CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

Name: Niels Olaf Schiller

Nationality: German

Date of Birth: April 8, 1969

Office Address: Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory

Department of Psychology

Harvard University

William James Hall, 918

33 Kirkland Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

USA

Home Address: 88 Highland Avenue, #1

Somerville, MA 02143

USA

Telephone: ++1-617-4966042 (office)

Fax Number: ++1-617-4966262

Electronic Mail: nschille@wjh.harvard.edu

Homepage: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~nschille

 

 

Academic training

1991-1994 Study of computational linguistics, German philology and phonetics

1992 Künstliche Intelligenz Frühjahrsschule ["Artificial Intelligence Spring School"]

1995 Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

1996 Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

1996 Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information postgraduate training program

1996-1997 European Postgraduate Diploma in Cognitive Science (SISSA)

1997 Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

1997 ESCOP Summer School on the Psychology of Language

1998-1999 GAAC Summer Institute "The Evolution of Intelligence: The Comparative Analysis of Cognition"

 

Academic degrees

Magister Artium (M.A.), Trier University, 1994

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nijmegen University, 1997

 

Employment

2/00-present Researcher of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences at the University of Maastricht and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

3/98-1/00 Postdoctoral research scholar, Cognitive Neuropsychology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Harvard University

11/97-3/98 Research fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

11/94-11/97 Ph.D. student, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

7/93-6/94 Research assistant, Institute for Phonetics, Trier University

7/92-6/93 Research assistant, Institute for Computational Linguistics, Trier University

3/92-4/92 Trainee at the Siemens Nixdorf AG, Department for Machine Translation, Project METAL

 

Awards and stipends

PhD stipend (1994-1997) from the "Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften" for the project on "The Role of the Syllable in Speech Production"

Research Grant 1995 and 1997 from the International Association for Forensic Phonetics (IAFP) for the study entitled "The Influence of Native-Language Background on Speaker Recognition"

Otto-Hahn-Medaille (1997) of the "Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften"

Feodor-Lynen stipend (1998) of the "Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung"

Fellowship for the German and American Young Scholars' Institute 1998/99 on "The Evolution of Intelligence: The Comparative Analysis of Cognition" of the German American Academic Council (GAAC)

Post-doctoral stipend (1999) in the area of Neuropsychology in the Cognitive Neuroscience Sector from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)

Academy Researcher of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (2000-2003) [Akadmie-Onderzoeker van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen]

 

Publications

 

a) Books

Schiller, N. O. (1997). The Role of the Syllable in Speech Production. Evidence From Lexical Statistics, Metalinguistics, Masked Priming, and Electromagnetic Midsagittal Articulography. Ph.D. dissertation, Nijmegen University.

 

b) Journal articles

Schiller, N. O. & Köster, O. (1996). Evaluation of a Foreign Speaker in Forensic Phonetics: A Report. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 3, 176-185.

Schiller, N. O., Meyer, A. S., Baayen, R. H., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1996). A Comparison of Lexeme and Speech Syllables in Dutch. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 3, 8-28.

Schiller, N. O., Köster, O., & Duckworth, M. (1997). The Effect of Removing Linguistic Information upon Identifying Speakers of a Foreign Language. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 4, 1-17.

Schiller, N. O., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1997). The Syllabic Structure of Spoken Words: Evidence from the Syllabification of Intervocalic Consonants. Language and Speech, 40, 103-140.

Köster, O. & Schiller, N. O. (1997). Different Influences of the Native Language of a Listener on Speaker Recognition. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 4, 18-28.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). The Effect of Visually Masked Syllable Primes on the Naming Latencies of Words and Pictures. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 484-507.

Schiller, N. O. & Köster, O. (1998). The ability of expert witnesses to identify voices: A comparison between trained and untrained listeners. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 5, 1-9.

Köster, O., Hess, M. M., Schiller, N. O., & Künzel, H. J. (1998). The correlation between auditory speech sensitivity and speaker recognition ability. Forensic Linguistics. The International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 5, 22-32.

Levelt, W. J. M. & Schiller, N. O. (1998). Is the syllable frame stored? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 21, 520.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). Masked syllable priming of English nouns. Brain & Language, 68, 300-305.

Levelt, C. C., Schiller, N. O., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1999). A developmental grammar for syllable structure in the production of child language. Brain & Language, 68, 291-299.

 

 

c) Book chapters

Schiller, N. O. & Köster, O. (1995). Comparison of Four Widely Used F0-Analysis-Systems in the Forensic Domain. In A. Braun & J.-P. Köster (Eds.), Studies in Forensic Phonetics (pp. 146-158). Trier: WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). The Phonetic Variation of German /r/. In M. Butt & N. Fuhrhop (Eds.), Variation und Stabilität in der Wortstruktur. Untersuchungen zu Entwicklung, Erwerb und Varietäten des Deutschen und anderer Sprachen [Variation and Stability in Word Structure. Investigations on the Development, the Acquisition, and the Varieties of German and Other Languages] (pp. 261-287). Hildesheim: Olms (Germanistische Linguistik 141-142).

Schiller, N. O., van Lieshout, P. H. H. M., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1999). Does the syllable affiliation of intervocalic consonants have an articulatory basis? Evidence from electromagnetic midsagittal articulography. In B. Maassen & P. Groenen (Eds.), Pathologies of Speech and Language. Advances in Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics (pp. 342-350). London: Whurr Publishers.

 

d) Proceedings papers

Schiller, N. O. & Mooshammer, C. (1995). The Character of /r/-Sounds: Articulatory Evidence for Different Reduction Processes with Special Reference to German. In K. Elenius & P. Branderud (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, 13-19 August, 1995, Vol. 3 (pp. 452-455). Stockholm: KTH and Stockholm University.

Köster, O., Schiller, N. O. & Künzel, H. J. (1995). The Influence of Native-Language Background on Speaker Recognition. In K. Elenius & P. Branderud (Eds.), Proceedings of the XIIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, 13-19 August, 1995, Vol. 3 (pp. 306-309). Stockholm: KTH and Stockholm University.

Mooshammer, C. & Schiller, N. O. (1996). Coarticulatory Effects on Kinematic Parameters of Rhotics in German. In Proceedings of the 1st ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Production Modeling: From Control Strategies to Acoustics & 4th Speech Production Seminar: Models and Data, Autrans, France, May 20-24, 1996 (pp. 25-28). Grenoble: European Speech Communication Association.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). Does Syllable Frequency Affect Production Time in a Delayed Naming Task? In G. Kokkinakis, N. Fakotakis, & E. Dermatas (Eds.), Eurospeech '97 Proceedings. ESCA 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp. 2119-2122). WCL, University of Patras, Greece.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). The Influence of Phonological Output Constraints on the Syllabification of Bisyllabic Nouns. In P. Wille (Ed.), Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 97. Plenarvorträge und Fachbeiträge der 23. Deutschen Jahrestagung für Akustik, Kiel [Progress in Acoustics - DAGA 97. Plenary lectures and papers given at the 23rd German Annual Meeting for Acoustics, Kiel] (pp. 377-378). Oldenburg: DEGA.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). The role of the syllable in speech production. Data from lexical statistics, metalinguistics, and masked priming. In M. Biemans & J. van de Weijer (Eds.), Proceedings of the CLS opening Academic Year '97/'98 (pp. 21-35). Nijmegen: Center for Language Studies.

Schiller, N. O., van Lieshout, P. H. H. M., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1997). Is the Syllable an Articulatory Unit in Speech Production? Evidence from an EMMA Study. In P. Wille (Ed.), Fortschritte der Akustik - DAGA 97. Plenarvorträge und Fachbeiträge der 23. Deutschen Jahrestagung für Akustik, Kiel [Progress in Acoustics - DAGA 97. Plenary lectures and papers given at the 23rd German Annual Meeting for Acoustics, Kiel] (pp. 605-606). Oldenburg: DEGA.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). The role of sublexical units in the phonological encoding of English words: Syllables vs. segments. Syllables. IIème Journées d'Études Linguistiques. Nantes, 25-27 mars. [Proceedings of the 2nd Linguistic Studies Workshop on "Syllables", Nantes, March 25-27, 1999] (pp. 170-175). Équippe AAI - Université de Nantes.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). Is the phonological encoding of English words syllabically structured? In J. J. Ohala, Y. Hasegawa, M. Ohala, D. Granville, & A. C. Bailey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 99), San Francisco, 1-7 August, 1999 (pp. 739-742).

Schiller, N. O. (1999). No role for syllables in English speech production. In Proceedings of the 137th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Berlin, March 14-19, 1999.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). Masked priming of sublexical units: Segments vs. syllables. In A. Braun (Ed.), Advances in Phonetics. Proceedings of the International Phonetic Sciences Conference (IPS), Bellingham, WA, June 27-30, 1998 (pp. 17-21). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

 

 

e) Published abstracts

Schiller, N. O. (1996). Variation bei der Produktion von /r/-Lauten: Eine Beschreibung im Rahmen der Artikulatorischen Phonologie (abstract) [Variation in the production of /r/-sounds: A description within the framework of Articulatory Phonology]. In H. U. Boas, J. Hartung, E. Klein, & K. Knapp (Eds.), Abstracts zur 27. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Norm und Variation, Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt, September 26-28, 1996 [Abstracts of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Linguistics, Norm and Variation, Pedagogic University Erfurt, September 26-28, 1996] (p. 155).

Schiller, N. O. (1996). Die Rolle der Psycholinguistik für die phonologische Theoriebildung: Evidenz aus der Silbifizierung zweisilbiger Substantive (abstract) [The role of psycholinguistics for the development of phonological theory: Evidence from the syllabification of bisyllabic nouns]. In H. U. Boas, J. Hartung, E. Klein, & K. Knapp (Eds.), Abstracts zur 27. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Norm und Variation, Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt, September 26-28, 1996 [Abstracts of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Linguistics, Norm and Variation, Pedagogic University Erfurt, September 26-28, 1996] (p. 156).

Schiller, N. O., Meyer, A. S., Baayen, R. H., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1996). Sind die Unterschiede zwischen phonetischen und phonologischen Silben wichtig für die Psycholinguistik? (abstract) [Are the difference between phonetic and phonological syllables important for psycholinguistics?]. In H. U. Boas, J. Hartung, E. Klein, & K. Knapp (Eds.), Abstracts zur 27. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik, Norm und Variation, Pädagogische Hochschule Erfurt, September 26-28, 1996 [Abstracts of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Linguistics, Norm and Variation, Pedagogic University Erfurt, September 26-28, 1996] (p. 157).

Schiller, N. O., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1996). What Psycholinguistics Reveals about Phonology: Evidence from the Syllabification of Bisyllabic Nouns (abstract). In J. Hoffmann & A. Sebald (Eds.), Cognitive Psychology in Europe. Proceedings of the Ninth Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, University of Würzburg, September 4-8, 1996 (p. 99). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). Der Effekt von maskiertem Silbenpriming auf die Sprechlatenzen bei der Produktion zweisilbiger Substantive (abstract) [The effect of masked syllable primes on the naming latencies of bisyllabic nouns]. In E. van der Meer, T. Bachmann, R. Beyer, C. Goertz, H. Hagendorf, B. Kruse, W. Sommer, H. Wandke, & M. Zießler (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie. Abstracts der 39. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [Experimental Psychology. Abstracts of the 39th Meeting of the Experimentally Working Psychologists] (pp. 238-239). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). Welchen Effekt haben visuell maskierte Silbenprimes auf die Benennung von Wörtern und Bildern? (abstract) [What effect do visually masked syllable primes have on the naming of words and pictures?]. In C. Doppler, M. Hielscher, L. Sichelschmidt, & H. Strohner (Eds.), Abstracts zur 28. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik in Bielefeld, September 25-27, 1997 [Abstracts of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Linguistics] (p. 119).

Schiller, N. O. (1997). The effect of masked syllable primes on words and picture naming (abstract). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102 (5), Pt. 2 (p. 3136).

Schiller, N. O., van Lieshout, P. H. H. M., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1997). Das artikulatorische timing intervokalischer Konsonanten in Abhängigkeit von ihrer Silbenzugehörigkeit: Ergebnisse aus einer EMMA-Studie (abstract) [The articulatory timing of intervocalic consonants with different syllable affiliations: Results from an EMMA study]. In C. Doppler, M. Hielscher, L. Sichelschmidt, & H. Strohner (Eds.), Abstracts zur 28. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik in Bielefeld, September 25-27, 1997 [Abstracts of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Linguistics] (p. 120).

Meyer, A. S., Roelofs, A., & Schiller, N. O. (1997). Metrisches Kodieren von Wörtern mit regelmäßigem und unregelmäßigem Betonungsmuster (abstract). In E. van der Meer, T. Bachmann, R. Beyer, C. Goertz, H. Hagendorf, B. Kruse, W. Sommer, H. Wandke, & M. Zießler (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie. Abstracts der 39. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [Experimental Psychology. Abstracts of the 39th Meeting of the Experimentally Working Psychologists] (pp. 239-240). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). Die Rolle sublexikalischer Einheiten beim phonologischen Enkodieren zweisilbiger Wörter: Silben vs. Segmente [The role of sublexical units in phonological encoding: Syllables vs. segments]. In H. Lachnit, A. Jacobs, & F. Rösler (Eds.), Experimentelle Psychologie. Abstracts der 40. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [Experimental Psychology. Abstracts of the 40th Meeting of the Experimentally Working Psychologists] (pp. 304-305). Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). Masked priming of sublexical units: segments vs. syllables (abstract). The Phonetician. A publication of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences, 78 (pp. 23-24).

Schiller, N. O. (1998). The effect of visually masked syllable primes on word production in English (abstract). Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 3, 7.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). No role for syllables in English speech production (abstract). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 105 (2), Pt. 2 (p. 1355).

Schiller, N. O. (1999). No role for syllables in English speech production (abstract). ACUSTICA - acta acustica , 85, Suppl. 1 (p. S429).

Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (1999). Noun morphology in German language production. In: A. Vandierendonck, M. Brysbaert, & K. van der Goten (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (p. 211). Gent: Academia Press.

Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (1999). Gender interference in speech production: The case of German. Abstracts of the Psychonomic Society, 4, 45.

 

Future publications

a) Journal articles

Schiller, N. O. (2000). Single word production in English: The role of subsyllabic units during phonological encoding. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, xxx-xxx.

Schiller, N. O., Shelton, J. R, Greenhall, J. A., & Caramazza, A. (submitted). The autonomy of orthographic and phonological representations: Evidence from two graphemic buffer patients. Neurocase.

Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (submitted). Gender interference or determiner selection? Evidence from noun phrase production in German and Dutch. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Schiller, N. O., & Costa, A. (submitted). The role of the syllable in phonological encoding: Evidence from masked priming? Cognition.

Levelt, C. C., Schiller, N. O., & Levelt, W. J. M. (in press). The Acquisition of Syllable Structure. Language Acquisition.

Meyer, A. S., Roelofs, A., & Schiller, N. O. (in preparation). Prosodification of metrically regular and exception words in production.

Molloy, E., Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (in preparation). Categorical and associative priming: Differential effects in Stroop-like interference and Negative Priming.

Rey, A., Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (in preparation). Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion in a phonological dyslexic patient.

 

Papers presented at conferences

Schiller, N. O. & Köster, O. (1994). "Comparison of the most widely used F0-Analysis-Systems in the Forensic Domain". 6th Annual Congress of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics. Cardiff (Wales), 1994.

Schiller, N. O. (1995). "Zur Variation der phonetischen Realisierung der /r/-Laute" [About the Phonetic Variation in the Realization of /r/-Sounds]. 17. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft [17th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics]. Göttingen (Germany), 1995.

Köster, O., Schiller, N. O., & Künzel, H. J. (1995). "The Influence of Native-Language Background on Speaker Recognition". 7th Annual Congress of the International Society for Forensic Phonetics. Orlando (Florida, USA), 1995.

Schiller, N. O. (1996). "Die Rolle der Psycholinguistik für die phonologische Theoriebildung: Evidenz aus der Silbifizierung zweisilbiger Substantive" [The role of psycholinguistics for phonological theory: Evidence from the syllabification of bisyllabic nouns]. 27. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik [27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Linguistics]. Erfurt (Germany), 1996.

Schiller, N. O. (1996). "Variation bei der Produktion von /r/-Lauten: Eine Beschreibung im Rahmen der Artikulatorischen Phonologie" [Variation in the production of /r/-sounds: A description within the framework of Articulatory Phonology]. 27. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik [27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Linguistics]. Erfurt (Germany), 1996.

Schiller, N. O., Köster, O., & Duckworth, M. (1996). "What effect does removing linguistic information have upon identifying speakers of a foreign language?". 8th Annual Congress of the International Society for Forensic Phonetics. Wiesbaden (Germany), 1996.

Schiller, N. O., Meyer, A. S., Baayen, R. H., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1996). "Sind die Unterschiede zwischen phonetischen und phonologischen Silben wichtig für die Psycholinguistik?" [Are the differences between phonetic and phonological syllables important for psycholinguistics?]. 27. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik [27th Annual Meeting of the Society of Applied Linguistics]. Erfurt (Germany), 1996.

Schiller, N. O., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1996). "What psycholinguistics reveals about phonology: Evidence from the syllabification of bisyllabic nouns". 9th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Würzburg (Germany), 1996.

Köster, O. & Schiller, N. O. (1996). "Does the relatedness between the native language of a listener and the native language of a speaker play a role in speaker recognition?". 8th Annual Congress of the International Society for Forensic Phonetics. Wiesbaden (Germany), 1996.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). "Silbe, Silbengrenze, ambisyllabische Konsonanten: Psycholinguistische Befunde zum Niederländischen" [Syllable, syllable boundaries, ambisyllabic consonants: Psycholinguistic evidence from Dutch]. Journée des Sprachtypologischen Arbeitskreises der Universität Osnabrück am 10.01.1997 zum Thema "Dynamische Konzepte in der Sprachwissenschaft/Sprachtypologie" [Workshop on "Dynamic concepts in linguistics/language typology" organized by the workshop group on language typology at the University of Osnabrück, 10.01.1997]. Osnabrück (Germany), 1997.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). "Der Einfluß phonologischer Output-Beschränkungen auf die Silbifizierung zweisilbiger Substantive" [The influence of phonological output constraints on the syllabification of bisyllabic nouns]. 23. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik [23rd German Annual Meeting for Acoustics]. Kiel (Germany), 1997.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). "Der Effekt von maskiertem Silbenpriming auf die Sprechlatenzen bei der Produktion zweisilbiger Substantive" [The effect of masked syllable priming on the production latencies of bisyllabic nouns]. 39. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [39th Meeting of the Experimentally Working Psychologists]. Berlin (Germany), 1997.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). "The role of the syllable in speech production. Data from lexical statistics, metalinguistics, and masked priming". CLS (Centre for Language Studies) opening of the academic year 1997/98. Nijmegen (The Netherlands), 1997.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). "The effect of masked syllable primes on word and picture naming". 6e Winterconferentie van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie, 19-20 december [6th Winter Conference of the Dutch Society for Psychonomics, 19-20 December]. Egmond aan Zee (The Netherlands), 1997.

Schiller, N. O. & Köster, O. (1997). "The ability of expert witnesses to identify voices: A comparison between trained and naive listeners". 9th Annual Congress of the International Society for Forensic Phonetics. Edinburgh (Scotland), 1997.

Schiller, N. O., van Lieshout, P. H. H. M., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1997). "The articulatory timing of intervocalic consonants with different syllable affiliations: Results from an EMMA study". 6th Annual Conference of the International Clinical Phonetics and Linguistics Association (ICPLA). Nijmegen (The Netherlands), 1997.

Köster, O. Hess, M. M., Schiller, N. O., & Künzel, H. J. (1997). "The correlation between auditive speech sensibility and speaker recognition ability". 9th Annual Congress of the International Society for Forensic Phonetics. Edinburgh (Scotland), 1997.

Künzel, H. J., Köster, O., & Schiller, N. O. (1997). "Effects of cellular telephone transmission on speaker recognition". 9th Annual Congress of the International Society for Forensic Phonetics. Edinburgh (Scotland), 1997.

Levelt, C., Schiller, N. O., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1997). "The effect of prosodic constraints on the lexical output of young children: An empirical study on one to three-year-old children". 19. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft [19th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics]. Düsseldorf (Germany), 1997.

Meyer, A. S., Roelofs, A., & Schiller, N. O. (1997). "Metrisches Kodieren von Wörtern mit regelmäßigem Betonungsmuster" [Metrical encoding of regularly stressed words]. 39. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [39th Meeting of the Experimentally Working Psychologists]. Berlin (Germany), 1997.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). "Masked priming of sublexical units: Segments vs. syllables". IPS-98 Congress, 27-30 June. Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (USA), 1998.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). "The production of speech with special reference to the role of syllables in phonological encoding". GAAC summer institute "Evolution of Intelligence: The Com-parative Analysis of Cognition", 12-23 July, Boston University. Boston, MA (USA), 1998.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). "Masked syllable priming of nouns and verbs". First International Con-ference on the Mental Lexicon, September 3-5, University of Alberta. Edmonton (Canada).

Schiller, N. O. (1998). "The effect of masked syllable priming on the naming latencies of bisyllabic nouns and verbs". 10th Conference of the European Society of Cognitive Psychology, 13-17 September. Jerusalem (Israel), 1998.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "No role for syllables in English speech production". 137th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, March 14-19, 1999, Berlin (Germany).

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "Is the phonological encoding of English words syllabically structured?" 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 99), 1-7 August, 1999, San Francisco, CA (USA).

Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (1999). "Noun morphology in German language production". 11th Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, 1-4 September, 1999. Gent (Belgium).

Posters presented at conferences

Schiller, N. O. & Mooshammer, C. (1995). "The Character of /r/-Sounds: Articulatory Evidence for Different Reduction Processes with Special Reference to German". 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Stockholm (Sweden), 1995.

Köster, O., Schiller, N. O., & Künzel, H. J. (1995). "The Influence of Native-Language Background on Speaker Recognition". 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Stockholm (Sweden), 1995.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). "Does syllable frequency affect production time in a delayed naming task?". 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH '97). Rhodes (Greece), 1997.

Schiller, N. O., van Lieshout, P. H. H. M., Meyer, A. S., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1997). "Ist die Silbe eine artikulatorische Einheit in der Sprachproduktion? Hinweise aus einer EMA-Studie" [Is the syllable an articulatory unit in speech production? Evidence from an EMA study]. 23. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik [23rd German Annual Meeting for Acoustics]. Kiel (Germany), 1997.

Schiller, N. O. (1997). "The effect of masked syllable primes on word and picture naming". 134th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 1-5 December. San Diego, California (USA), 1997.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). "Die Rolle sublexikalischer Einheiten beim phonologischen Enkodieren zweisilbiger Wörter: Silben vs. Segmente" [The role of sublexical units during phonological encoding of bisyllabic words: Syllables vs. segments]. 40. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [40th Meeting of the Experimentally Working Psychologists]. Marburg (Germany), 1998.

Levelt, C. C., Schiller, N. O., & Levelt, W. J. M. (1998). "A developmental grammar for syllable structure in the production of child language". First International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, September 3-5, University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta (Canada), 1998.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). "The effect of visually masked syllable primes on word production in English". 39th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November 19-22. Dallas, TX (USA), 1998.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "The role of sublexical units in the phonological encoding of English words: Syllables vs. segments". 2nd Linguistic Studies Workshop on "Syllables", March 25-27, 1999, Nantes (France).

Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (1999). "Gender interference in speech production: The case of German". 40th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November 18-21. Los Angeles, CA (USA), 1999.

Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (1999). "Noun phrase production in German and Dutch: Gender interference or determiner interference". 7e Winterconferentie van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie, 17-18 december [7th Winter Conference of the Dutch Society for Psychonomics, 17-18 December]. Egmond aan Zee (The Netherlands), 1999.

 

Invited lectures

Schiller, N. O. (1998). "Phonological encoding in lexical access during speech production: The role of syllabic units". Department of Psychology, Marburg University (Germany), June 18, 1998.

Schiller, N. O. (1998). "Differential effects of masked syllable priming in speech production: The case of Germanic vs. Romance languages". Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin at Madison (USA), October 9, 1998.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "The effect of visually masked syllable primes on speech production in Dutch and English". Workshop on bilingualism and speech production, Cognition and Language Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Penn State University, State College, PA (USA), January 22, 1999.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "Die Rolle der Silbe bei der Sprachproduktion" [The role of the syllable in speech production]. Max-Planck-Institut für neuropsychologische Forschung [Max Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience], Leipzig (Germany), March 25, 1999.

Schiller, N.O. (1999). "Wortform-Enkodierung bei der Sprachproduktion" [Word form encoding in language production]. Universität des Saarlandes [University of the Saarland], Saarbrücken (Germany), June 25, 1999.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "Where is the syllable? The role of sublexical units in phonological encoding of single words in English speech production". Department of Psychology, Universiteit Maastricht [University of Maastricht], Maastricht (The Netherlands), July 7, 1999.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "Die Autonomie orthographischer und phonologischer Repräsentationen: Hinweise von einem 'graphemic buffer'-Patienten" [The autonomy of orthographic and phonological information: Evidence from a graphemic buffer patient]. Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Klinische Forschung "ZNS", Medizinische Fakultät der Rheinisch-Westfälischen Technischen Hochschule Aachen [Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research "ZNS", Medical Faculty of the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University Aachen]. Aachen (Germany), September 20, 1999.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "Evidence for segments as functional units in word production". Speech Communication Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (USA), September 29, 1999.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "Gender interference or determiner selection? Evidence from noun phrase production in German and Dutch". Language Production Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen (The Netherlands), December 1, 1999.

Schiller, N. O. (1999). "Lexical access and word form encoding in speech production". Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik [Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics], Tübingen (Germany), December 7, 1999.

Schiller, N. O. (2000). "Noun phrase encoding processes in speech production: From grammatical to phonological encoding". Department of Psychology, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (France), January 5, 2000.

 

Planned conference papers for 2000

Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (accepted). "Gender or determiner selection interference? Evidence from noun phrase production in German and Dutch". III congreso de la Sociedad Española de Psicologia Experimental (SEPEX) [3rd congress of the Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX)], March 2-4. Barcelona (Spain), 2000.

Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (accepted). "Der 'Gender-Kongruenz-Effekt' bei der Sprachproduktion: Evidenz aus dem Deutschen und Niederländischen" [The 'gender interference effect' in language production: Evidence from German and Dutch]. 42. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP) [42nd Annual Meeting of the Experimentally Working Psychologists], April 3-6. Braunschweig (Germany), 2000.

Schiller, N. O., & Costa, A. (submitted). "Phonological encoding: In search of the lost syllable". Seventh Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon7), 29 June - 1 July. Nijmegen (The Netherlands), 2000

Schiller, N. O., & Caramazza, A. (accepted). "The 'gender congruency effect' revisited: New evidence from German and Dutch". XXVII International Congress of Psychology, July 23-28. Stockholm (Sweden), 2000.

 

 

Teaching

Tutorium zur Vorlesung "Einführung in die Computerlinguistik" [Tutorial for the lectures "Introduction to Computational Linguistics"]. Universität Trier, Fachbereich II: Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften, Wintersemester 1992/93 und Sommersemester 1993 [University of Trier, Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, academic year 1992/93].

 

Reviews for journals

Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive (1997)

Journal of Memory and Language (1998, 1999)

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (1998)

Consciousness and Cognition (1999)

Cognition. International Journal of Cognitive Science (1999)

Bilingualism. Language and Cognition (1999)

Neuropsychologia. An International Journal in Behavioural Neuroscience (1999)

Language and Speech (1999)

 

Grant reviews

National Science Foundation (1999)

 

Membership in professional organizations

International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS)

International Phonetic Association (IPA)

International Association for Forensic Phonetics (IAFP)

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen (NVVFW) [Dutch Society for Phonetic Sciences]

Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA) [German Society for Acoustics]

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS) [German Society for Linguistics]

Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL) [Society for Applied Linguistics]

European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP)

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie (NVP) [Dutch Society for Psychonomics]

Spanish Society for Experimental Psychology (SEPEX)

 

Editorship

The Phonetician. Newsletter of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS)