Tamara Rathcke

Publications

75 of 75 publications

Journal articles

forthcoming

  1. Rossi, M., Rathcke, T.V., Keller, P. Rethinking Rhythmic Deficits in Dyslexia: Evidence for an Atypical but Flexible Internal Timekeeper. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.

2026

  1. Rathcke, T.V., Kubozono, H., Lin, C. Speech rhythm perception in Japanese: Evidence from sensorimotor synchronisation with connected speech. Language and Speech.
  2. Rathcke, T.V., & Canzi, M. Individual differences in musical melody perception moderate the speech-to-song illusion in Mandarin Chinese listeners. Scientific Reports 16, 10523.
  3. Rossi, M., Canzi, M., Rathcke, T.V. Phoneme monitoring in developmental dyslexia: Pupillometric evidence for cognitive rather than acoustic origins of phonological deficits. Brain Sciences 16(7), 697.

2025

  1. Rathcke, T., & Smit, E. A. Musical aptitude moderates ease and vividness but not frequency of the speech-to-song illusion. Scientific Reports, 15, 33315.
  2. Rossi, M., Rathcke, T. Dissociation between attention and phonological processing in developmental dyslexia: New evidence from Italian. Reading Psychology, 1-41.
  3. Lin, C. Y., & Rathcke, T. V. Acoustic and linguistic influences on rise-time modulations in natural English speech: evidence from a sensorimotor synchronization paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1544948.
  4. Rossi, M., Smit, E.A. Rathcke, T. Testing the dyslexic rhythm deficit in Italian: evidence from sensorimotor synchronization with connected speech. Reading and Writing, 1-23.
  5. Rathcke, T. The timing of speech-to-speech synchronization is governed by the P-center. Communications Biology 8, 107.
  6. Smit, E., Rathcke, T. The role of native language and beat perception ability in the perception of speech rhythm. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32, 342–351.

2024

  1. Rathcke, T., Falk, S., Dalla Bella, S. Why does speech sometimes sound like song? Exploring the role of music-related priors in the speech-to-song illusion. Music & Science.
  2. Smit, E., Rathcke, T. Beyond musical training: Individual influences on the perception of the speech-to-song illusion. Psychology of Music, 03057356241256652.
  3. Rossi, M., Smit, E.A., van der Werff, J., Ravignani, A., Rathcke, T. Testing rhythmic abilities in developmental dyslexia: Is internal rhythm generation intact? Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 42(2), 135-148.
  4. Rathcke, T., Smit, E., Zheng, Y., Canzi, M. Perception of temporal structure in speech is influenced by body movement and individual beat perception ability. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-17.
  5. Rathcke, T., Smit, E., Lin, C., Kubozono, H. Testing an acoustic model of the P-center in English and Japanese. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 155, 2698-2706.
  6. Rathcke, T.V., Wong, H. Y., Canzi, M. The role of sound-to-symbol literacy in phonological awareness: Evidence from Cantonese. Brain Research, 1845, 149240.
  7. Vari, J., Rathcke, T., & Cichocka, A. Perception of charisma in text and speech: The role of emotion dimensions and inclusive deixis. Journal of Language and Politics, 1-33.

2023

  1. Rathcke, T., & Lin, C. Y. An acoustic study of rhythmic synchronization with natural English speech. Journal of Phonetics, 100, 101263.
  2. Smit, E. A., Rathcke, T., & Keller, P. E. Tuning the musical mind: Next steps in solving the puzzle of the cognitive transfer of musical training to language and back. Music & Science, 6, 20592043231175251.
  3. Zuban, Y., Rathcke, T., & Zerbian, S. Do Different Majority Languages Lead to Different Intonational Grammars? A Case Study of Yes/No-Questions in Heritage Russian. Heritage Language Journal, 20(1), 1-43.

2022

  1. Rathcke, T., & Fuchs, S. Laugh is in the air: An exploratory analysis of laughter during speed dating. Frontiers in Communication, 170.
  2. Rathcke, T., & Mooshammer, C. 'Grandpa' or 'opera'? Production and perception of unstressed/a/and/əʁ/in German. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 52(1), 33-58.

2021

  1. Rathcke, T., & Lin, C. Y. Towards a Comprehensive Account of Rhythm Processing Issues in Developmental Dyslexia. Brain Sciences, 11(10), 1303.
  2. Rathcke, T., Falk, S., & Dalla Bella, S. Music to your ears: Sentence sonority and listener background modulate the "speech-to-song illusion". Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 38(5), 499-508.
  3. Rathcke, T., Lin, C. Y., Falk, S., & Bella, S. D. Tapping into linguistic rhythm. Laboratory Phonology, 12(1).

2020

  1. Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J, Knowles, T., Macdonald, R., Rathcke, T. Structured heterogeneity in Scottish stops over the 20th century. Language 96(1), 94-125.
  2. Smith, R., Rathcke, T. Dialectal phonology constrains the phonetics of prominence. Journal of Phonetics 78, 1-17.

2017

  1. Rathcke, T. How truncating are 'truncating languages'? Evidence from Russian and German. Phonetica 73, 194-228.

2016

  1. Rathcke, T., Stuart-Smith, J., Torsney, B., Harrington, J. The beauty in a beast: Minimising the effects of diverse recording quality on vowel formant measurements in sociophonetic real-time studies. Speech Communication 86, 24-41.
  2. Smith, R., Rathcke, T. Glasgow gloom or Leeds glue? Dialect-specific vowel duration constrains lexical segmentation and access. Phonetica 74, 1-24.

2015

  1. Rathcke, T. and Stuart-Smith, J. On the Tail of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Glasgow. Language and Speech, 1-27.
  2. Stuart-Smith, J, Sonderegger, M., Rathcke, T., Macdonald, R. The private life of stops: VOT in a real-time corpus of spontaneous Glaswegian. Laboratory Phonology 6(3-4), 505–549.
  3. Rathcke, T. and Smith, R. Speech Timing and Linguistic Rhythm: On the Acoustic Bases of Rhythm Typologies. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137, 2834-2845.

2014

  1. Falk, S., Rathcke, T., & Dalla Bella, S. When Speech Sounds Like Music. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 40, 1491-1506. (chosen for APA: PeePs - Particularly exciting experiments in Psychology, 11th of September 2014).
  2. Smith, R., Rathcke, T., Cummins, F., Overy, K., Scott, S. Introduction: Communicative Rhythms in Brain and Behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369: 20130389-20130389.

2013

  1. Baumann, S., Rathcke, T. Disambiguating the scope of negation by prosodic cues in three varieties of German. Lingua 131, 29-48.
  2. Rathcke, T. On the neutralising status of truncation in intonation: a comparative study of high and low boundary tones in German and Russian. Journal of Phonetics 41(3), 172–185.

Books and book chapters

2026

  1. Rathcke, T. The P-center effect and the domain of beat perception in speech. in L. Meyer and A. Strauß (eds.) Rhythms of Speech and Language: Culture, Cognition, and the Brain. Cambridge University Press.

2024

  1. Kleber, F., & Rathcke, T. On the nature of speech dynamics: approaches to studying synchronic variation and diachronic change. Speech Dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change, 36, 1.
  2. Rathcke, T., Castellano, C., Canzi, M. Understanding the role of broadcast media in sound change. In: F. Kleber, T. Rathcke (eds.) Speech dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change. De Gruyter.

2017

  1. Stuart-Smith, J., Jose, B., Rathcke, T., Macdonald, R. and Lawson, E. Changing sounds in a changing city: An acoustic phonetic investigation of real-time change across a century of Glaswegian. In E. Moore and C. Montgomery (eds.), A Sense of Place. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2015

  1. Stuart-Smith, J., Rathcke, T., Sonderegger, M., Macdonald, R. A real-time study of plosives in Glaswegian using an automatic measurement algorithm: Change or age-grading? In: Torgersen, E. et al. (eds). Language Variation - European Perspectives V. John Benjamins, pp. 225-238.

2011

  1. Falk, S., Rathcke, T. The Speech-To-Song Illusion Revisited. In: K. Dębowska-Kozłowska and K. Dziubalska-Kołaczyk (eds.) On Words and Sounds: A Selection of Papers from the 40th Poznan Linguistics Meeting. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-24.

2010

  1. Rathcke, T., Harrington, J. The variability of early accent peaks in Standard German. In Papers in Laboratory Phonology 10, 533-556.

2009

  1. Rathcke, T. Kontrastive Phonetik und Phonologie der Intonationssysteme des Deutschen und des Russischen. München: Herbert Utz Verlag.

Edited volumes and theme issues

2024

  1. Kleber, F., Rathcke, T. Speech dynamics: Synchronic Variation and Diachronic Change. De Gruyter.

2014

  1. Smith, R., Rathcke, T., Cummins, F., Overy, K., Scott, S. Communicative Rhythms in Brain and Behaviour. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences [Special Issue of Philosophical Transactions B, volume 369, issue 1658] 369:20130389-20130398.

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings and working papers

2025

  1. Quirós Ramírez, M. A., Link, P., Frassinelli, D., Rathcke, T., & Streuber, S. Do Personalized 3D Avatars Carry on Perceived Personality Traits? In Proceedings XRMind.

2024

  1. Rathcke, T., Lin, C., Smit, E., Frassinelli, D. Taken by surprisal? On the role of linguistic predictability in speech rhythm. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Leiden/Netherlands.
  2. Link, P., Srismith, D., Quiros-Ramirez, M. A., Vári, J., Shikano, S., Streuber, S., Rathcke, T.V., Frassinelli, D. If it moves like a person, and it talks like a person, it is probably an avatar. In Proceedings of the 30th Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP).

2023

  1. Rathcke, T., Kapogianni, E., Page, L. Timing of laughter in conversation: Better late than never? Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne/Australia.
  2. Canzi, M., Rathcke, T. Unmasking the truf: Impact of community masks on the perception of voiceless fricatives in English. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne/Australia.
  3. Rossi, M., Smit, E., Rathcke, T. Rhythm deficits in developmental dyslexia: Evidence from Italian. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne/Australia.

2021

  1. West, N., Rathcke, T., Smith, R. Timing in speech and music of contemporary Scottish composers. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Lisbon/Portugal.

2020

  1. Lin, C., Rathcke, T. How to hit that beat: Testing acoustic anchors of rhythmic movement with speech. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Tokyo/Japan.
  2. Zuban, Y., Rathcke, T., Zerbian, S. Intonation of yes-no questions by heritage speakers of Russian. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Speech Prosody, Tokyo/Japan.

2019

  1. Rathcke, T., Lin, C., Falk, S., Dalla Bella, S. When language hits the beat: synchronising movement to simple tonal and verbal stimuli. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne/Australia.

2015

  1. Rathcke, T., Smith, R. Rhythm class perception by expert phoneticians. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. London: International Phonetic Association.
  2. Arvaniti, A., Rathcke, T. The role of stress in syllable monitoring. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. London: International Phonetic Association.

2011

  1. Rathcke, T., Smith, R. Exploring timing in accents of British English. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, China.
  2. Baumann, S., Rathcke, T. Interpreting the scope of negation in three varieties of German – the effect of prosodic cues. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, China.
  3. Stuart-Smith, J., Smith, R., Rathcke, T., Li Santi, F., Holmes, S. Responding to accents after experiencing interactive or mediated speech. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Hong Kong, China.

2010

  1. Falk, S., Rathcke, T. On the Speech-To-Song Illusion: Evidence from German. In: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Speech Prosody, Chicago, Illinois.

2008

  1. Kleber, F., Rathcke, T. More on the „segmental anchoring" of prenuclear rises: Evidence from East Middle German. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Speech Prosody, Campinas, Brazil, 583-586.

2007

  1. Rathcke, T., Harrington, J. The phonetics and phonology of high and low tones in two falling f0-contours in Standard German. Proceedings of the 8th Interspeech, Antwerpen, Belgium, 982-985.
  2. Bombien, L., Mooshammer, C., Hoole, P., Rathcke, T. Articulatory strengthening in initial German /kl/ clusters under prosodic variation. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Phonetic Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany, 457-560.

2006

  1. Rathcke, T. A perceptual study on Russian questions and statements. In J.M. Harrington, C. Mooshammer, F. Kleber (eds.) AIPUK 37, 51-62.
  2. Rathcke, T. Relevance of f0 peak shape and alignment for the perception of a functional contrast in Russian. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Speech Prosody, Dresden, Germany, 65-68.
  3. Rathcke, T., Harrington, J. Is there a distinction between H+!H* and H+L* in standard German? Evidence from an acoustic and auditory analysis. Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Speech Prosody, Dresden, Germany, 783-786.

Other conference proceedings

2023

  1. Tsaroucha, A., Canzi, M., Rathcke, T. Effects of face mask on the perception of English fricatives by native speakers of Greek. Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Belgrade.

2018

  1. Fuchs, S., Rathcke, T. Laugh is in the air? Physiological analysis of laughter as a correlate of attraction during speed dating. Proceedings of the 2nd Laughter Workshop. Paris.

2016

  1. Rathcke, T., Chevalier, F., Stuart-Smith, J. What is the fate of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in Glasgow? Die 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum.
  2. Mooshammer, C., Rathcke, T. Opa vs Oper: Neutralization of /ɐ/ and unstressed /a/ contrast in a perception and production study. Die 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum.
  3. Tanaka, H., Rathcke, T. Then, what is charisma? The role of audio-visual prosody in L1 and L2 political speeches. Die 12. Tagung Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum.

Pre-registrations

2025

  1. Gallo, A., Frassinelli, D., Kunkel, S., Link, P., Quiros-Ramirez, A., Shikano, S., Streuber, S., Rathcke, T. Speaker characteristics or listener beliefs? A perception study of political charisma and leader suitability using high fidelity meta-human avatars. OSF Pre-registrations.