Pauline Welby

Education

• Ph.D. in linguistics, 2003
• M.A., September 1998
• Current research interests: intonation, spoken language processing, text-to-speech synthesis
  Dissertation :
  The slaying of Lady Mondegreen, being a study of French tonal association and alignment and their role in speech segmentation (pdf) (accompanying sound files).

• advanced French class, summer 2000

• B.A. in classics, magna cum laude, May 1993
• Post-baccalaureate linguistics courses, 1994-1995

• Classics and linguistics classes, 1991-1992

• Basic Ancient Greek Institute, summer 1990

Research and Teaching Experience

Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble, France

• Assisted in developing a text-to-speech synthesis system (autumn 2000-spring 2002).
• Annotated a spoken language corpus as part of a study of discourse and intonational structure (summer, autumn 1999).
• Developed materials, collected and analyzed data for a child language acquisition study (January 1998-March 1999).
• Helped compile an annotated bibliography of resources in Modern Greek linguistics

• Developed course materials and taught introductory linguistics (autumn 1997) and psycholinguistics (summer 1999) courses.

• Taught English grammar to adult learners in Department of Continuing Education (winter 1999, spring 2000).

• Taught etymology class of a summer enrichment program for high school students.

Awards and Honors

• Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship (post-doctoral fellowship, European Commission), 2004-present
• Chateaubriand Fellowship (post-doctoral fellowship, French Ministry for Foreign Affairs), 2003
• Ohio State Department of Linguistics Departmental Teaching Award (for the teaching of introductory undergraduate linguistics), 2003
• National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant, 2003
• Ohio State Presidential Fellowship, 2003
• Ohio State Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship, 2002
• Ohio State Graduate Student International Dissertation Research Travel Grant, 2002
• Ohio State Center for Cognitive Science Summer Fellowship, 2000
• Ohio State Title VI Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship (French), 1999-2000
• Ohio State Department of Linguistics Adjacent Technologies Fellowship, spring 1999
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1993 (Brandeis University)
• Sachar Fellowship for Study Abroad (Brandeis University), 1991-1992
• Herbert Musurillo Memorial Scholarship (CUNY) for study of Greek, summer 1990

Publications

• Welby, Pauline (to appear). French intonational structure: Evidence from tonal alignment. Journal of Phonetics.(pdf)

• Welby, Pauline and Hélène Lœvenbruck. (to appear). Anchored down in Anchorage: Syllable structure and segmental anchoring in French. Italian Journal of Linguistics. Special issue on "Autosegmental-metrical approaches to intonation in Europe: tonal targets and anchors", edited by Mariapaola D'Imperio. (pdf)

• D'Imperio, Mariapaola, Robert Espesser, Hélène Lœvenbruck, Caroline Menezes, Noël Nguyen and Pauline Welby (to appear). Are tones aligned with articulatory events? Evidence from Italian and French. LabPhon9: Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology. Edited by Jennifer Cole and José Hualde.

• Welby, Pauline and Hélène Lœvenbruck. (2005). Segmental "anchorage" and the French late rise. Proceedings of Interspeech 2005, pp. 2369-2373, Lisbon. (pdf)

• Schaegis, Anne-Laure, Elsa Spinelli, and Pauline Welby. (2005). Perception of Phonemically Ambiguous Spoken Sequences in French. Proceedings of CogSci2005 (27th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society), Stresa, Italy.

• Welby, Pauline. (2004). The structure of French intonational rises: A study of text-to-tune alignment. In B. Bel and I. Marlien (eds), Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2004 Conference, pp. 127-130. Nara, Japan. (pdf)

• Welby, Pauline. (2003) Effects of pitch accent type and status on focus projection. Language and Speech 46(1): 53-81. (Please contact me for a hard copy of this paper.)

• Welby, Pauline. (2003). French intonational rises and their role in speech seg mentation. Proceedings of Eurospeech: The 8th Annual Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 2125-2128. Geneva. (pdf)

• Welby, Pauline (2002) The realization of early and late rises in French intonation: A production study. In Proceedings of the Speech Prosody 2002 Conference , B. Bel and I. Marlien (eds), pp. 695-698. Aix-en-Provence, France. (pdf)

• Cassidy, Steve, Pauline Welby, Julie McGory, Mary Beckman (2000) Testing the adequacy of query languages against annotated spoken dialog. Proceedings of the 8th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 428-433.

• Welby, Pauline and Neal Whitman (1999) Ringe revisited: Comments on Ringe's probabilistic comparison method. The Ohio State University Working Papers in Linguistics.

• Fourakis, Marios, Jan Edwards, Mary E. Beckman, Pauline Welby, and Satoko Katagiri (1999) Evidence from /k/ versus /t/ burst spectra for variable lingual contact precision in normal versus atypical phonological development. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 106, 2244. [abstract]

• Edwards, Jan, Marios Fourakis, Mary E. Beckman, Pauline Welby, and Ying Xu. (1998) Methods for assessing spatiotemporal precision of speech gestures in children. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 104, 1853. [abstract]

Presentations

• Welby, Pauline (2005). Intonational cues to word segmentation in French: Results from clear and noisy speech. Invited talk given at the Department of Linguistics, University College Dublin, Ireland, October 26, 2005.

• Welby, Pauline. (2005). Introduction to Praat scripting workshop. Guest lecture. Phonetics seminar (instructor: Máire Ní Chiosáin). Department of Linguistics, University College Dublin, October 26, 2005.

• Welby, Pauline (2005). Introduction to Praat scripting for intonational analysis workshop. Phonetics Laboratory, Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, October 25, 2005.

• Welby, Pauline (2005). Pitch changes in noisy conditions: Data from French. Paper presented at the conference Making Europe More Attractive for Researchers (sponsored by the European Commission for Marie Curie Fellows), Pisa/Livorno, Italy, September 28-30, 2005.

• Welby, Pauline. (2005). Segmental "anchorage" and French: Language-specific and cross-linguistic implications. Invited talk given at the Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, University of Kiel, Germany, June 9, 2005.

• Welby, Pauline. (2005). Introduction to French Intonation. Guest lecture. Intonation and prosody seminar (instructor: Jonathan Harrington). Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, University of Kiel, Germany, June 9, 2005.

• Welby, Pauline. (2005). The Intonational Structure of French and the Segmental Anchoring Hypothesis: A Study of Tonal Alignment. Paper presented at the conference Un siècle de Phonétique expérimentale : histoire et développement de Théodore Rosset à la John Ohala. Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble, France, February 25, 2005.

• Welby, Pauline. (2004). Marqueurs intonatifs des débuts de mots lexicaux en français et leur rôle dans la segmentation de la parole. Invited paper given at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitive et Psycholinguistique, Paris, October 19, 2004.

• Welby, Pauline. (2004). French Intonational Structure: Evidence from tonal alignment. Paper presented at the 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 25, 2004.

• D'Imperio, Mariapaola, Robert Espesser, Hélène Lœvenbruck, Caroline Menezes, Noël N guyen and Pauline Welby (2004). Are tones aligned with articulatory events? Evidence from Italian and French. Paper presented at the 9th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 26, 2004.

• Welby, Pauline. (2004). The structure of French intonational rises: A study of text-to-tune alignment. Paper presented at the Speech Prosody 2004 Conference, Nara, Japan.

• Welby, Pauline (2004). Rôle des marqueurs intonatifs de débuts de mots lexicaux en français dans la segmentation de la parole. Invited paper presented at the "Journée d'étude sur la prosodie et la segmentation lexicale", Laboratoire de Psycholinguistique Expérimentale, Université de Genève, Geneva, February 23, 2004.

• Welby, Pauline. (2004). French tonal alignment and its contribution to speech segmentation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Boston, January 10, 2004.

• Welby, Pauline. (2003). French intonational rises and their role in speech seg mentation. Paper presented at the conference Eurospeech: The 8th Annual Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Geneva.

• Welby, Pauline (2002) The realization of early and late rises in French intonation: A production study. Paper presented at the Speech Prosody 2002 conference, Aix-en-Provence, France.

• Welby, Pauline (2001) Effect of two levels of intonational phrasing on sentence processing. Paper presented at the Prosody in Processing conference, July 6, 2001, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

• Welby, Pauline (2000) Effects of pitch accent type and status on focus projection. Paper presented at the University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, July 14, 2000.

• Welby, Pauline (1999) Accents project focus (If they're nuclear). Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, California, January 8, 1999.

Language Proficiency

• English: native
• French: excellent speaking, writing, reading
• German: working knowledge

Service

• Reviewer, In Cognito, Speech Communication, Journées d'Études sur la Parole, Fez, Morocco, April 2004.
• Institut de la Communication Parlée, Équipe Séminaires (Speakers Series Committee), 2003-present.
• Ohio State Department of Linguistics, software tutorials (Praat, LaTeX, Xfig, Aligner), 2001-2003.
• Ohio State Department of Linguistics, Laboratory and Computing Committee, 2000-2001.
• Ohio State Department of Linguistics, Speakers Committee, 1997-1999.
• Ohio State Office of Disabilities Services, recorded chapters from Language Files (linguistics text) for visually impaired students, 1997.

Memberships in Professional Organizations

• Linguistics Society of America
• International Speech Communication Association
• International Phonetics Association

Contact Information

(+33)04.76.57.45.39 (phone)
(+33)04.76.57.47.10 (fax)

e-mail: welby@icp.inpg.fr

home page: http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ ~welby