Klaus J. Kohler


Klaus J. Kohler is a German phonetician.
In 1964, he received a PhD from the University of Edinburgh for his thesis on “Aspects of the history of English pronunciation in Scotland”.

Selected publications

  • Kommunikative Aspekte satzphonetischer Prozesse im Deutschen. In: H. Vater, Phonologische Probleme des Deutschen. Studien zur deutschen Grammatik 10, 13-39. Tübingen: Gunter Narr.
  • Dimensions in the perception of fortis and lenis plosives. Phonetica 36, 332-343.
  • F0 in the production of lenis and fortis plosives. Phonetica 39, 199-218.
  • F0 in the perception of lenis and fortis plosives. JASA 78, 21-32.
  • Invariance and variability in speech timing: from utterance to segment in German. In: J. S. Perkell, D. H. Klatt, Invariance and Variability in Speech Processes, 268-289. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  • Parameters of speech rate perception in German words and sentences: duration, F0 movement, and F0 level. Language and Speech 29, 115-139.
  • Computer synthesis of intonation. Proc. 12th Intern. Congr. Acoustics, Toronto, A6-6.
  • Categorical pitch perception. Proc. 11th ICPhS, Tallinn, vol. 5, 331-333.
  • The linguistic functions of F0 peaks. Proc. 11th ICPhS, Tallinn, vol. 3, 149-152.
  • An intonation model for a German Text-to-speech system. Proc. Speech '88, 7th FASE Symposium, Edinburgh., 1241-1249.
  • Macro and micro F0 in the synthesis of intonation. In: J. Kingston and M. E. Beckamn, Papers in Laboratory Phonology I, 115-138. Cambridge: CUP.
  • Segmental reduction in connected speech in German: phonological facts and phonetic explanations. In: W. J. Hardcastle, A. Marchal, Speech Production and Speech Modelling, 69-92. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • Form and function of intonation peaks in German; a research project. In: K. J. Kohler, Studies in German Intonation. AIPUK 25, 11-27..
  • Terminal intonation patterns in single-accent utterances of German: phonetics, phonology and semantics. In: K. J. Kohler, Studies in German Intonation. AIPUK 25, 115-185..
  • A model of German intonation. In: K. J. Kohler, Studies in German Intonation. AIPUK 25, 295-360..
  • Glottal stops and glottalization in German. Data and theory of connected speech processes. Phonetica 51, 38-51.
  • Einführung in die Phonetik des Deutschen. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag.
  • Modelling prosody in spontaneous speech. In: Y. Sagisaka, N. Campbell, N. Higuchi, Computing Prosody. Computational models for processing spontaneous speech. 187-210. New York: Springer.
  • Parametric control of prosodic variables by symbolic input in TTS synthesis. In: J. P. H. van Santen, R. W. Sproat, J. P. Olive, J. Hirschberg, Progress in Speech Synthesis 459-475. New York: Springer.
  • Investigating unscripted speech: implications for phonetics and phonology. In: Festschrift for Björn Lindblom. Phonetica 57, 85-94.
  • Überlänge im Niederdeutschen? In: R. Peters, H. P. Pütz, U. Weber, Vulpis Adolatio. Festschrift für Hubertus Menke zum 60. Geburtstag, 385-402. Heidelberg: C. Winter.
  • Articulatory dynamics of vowels and consonants in speech communication. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 31, 1-16.
  • Plosive-related glottalization phenomena in read and spontaneous speech. A stød in German? In: N. Grønnum and J. Rischel, To Honour Eli Fischer-Jørgensen. Travaux du Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague, vol. 31, 174-211. Copenhagen: Reitzel.
  • Progress in Experimental Phonology. From Communicative Function to Phonetic Substance and Vice Versa. Phonetica 62.