Englisches Seminar

Dr. Thanh Lan Truong

PhD English Linguistics/Psycholinguistics, University of Tübingen
M.A. English Linguistics, University of Tübingen
B.A. Anglistik/ Amerikanistik & Chinese Studies, University of Tübingen

Thanh Lan Truong did her undergraduate studies in Anglistik/ Amerikanistik at Tübingen University. During her undergraduate studies, she took part in the Erasmus exchange programme in Bangor, Wales. Throughout her studies, she has discovered her passion for speech perception: How we understand it, and how we use it. In March 2018, she received are Master's degree in English Linguistics at University of Tübingen with the focus on the perception of Japanese pitch-accent contrasts. In April 2018, she started her doctoral research under the supervision of Andrea Weber and Claudia Friedrich. In 2023 she completed her PhD Project in psycholinguistics: "Hearing the Message and Seeing the Messenger: The Role of Talker Information in Spoken Language Comprehension". She is currently continuing research in heritage speech processing using psycholinguistic methods.

Member of SpeechNet Bawü

Organized Events

TiPToP: Trends in pedagogical transmission of prosody

Organizing Team:

  • Marieke Einfeldt (University of Konstanz)
  • Judith Manzoni (University of Trier)
  • Thanh Lan Truong (University of Tübingen)
  • Nadja Schauffler (University of Stuttgart)
  • Katharina Zahner-Ritter (University of Trier)

Teaching

  • WS 17/18: Introduction to English phonetics and speech perception (LS Weber); University of Tübingen, Germany
  • SS 18: Introduction to English phonetics and speech perception (LS Weber); University of Tübingen, Germany
  • WS 18/19: Übung: Phonetics and Phonology Practice II (LS Weber); University of Tübingen, Germany
  • SS 19: Übung: Phonetics and Phonology Practice II (LS Weber); University of Tübingen, Germany
  • Since 19:  Introduction to English Linguistics (LS Beck/ Weber/ Winkler); University of Tübingen, Germany
  • Since WS 22/23: Research Methods (LS Weber); University of Tübingen, Germany

Publications

  • Truong, T. L., & Weber, A. (2024). Investigating the effect of nativeness and speaker age on the credibility of spoken sentences. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2:1292344. 
  • Truong, T. L. & Weber, A. (2023). The influence of face masks on native and non-native memory recall of spoken sentences, In Radek Skarnitzl & Jan Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 4017-4022). Guarant International.
  • Truong, T. L. & Weber, A. (2021). Intelligibility and recall of sentences spoken by adult and child talkers wearing face masks, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150, 1674-1681.
  • Truong, T. L., Beck, S. D., & Weber, A. (2021). The impact of face masks on the recall of spoken sentences. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149, 142-144.
  • Truong, T. L. & Weber, A. (2020). Trust issues: The effect of speaker age on credibility, Proceedings of Linguistic Evidence, Tübingen, Germany.
  • Truong, T. L., Schild, U., Friedrich, C., & Weber, A. (2019). Phonetic-to-lexical mapping in listening to adult and child speech. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 2543-2547). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

Conference Talks and Posters

2023

  • "The influence of face masks on native and non-native memory recall of spoken sentences", Poster, 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Prague, Czech Republic, 7-11 August.
  • "Sounding Asian in native German: An experiment on speaker voice and ethnolinguistic identification" Poster, 5th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe 2023 (PaPe) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands 2-4 June.

2022

  • "The impact of face masks on the recall of spoken sentences" Poster, 41st TabuDag in Groningen, the Netherlands 10-11 June (online).

2021

  • "The trust trap: Investigating trustworthiness of children and adults" Poster, Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) in Kaiserslautern, Germany 19-21 May 2021 (online).
  • "Welche Auswirkungen haben Gesichtsmasken auf das Sprachverstehen?", SFB Abschlusskonferenz in Tübingen, Germany, 2nd March 2021 (online).

2020

  • "Trust Issues: The effect of speaker age on credibility", Linguistic Evidence 2020 in Tübingen, Germany 13-15 February 2020. 

2019

  • "Phonetic-to-lexical mapping in listening to adult and child speech" Poster, 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) in Melbourne, Australia, 5-9 August 2019.