Research

Research interests/topics

• Phonetics-phonology Interface
• Typology (Phonology of Germanic, Slavic, Romance and Austronesian language families)
• The role of perceptual distinctiveness in phonology
• The influence of aerodynamics on cross-linguistic phonological patterns
• Prosodic phonology

Current research topics

• Boundary phenomena in speech
• Typology of insertions
• Deletions in phonetics & phonology

Member of the following research projects at ZAS

• 2000
  Neutralisations
• 2000 - 2002
  Phonological Word
• 2003 - 2005
  Manner alternations in phonology
• 2006 - 2007
  The role of perception in phonology
• since 2008
  Boundary phenomena in speech

Other projects

• 02 - 03/1986
  Development of an audio-visual telephony for hearing-impaired people (Technical University, Berlin, EU Project; TIDE agreement)
• 2006 - 2009
  Articulatory and perceptual factors involved in phonetic and phonological sound change (Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation)