 13-28 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    A Crowdsourcing Smartphone Application for Swiss German: Putting language documentation in the hands of the users

    Goldman, J-P., Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Hove, I., Almajai, I., Dellwo, V. & Moran, S., 2015, Proceedings of LREC 2014. Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Declerck, T., Loftsson, H., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Moreno, A., Odijk, J. & Piperidis, S. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  27. Published

    Analysis of spatial variation with app-based crowdsourced audio data

    Kolly, M-J., Leemann, A. & Matter, F., 2015.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  28. Published

    Dialäkt Äpp: communicating dialectology to the public – crowdsourcing dialects from the public

    Kolly, M-J. & Leemann, A., 2015, Trends in Phonetics and Phonology: Studies from German-speaking Europe. Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Schmid, S. & Dellwo, V. (eds.). Bern: Peter Lang

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  29. Published

    Dialektologie vermitteln - Dialekte ermitteln. Die Dialäkt Äpp errät und erfasst, woher Testpersonen kommen

    Kolly, M-J. & Leemann, A., 2015, Sprachspiegel. p. 78-85 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  30. Published

    Documenting Sound Change with Smartphone Apps

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Britain, D., Purves, R. & Glaser, E., 2015, In: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 137, 4, 2304.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  31. Published

    It's not phonetic aesthetics that drives dialect preference: the case of Swiss German

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J. & Nolan, F., 2015, Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  32. Published

    Speaker-idiosynrasy in pausing behavior: evidence from a cross-linguistic study

    Kolly, M-J., Leemann, A., Dellwo, V. & Boula de Marëuil, P., 2015, Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  33. Published

    Swiss Voice App: “My voice – my dialect”

    Hove, I., Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Dellwo, V. & Goldman, J-P., 2015, Trends in Phonetics and Phonology: Studies from German-speaking Europe. Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Schmid, S. & Dellwo, V. (eds.). Bern: Peter Lang

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  34. Published

    The effect of speakers’ regional varieties on listeners’ decision-making

    Leemann, A., Bernardasci, C. & Nolan, F., 2015, Proceedings of Interspeech 2015: 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. p. 1670-1674 5 p. (Proceedings of Interspeech).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  35. Published

    Trends in phonetics and phonology: Studies from German-speaking Europe

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Schmid, S. & Dellwo, V., 2015, Bern: Peter Lang.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  36. Published

    Voice Äpp: a mobile app for crowdsourcing Swiss German dialect data

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Goldman, J-P., Dellwo, V., Hove, I., Almajai, I., Grimm, S., Robert, S. & Wanitsch, D., 2015, Interspeech 2015: 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. p. 2804-2808 5 p. (Proceedings of Interspeech).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  37. 2014
  38. Published

    The influence of speaking rate on Fujisaki model parameters

    Mixdorff, H., Leemann, A. & Dellwo, V., 13/08/2014, In: EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. 2014, 11 p., 33.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  39. Published

    The diffusion of /l/-vocalization in Swiss German

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J., Werlen, I., Britain, D. & Studer-Joho, D., 07/2014, In: Language Variation and Change. 26, 2, p. 191-218 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  40. Published

    Speaker-individuality in suprasegmental temporal features: implications for forensic voice comparison

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J. & Dellwo, V., 05/2014, In: Forensic Science International. 238, p. 59-67 9 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  41. Published

    Crowdsoucring regional variation in speaking rate through the the iOS app 'Dialäkt Äpp'

    Leemann, A., Kolly, M-J. & Schmid, S., 2014, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014. p. 217-221 5 p. (Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  42. Published

    Dialäkt Äpp: Dialektologie vermitteln - Dialekte ermitteln"

    Leemann, A. & Kolly, M-J., 2014, 2013 Jahresbericht des Schweizerischen Idiotikons. p. 21-44

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  43. Published

    Disentangling sources of rhythmic variability between dialects

    Leemann, A., Dellwo, V., Kolly, M-J. & Schmid, S., 2014, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014. p. 693-697 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  44. Published

    Foreign accent recognition based on temporal information contained in lowpass-filtered speech

    Kolly, M-J., Leemann, A. & Dellwo, V., 2014, Interspeech 2014: 15th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. p. 2175-2179 5 p. (Proceedings of Interspeech 2014).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  45. Published

    Speaker-individuality in Fujisaki model f0 features: implications for forensic voice comparison

    Leemann, A., Mixdorff, H., O'Reilly, M., Kolly, M-J. & Dellwo, V., 2014, In: International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law. 21, 2, p. 343-370 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  46. Published

    Verbrecherjagt mit gesprochener Sprache: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der forensischen Phonetik

    Dellwo, V., Hove, I., Leemann, A. & Kolly, M-J., 2014, Kriminalistik. p. 119-126 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  47. Published

    Voice Äpp. A smartphone application for crowdsourcing Swiss German dialect data

    Kolly, M-J., Leemann, A., Dellwo, V., Goldman, J-P., Hove, I. & Almajai, I., 2014, p. 231-233. 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paper

  48. 2013
  49. Published

    L'étude de la prosodie en Suisse, Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique (TRANEL 59)

    Schwab, S. & Leemann, A., 2013, Institut de linguistique: Université de Neuchâtel.

    Research output: Working paper

  50. Published

    New approaches towards modeling fundamental frequency contours in Valais Swiss German

    Leemann, A. & Peter, N., 2013, L'étude de la prosodie en Suisse. Schwab, S. & Leemann, A. (eds.). Neuchâtel : Institut des sciences du langage et de la communication, Université de Neuchâtel, p. 43-56 14 p. (TRANEL (Travaux neuchâtelois de linguistique); vol. 59).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  51. 2012
  52. Published

    Methodological reflections on the phonetic-phonological continuum, illustrated on the prosody of Swiss German dialects

    Leemann, A. & Siebenhaar, B., 2012, Methods in Contemporary Linguistics. Ender, A., Leemann, A. & Walchli, B. (eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter, p. 21-44 24 p. (Trends in Linguistics ; Studies and Monographs; vol. 247).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  53. Published

    Methods in Contemporary Linguistics

    Ender, A., Leemann, A. & Wälchli, B., 2012, De Gruyter. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 247; vol. 247)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  54. Published

    Rhythmic variability in Swiss German dialects

    Leemann, A., Dellwo, V., Kolly, M-J. & Schmid, S., 2012, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012. ISCA, p. 607-610 4 p. (Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  55. Published

    Speaker idiosyncratic rhythmic features in the speech signal

    Dellwo, V., Leemann, A. & Kolly, M-J., 2012, Proceedings of Interspeech 2012: 13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Portland, OR, USA September 9-13, 2012. ISCA, p. 1584-1587 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  56. Published

    Swiss German Intonation Patterns

    Leemann, A., 2012, John Benjamins. (Studies in Language Variation; vol. 10)

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  57. 2010
  58. Published

    Declarative sentence intonation patterns in 8 Swiss German Dialects

    Leemann, A. & Zuberbühler, L., 2010, Proceedings of Interspeech 2010: 11th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Makuhari, Chiba, Japan September 26-30. 2010. ISCA, p. 1768-1771 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  59. Published

    Dialektale Intonation des Schweizerdeutschen

    Leemann, A., 2010, In: Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. p. 185-206 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  60. Published

    Statistical Modeling of F0 and Timing of Swiss German Dialects

    Leemann, A. & Siebenhaar, B., 2010, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010. ISCA, 4 p. 180. (Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  61. 2009
  62. Published

    Analysis of Voice Fundamental Frequency Contours of Continuing and Terminating Phrases of Four Swiss German Dialects

    Leemann, A., Hirose, K. & Fujisaki, H., 2009, Proceedings of Interspeech 2009: 10th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Brighton, United Kingdom September 6-10, 2009. ISCA, p. 2419-2422 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  63. Published

    Command-response modeling of spontaneous Swiss German dialectal speech

    Leemann, A. & Hirose, K., 2009, Proceedings of the Spring Meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan 2009.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  64. Published

    Intonational Variation in Swiss German

    Leemann, A., 2009, Language variation. European perspectives II: selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLAVE 4), Nicosia, June 2007. Tsiplakou, S., Karyolemou, M. & Pavlou, P. Y. (eds.). Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 135-143 9 p. (Studies in language variation; vol. 5).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  65. 2008
  66. Published

    Perception of Dialectal Prosody

    Leemann, A. & Siebenhaar, B., 2008, Proceedings of Interspeech 2008: 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Brisbane, Australia, September 22-26, 2008. ISCA, p. 524-527 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  67. Published

    Swiss Alpine and Midland Intonation

    Leemann, A. & Siebenhaar, B., 2008, Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008. p. 289-292 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  68. Published

    Vowel Quality of Swiss EFL Speakers

    Leemann, A., 2008, Accents in English as a non-native language. p. 16-32 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  69. 2007
  70. Published

    Acoustic Analysis of Swiss English Vowel Quality: A Quantitative and Qualitative Approach in Second Language Acquisition

    Leemann, A., 2007, Arbeitspapiere des Instituts für Sprachwissenschaft ed. University of Bern.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsBook

  71. Published

    Intonational and Temporal Features of Swiss German

    Leemann, A. & Siebenhaar, B., 2007, ICPhS XVI: 6-10 August 2007, Saarbrücken Germany ; 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ; proceedings. Trouvain, J. & Barry, W. J. (eds.). Saarbrücken: Universität des Saarlandes, p. 957-960 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

  72. Published

    Prosodic Features of Spontaneous Utterance-Initial Phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss German

    Leemann, A. & Siebenhaar, B., 2007, Language and Linguistics. . Taipei: Insitute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, p. 129-146 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  73. 2006
  74. Published

    Prosodic Features of Spontaneous Utterance-Initial Phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss German

    Leemann, A. & Siebenhaar, B., 2006, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Linguistic Patterns in Spontaneous Speech (LPSS 2006). Taipei: Academia Sinica, Institute of Linguistics, p. 127-142 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

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