Biography

I first fell in love with phonetics in 2013 in an introductory class that was part of my B.A. in Language and Communication. After finishing my philological and linguistic undergraduate studies, I came to Munich to study at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing. I was awarded my PhD in phonetics as part of the ERC project "InterAccent" supervised by Prof. Jonathan Harrington in 2023. Now I am a Post Doc at the Université Paris Cité and working with Prof. Ioana Chitoran on vowel sequences in Romance languages as part of the project "DIPVAR". My research interests include all facets of sound change as well as computational modelling techniques such as agent-based modelling as a method of investigating sound change.

Interests
  • Sound Change
  • Speech Production & Perception
  • Computational Modelling
Education

  • PhD in Phonetics and Speech Processing, 2023

    University of Munich

  • M.A. Phonetics and Speech Processing, 2018

    University of Munich

  • B.A. Language and Communication, 2016

    University of Marburg

  • B.A. Romance Philology, 2016

    University of Marburg & University of Madrid

Skills

Programming Languages
R
Python
bash
Praat Scripting
MATLAB
JavaScript
Further Tools
HTML / CSS
LaTeX
git
SQL

Publications

PhD Thesis

Cronenberg, J. (2023): A Cognitive and Computational Model of the Sound Change from Pre- to Post-Aspiration in Andalusian Spanish. University of Munich.

Journal Papers

Coretta, S., Casillas, J. V., Roessig, S., Franke, M., ..., Cronenberg, J., ..., Roettger, T. B. (2023): Multidimensional signals and analytic flexibility: Estimating degrees of freedom in human speech analyses. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 6(3), pp. 1–29.

Gubian, M., Cronenberg, J. & Harrington, J. (2023): Phonetic and Phonological Sound Changes in an Agent-Based Model. Speech Communication 147, pp. 93–115.

Cronenberg, J., Gubian, M., Harrington, J. & Ruch, H. (2020): A dynamic model of the change from pre- to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish. Journal of Phonetics 83, pp. 101016.

Proceedings

Cronenberg, J., Chitoran, I., Lamel, L. & Vasilescu, I. (2024): Crosslinguistic Comparison of Acoustic Variation in the Vowel Sequences /ia/ and /io/ in Four Romance Languages. Interspeech, Kos, Greece.

Cronenberg, J., Gubian, M., Harrington, J. & Reichel, V. (2023): Investigating Sound Change through Computational Agent-Based Modelling: An R Package. ICPhS, Prague, Czech Republic.

Cronenberg, J., Klingler, N., Kleber, F. & Pucher, M. (2022): On the role of asymmetry in prosodic change of consonant duration: Results from an agent-based model with two German varieties. Speech Prosody, Lisbon, Portugal.

Teaching

Programming and Statistics in R

Undergraduate lecture and tutorial
University of Munich
2020 – 2022

Laboratory Phonology

Graduate lecture
University of Munich
2020 and 2022

Advanced Speech Technology

Graduate lecture
University of Munich
2019 and 2021

Dynamic Methods to Investigate Aspiration

Workshop for PhD students
University of Michigan
2021

Introduction to Programming in R and tidyverse

Workshop for PhD students
University of Munich
2020

Introduction to Linear Regression and Mixed Models in R

Workshop for PhD students
University of Munich
2020

Projects

Programming in R: An Introduction for Phoneticians

Available in German and English!

Contact

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