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I am currently doing research in the following projects:
* Melody in human–cat communication (Meowsic) (MAW)
* Estlandssvenskans språkstruktur (ESST) (Estonan Swedish Language Structure) (VR)
I am also in charge of the articulographs (AG500 and AG501) in the Humanities Lab
I teach the following courses:
* Phonetics (Speech Therapy Program)
* Phonetics (Audiology Program)
Research
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About the research
Research interests:
Phonetic variation of various kinds, including (1) dialectal variation in Swedish and other languages, (2) paralinguistic variation like age, emotion, attitude and health condition, and (3) phonetic variation in human-animal communication. Specifically, I take interest in the following areas:
• Dialectal variation. In the projects SweDia 2000 and SIMULEKT, I have been given excellent opportunities to study Swedish dialectal variation.
• Speaker age: a paralinguistic and speaker-specific quality which is always present in speech. I am interested in human perception, acoustic analysis, machine recognition and simulation (synthesis) of speaker age.
• Estonian Swedish is still spoken by a handful of speakers in Estonia and Sweden. I am currently helping with the documentation and analysis of these nearly extinct Swedish dialects.
• Swedish long vowels and how they are articulated in different Swedish dialects. In the project Exotic Vowels in Swedish - an articulographic study of palatal vowels [VOKART] I am currently studying regional variability in Swedish vowel articulation using the in articulograph AG500 in the Humanities Lab.
Cat–cat and cat–human communication. I am interested in the sounds cats use in their vocal communication with cats and humans, and how these sounds are combined and varied (and how humans perceive them).
Publications
Books (4)
- Schötz, S. (2019). Kattens hemliga språk : Lär dig att förstå och kommunicera med din katt. Forum.
- Schötz, S. (2018). The Secret Language of Cats : How to understand your cat for a better, happier relationship. Hanover Square Press.
- Schötz, S. (2017). Die geheime Sprache der Katzen. Ecowin.
- Schötz, S. (2006). Perception, Analysis and Synthesis of Speaker Age. Travaux de l'Institut de Linguistique de Lund, 47. Linguistics and Phonetics. Dissertation.
Editorships (2)
- Schötz, S. & Ambrazaitis, G. (2010). (Eds.) Working Papers 54, Proceedings from Fonetik 2010. Working Papers, Lund University, General Linguistics and Phonetics, 54. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Ambrazaitis, G. & Schötz, S. (2006). (Eds.) Working Papers 52, Proceedings from Fonetik 2006. Working Papers, Lund University, Genreal Linguistics and Phonetics, 52. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
Articles (4)
- Haake, M., Hansson, K., Gulz, A., Schötz, S. & Sahlén, B. (submitted). The slower the better? On the puzzle of children’s cognition, comprehension and task complexity in TROG-2. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Taylor & Francis.
- Lyberg Åhlander, V., Haake, M., Brännström, J., Schötz, S. & Sahlén, B. (2015). Does the speaker's voice quality influence children's performance on a language comprehension test?. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 17, 63-73. Taylor & Francis.
- Haake, M., Hansson, K., Gulz, A., Schötz, S. & Sahlén, B. (2013). The slower the better? Does the speaker’s speech rate influence children’s performance on a language comprehension test?. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Taylor & Francis.
- Schötz, S., Frid, J. & Löfqvist, A. (2013). Development of speech motor control: Lip movement variability. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133, 4210-4217. American Institute of Physics.
Book chapters (5)
- Schötz, S., Bruce, G., Segerup, M., Beskow, J., Gustafson, J. & Granström, B. (2012). Regional varieties of Swedish: models and synthesis. In Niebuhr, O. (Ed.) Understanding prosody: the role of context function and communication (pp. 119-134). De Gruyter.
- Schötz, S. (2008). Faktorer som påverkar vår bedömning av kvinnliga och manliga talares ålder. In Molnár, V., Jonsson, B. & Andersson, G. (Eds.) Årsbok, Vetenskapssocieteten i Lunds. Årsbok 2008 (pp. 75-84). Vetenskapssocieteten i Lund.
- Amilon, K., van de Weijer, J. & Schötz, S. (2007). The Impact of Visual and Auditory Cues in Age Estimation. In Müller, C. (Eds.) Speaker Classification II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 10-21), 2. Springer.
- Schötz, S. (2007). Acoustic Analysis of Adult Speaker Age. In Müller, C. (Eds.) Speaker Classification I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 88-107), 1. Springer.
- Schötz, S. & Müller, C. (2007). A Study of Acoustic Correlates of Speaker Age. In Müller, C. (Eds.) Speaker Classification II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 1-9), 2. Springer.
Conference contributions (65)
- Frid, J., Svensson Lundmark, M., Gilbert, A., Schötz, S. & House, D. (2019). Investigating visual prosody using articulography. Proceedings of4th Conference of The Association Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries : Copenhagen, March 6-8 2019. CEUR.
- Schötz, S. (2019). Paralinguistic Information and Biological Codes in Intra- and Interspecific Vocal Communication: A pilot study of Humans and Domestic Cats. In Heldner, M. (Ed.) Proceedings from FONETIK 2019 Stockholm, June 10–12, 2019 (pp. 67-67).
- Schötz, S., van de Weijer, J. & Eklund, R. (2019). Melody matters: An acoustic study of domestic cat meows in six contexts and four mental states. In Dassow, A., Marxer, R., Moore, R. K. & Stowell, D. (Eds.) Proc. 2nd Intl. Workshop on Vocal interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots (VIHAR) (pp. 29-34). Ricard Marxer.
- Schötz, S., van de Weijer, J. & Eklund, R. (2019). Phonetic Methods in Cat Vocalisation Studies: A report from the Meowsic project. In Heldner, M. (Ed.) Proceedings from Fonetik 2019 10-12 June 2019, Stockholm Sweden (pp. 55-55).
- Frid, J., Gao, M., Svensson Lundmark, M. & Schötz, S. (2018). Pitch-to-segment Alignment in South Swedish and Mandarin Chinese: A Cross-language Comparison.
- Frid, J., Svensson Lundmark, M., Ambrazaitis, G., Schötz, S. & House, D. (2018). EMA-based head movements and phrasing : a preliminary study.
- Gao, M., Svensson Lundmark, M., Schötz, S. & Frid, J. (2018). A Cross-Language Study of Tonal Alignment in Scania Swedish and Mandarin Chinese.
- Svensson Lundmark, M., Frid, J., Ambrazaitis, G. & Schötz, S. (2018). The effect of Swedish Word Accent on word initial CV coarticulation.
- Svensson Lundmark, M., Frid, J., Ambrazaitis, G. & Schötz, S. (2018). Word-initial CV coarticulation in a pitch-accent language.
- Ewald, O., Asu, E. L. & Schötz, S. (2017). The formant dynamics of long close vowels in three varieties of Swedish. In Lacerda (chair), F. (Ed.) Interspeech, Interspeech 2017 (pp. 1412-1416).
- Schötz, S., van de Weijer, J. & Eklund, R. (2017). Phonetic Characteristics of Domestic Cat Vocalisations. In Dassow, A., Marxer, R. & Moore, R. K. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Vocal interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots : VIHAR 2017 (pp. 5-6).
- Schötz, S., Eklund, R. & van de Weijer, J. (2016). Melody in Human–Cat Communication (Meowsic) : Origins, Past, Present and Future. TMH-QPSR, Proceedings of FONETIK 2016, 57, 19-24.
- Asu, E. L., Nolan, F. & Schötz, S. (2015). Comparative Study of Estonian Swedish Voiceless Laterals: Are Voiceless Approximants Fricatives?. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. University of Glasgow.
- Eva Liina, A., Ewald, O. & Schötz, S. (2015). The realisation of sj- and tj- sounds in Estonian Swedish : some preliminary results. In Svensson Lundmark, M., Ambrazaitis, G. & Weijer, J. v. d. (Eds.) Working Papers (pp. 23-26), 55. Lund University.
- Frid, J., Schötz, S., Gustafsson, L. & Löfqvist, A. (2015). Tongue articulation of front close vowels in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. University of Glasgow.
- Schötz, S. (2015). Agonistic Vocalisations in Domestic Cats : A Case Study. In Svensson Lundmark, M., Ambrazaitis, G. & Weijer, J. v. d. (Eds.) Working Papers (pp. 85-90), 55. Lund University.
- Schötz, S. & Asu, E. L. (2015). In Search of Word Accents in Estonian Swedish. Proceedings of ICPhS 2015. University of Glasgow.
- Svensson Lundmark, M., Frid, J. & Schötz, S. (2015). A pilot study : acoustic and articulatory data on tonal alignment in Swedish word accents. Working papers Linguistics and Phonetics, 55. Proceedings of Fonetik 2015.
- Svensson Lundmark, M., Frid, J. & Schötz, S. (2015). A pilot study : acoustic and articulatory data on tonal alignment in Swedish word accents.
- Lyberg Åhlander, V., Haake, M., Brännström, J., Schötz, S. & Sahlén, B. (2014). How does the teacher's voice and background noise in the classroom affect children's comprehension and learning.
- Schötz, S. (2014). A pilot study of human perception of emotions from domestic cat vocalisations. In Heldner, M. (Ed.) Proceedings from Fonetik 2014 (pp. 95-100). Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
- Schötz, S. & van de Weijer, J. (2014). A Study of Human Perception of Intonation in Domestic Cat Meows. In Campbell, N., Gibbon, D. & Hirst, D. (Eds.) Social and Linguistic Speech Prosody : Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Speech Prosody.
- Schötz, S. & van de Weijer, J. (2014). A Study of Human Perception of Intonation in Domestic Cat Meows. In Heldner, M. (Ed.) Proceedings from Fonetik 2014 (pp. 89-94). Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
- Schötz, S., Frid, J., Gustafsson, L. & Löfqvist, A. (2014). Tongue articulation dynamics of /iː, yː, ʉ̟ː/ in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish. In Heldner, M. (Ed.) Proceedings from Fonetik 2014 (pp. 17-22).
- Schötz, S., Nolan, F. & Asu, E. L. (2014). An acoustic study of the Estonian Swedish lateral [ɬ]. In Heldner, M. (Ed.) Proceedings from Fonetik 2014 (pp. 23-28). Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
- Schötz, S. (2013). A phonetic pilot study of chirp, chatter, tweet and tweedle in three domestic cats. In Eklund, R. (Ed.) [Host publication title missing] (pp. 65-68). Linköping University.
- Schötz, S. & Asu, E. L. (2013). An acoustic study of accentuation in Estonian Swedish compounds. In Asu, E. L. & Lippus, P. (Eds.) [Host publication title missing] (pp. 343-352). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Schötz, S., Frid, J., Gustafsson, L. & Löfqvist, A. (2013). Functional Data Analysis of Tongue Articulation in Palatal Vowels: Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish /i:, y:, u-:/. [Host publication title missing]. Interspeech, Lyon.
- Schötz, S., Frid, J., Löfqvist, A. & Gustafsson, L. (2013). Functional data analysis of tongue articulation in Gothenburg and Malmöhus Swedish /i:, y:, u-:/. In Eklund, R. (Ed.) [Host publication title missing] (pp. 69-72). Linköping University.
- Frid, J., Schötz, S. & Löfqvist, A. (2012). South Swedish diphthongisation: an articulographic and acoustic study of /u:/ in the Malmöhus dialect. [Host publication title missing], 85-88. Proceedings of Fonetik 2012, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg.
- Lyberg Åhlander, V., Haake, M., Brännström, J., Schötz, S., Johansson, M. & Sahlén, B. (2012). Spelar logopedens röst roll för barns språkförståelse.
- Schötz, S. (2012). A phonetic pilot study of vocalisations in three cats. [Host publication title missing], 45-48. Proceedings of Fonetik 2012, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg.
- Schötz, S., Frid, J. & Löfqvist, A. (2012). A comparative study of kinematic and acoustic age-related variability in speech. [Host publication title missing], 61-64. Proceedings of Fonetik 2012, Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science, University of Gothenburg.
- Frid, J., Schötz, S. & Löfqvist, A. (2011). Age-related lip movement repetition variability in two phrase positions. Fonetik 2011, Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, TMH-QPSR, 51.
- Frid, J., Schötz, S. & Löfqvist, A. (2011). Functional data analysis of lip movements : repetition variability as a function of age. [Host publication title missing]. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII).
- Schötz, S. & Eklund, R. (2011). A comparative acoustic analysis of purring in four cats. Proceedings from Fonetik 2011, Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, TMH-QPSR, 51. Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm.
- Schötz, S., Bruce, G. & Segerup, M. (2011). Dialektal variation i svensk ordmelodi - sammansatta ord. Svenskans beskrivning : 31, Förhandlingar vid Trettioförsta sammankomsten för svenskans beskrivning, Umeå den 20-21 maj 2010, 31. Institutionen för språkstudier, Umeå universitet.
- Schötz, S., Frid, J. & Löfqvist, A. (2011). Age-related differences in repetition variability : Analysis of lip movements using functional data analysis. [Publication information missing].
- Schötz, S., Frid, J. & Löfqvist, A. (2011). Exotic vowels in Swedish – an articulographic and acoustic pilot study of /i:/. [Host publication title missing]. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII).
- Schötz, S., Frid, J. & Löfqvist, A. (2011). Exotic vowels in Swedish: a project description and an articulographic and acoustic pilot study of /i:/. [Host publication title missing], 51. Proceedings of Fonetik 2011, Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, TMH-QPSR.
- Schötz, S. & Bruce, G. (2010). Phrase-initial pitch patterns in South Swedish. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago.
- Schötz, S., Beskow, J., Bruce, G., Gustafson, J. & Granström, B. (2010). Simulating Intonation in Regional Varieties of Swedish. Speech Prosody 2010.
- Schötz, S., Beskow, J., Bruce, G., Gustafson, J. & Granström, B. (2010). Synthesising intonational varieties of Swedish. Working papers, 54, 85-90. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Asu, E. L., Schötz, S. & Kügler, F. (2009). The acoustics of Estonian Swedish long close vowels as compared to Central Swedish and Finland Swedish. Proceedings of Fonetik 2009, 54-59. Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
- Enflo, L., Schötz, S., Bruce, G., Granström, B. & Beskow, J. (2009). Modelling Intonational Variation in Swedish: Two reports from the SIMULEKT project. In Vainio, M., Aulanko, R. & Aaltonen, O. (Eds.) Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the Xth Conference. Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Schötz, S. & Bruce, G. (2009). Phrase initial accent I in South Swedish. Proceedings of Fonetik 2009, 42-47. Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
- Schötz, S., Bruce, G. & Granström, B. (2009). Modelling compound intonation in Dala and Gotland Swedish. Proceedings of Fonetik 2009, 48-53. Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
- Beskow, J., Bruce, G., Enflo, L., Granström, B. & Schötz, S. (2008). SWING: A tool for modelling intonational varieties of Swedish. Proceedings of Fonetik 2008. Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University.
- Beskow, J., Bruce, G., Granström, B., Enflo, L. & Schötz, S. (2008). Human Recognition of Swedish Dialects. Proceedings of Fonetik 2008. Department of Linguistics, Gothenburg University.
- Beskow, J., Bruce, G., Granström, B., Enflo, L. & Schötz, S. (2008). Recognizing and Modelling Regional Varieties of Swedish. Proceedings of Interspeech 2008. Brisbane.
- Bruce, G., Schötz, S., Granström, B. & Enflo, L. (2008). Modelling intonation in varieties of Swedish. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2008.
- Schötz, S. (2008). Åh nej, inte en lärare till som just varit på pedagogisk kurs! Studenters motvilja mot nyare pedagogiska metoder.
- Bruce, G., Granström, B. & Schötz, S. (2007). Simulating intonational varieties of Swedish. Proceedings of ICPhS XVI, 1237-1240.
- Bruce, G., Schötz, S. & Granström, B. (2007). SIMULEKT– modelling Swedish regional intonation. Proceedings of Fonetik 2007 / TMH-QPSR, 50, 53-56. Kungliga tekniska högskolan. Institutionen för tal, musik och hörsel.
- Schötz, S. (2007). Analysis and Synthesis of Speaker Age.
- Schötz, S. (2006). F0 and Segment Duration in Formant Synthesis of Speaker Age. Proc. of Speech Prosody, 515-518. Dresden.
- Schötz, S. (2006). Prosodic Cues in Human and Machine Estimation of Female and Male Speaker Age. In Bruce, G. & Horne, M. (Eds.) Nordic Prosody: Proceedings of the IXth Conference, Lund, 2004 (pp. 215-223). Peter Lang Publishing Group.
- Schötz, S. (2005). Effects of Stimulus Duration and Type on Perception of Female and Male Speaker Age. Proceedings of Fonetik 2005, 87-90. Göteborgs universitet.
- Schötz, S. (2005). Stimulus duration and type in perception of female and male speaker age. 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 529-532. International Speech and Communication Association.
- Schötz, S. (2005). Stimulus Duration and Type in Perception of Female and Male Speaker Age. Proc. of Interspeech 2005.
- Schötz, S. (2004). Some Acoustic Cues to Human and Machine Estimation of Speaker Age. Proc. of Fonetik 2004, 40-43. Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University.
- Schötz, S. (2004). The Role of F0 and Duration in Perception of Female and Male Speaker Age. Proceedings of Speech Prosody, 379-382. Nara.
- Schötz, S. (2003). Speaker Age: A First Step From Analysis To Synthesis. In Solé, M. J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences : Barcelona, 3-9 August 2003. Vol. 1/3 (pp. 2528-2588). Casual Productions.
- Schötz, S. (2003). Towards synthesis of speaker age: A perceptual study with natural, synthesized and resynthesized stimuli. In Heldner, M. (Ed.) Proceedings from Fonetik 2003 ; Phonum 9 (pp. 153-156), 9. Dept. of Philosophy and Linguistics, Univ. Umeå.
- Haage, M., Schötz, S. & Nugues, P. (2002). A prototype robot speech interface with multimodal feedback. IEEE ROMAN 2002. 11th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Proceedings (Cat. No.02TH8632), 247-252. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc..
Working papers (2)
- Schötz, S. (2005). Automatic prediction of speaker age using CART. Working Papers, Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics, 51. Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
- Schötz, S. (2001). A perceptual study of speaker age. Working Papers, Lund University, Dept. of Linguistics and Phonetics, 49.
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Teaching
Teaching autumn 2019
Other tasks and qualifications
• Board member of Lyssnande Lund – Ljudmiljöcentrum vid Lunds universitet (Listening Lund – Center for Sound Environment at Lund University)
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