Anne Hermes

Anne Hermes est actuellement Chargée de Recherche au CNRS.

Contact:
Email: anne. hermes (at) sorbonne-nouvelle . fr
Tel. : +33 (0) 1 87 27 29 44
Adresse postale:
Maison de la Recherche
4 rue des Irlandais
75005 Paris

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last update – June 2024

My research combines theory construction for linguistic phenomena with experimental explorations of speech production in different languages and populations. It lies in the area of Laboratory Phonology with the goal to understand variation in speech and how it relates to phonological organization. To achieve this goal, I consider different factors of variation, such as linguistically-related (prosodic constituents), disease-related (speech motor disorders) and biologically-related (aging) factors. My line of research is at the core of how to model coordinative structures in a non-linear dynamic system, aiming to represent not only continuous but also discrete phenomena in speech and, going a step further, to understand variation as part of the phonological system, providing a window into linguistic structure.

Mes recherches combinent la construction théorique de phénomènes linguistiques avec des explorations expérimentales de la production de la parole dans différentes langues et populations. Elles se situent dans le domaine de la Phonologie de Laboratoire dans le but de comprendre la variation de la parole et comment elle se rapporte à l’organisation phonologique. Pour atteindre cet objectif, je considère différents facteurs de variation, tels que les facteurs liés au langage (constituants prosodiques), aux maladies (troubles de la parole et de la motricité) et aux facteurs biologiques (vieillissement). Ma ligne de recherche est au cœur de la modélisation des structures de coordination dans un système dynamique non linéaire, visant à représenter non seulement des phénomènes continus mais aussi des phénomènes discrets dans la parole et, allant plus loin, à comprendre la variation comme faisant partie du système phonologique, fournissant ainsi une fenêtre sur la structure linguistique.

Education
25/03/2013	PhD with highest honours (“summa cum laude”), University of Cologne, Germany
2004 – 2007	Magister Artium, UoC: Phonetics, English Philology and Scandinavian Philology
2000 – 2004	Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany

Positions
01/10/2019 – now	Researcher (CRCN) at Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, UMR 7018, CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle
05/2019 – 09/2019	DFG Research Stipend (AGES), Laboratoire Phonétique et Phonologe, UMR 7018, CNRS/Sorbonne-Nouvelle
02/2012 – 03/2019	Research associate/PhD student (Part-time), IfL – Phonetics, University of Cologne, Germany
Grants/Fellowships/Awards
Oct 2023 – 2026	ANR JCJC grant for INSPECT project on “Aging and speech motor control”, PI: Anne Hermes, collaborators: Cécile Fougeron, Nicolas Audibert
Sept 2021	Grant Scientific Event “Coping with the complexity in speech production and perception“, DFH/UFA, PIs: Susanne Fuchs, Anne Hermes, Leonardo Lancia, Martijn Wieling (planned in January 2022 –> moved to 4-8 July 2022)
Apr 2021	Grant (ANR-JCJC) for DIA-SYN-PHON project, PI: Maria Giavazzi (DEC-ENS), collaborators: Anne Hermes, Sharon Peperkamp, Ioana Chitoran, Cécile Fougeron
May 2019	DFG Research Fellowship
July 2018	Scholarship “Kongressreise”, Interspeech 2018, Hyderabad, India, DAAD
April 2018	Grant “Mobility Grant for Postdocs” – Visiting scholar at LPP, Paris (May-June 2018)
February 2018	Grant Scientific Event “Language and dynamic representation“, DFH/UFA, PIs: A. Hermes, M. Grice & I. Chitoran
Jan – Feb 2018	Visiting scholar at LPP, CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
November 2017	Seed funding project “AGES – Aging in Speech”, University of Cologne
May 2017	Grant “Network & Exchange”, University of Cologne, Visiting scholar at LPP, Paris (Oct-Nov 2017)
June 2016	Grant “Mobility Grant for Postdocs”, University of Cologne, Visiting scholar at USC, Los Angeles, USA (Oct-Nov 2016)
Dec 2016 – May 2017	Seed funding « Effekte der Tiefen Hirnstimulation auf die Sprechmotorik »
2014 – 2015	Scholarship “Cornelia-Harte-Mentoring Pro”, University of Cologne
2014 – 2015	Award “Junior Leo Spitzer Prize”, University of Cologne (96,000€)
November 2013	Grant “International Scientific Event”, 10th ISSP, Cologne, DFG
April 2013	Research Grant “ToPIQQ”, VW Foundation, PIs: M. Grice, A. Hermes, L. Goldstein, R. Ridouane, C. Gussenhoven, B. Remijsen & J. McDonough
Feb/March 2013	Scholarship “Vortragsreise” – Visiting scholar at USC Los Angeles, USA, DAAD
June 2011	Award “Northern Digital Inc. Excellence Award”, 9th ISSP, Montréal, Canada

(Co-)Organisation of scientific events
4-8 July 2022	Co-organizer (with S. Fuchs, L. Lancia and M. Wieling) of summer school titled “Coping with the complexity in speech production and perception“, (funded by DFH/UFA)
Oct. 2020 – now	Co-organizer (with R. Ridouane) of Séminaires de Recherches en Phonétique et Phonologie, aka SRPP (weekly LPP colloquium of presentations in current research in phonetics and phonology)
03 – 05 June 2019	6th Paris-Cologne Collaborative Meeting (funded by UFA) “Language and dynamic representations”, Paris
29 – 31 May 2018	5th Paris-Cologne Collaborative Meeting (funded by UFA) “Language and dynamic representations”, Paris
4 – 6 December 2017	4th Paris-Cologne Collaborative Meeting/Bilateral SFB1252-Workshop “LMMs and GAMMs”, Cologne
17 – 19 June 2017	International Workshop on Dynamic Modeling (DyMo III), Cologne, http://dymo.uni-koeln.de
9 August 2015	ToPIQQ Workshop, Glasgow, UK, http://www.topiqq.uni-koeln.de
11 – 12 June 2015	International workshop on Dynamic Modeling (DyMo II), Cologne, http://dymo.uni-koeln.de/dymo2015/
5 – 8 May 2014	10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Cologne, http://www.issp2014.uni-koeln.de
30 May – 1 June 2012	Prosody of the Wider World (ProWW), Cologne, http://www.proww.uni-koeln.de
1 -3 July 2010	Cologne International Workshop on Prosody

Qualifications & Training
Oct 2018 – July 2019	Management program for advanced female researchers: Mastering leadership – ensuring management, Communicating successfully – presenting confidently, Building teams – promoting staff, Handling conflicts – controlling changes, Managing stress – shaping life
May 2015	Women into EU research (BMBF)
2014 – 2015	Cornelia-Harte-Mentoring Pro: Self-Marketing/Elevator Pitch, Work-Life Balance, Career Planning, Networking, Research Funding
2008 – 2015	Female Career Center, UoC: Leadership in Research, Present & Convince I/II, Speed Reading

2024

Buech, P., Hermes, A., & Ridouane, R. (2024). Labialization in Tashlhiyt: sex differences and regional variation. Journées de Linguistique Berbère IV (7-8 February 2024), Aix-en-Provence, France.

Mücke, D., Roessig, S., Thies, T., Hermes, A., & Mefferd, A. (2024). Challenges with the kinematic analysis of neurotypical and impaired speech: Measures and models. Journal of Phonetics, 102, 101292.

2023

Shao, B., Buech, P., Hermes, A. & Giavazzi, M. (2023). Lexical stress and velar palatalization in Italian: A spatio-temporal interaction. Proc. Interspeech, 1833-1837, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1456.

Hermes, A., Audibert, N., Bourbon, A. (2023). Age-related vowel variation in French. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2045–2049). Guarant International. [www]

Mücke, D., Thies, T., Buech, P., Furlani, N., Schreen, J. & Hermes, A. (2023). Variability in space, compensation in time: Effects of aging on tongue body kinematics in prosodic focus marking. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2035–2039). Guarant International. [www]

Buech, P., Hermes, A. & Ridouane, R. (2023). Labialization in Amazigh: Acoustic and articulatory marking over time. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1017–1021). Guarant International. [www]

Lara, A., Oh, S., Hermes, A. & Pillot-Loiseau, C. (2023). Monolingual and plurilingual strategies in the articulation of French R: A case study. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1147–1151). Guarant International. [www]

Oh, S., Fougeron, C., Buech, P. & Hermes, A. (2023). CV coordination: The case of enchaînement and liaison in French. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1137–1141). Guarant International. [www]

Shao, B., Buech, P., Hermes, A. & Giavazzi, M. (2023). Stress conditioned phonological process: a case study of Italian palatalization. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 2189–2193). Guarant International. [www]

Yildiz, A., D’Alessandro, D., Oh, S., Hermes, A. & Fougeron, C. (2023). An acoustic study of V-to-V coordination within and across words in French. In: Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1415–1419). Guarant International. [www]

Shao, B., Hermes, A., Buech, P. & Giavazzi, M. (2023). Velar palatalization in Italian: Lexical stress induces resistance to sound change. Talk at HISPhonCog2023, Seoul, Korea.

Oh, S., Yildiz, A., Fougeron, A., Buech P. & Hermes, A. (2023). Temporal coordination of CV: The case of liaison and enchaînement in French. Talk at HISPhonCog2023, Seoul, Korea.

Hermes, A. (2023). Aging and speech. Invited talk at USC Linguistics PhonLunch (13th February 2023), Los Angeles, USA.

2022

Hermes, A. & Ridouane, R. (2022). Speech Rate effects on gemination contrast: Articulation and acoustics. Invited talk at Hanyang University (20th September 2022), Seoul, Korea.

Buech, P., Ridouane, R. & Hermes, A. (2022). Pharyngealization in Amazigh: Acoustic and articulatory marking over time. Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea (18-22 Sept 2022), doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10831.

Buech, P., Roessig, S., Pagel, L., Mücke, D. & Hermes, A. (2022). ema2wav: doing articulation by Praat. Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea (18-22 Sept 2022), doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2022-10813.

Schreen, J., Thies, T., Mücke, M. & Hermes, A. (2022). Age-related changes on tongue body movements. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, The Netherlands (24-27 Aug 2022).

Mücke, M., Mefferd, A., Thies, T., Roessig, S. & Hermes, A. (2022). Analysis and Modelling of Impaired Speech Movements: Challenges and Future Directions. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, The Netherlands (24-27 Aug 2022).

Buech, P., Hermes, A. & Ridouane, R. (2022). Articulatory characteristics of pharyngegealization in Tashlhiyt. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, The Netherlands (24-27 Aug 2022).

Buech, P., Roessig, S., Pagel, L. & Hermes, A. (2022). Making articulation accessible in Praat. 8th International Conference on Speech Motor Control, Groningen, The Netherlands (24-27 Aug 2022).

Buech, P., Hermes, A. & Ridouane, R. (2022). Towards a typology of secondary articulations. 19èmes rencontres du Réseau Français de Phonologie, Porto, Portugal (7-9 June 2022).

Thies, T., Hermes, A. & Mücke, D. (2022). Compensation in time and space: Prominence marking in aging and disease. Languages 7(1), 21.

2021

Hermes, A., Mefferd, A. & Thies, T. Guest Editors for Special Issue on Aging- and Disease-related Changes in Speech Production, Languages.

Hermes, A., Tilsen, S. & Ridouane, R. (2021). Cross-linguistic timing contrast in geminates: A rate-independent perspective. Proc. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 52-55. [www]

Tilsen, S. & Hermes, A. (2021). Nonlinear effects of speech rate on articulatory timing in singletons and geminates. Proc. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 56-59. [www]

Mücke, D., Thies, T., Mertens, J. & Hermes, A. (2021). Age-related effects of prosodic prominence in vowel articulation. Proc. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 126-129. [www]

Bourbon, A. & Hermes, A. (2021). Have a break: Aging effects on sentence production and structuring in French. Proc. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 102-105. [www]

Hermes, A., Tilsen, S. & Ridouane, R. (2021). A rate-independent acoustic attribute of gemination: A cross-linguistic perspective. 18th Old World Conference on Phonology, 27-29 Jan 2021. 

Schwartz, G., Hermes, A. & Święciński, R. (2021). The phonology of initial cluster coordination – a cross-language articulographic study. 18th Old World Conference on Phonology, 27-29 Jan 2021. 

2020
Hermes, A., Greisbach, R. & Chitoran, I. (2020). Probing the limits of coordination: Word onset clusters in Georgian. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 14-17 Dec 2020 –> virtual 

Hermes, A., Tilsen, S. & Ridouane, R. (2020). Cross-linguistic timing contrast in geminates: A rate-independent perspective. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 14-17 Dec 2020 –> virtual 

Tilsen, S. & Hermes, A. (2020). Nonlinear effects of speech rate on articulatory timing in singletons and geminates. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 14-17 Dec 2020 –> virtual 

Bourbon, A. & Hermes, A. (2020). Have a break: Aging effects on sentence production and structuring in French. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 14-17 Dec 2020 –> virtual 

Mücke, D., Thies, T., Mertens, J. & Hermes, A. (2020). Age-related effects of prosodic prominence in vowel articulation. 12th International Seminar on Speech Production, 14-17 Dec 2020 –> virtual

Hermes, A. (2020). Aging effects on speech motor control. Invited speaker at Workshop on NeuroSpeech, 30 Oct 2020, University of Cologne, Germany. –>postponed to 2021

Mücke, D., Hermes, A., & Tilsen, S. (2020). Incongruencies between phonological theory and phonetic measurement. Phonology, 37(1), 133-170. doi:10.1017/S0952675720000068.

Hermes, A. (2020). Effects of aging on speech production. Invited speaker at Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan (SPPL), 30-31 March 2020, UCL, London, UK.

Hermes, A., Bourbon, A. & Fougeron, C. (2020). Aging effects on prosodic structuring in French. Oral presentation at Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan (SPPL), 30-31 March 2020, UCL, London, UK.

Mertens, J., Mücke, D. & Hermes, A. (2020). Aging effects on prosodic marking in German: An acoustic analysis. Poster presentation at Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan (SPPL), 30-31 March 2020, UCL, London, UK.

2019
Hermes, A., Mücke, D., Thies, T., & Barbe, M. T. (2019). Coordination patterns in Essential Tremor patients with Deep Brain Stimulation: Syllables with low and high complexity. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 10(1), 6.

Mücke, D., Hermes, A. & Tilsen, S. (2019). Strength and structure: Coupling tones with oral constriction gestures. Proc. Interspeech 2019, 4539-4543, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2650.

Hermes, A., Mücke, D., Thies, T. & Barbe, M.T. (2019). Intragestural variation in natural sentence production: Essential Tremor patients treated with DBS. Proc. Interspeech 2019, 4539-4543, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2389.

2018
Hermes, A., Mücke, D., Auris, B. & R. Ridouane (2018). Structural effects on properties of consonantal gestures in Tashlhiyt. Proc. Interspeech 2018, 197-201, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1074.

Hermes, A., Mertens, J. & D. Mücke (2018). Age-related effects on sensorimotor control of speech production. Proc. Interspeech 2018, 1526-1530, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2018-1233.

Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Roettger, T.B., Becker, J., Niemann, H., Dembek, T.A., Timmermann, L., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Fink, G. R., Grice, M. & Barbe, M.T. (2018). The effects of Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation on speech dynamics in patients with Essential Tremor: An articulographic study. PLoS One, 13(1).

2017
Hermes, A., Mücke, D. & B. Auris (2017). The variability of syllable patterns in Tashlhiyt Berber and Polish. Journal of Phonetics, 64 IS –, 127–144.

Mücke, D., Hermes, A. & T. Cho (2017). Mechanisms of regulation in speech: Linguistic structure and physical control system. Journal of Phonetics, 64 IS –, 1–7.

Becker, J., Barbe, M. T., Hartinger, M., Dembek, T. A., Pochmann, J., Wirths, J., Allert, N., Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Meister, I. G., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Grice, M., & L. Timmermann (2017). The Effect of Uni- and Bilateral Thalamic Deep Brain Stimulation on Speech in Patients With Essential Tremor: Acoustics and Intelligibility. Neuromodulation: Journal of the International Neuromodulation Society, 20(3), 223–232. https://doi.org/10.1111/ner.12546.

2016
Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Barbe, M.T., Roettger, T.B. Niemann H., Becker, J., Hartinger, M., Meister, I., Visser-Vandewalle, V. Timmermann, L. & M. Grice (2016). Regulation in speech motor control in ET patients treated with DBS: Kinematics of the lingual and the labial systems. 20th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Berlin, 19-23 June, 2016.

Barbe, M., Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Röttger, T., Becker, J., Opitz, M., Dembek, T., Hartinger, M., Meister, I., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Grice, M. & L. Timmermann (2016). Articulography reveals disturbed speech motor control in ET patients treated with VIM-DBS. 20th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Berlin, 19-23 June, 2016.

Hartinger, M., Scholz, M., Barbe, M., Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Röttger, T., Becker, J., Opitz, M., Dembek, T., Meister, I., Visser-Vandewalle, V., Grice, M. & L. Timmermann (2016). ICF-based effects of VIM-DBS on communication in everyday life in patients with essential tremor. 20th International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders, Berlin, 19-23 June, 2016.

Hermes, A. & D. Mücke (2016). Artikulatorische Evidenz für Silbenstruktur in der Lautsprache. Handbuch Sprachwissenschaft: Laut – Gebärde – Buchstabe. In Primus, B. & U. Domahs (Eds.), Berlin: De Gruyter.

2015
Hermes, A., Mücke, D. & B. Auris (2015). Perturbation of Stability Patterns in Syllable Production. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow, UK.

Mücke, D., Hermes, A., Niemann, H., Becker, J. & M. Barbe (2015). Onset Coordination in Essential Tremor Patients with Deep Brain Stimulation: An EMA Study. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow, UK.

Galea, L., Hermes, A., Gatt, A. & M. Grice (2015). Cues to gemination in word-initial position in Maltese. 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 10-14 August 2015, Glasgow, UK.

2014
Ridouane, R., Hermes, A. & P. Hallé (2014). Tashlhiyt’s ban of complex syllable onsets: phonetic and perceptual evidence. STUF – Language Typology and Universals. 67 (1),7-20.Hermes, A., Auris, B. & D. Mücke (2014). Computational modelling of syllabification patterns in Tashlhiyt Berber and Maltese. Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Cologne, Germany.

Galea, L., Grice, M., Hermes, A. & D. Mücke (2014). Lexical and surface geminates in Maltese. Proceedings of the 10th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Cologne, Germany.

2013
Hermes, A., Mücke, D. & M. Grice (2013). Gestural coordination of Italian word initial clusters – The case of ‘impure s’. Phonology. 30(1), 1-25.

Hermes, A. (2013). Articulatory Coordination and Syllable Structure in Italian. In S. Fuchs & P. Perrier (Eds.). Speech Production and Perception, Vol. 2. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag.

2012
Hermes, A., Grice, M., Mücke, D. & H. Niemann (2012). Articulatory coordination and the syllabification of word initial consonant clusters in Italian. In P. Hoole, M. Pouplier, L. Bombien, Ch. Mooshammer & B. Kühnert (Eds.). Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity. Mouton de Gruyter. 157-176.

Mücke, D., Nam, H., Hermes, A. & L. Goldstein (2012). Coupling of tone and constriction gestures in pitch accents. In P. Hoole, M. Pouplier, L. Bombien, Ch. Mooshammer & B. Kühnert (Eds.). Consonant Clusters and Structural Complexity. Mouton de Gruyter. 205-230.

2011
Hermes, A., Ridouane, R., Mücke, D. & M. Grice (2011). Kinematics of syllable structure in Tashlhiyt Berber: The case of vocalic and consonantal nuclei. Proceedings of the 9th International Seminar on Speech Production, Montréal, Canada. 401-408.

Hermes, A., Ridouane, R., Mücke, D. & M. Grice (2011). Gestural coordination in Tashlhiyt syllables. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Hongkong, China, 859-862.