Pavel Šturm

Mgr. Pavel Šturm, Ph.D.

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Institute of Phonetics
Místnost č. 12

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5521-029X

Education

2017 (PhD.) – Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Phonetics
2013 (Mgr.) – Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Phonetics
2011 (Bc.) – Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Phonetics – English and American Studies

Employment

since 2013 Institute of Phonetics, Faculty of Arts

Research Interests

Phonetics of English, L2 pronunciation, syllable and syllabification, phonology, history of Czech phonetics

Books, edited volumes, book chapters

Fischer, O. & Šturm, P. (2022). Consistency in the Rhoticity of Czech Speakers of English. In: V. G. Sardegna & A. Jarosz (Eds.), Theoretical and Practical Developments in English Speech Assessment, Research, and Training (pp. 223–237). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98218-8_13

Volín, J., Antolík, T. K., Skarnitzl, R., & Šturm, P. (2022). Vowel accentedness in the light of internal and external competence assessment. In: V. G. Sardegna & A. Jarosz (Eds.), Theoretical and Practical Developments in English Speech Assessment, Research, and Training (pp. 187–204). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98218-8_11

Šturm, P. & Bičan, A. (2021). Slabika a její hranice v češtině. Karolinum.

Volín, J. & Šturm, P. (2021, Eds.). HSCR 2021: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research. Dresden: TUDpress.

Šturm, P. (2017). Určování slabičných hranic v češtině. Nepublikovaná dizertační práce. Praha: Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze.

Skarnitzl, R., Šturm, P. & Volín, J. (2016). Zvuková báze řečové komunikace: Fonetický a fonologický popis řeči. Praha: Karolinum.

Šturm, P. (2015). Complexity in the articulation of Czech alveolar consonants. In: Niebuhr, O. a Skarnitzl, R. (Eds.), Tackling the Complexity in Speech, 75–95. Praha: Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze.

Skarnitzl, R., Lazárková, D., Nechanský, T. & Šturm, P. (2014). Vokalické formanty. In: Skarnitzl, R. (Ed.), Fonetická identifikace mluvčího, 21–48. Praha: Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze.

Peer-reviewed papers

Šturm, P. & Volín, J. (2023). Occurrence and duration of pauses in relation to speech tempo and structural organization in two speech genres. Languages, 8(1), Art. 23. pdf https://doi.org/10.3390/languages8010023

Přečková, K., Šturm, P., & Volín, J. (2023). Language proficiency and sonorant devoicing in English plosive-sonorant clusters. Research in Language, 21(4), 443–459. pdf https://doi.org/10.18778/1731-7533.21.4.06

Šturm, P., Przedlacka, J. & Rojczyk, A. (2022). Phonetic imitation of t-glottaling by Czech speakers of English. Linguistica Pragensia, 32(1), 142–165. pdf https://doi.org/10.14712/18059635.2022.1.8

Svoboda, M. & Šturm, P. (2022). Word-boundary glottalization and its cognitive aspects: A reaction-time study. Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Philologica, 1/2022, 35–50. pdf https://doi.org/10.14712/24646830.2022.27

Bořil, T., Šturm, P., Skarnitzl, R., Hévrová, M. & Köpke, B. (2022). The effect of non-conclusive melodic rises on Czech speech sounding French. Linguistica Pragensia, 32(1), 125–141. pdf https://doi.org/10.14712/18059635.2022.1.7

Obstová, Z., Šturm, P., Skarnitzl, R., Čermák, P., & Hricsina, J. (2022). Ráz ve španělštině, italštině a portugalštině českých mluvčích. Časopis pro moderní filologii, 104(2), 159–176. pdf https://doi.org/10.14712/23366591.2022.2.1

Skarnitzl, R., Čermák, P., Šturm, P., Obstová, Z., & Hricsina, J. (2022). Glottalization and linking in the L2 speech of Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. Second Language Research, 38(4), 941–963. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583211015803

Hejná, M., Šturm, P., Tylečková, L. & Bořil, T. (2021). Normophonic breathiness in Czech and Danish: Are females breathier than males? Journal of Voice, 35(3), 498.e1−498.e22. pdf

Volín, J. & Šturm, P. (2020). Melodie české doplňovací otázky. Naše řeč, 103(4), 337–351.

Volín, J. & Šturm, P. (2019). Fundamental frequency tracks of question-word questions in natural and synthetic speech. Akustické listy, 25(3-4), 3–9. pdf

Šturm, P. (2019). The birth of an institute: A centennial jubilee of Prague’s Institute of Phonetics. Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Philologica, 2/2019, 9–26. pdf

Šturm, P. & Tylečková, L. (2019). Dialectal differences in voicing assimilation patterns: The case of Moravian Czech English. Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Philologica, 2/2019, 129–143. pdf

Šturm, P. (2018). Experimental evidence on the syllabification of two-consonant clusters in Czech. Journal of Phonetics, 71, 126–146. pdf

Šturm, P. (2018). K osmdesátinám profesorky Zdeny Palkové. Časopis pro moderní filologii, 100(2), 285–287. pdf

Jakšič, J. & Šturm, P. (2017). Accents of English at Czech schools: Students’ attitudes and recognition skills. Research in Language, 15, 353–369. pdf

Skarnitzl, R. & Šturm, P. (2017). Voicing assimilation in Czech and Slovak speakers of English: Interactions of segmental context, language and strength of foreign accent. Language and Speech, 60, 427–453.

Šturm, P. (2017). Segmental duration as a cue to syllable boundaries in Czech. Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Philologica 3, Phonetica Pragensia XIV, 121–137. pdf

Šturm, P. & Lukeš, D. (2017). Fonotaktická analýza obsahu slabik na okrajích českých slov v mluvené a psané řeči. Slovo a slovesnost, 78(2), 99–118.

Volín, J. & Šturm, P. (2016). Pevný bod pro zkoumání řečového rytmu. Naše řeč, 99, 92–100.

Šturm, P. & Volín, J. (2016). P-centres in natural disyllabic Czech words in a large-scale speech-metronome synchronization experiment. Journal of Phonetics, 55, 38–52.

Skarnitzl, R. & Šturm, P. (2016). Pre-fortis shortening in Czech English: A production and reaction-time study. Research in Language, 14, 1–14.

Skarnitzl, R. & Šturm, P. (2014). Assimilation of voicing in Czech speakers of English: The effect of the degree of accentedness. Research in Language, 12, 199–208. pdf

Šturm, P. & Volín, J. (2013). Morfologická informace a mentální zpracování souvislé řeči v češtině. Československá psychologie, 2013/6, 569–580.

Šturm, P. & Volín, J. (2012). Měření reakčních dob u experimentů s akustickými podněty. Akustické listy, 18(2-4), 25–30.

Šturm, P. & Volín, J. (2012). Syllables versus phones in a word–monitoring experiment. Studie z aplikované lingvistiky, 1–2/2012, 25–34.

Conference papers and other articles

Šturm, P. (2023). The 6th ICPhS in Prague and the organized life of phonetics. In: R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3231–3235). Praha: Guarant International. pdf

Volín J. & Šturm, P. (2023). The absence of pauses in spoken narratives and memory recall. In: R. Skarnitzl & J. Volín (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1430–1434). Praha: Guarant International. pdf

Cantarutti, M., Ogden, R., Šturm, P. & Trouvain, J. (2023). Laughing in interaction: How phonetic details can coordinate action sequences. In: Proceedings of the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop 2023 (pp. 38-42). pdf https://doi.org/10.21437/DiSS.2023-8

Šturm, P. (2022). The Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics in Prague between 1919 and 1939: Research practices and student instruction. In: Q. Lopes, A. Braun & M. Ashby (Eds.), HSCR 2022: LACERDA 120. Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (pp. 75-85). Dresden: TUDpress. pdf https://doi.org/10.21437/HSCR.2022-7

Volín, J., Svatošová, M., & Šturm, P. (2022). Fundamental frequency variation in polarity questions of Czech. In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2022, 852–856. pdf https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2022-173

Šturm, P., Skarnitzl, R., & Nechanský, T. (2021). Prosodic accommodation in face-to-face and telephone dialogues. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2021, 1444–1448. pdf https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-130

Jespersen, A.B., Šturm, P., & Hejná, M. (2021). On the feasibility of the Danish model of intonational transcription: Phonetic evidence from Jutlandic Danish. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2021, 2611–2615. pdf https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-190

Volín, J. & Šturm, P. (2021). Honouring historical facts: The case of intonational downtrends. In: J. Volín & P. Šturm (Eds.), HSCR 2021: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research (pp. 63-73). Dresden: TUDpress.

Šturm, P. & Volín, J. (2019). Perceptual evaluation of early versus late F0 peaks in the intonation structure of Czech question-word questions. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2019, Graz, 1976-1980. pdf

Šturm, P. (2019). Prague’s Institute of Phonetics celebrates 100 years. The Phonetician, 116, 59-60.

Šturm, P. (2019). The contribution of Czech phonetics to laryngeal investigation. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019, 1903–1907. Canberra: ASSTA. pdf

Bořil, T., Šturm, P., Skarnitzl, R. & Volín, J. (2017). Effect of formant and F0 discontinuity on perceived vowel duration: Impacts for concatenative speech synthesis. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2017, 2998–3002.

Zima, P. & Šturm, P. (2016). Remarks on segmental and suprasegmental roles of tones in Dendi-Songhay grammar. In: Zima, P. (Ed.), Europe and the Others: Occasional Research Bulletin, 73–93. München: LINCOM.

Šturm, P. (2015). The Prague historical collection of tuning forks: A surviving replica of the Koenig tonometre. In: Hoffmann, R. a Trouvain, J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the First International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research, 95–105. Dresden: TUDpress.

Churaňová, E., Šturm, P. & Weingartová, L. (2015). Changes in segmental timing in slow and fast metronome-synchronized speech. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 301. Glasgow: University of Glasgow.

Šturm, P. (2015). International phonetic congresses: The shift in research practices and areas of interest over 44 years. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 182. Glasgow: University of Glasgow.

Weingartová, L., Churaňová, E. & Šturm, P. (2014). Transitions, pauses and overlaps: Temporal characteristics of turn-taking in Czech. In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014, 502–506. Dublin: TCD.

Volín, J., Churaňová, E. & Šturm, P. (2014). P-centre position in natural two-syllable Czech words. In: Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2014, 920–924. Dublin: TCD.

Skarnitzl, R., Šturm, P. & Machač, P. (2013). The phonological voicing contrast in Czech: An EPG study of phonated and whispered fricatives. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2013, 3191–3195.

Šturm, P. & Skarnitzl, R. (2011). The open front vowel /æ/ in the production and perception of Czech students of English. In: Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, 1161–1164.

Machač, P. & Šturm, P. (2010). The phonological contrast of voicing in whispered Czech and its phonetic correlates – a preliminary study. In: Vích, R. (Ed.), 20th Czech-German Workshop – Speech Processing, 34–43. Praha.

 

 

2024 – 2026: Prosodic expression of utterance information structure in Czech (team member)

Past projects

2021 – 2023: Prosodic phrase in current spoken Czech: Meaning, balance, stochastic patterns (team member)

2018 – 2023: Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions for the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World (team member)

2016 – 2018: Combining phonetic and corpus-based approaches to remedy disruptive effects in synthetic speech (team member)

2012 – 2016: Effect of group variability factors on the perception of speaker personality (team member)

2014 – 2015: Cognitive load in processing speech with foreign accent (team member)

2012 – 2014: Speaker-specific characteristics in Czech and their potential applicability in forensic phonetic practice (team member)

I teach courses of Transcription, Articulatory Phonetics, Phonology, History of Phonetics, as well as a course of English Phonetics and Phonology.

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