Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Segmentals -- On clicks in German (Jürgen Trouvain) -- Transforming acoustic vowel data: A comparison of methods, using multi-dimensional scaling (Ole Schützler) -- Methodological issues in the acoustic analysis of steady state vowels (Daniel Friedrichs, Dieter Maurer, Heidy Suter and Volker Dellwo) -- The influence of consonantal context on the tense-lax contrast in two standard varieties of German (Conceição Cunha, Jonathan Harrington, Sylvia Moosmüller and Julia Brandstätter) -- Quality and quantity in high vowels in Standard Austrian German (Julia Brandstätter, Christian H. Kaseß and Sylvia Moosmüller) -- The role of longterm acquaintances in speech accommodation (Yshai Kalmanovitch) -- Suprasegmentals -- Impact and interaction of accent realization and speaker sex on vowel length in German (Melanie Weirich and Adrian P. Simpson) -- Avoiding melodic clashes in pitch accent production: A corpus study (Nadja Schauffler, Antje Schweitzer, Katrin Schweitzer and Petra Augurzky) -- Segmental effects on prosody: Modeling German argument structure (Petra Augurzky, Arndt Riester and Fabian Tomaschek) -- Identification of word boundaries and accented syllables in German by German and non-German listeners (Hansjörg Mixdorff , Ryoko Hayashi and Saori Ushiyama) -- Articulation in spoken and sign language -- The poor man's MRI: Reconstruction of pseudo-3D tongue surfaces from multiple coronal ultrasound images (Tim Bressmann) -- What generates Location? Study on the arm and forearm of lexical items in the Brazilian Sign Language (Felipe Venâncio Barbosa, Janice Gonçalves Temoteo and Rodrigo Rossi Nogueira Rizzo) -- Perception -- Discrimination sensitivities and identification patterns of vowel quality and duration in German /u/ and /o/ instances (Fabian Tomaschek, Hubert Truckenbrodt and Ingo Hertrich).

Vertical variation in East Thuringian - Perception of vowel characteristics of speakers from Zeitz (Christina Otto) -- Perceptual magnets in different neighborhoods (Daniel Duran) -- Phonology -- Conditioning factors in word-final coronal stop deletion in British English: An articulatory-acoustic analysis (Mitsuhiro Nakamura) -- Dissimilation in Western Nordic (Laurence Voeltzel) -- Crowdsourcing phonetic data -- Dialäkt Äpp: Communicating dialectology to the public - crowdsourcing dialects from the public (Marie-José Kolly and Adrian Leemann) -- Voice Äpp: "My voice - my dialect" (Ingrid Hove, Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, Volker Dellwo, Jean-Philippe Goldman, Ibrahim Almajai and Daniel Wanitsch) -- Second language speech -- "Das Haus" or "das Aus"? - How French learners produce word-initial /h/ in German (Frank Zimmerer and Jürgen Trouvain) -- Evaluating the effects of pronunciation training on non-native speech - A case study report (Milena Insam and Barbara Schuppler) -- Development of timing patterns in second language acquisition: A cross-linguistic study (Mikhail Ordin, Leona Polyanskaya and Petra Wagner) -- Speaker-individual rhythmic characteristics in read speech of German-Italian bilinguals (Volker Dellwo and Stephan Schmid) -- The influence of orthographic input on pronunciation: The case of assimilation across word boundaries in second language Danish (Ursula Ritzau) -- Arts -- Use of speech and prosody in Composed Theatre (Kostis Dimos, Leopold Dick and Volker Dellwo) -- Acoustic characteristics of voice in music and straight theatre: Topics, conceptions, questions (Dieter Maurer, Heidy Suter, Daniel Friedrichs and Volker Dellwo).