The IPA Thesis Award Certificate was handed over to the winner

On January 10, 2025, the IPA Secretary, Oliver Niebuhr, visited the Phonetics Institutes within the Dept. of Linguistics at the University of Cologne (Germany). We are very pleased that we were able to personally present our first winner of the IPA Thesis Award, Simona Sbranna, with her certificate during this meeting. Simona received the award for an impressive thesis on "Developing linguistic competence in second language learning: Fluency and prosody in Italian learners of German."

The photo shows from left to right the IPA Secretary Oliver Niebuhr, the award winner Simona Sbranna (now a postdoc researcher at the Cologne Phonetics Institute), and the director of the Phonetics Lab, Martine Grice.

We are very much looking forward to the new insightful submissions for the 2025 round of the award. The deadline for submitting the PhD thesis and the associated documents will again be in late summer 2025. We will announce it in good time.

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