Helene Killmer-Rumpf

Stipendiat - Lingvistikk

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E-post helene.killmer-rumpf@iln.uio.no

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Brukernavn

Besøksadresse Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 Henrik Wergelands hus 0313 Oslo

Postadresse Postboks 1102 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Andre tilknytninger Det humanistiske fakultet (Student)

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Bakgrunn

Jeg er oppvokst i Tyskland. Etter at jeg studerte Speech Therapy, Linguistics og Speech and Language Pathology i Nederland og Sørafrika, jobbet jeg som logoped, foreleser og forskningsassistent i Nederland, Sveits og Tyskland. Jeg får energi av Pilates og svømming. For å slappe av leser jeg moderne og klassisk litteratur, og jeg benytter Feldenkraismetoden. Kulturelle aktiviteter som teater- og museumsbesøk er også viktige kilder til inspirasjon.

For meg som logoped er et av de viktigste målene for min forskning å kunne bedre kommunikasjonsevnen. Derfor forsker jeg på kommunikative evner og svekkelser hos personer med afasi. Afasi er en ervervet språkvanske, som regel en følge av slag. Afasi påvirker evnen til å produsere og forstå språk og evnen til å lese og skrive.

Project description

With my PhD project, I aim to gain a better understanding of the interactive organization of

Participation in conversations by persons with aphasia.

I explore this with empirical data collected from German face-to-face interactions of couples where one of the participants suffers from aphasia. The method used is Conversation Analysis. The data originate from a corpus stored in the data bank AphaDB provided by Prof. Dr. Auer (University of Freiburg, Germany) and Dr. Angelika Bauer (School of Speech and Language Therapy, Freiburg).

Prof. Dr. Jan Svennevig (University of Oslo) and Dr. Suzanne Beeke (University College London) supervise my project.

Teaching

Speech therapy for persons with a developmental disability (fall 2010 and fall 2012)

Speech therapy and bilingualism (spring 2011 and spring 2012)

Collaborations

COPACA - Communicatie en participatie bij chronische afasie

MemoGram - Grammar and memory: evidence from agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer's disease in German, Italian and Greek

LOLA – the Laboratory for Oral Language Acquisition

Emneord: Klinisk lingvistikk, Afasi, Samtaleforskning, Psykolingvistikk

Killmer, Helene; Svennevig, Jan & Beeke, Suzanne (2021). Joint planning in conversations with a person with aphasia . Journal of Pragmatics. ISSN 0378-2166. 187(1), s. 72–89. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.10.021. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Killmer, Helene; Beeke, Suzanne & Svennevig, Jan (2021). Collaborative storytelling with a person with aphasia - Promoting agency in a multiparty interaction . Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders. ISSN 2040-5111. 11(1), s. 78–104. doi: 10.1558/jircd.20902. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
Noiray, Aude; Popescu, Anisia; Killmer, Helene; Rubertus, Elina; Krüger, Stella & Hintermeier, Lisa (2019). Spoken Language Development and the Challenge of Skill Integration. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 10. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02777. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag
The development of phonological awareness, the knowledge of the structural combinatoriality of a language, has been widely investigated in relation to reading (dis) ability across languages. However, the extent to which knowledge of phonemic units may interact with spoken language organization in (transparent) alphabetical languages has hardly been investigated. The present study examined whether phonemic awareness correlates with coarticulation degree, commonly used as a metric for estimating the size of children’s production units. A speech production task was designed to test for developmental differences in intra-syllabic coarticulation degree in 41 German children from 4 to 7 years of age. The technique of ultrasound imaging allowed for comparing the articulatory foundations of children’s coarticulatory patterns. Four behavioral tasks assessing various levels of phonological awareness from large to small units and expressive vocabulary were also administered. Generalized additive modeling revealed strong interactions between children’s vocabulary and phonological awareness with coarticulatory patterns. Greater knowledge of sub-lexical units was associated with lower intra-syllabic coarticulation degree and greater differentiation of articulatory gestures for individual segments. This interaction was mostly nonlinear: an increase in children’s phonological proficiency was not systematically associated with an equivalent change in coarticulation degree. Similar findings were drawn between vocabulary and coarticulatory patterns. Overall, results suggest that the process of developing spoken language fluency involves dynamical interactions between cognitive and speech motor domains. Arguments for an integrated-interactive approach to skill development are discussed.

Se alle arbeider i Cristin

Killmer, Helene (2022). Anmodninger av foreldre med afasi – muligheter og begrensninger.
Killmer, Helene; Svennevig, Jan & Beeke, Suzanne (2021). Agency in Collaborative Storytelling - reflecting Competence in Aphasia.
Fyndanis, Valantis; Capasso, Rita; Killmer, Helene; Malefaki, Sonia; Miceli, Gabriele & Grohmann, Kleanthes (2020). Sentential negation in German and Italian agrammatic aphasia.
Killmer, Helene; Svennevig, Jan & Beeke, Suzanne (2019). Joint planning talk.
Killmer, Helene; Svennevig, Jan & Beeke, Suzanne (2019). Joint planning talk in conversations of persons with aphasia .
Killmer, Helene (2017). Repetition as a resource in conversations of a person with aphasia.
Killmer, Helene (2017). Repetition as a resource in conversations of a person with aphasia.
Killmer, Helene (2017). Collaborative storytelling in conversations of persons with aphasia.
Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Efstratiadou, Eva; Wartenburger, Isabell; Burchert, Frank; Killmer, Helene & Chatziantoniou, Lina [Vis alle 8 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2017). Morphosyntactic production in Greek-German bilingual agrammatic aphasia: A case study.
Fyndanis, Valantis; Miceli, Gabriele; Semenza, Carlo; Capasso, Rita; Christidou, Paraskevi & De Pellegrin, Serena [Vis alle 14 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2017). (Morpho)syntactic production in agrammatic aphasia: Testing three hypotheses within a cross-linguistic approach.
Killmer, Helene (2016). The role of repetition in conversation of persons with aphasia.
Fyndanis, Valantis; Miceli, Gabriele; Semenza, Carlo; Christidou, Paraskevi; Killmer, Helene & Capasso, Rita [Vis alle 16 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2016). Time reference in Greek, Italian and German agrammatic aphasia: A test of the PAst DIscource Linking Hypothesis.
Fyndanis, Valantis; Arcara, Giorgio; Arfani, Dimitra; Burchert, Frank; Burgio, Francesca & Cagnin, Annachiara [Vis alle 22 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2016). Time reference in agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer’s disease: A cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse Linking Hypothesis.
Fyndanis, Valantis; Arcara, Giorgio; Arfani, Dimitra; Burchert, Frank; Burgio, Francesca & Cagnin, Annachiara [Vis alle 22 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2016). Time reference in agrammatic aphasia and probable Alzheimer’s disease: A cross-linguistic test of the PAst DIscourse LInking Hypothesis. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. doi: 10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2016.68.00097.
Killmer, Helene; Frankel, Tali & Penn, Claire (2015). A study of repetition in the conversation of persons with aphasia.