Jürgen Trouvain  –  Research

My main interests in phonetics (with selected recent publications):

• Non-verbal vocalisations
  Current project: Breathing Behaviour and Non-Lexical Vocalisations in Talk-in-Interaction
  (Trouvain, Ogden; funded by DFG/AHRC; in cooperation with U York, 2026-2028).

  Completed project: Pause-internal phonetic particles
  (Trouvain, Möbius; fundfed by DFG; 2019-2023)
  

  • Trouvain, J., Ogden, R. & Cantarutti, M. 2024. On visualising timing aspects of overlapping laughter in conversational speech. Proc. Workshop on "Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations", Belfast, pp. 18-20. [pdf]
  • Werner, R., Fuchs, S., Trouvain, J., Kürbis, S., Möbius, B. & Birkholz, P. 2023. Acoustics of breath noises in human speech: Descriptive and 3D-modelling approaches. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, online first. [doi]
  • Cantarutti, M., Ogden, R., Šturm, P. & Trouvain, J. 2023. Laughing in interaction: How phonetic details can coordinate action sequences. Proc. Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS), Bielefeld, pp. 38-42. [pdf]

• Speech fluency
  • Kany, V. & Trouvain, J. 2025. Annotation of disfluencies in child speech. Proc. 36th Conf. Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '25), Halle/Saale, pp. 247-254. [pdf]
  • Muhlack, B., Trouvain, J., Sabev, M. & Andreeva, B. 2024. A preliminary study on filler particles in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish (Ladino). Proc. Workshop on "Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations", Belfast, pp. 7-9. [pdf]
  • Muhlack, B., Trouvain, J. & Jessen, M. 2023. Distributional and acoustic characteristics of filler particles in German with consideration of forensic-phonetic aspects. Languages 2023, 8(2), 100. [pdf]

• Stylistic variation
  
  • Trouvain, J., Mooshammer, C., Belz, M. & Lange, R. 2024. Merging verb forms with "ich" to enchaînement consonantique in German. International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Autrans. [pdf]
  • Trouvain, J. & Werner, R. 2023. Muster der Sprechatmung in verschiedenen Sprechstilen – eine Pilotstudie. Proc. 34th Conf. Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (ESSV '23), München, pp. 95-102. [pdf]
  • Werner, R., Trouvain, J. & Möbius, B. 2022. Optionality and variability of speech pauses in read speech across languages and rates. Proc. Speech Prosody, Lisbon, pp. 312-316. [pdf]

• Non-native speech
  Current project: French-German L2 Prosody: from the Lab into Practice
  (Trouvain, Zahner-Ritter, Feldhausen; funded by DFG/ANR; in cooperation with U Trier and U Nancy, 2026-2029).

  Completed project:Individualized Feedback for Computer-Assisted Spoken Language Learning
  (Trouvain, Möbius, Laprie; funded by DFG/ANR; 2013-2016)

  • Feldhausen, I., Trouvain, J. & Zahner-Ritter, K. accepted. Prosody for teaching French as a foreign language: First steps in identifying needs among teachers. Pedagogical Linguistics. [doi]
  • Zahner-Ritter, K., Elsässer, N., Feldhausen, I. & Trouvain, J. 2024. Prosodic marking of contrastive focus in French learners of German. Proc. Speech Prosody, Leiden, pp. 240-244. [pdf]
  • Trouvain, J. 2022. Das IFCASL-Korpus als phonetisches Lernerkorpus. Zeitschrift für germanistische Linguistik 50(1), pp. 82-103. [pdf] [doi]

• History of speech communication research
  
  • Trouvain, J. 2024. 100 years of diversity in the phonetic sciences – Louise Kaiser, Ilse Lehiste and Anne Cutler. Proc. 6th Workshop on History of Speech Communication Research, Budapest, pp. 9-14. [pdf] [doi]
  • Trouvain, J. 2023. On the evolution of ICPhS between 1932 and 2019. Proc. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prague, pp. 3236-3240. [pdf]
  • Brackhane, F., Sproat, R. & Trouvain, J. 2017. Editing Kempelen's 'Mechanismus der menschlichen Sprache': experiences and findings. Proc. 2nd Workshop on History of Speech Communication Research, Helsinki, pp. 16-24. [pdf]

Last update: 14-Aug-2026