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Name:	Bettina  Braun
Institution:	Universität Konstanz
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Homepage:	http://ling.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/braun/projects.html
State and/or Country:	Germany
Linguistic Field(s):	Phonetics
Selected Publications:	Turco, G., Dimroth, C., & Braun, B. (accepted with revisions). Focusing on function words: Intonational means to mark verum focus in German and French. Language and Speech Altmann, H., Berger, I., & Braun, B. (accepted with revisions). Asymmetries in the perception of non-native consonantal and vocalic length contrasts. Second Language Research (ms) Braun, B., & Johnson, E.K. (2011). Question or Tone 2? How language experience and linguistic function guide pitch processing. Journal of Phonetics 39(4), 585-594 (ms) Braun, B., Lemhöfer, K. & Mani, N. (2011). Perceiving unstressed vowels in foreign-accented English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129, 376-387. (ms) Braun, B., & Tagliapietra, L. (2011). On-line interpretation of intonational meaning in L2. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26(2), 224-235 (ms) Braun, B., Dainora, A., & Ernestus, M. (2011) An unfamiliar intonation contour slows down on-line speech comprehension. Language and Cognitive Processes, 26 (3), 350-375 (ms) Braun, B., & Chen, A. (2010). Intonation of 'now' in resolving scope ambiguity in English and Dutch. Journal of Phonetics , 38 (3), 431-444. (ms) Braun, B., & Tagliapietra, L. (2010). The role of contrastive intonation contours in the retrieval of contextual alternatives. Language and Cognitive Processes 25 (7,8,9), 1024-1043. (preprint). Braun, B. (2006). Phonetics and phonology of thematic contrast in German. Language and Speech, 49(4), 451-493. (paper) Braun, B., Kochanski, G., Grabe, E., & Rosner, B. S. (2006). Evidence for attractors in English intonation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119(6), 4006-4015. (paper) Weber, A., Braun, B., & Crocker, M. W. (2006). Finding referents in time: Eye-tracking evidence for the role of contrastive accents. Language and Speech, 49(3), 367-392. (paper)
Courses Taught:	Phonetics I (3x) Phonetics 2 (2x) Phonetics 3 (3x) Phonology 1 (1x) Phonology 2 (1x) Psycholinguistics (2x) Statistics (2x) Japanese characters (2x)
Reviewer of:	Phonology: van der Hulst & Ewen (2001) (LL Issue 12.1299)
Academic Paper Abstract:	The prosody of question tags in English
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