Publications

Fournier*, N., Riverin-Coutlée, J., & Falk, S. (in press). Second dialect acquisition by French migrants in Montreal: An acoustic study of low vowels in spontaneous speech. Canadian Journal of Linguistics.

Jamey, K., Finlay, S., Foster, N.E.V., Dalla Bella,S. & Falk, S. (2026). A Proof-of-Concept Study of Gamified Rhythmic Training in Preadolescents Who Stutter. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1557 (1): e70188.  https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.70188

Dalla Bella, S. & Falk, S. (2026). Rhythmic processes in stuttering and Parkinson’s disease. Meyer, L., Strauss, A., Duchow, C. (Eds). Rhythms of Speech and Language. (pp.801-817). Cambridge University Press.  https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009295888.053

Rathcke, T., Falk, S., & Dalla Bella, S. (2024). Why Does Speech Sometimes Sound Like Song? Exploring the Role of Music-Related Priors in the “Speech-to-Song Illusion”. Music & Science, 7.  https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043241266060

Berthault, E., Chen, S., Falk, S., Morillon, B., & Schön, D. (2024). Auditory and motor priming of metric structure improves understanding of degraded speech. Cognition, 248: 105793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105793.

Franke*, M., Schreier*, R., Hoole, P.; Falk, S. (2023). Temporal organization of syllables in paced and unpaced speech in children and adolescents who stutter. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 76, 105975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2023.105975

Oschkinat*, M., Hoole, P.; Falk, S, & Dalla Bella, S. (2022). Processing temporal auditory feedback in speech is modulated by rhythmic abilities and auditory acuity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 16.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.885074

Falk, S. & Audibert, N. (2021). Acoustic signature of communicative dimensions in codified mother-infant interactions. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150(6), 4429-4437, https://doi.org/10.1121.10.0008977

Falk, S., Fasolo, M., Genovese, G., Romero-Lauro, L., & Franco, F. (2021). Sing for me, Mama! Infants’ discrimination of novel vowels in song. Infancy, 26(2), 248–270. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12387

Franke, M.*; Hoole, P.; Schreier, R.*; Falk, S. (2021). Reading fluency in children and adolescents who stutter. Brain Sciences, 11 (12) :  1595; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11121595

Petrone, C., d’Alessandro, D.*, & Falk, S. (2021). Sources of individual variation in the imitation of phonological intonational structure. Journal of Phonetics (89), 10111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101100

Fiveash, A; Falk, S., & Tillmann, B. (2021). What you hear first, is what you get: Initial metrical cue presentation modulates syllable detection in sentence processing. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 83, 1861-1877. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02251-y

Aichert, I., Lehner, K., Falk, S., Späth, M., Franke*, M., & Ziegler, W. (2021). In time with the beat: Entrainment in patients with phonological impairment, apraxia of speech, and Parkinson’s disease. Brain Sciences, 11 (12): 1524. https://doi.org/10.3390/ brainsci11111524

Rathcke, T., Lin, C.-Y., Falk, S., & Dalla Bella, S. (2021). Tapping into linguistic rhythm. Laboratory Phonology 12(1): 11, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.248

Rathcke, T., Falk, S., & Dalla Bella, S. (2021). Music to your ears: Sentence sonority and listener background modulate the “speech-to-song illusion”. Music Perception 38(5), 499-508. https://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2021.38.5.499

Falk, S. & Tsang, C.D. (2020). 6- to 9-Month old infants discriminate vowel durations in variable speech contexts. Infant Behavior and Development, 61, 101475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101475

*Hidalgo, C., Zécri, A., Pesnot-Lerousseau, J., Truy, E., Roman, S., Falk, S., Dalla Bella, S., Schön, D. (2020). Rhythmic abilities of children with hearing loss. Ear & Hearing (Epub ahead of print). https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000000926

Ravignani, A., Dalla Bella, S., Falk, S., Kello, C., Noriega, F., & Kotz, S. (2019). Rhythm in speech and animal vocalizations: a cross-species perspective. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1453(1), 79-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14166

Aichert, I., Lehner, K., Falk, S., Späth, M., & Ziegler, W. (2019). Do patients with neurogenic speech sound impairments benefit from auditory priming with a regular metrical pattern? Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research, 62(8S):3104-3118. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_JSLHR-S-CSMC7-18-0172

Falk, S., *Lanzilotti, C., & Schön, D. (2017). Tuning neural phase entrainment to speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(8), 1378-1389. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_01136

Falk, S., & Kello, C.T. (2017). Hierarchical organization in the temporal structure of infant-directed speech and song. Cognition, 163, 80-86. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.02.017

Falk, S., *Volpi-Moncorger, C., & Dalla Bella, S. (2017). Auditory-motor rhythms and speech processing in French and German listeners. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:395. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00395

Tsang, C.D., Falk, S., & Hessel, A. (2017). Infants prefer infant-directed song over speech, Child Development, 88(4), 1207-1215. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12647

*Hidalgo, C., Falk, S., & Schön, D. (2017). Speak on time! Effects of a musical rhythmic training on children with hearing loss. Hearing Research, 351, 11-18. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2017.05.006

Phillmore, L., Fisk, J., Falk, S., & Tsang, C. (2017). Songbirds as objective listeners: Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) can discriminate infant-directed song and speech in two languages. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 30

Falk, S., *Maslow, E., Thum, G., & Hoole, P. (2016). Temporal variability in sung productions of adolescents who stutter. Journal of Communication Disorders, 62, 101-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2016.05.012

Falk, S., & Dalla Bella, S. (2016). It is better when expected: Aligning speech and motor rhythms enhances verbal processing. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience, 31, 699-708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1144892

Falk, S., Müller, T., & Dalla Bella, S. (2015). Non-verbal sensorimotor timing deficits in children and adolescents who stutter. Frontiers in Psychology 6: 847. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00847

Falk, S., Rathcke, T., & Dalla Bella, S. (2014). When speech sounds like music. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40(4), 1491–1506.  https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036858

Falk, S. (2014). On the notion of salience in spoken discourse – prominence cues shaping discourse structure and comprehension. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage (TIPA), 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/tipa.1303

Falk, S. (2013). Communicative functions of rhythm – the case of radio broadcasting. Cahiers de Praxématique, 61.

Falk, S. (2011). Melodic vs. intonational coding of communicative functions – A comparison of tonal contours in infant-directed song and speech. Psychomusicology, 21(1&2), 53-68.

Falk, S. (2011). Temporal variability and stability in infant-directed sung speech: Evidence for language-specific patterns. Language and Speech, 54(2), 167-180

Öhl, P., & Falk, S. (2011). Syntactic competence and performance-based variation: the case of German particle verbs. In M. Putnam (Ed), Leuvense Bijdragen, Special issue: Syntax and Semantics of Parti­cle Verbs, 97, 170-202.

Falk, S. (2008). „Mama, sing mir mal das Buch! » Einige Überlegungen zu guten prosodischen Gestalten im frühen Spracherwerb. Journal of Literary Theory, 2(2), 229-250

Dalla Bella, S. & Falk, S. (accepted). Rhythmic processes in stuttering and Parkinson’s disease. Meyer, L., Strauss, A., Duchow, C. (Eds). Rhythms of Speech and Language. Cambridge University Press.

Kluth*, A.; Lemire-Tremblay*, M., Jamey*, K., Dalla Bella, S.; & Falk, S. (2023). Auswirkungen eines non-verbalen Rhythmustrainings auf die Sprechflüssigkeit und Sprechmotorik stotternder Kinder. In S. Tan; S. Düring, A. Wilde, L. Hamburger, T. Fritzsche (eds), Spektrum Patholinguistik 16: Schnittstelle Alltag, Transfer und Teilhabe in der Sprachtherapie (pp. 135-149), University of Potsdam, Germany.

Falk, S. & Tsang, C.D. (2020). The role and functions of infant-directed singing in early development. In F. Russo, B. Ilari, & A. Cohen (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume I: Development (pp.179-188). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315163734.

Falk, S., Schreier, R., & Russo, F. (2020). Singing and stuttering. In R. Heydon, D. Fancourt, & A. Cohen (Eds), The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume III: Wellbeing (pp. 50-60). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315162546

Falk, S. (2020). Singen an der Schnittstelle zwischen Musik und Sprache [Singing at the interface between language and music]. In Elmenthaler, M. & Niebuhr, O. (Eds), An den Rändern der Sprache [Boundary phenomena in language] (p.299-322). Frankfurt/New York: Peter Lang.

Rupp, E. & Falk, S. (2017). Perspektivierung grammatischer Entitäten – Ergebnisse zum Action-Sentence Compatibility Effekt [Perspectivization of grammatical entities – Insights from the Action-Sentence Compatibility effect]. In Zeman, S., Werner, M., Meisnitzer, B. (Eds.). Im Spiegel der Grammatik. Beiträge zur Theorie sprachlicher Kategorisierung. (pp.181-198). Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag.

Falk, S., & Rathcke, T. (2011). The Speech-to-Song Illusion revisited. In K. Dębowska-Kozłowska, & K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (Eds), On words and sounds. A Selection of Papers from the 40th Poznan Linguistic Meeting 2009 (pp. 1-24). Cambridge: CSP.

Falk, S. (2011). Zum Umgang mit der Perspektivenvielfalt geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung. Ein Workshopbericht. In R. Dietrich, D. Smilovski, & A. Nünning (Eds.), Lost or Found in Translation? Interkulturelle/Internationale Perspektiven der Geisteswissenschaften. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.

Falk, S. (2009). Phonische Basisqualifikation. In K. C. Ehlich, U. Bredel, & H. H. Reich (Eds.), Referenzrahmen zur altersspezifischen Sprachaneignung – Forschungsgrundlagen. (pp.11-30). Bonn, Berlin: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.

Falk, S. (2009). Musik und Sprachprosodie. Kindgerichtetes Singen im frühen Spracherwerb. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter.

Falk, S., Bredel, U., & Reich, H. H. (2008). Phonische Basisqualifikation. In K. C. Ehlich, U. Bredel, & H. H. Reich (Eds.), Referenzrahmen zur altersspezifischen Sprachaneignung (pp.35-40). Bonn, Berlin: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

Falk, S. (2008). „Mama, sing mir mal das Buch! » Einige Überlegungen zu guten prosodischen Gestalten im frühen Spracherwerb. Journal of Literary Theory, 2(2), 229-250

• Lee*, C.-V., Dumas, G., Jerôme, A.J., & Falk, S. (2026). Coordinating speech and body during conversation: an at home study with 4-year-olds. Proceedings of the 13th Speech prosody Conference, 26-29 mai, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

• Franke*, M.; Benker, N.; Falk, S.; & Hoole, P. (2023). Synchronization type matters: articulatory timing in different rhythmic conditions in persons who stutter. 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague.

• Kluth*, A.; Lemire-Tremblay*, M., Jamey*, K., Dalla Bella, S.; & Falk, S. (2023). Auswirkungen eines non-verbalen Rhythmustrainings auf die Sprechflüssigkeit und Sprechmotorik stotternder Kinder. In S. Tan; S. Düring, A. Wilde, L. Hamburger, T. Fritzsche (eds), Spektrum Patholinguistik 16: Schnittstelle Alltag, Transfer und Teilhabe in der Sprachtherapie (pp. 135-149), University of Potsdam, Germany.

• Fu, W., Kühnert, B., Pillot-Loiseau, C., & Falk, S. (2019). The effects of imitation and synchronization on the pronunciation of selected phonemes in L2 English and German: a pilot study. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M.Tabain & P. Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 3333-3337). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

• Rathcke, T., Lin, C.-Y., Falk, S., & Dalla Bella, S. (2019). When language hits the beat: synchronising movement to simple tonal and verbal stimuli. In S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M.Tabain & P. Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 (pp. 1505-1509). Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.

• Aichert, I., Lehner, K., Falk, S., Späth, M., Franke, M. & Ziegler, W. (2019). In Time with the Beat: Entrainment in Patients with Phonological Impairment, Apraxia of speech and Parkinson’s disease. Stem-, Spraak- en Taalpathologie, 24, 57.

• Audibert, N., & Falk, S. (2018). Vowel space and f0 characteristics of infant-directed singing and speech. Speech Prosody 9, Poznań, Poland, on 13-16 June 2018.

• Falk, S. & Tsang, C. (2015). Adults’ and Infants’ perception of infant-directed speech and song. Proceedings of the XVIII. ICPhS Conference, Glasgow, UK.

• Falk, S., & Maslow, E. (2014). Song and speech prosody influences VOT in stuttering and non-stuttering adolescents. In Campbell, N., Gibbon, D., & D. Hirst (eds), Proceedings of Speech Prosody 7, Dublin, pp. 838-842.

• Falk, S., Müller, T., & Dalla Bella, S. (2014). Sensorimotor synchronization in stuttering children and adolescents. Procedia – Social and behavioral sciences, 126, pp. 206–207 (International Conference on Timing and Time Perception, 31 March – 3 April 2014, Corfu, Greece).

• Adachi, M. & Falk, S. (2012). Does Native Language Influence the Mother’s Interpretation of an Infant’s Musical and Linguistic Babblings? Proceedings of the 12th ICMPC 2012, Thessaloniki, 23.-28.07.2012.

• Falk, S. & Dalla Bella, S. (2012). Regular timing patterns, sensorimotor synchronization and text-change detection in speech. Proceedings of PoRT – Perspectives on Rhythm and Timing, Glasgow, UK.

• Falk, S. & Öhl, P. (2011). The syntactic behaviour of German particle verbs: an experimental study. Meeting of the 33th DGfS (German Linguistics Society), Göttingen.

• Falk, S. & Öhl, P. (2010). Syntactic Characteristics of Particle Verbs: Empirical Evidence for Com­plex Predicate Processing in German. Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Verbs 2010, Pisa, Italy.

• Falk, S. & Rathcke, T. (2010a). On the Speech-To-Song Illusion: Evidence from German. Proceedings of the 5th Speech Prosody International Conference, Chicago Illinois, USA.

• Falk, S. & Rathcke, T. (2010b). The speech-to-song illusion: empirical findings. Proceedings of ICMPC 2010, Seattle, USA.

• Falk, S. (2008). The boundaries of speech and song. Interaction of intonational and music structure in infant-directed singing. Proceedings of the international conference « Music, Language and the Mind », Tufts University, Medford, Massachusets, USA.

• Falk, S. (2007). Speech Clarity in Infant-directed Singing: an Analysis of German Vowels. Proceedings of the XVI. ICPhS Conference, Saarbrücken, Germany.