né Ritter
I am a researcher working in the fields of phonetics and phonology. My research interests include prosody, the relationship between phonetics and phonology, or more generally, the relationship between discrete and continuous aspects of cognition, as well as gestural models of speech production. I use a combination of (interactive) empirical and computational methods to investigate the intergration of prosodic categories and phonetic realizations. More recently, I have become interested in the multi-dimensionality of prosody, the interaction of relative, global and local prosodic highlighting patterns, and the implementation of prosodic phenomena in gestural models of speech production. In 2020, I completed my dissertation on a dynamical modelling approach to categorical and continuous modulations in the prosodic expression of information structure, supervised by Doris Mücke and Martine Grice. I currently work as a postdoctoral researcher in the CRC 'Prominence in Language' at the University of Cologne. In August 2022, I will join the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University for two years.
Contact me at simon.roessig [at] uni-koeln.de, find me on Google Scholar, Researchgate or ORCID.
Note: prior to 2019 I published under my former name Ritter
Roessig, S., B. Winter & D. Mücke (2022). Tracing the phonetic space of prosodic focus marking. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 5. DOI: 10.3389/frai.2022.842546. link to article
Roessig, S., L. Pagel & D. Mücke (2022). Speaking loudly reduces flexibility and variability in the prosodic marking of focus types. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-102. link to article
Lorenzen, J., S. Roessig, S. Baumann (2022). Information status and tonal context jointly modulate prosodic prominence relations in German. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-2. link to article
Pagel, L., S. Roessig, & D. Mücke (2021). Modifications of tongue body kinematics as a focus marking strategy in German. Proceedings of the 12th ISSP. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5081658. link to article
Roessig, S. (2021). Categoriality and continuity in prosodic prominence (Studies in Laboratory Phonology). Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4121875. link to book
Roessig, S., D. Mücke & L. Pagel (2019). Dimensions of prosodic prominence in an attractor model. Proceedings of Interspeech 2019. DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2227. link to article
Roessig, S. & D. Mücke (2019). Modeling Dimensions of Prosodic Prominence. Frontiers in Communication 4(44). DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2019.00044. link to article
Roessig S., D. Mücke, M. Grice (2019). The dynamics of intonation: Categorical and continuous variation in an attractor-based model. PLoS ONE 14(5). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216859. link to article
Grice, M., S. Ritter, H. Niemann & T. B. Roettger (2017). Integrating the discreteness and continuity of intonational categories. Journal of Phonetics 64. 90-107. DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2017.03.003. link to article
Ritter, S. & M. Grice (2015). The Role of Tonal Onglides in German Nuclear Pitch Accents. Language and Speech 58(1). 114-128. DOI: 10.1177/0023830914565688. link to article
Kügler, F., B. Smolibocki, D. Arnold, S. Baumann, B. Braun, M. Grice, S. Jannedy, J. Michalsky, O. Niebuhr, J. Peters, S. Ritter, C. Röhr, A. Schweitzer, K. Schweitzer & P. Wagner (2015). DIMA – Annotation guidelines for German intonation. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. link to article
Ritter, S. & T. B. Roettger (2014). Speakers modulate noise-induced pitch according to intonational context. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody. DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2014-166. link to article
Note: presentations prior to May 2019 as Simon Ritter
Pagel, L., S. Roessig & D. Mücke (accepted). Articulatory encoding of prominence in habitual and loud speech. Accepted as oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference Prominence in Language, Cologne
Roessig, S., J. Lorenzen & S. Baumann (accepted). Evidence for a prosodic prominence budget in German utterances. Accepted as oral presentation at the 3rd International Conference Prominence in Language, Cologne
Roessig, S., B. Winter & D. Mücke (accepted). Exploring the phonetic space of focus. Accepted as poster presentation at LabPhon 18, online.
Lorenzen, J., S. Roessig & S. Baumann (accepted). Syntagmatic and paradigmatic effects of information status on prosodic prominence relations in German – an online production task. Accepted as poster presentation at LabPhon 18, online.
Roessig, S., L. Pagel & D. Mücke (2022). Speaking loudly reduces flexibility and variability in the prosodic marking of focus types. Accepted as oral presentation at Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lorenzen, J., S. Roessig & S. Baumann (2022). Information status and tonal context jointly modulate prosodic prominence relations in German. Accepted as oral presentation at Speech Prosody 2022, Lisbon, Portugal.
Pagel, L., S. Roessig, D. Mücke (2021). Prominence relations and articulatory modifications in habitual and loud speech. Oral presentation at PaPE, June 21-23 2021, Barcelona, Spain.
Pagel, L., S. Roessig, D. Mücke (2020). Modifications of tongue body kinematics as a focus marking strategy in German. Poster presentation at 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, December 14–18 2020, Rhode Island, USA.
Pagel, L., S. Roessig & D. Mücke (2019). Prosodic strengthening in German: an investigation of tongue body kinematics. Talk at 15. Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung, September 27 2019, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Roessig, S., D. Mücke & L. Pagel (2019). Dimensions of prosodic prominence in an attractor model. Talk at Interspeech, September 15-19 2019, Graz, Austria.
Roessig, S., D. Mücke (2019). Prosodic variation in a multi-dimensional dynamic system. Talk at Phonetics and Phonology in Europe, June 17-19 2019, Lecce, Italy.
Ritter, S. & D. Mücke (2018). Continuity and categoriality in prosodic prominence – the case of focus marking. Talk at the 2nd International Conference “Prominence in Language”, July 11-13 2018, Cologne, Germany.
Ritter, S. & D. Mücke (2018). The phonetics and phonology of focus marking – an integrated account. Poster presentation at 16th Conference on Laboratory Phonology, June 19-22 2018, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ritter, S. & T.B. Roettger (2014). Speakers modulate noise-induced pitch according to intonational context. Poster presentation at the 7th International Conference on Speech Prosody, May 20-23 2014, Dublin.
Ritter, S. & M. Grice (2013). Tonal Onglides of Nuclear Pitch Accents in German. Talk at Nijmegen-Cologne Prosody Meeting, July 1 2013, Cologne, Germany.
Ritter, S. & M. Grice (2013). The Role of Tonal Onglides in German Nuclear Pitch Accents. Talk at Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia, June 25-26 2013, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ritter, S., M. Krüger, Mücke, D. & M. Grice (2012). Production and Perception of Contrast: Tonal Onglides and Oral Gestures. Poster presentation at the final symposium of the DFG Priority programme 1234, July 26 2012, Stuttgart, Germany.
Grice, M., Mücke, D. & S. Ritter (2012). Focus Marking: Tonal Onglides and Oral Gestures. Talk at Workshop: Dynamic Modeling of Articulation and Prosodic Structure, May 7 2012, Cologne, Germany.
Ritter, S., Riester, A. & M. Grice (2012). Onglides von Nuklearakzenten: Brauchen wir Leading Tones? Talk at Workshop: Deutsche Intonation - Annotation und Modellierung, March 21-22 2012, Konstanz, Germany.
Roessig, S. (2022). Two dimensions of prominence relations: prosodic focus marking in habitual and loud speech. Invited talk at IPS Munich, May 11 2022.
Roessig, S. (2022). Prominence relations on two axes: evidence from focus marking in habitual and loud speech. Invited talk at the University of Bielefeld, work group phonetics an phonology, April 5 2022.
Roessig, S. & D. Mücke (2020). Prosodic prominence: discreteness, gradience, and a dynamical systems account. Invited talk at the University of Bielefeld, work group phonetics and phonology, January 8 2020.
Ritter, S. & D. Mücke (2019). Prosodic variation from a dynamical perspective. Invited talk at the University Hamburg, Institut für Romanistik, Jan 8 2019.
Ritter, S. & D. Mücke (2018). Prosody in a dynamic systems account. Invited talk at the University Potsdam, Linguistics Department, Nov 14 2018.