معرفی
Prof. Dr. Petra Wagner is a full professor of phonetics at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Linguistics and Literature, leading the Bielefeld Phonetics Workgroup. Her research spans phonetics, prosody, speech-gesture coordination, and speech synthesis evaluation, with a focus on spontaneous interaction.
- Education: MA (Linguistics, English, Psychology) and PhD (Phonetics, Communication Sciences) from Bielefeld and Bonn Universities
- Academic Positions: Lecturer at Bonn (2001-2008), Associate Professor (W2) at Bielefeld (2008), Full Professor (W3) at Bielefeld (2019)
Her work addresses prosodic prominence, speech synthesis, and multimodal interaction, particularly laughter dynamics and speech-gesture coupling. Recent projects include SFB 1646 subprojects on phonetic innovations and TRR 318 work on explanatory dialogue systems.
Key scientific contributions include the Humboldt award (2018) and foundational work on speech entrainment, disfluency modeling, and multimodal prosody. She has pioneered methods for interactive experimental designs, gamification, and automatic annotation in speech research.
