Catalina Torres

Dr. Catalina Torres
Postdoctoral Researcher
Distributional Linguistics Lab
I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Distributional Linguistics Lab at the University of Zurich. In 2020, I completed my phonetics training at the University of Melbourne, Australia. My research deals with word and phrase level prosody in the field of prosodic typology. I'm particularly interested in how speakers chunk and highlight elements in the speech stream and how this interacts with other linguistic domains.
My website: https://catalinatorresinfo.wordpress.com
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KkDqJwIAAAAJ&hl=en
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Publications
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The Effects of Syntactic Dependencies and Speech Tempo on Macro-Rhythm. In: Nineteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2 December 2024 - 5 December 2024. ASSTA, 157-161.
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Portuguese and German Intonation Contours in a Two-Way Immersion School. Languages, 9(2):54.
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Acoustic, phonetic, and phonological features of Drehu vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America:2612-2626.
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Stop voicing in Drehu: Effects of place of articulation, speaker sex, and language attitudes. In: 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prag, 7 August 2023 - 11 August 2023. International Phonetic Association, 2996-3000.
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Measuring variation in Central Pame vowels. In: 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Prag, 7 August 2023 - 11 August 2023. International Phonetic Association, 2289-2293.
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Pitch range modulations in an edge-marking language. In: Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal, 23 June 2022 - 26 June 2022. Speech Prosody Special Interest Group (SProSIG), 832-836.
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Phrase-level and edge marking in Drehu. Glossa, 7(1):1-32.
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Fundamental Frequency and Regional Variation in Lifou French. Language and Speech, 65(4):889-922.
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A corpus study of word (root) prominence in Vera'a. In: Billington, Rosey. Proceedings of the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology. Canberra: ASSTA, 211-215.
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Segments as carriers of prosodic information in word onsets. In: International Conference on Tone and Intonation, Sonderborg, Denmark, 6 December 2021 - 9 December 2021, 61-65.
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Scaling Processes of Clause Chains in Pitjantjatjara. In: Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China, 25 October 2020 - 29 October 2020. ISCA, 1868-1872.
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The alignment of F0 tonal targets under changes in speech rate in Drehu. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(4):2947-2958.
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Phrasing and Constituent Boundaries in Lifou French. In: 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), Melbourne, Australia, 5 August 2019 - 9 August 2019. International Phonetic Association, 3807-3811.
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Investigating word prominence in Drehu. In: Seventeenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Sydney, 4 December 2018 - 7 December 2018. ASSTA, 141-144.
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Acoustic correlates of the French Accentual Phrase in Lifou (New Caledonia). In: Speech Prosody 2018, Poznań (Polen), 13 June 2018 - 16 June 2018, 636-640.