Lena Pagel

Lena Pagel is a researcher at the University of Cologne's Department of Linguistics, specializing in phonetics and prosodic prominence. Her work bridges speech production, sign language kinematics, and multimodal communication.

• Research Focus: Prosodic marking strategies, articulatory adaptations in loud vs. habitual speech, coarticulation in sign language, and multimodal accommodation during dialogue
• Key Methodologies: Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA), kinematic analysis, multimodal data capture (audio/video/EMA)
• Notable Work: Co-development of the DiCE cooperative game for controlled data elicitation, systematic EMA studies in Persian and German focus types

Scientific Recognition:

• 2023 IPA Student Award for kinematic analysis of visual prosody
• 2022-2026 a.r.t.e.s. Doctoral Scholarship with Mercator funding
• 2019 Best Poster Award at Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop
• 2019 Faculty Price for Bachelor thesis on German prominence marking