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Education

2011-

Start of PhD studies at the University of California, Merced, Dept. of Cognitive and Information Sciences

2010/11

R.A., Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Dept. of Linguistics

2010

M.A. in Linguistics, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

2006

Start of Magister studies (general linguistics, phonetics, philosophy) at the University of Cologne

Journal papers

Winter, B., & Bergen, B. (in press). Language comprehenders represent object distance both visually and auditorily: Evidence for the immersed experiencer view. Language and Cognition.

Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (submitted). The phonetic profile of Korean politeness.

Bentz, C., & Winter, B. (submitted). Languages with more second language learners tend to have fewer nominal cases.

Röttger, T., Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (submitted). The robustness of incomplete neutralization in German.

Huette, S., Winter, B., Matlock, T., Ardell, D., & Spivey, M. (submitted). Spontaneous eye movements during passive speech comprehension reflect grammatical processing.

Winter, B. (2010). A note on the higher phylogeny of Austronesian. Oceanic Linguistics, 49:1, 282- 287.

Proceedings papers

Winter, B. & Christiansen, M. (accepted). Robustness as a design feature of speech communication. 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Kyoto, March 2012.

Bentz, C. & Winter, B. (accepted). The impact of L2 speakers on the evolution of case marking. 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Kyoto, March 2012.

Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (accepted). The polite voice in Korean: Searching for acoustic correlates of contaymal and panmal. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 19.

Winter, B. (2011). Pseudoreplication in phonetic research. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Science. Hong Kong, August 2011.

Röttger, T., Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2011). The robustness of incomplete neutralization in German. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Science. Hong Kong, August 2011.

Grawunder, S., Winter, B., & Atoyebi, J. (2011). Voicing of labiovelar stops in Yoruba. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Science. Hong Kong, August 2011.

Aralova, N., Grawunder, S., & Winter, B. (2011). The acoustic correlates of tongue root vowel harmony in Even (Tungusic). Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Science. Hong Kong, August 2011.

Winter, B. (2010). The moving target argument and the speed of evolution. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang 8), 2010.

Grama, J., & Winter, B. (2010). The duality of a homosexual epithet in sports. Proceedings of the Annual Language, Linguistics and Literature graduate student conference at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

Grawunder, S., & Winter, B. (2010). Acoustic correlates of politeness: Prosodic and voice quality measures in polite and informal speech of Korean and German speakers. Speech Prosody 2010.

Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2009). The Physics of Politeness: Approaching Korean politeness from a phonetic perspective. Proceedings of the 24th Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe, Leiden, Netherlands.

Conference talks

Winter, B. (2011). Pseudoreplication in phonetic research. International Congress of Phonetic Science. Hong Kong, August 2011.

Röttger, T., Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2011). The robustness of incomplete neutralization in German. International Congress of Phonetic Science. Hong Kong, August 2011.

Grawunder, S., Winter, B., & Atoyebi, J. (2011). Voicing of labiovelar stops in Yoruba. International Congress of Phonetic Science. Hong Kong, August 2011.

Aralova, N., Grawunder, S., & Winter, B. (2011). The acoustic correlates of tongue root vowel harmony in Even (Tungusic). International Congress of Phonetic Science. Hong Kong, August 2011.

Huette, S., Winter, B., Matlock, T., & Spivey, M. (2011). Spatiotemporal Fixation Differences on a Blank Screen During Aspect Comprehension. CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing. Stanford, March 2011.

Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2010). The Frequency Code revisited: Are the universalist claims substantiated? Conference on Phonetic Universals. Leipzig, October 2010.

Winter, B. (2010). The moving target argument and the speed of evolution. 8th International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Utrecht, April 2010.

Grama, J., & Winter, B. (2010). The duality of a homosexual epithet in sports. The Annual Language, Linguistics and Literature graduate student conference at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Honolulu, April, 2010.

Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2009). The polite voice in Korean: Searching for acoustic correlates of contaymal and panmal. 19th Japanese/Korean linguistics conference. Honolulu, November, 2009.

Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2009). The physics of politeness: Approaching Korean politeness from a phonetic perspective. 24th Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe. Leiden, June 2009.

Grawunder, S., & Winter, B. (2009). The Physics of Politeness: Approaching Korean Politeness from a Phonetic Perspective. 31. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Osnabrück, March 2009.

Conference poster presentations

Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2010). Finale Dehnung und Verzögerungssignale in koreanischen Höflichkeitsregistern. P&P Phonetik und Phonologie. Frankfurt, October 2010.

Huette, S., Winter, B., Matlock, T., & Spivey, M. (2010). The time course of perceptual simulation in the comprehension of aspect. CSDL / ESLP. San Diego, September 2010.

Grawunder, S., & Winter, B. (2010). Acoustic correlates of politeness: Prosodic and voice quality measures in polite and informal speech of Korean and German speakers. Speech Prosody. Chicago, May 2010.

Winter, B., & Bergen, B. (2010). Simulation of visual and auditory distance in sentence Processing. CUNY 2010, Conference on Human Sentence Processing. New York, March 2010.

Winter, B., & Bergen, B. (2009). Language-driven mental simulation of distance. 15th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. Barcelona, September 2009.

Other talks

2011

The nature of incomplete neutralization in German. Invited talk, Institute of Phonetics, University of Cologne, May 2011.

2011

Recent topics in simulation semantics. Invited talk, Natural Media and Engineering, Aachen, April 2011.

2010

Die Robustheit linguistischer Kommunikation. Studentische Tagung für Sprachwissenschaft, (XLVIII. StuTS), Potsdam, November 2010.

2010

The phonetic profile of Korean politeness. Internal talk at the Max-Planck- Institute for Evolutionary Anthroplogy, Dept. of Linguistics, Leipzig, November 2010.

2010

Robustness as a design feature of language. Linguistics tuesday seminar series of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. Honolulu, May 2010.

Grants and scholarships

2010

Travel Grant, Graduate Student Organization, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

2010

Travel Grant of the Studienstiftung Deutsches Volk #3

2010

Endowment Fund, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

2009

Student Travel Grant of the Association of Korean Studies

2009

Travel Grant of the Studienstiftung Deutsches Volk #2

2009

Travel Grant of the Studienstiftung Deutsches Volk #1

2008

External Funding for “Acoustic Correlates of Politeness” by ThyssenKrupp Technologies

2007

5-year Scholarship of the Studienstiftung Deutsches Volk