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Prof. Dr. Adrian P. Simpson

Institut für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Fürstengraben 30
07743 Jena
Germany

Tel: +49-3641-944330
Fax: +49-3641-944332
Mail: Adrian.Simpson[at]uni-jena.de

Teaching | CV | Research
Publications | Organisations
Teaching Surgery hour (from 10.04.13):

Wednesdays, 11.00-12.30

Courses summer term 2013

Einführung in die Phonetik und Phonologie der deutschen Sprache (B-GSW-01)
lecture, Fri 8.15 - 9.00

Theoretische und praktische Phonologie (B-GSW-09 / Sprewi-10)
lecture, Fri 9.15 - 10.00 | seminar, Thu 12.15 - 13.45

Anwendungsgebiete der experimentellen Phonetik (Sprewi-09)
seminar, Thu 14.15 - 15.45 | lab, Thu 16.15 - 17.45

Komparative Phonetik und Phonologie (M-GSW-01)
seminar (theory), Fri 10.15 - 11.45 | seminar (practical), Thu 10.15 - 11.45

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Since May 2003 Professor of speech at the Institute of German Linguistics, University of Jena
10/2001-4/2003 Acting chair of speech at the Institute of German Linguistics, University of Jena
4/1999-9/1999 Acting chair at the Institute of Phonetics, University of the Saarland
10/1992-9/2001 Lecturer at the Institute of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing, University of Kiel
10/1987-9/1992 University of Tübingen, language assistant at the Dept. of English; lecturer in phonetics at the Dept. of Natural Language Systems (from 10/1991)
8/1992 DPhil, Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York (Download thesis)
10/1981-7/1985 BA Hons Language, University of York
Research Phonetic correlates of sex and gender
Articulatory and acoustic differences between male and female speech. Which differences are learnt, which are anatomical and physiological inevitabilities?

Phonetics and phonology of spontaneous speech
Description and explanations of the phonetic patterns of spontaneous speech.

Nonpulmonic epiphenomenal sound production
Clicks and ejectives emerge as epiphenomenal products of certain nasal and oral stop sequences where the place of articulation of the first stop is anterior to that of the second, e.g. [-mk-].

Funded projects
Acoustic and articulatory aspects of sex and gender in German
Interactions of visual and auditory information in social perception related to gender and ethnicity
Recent
publications


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Simpson, A. P. (2012). The first and second harmonics should not be used to measure breathiness in male and female voices. Journal of Phonetics 40, 477-490.
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Simpson, A. P. (2011). Is there a relationship between acoustic vowel space size and fundamental frequency? In Proc. XVIIth ICPhS, pp. 1854-1857, Hong Kong.
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Grawunder, S.; Simpson, A. P.; Khalilov, M. (2010). Phonetic characteristics of ejectives - samples from Caucasian languages. In Fuchs, S.; Toda, M.; Zygis, M., eds., Turbulent sounds. An interdisciplinary guide, Interface Explorations, pp. 209-244. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
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Simpson, A. P. (2009). Phonetic differences between male and female speech. Language and Linguistics Compass, 3(2): 621-640.
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Simpson, A. P. (2009). Breathiness differences in male and female speech. Is H1-H2 an appropriate measure? In Branderud, P.; Traunmüller, H., eds., Proc. FONETIK 2009, pp. 172-175, Stockholm.
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Simpson, A. P.; Grawunder, S. (2008). Intraoral pressure variation in nasal-plosive and plosive-plosive sequences in German. In Proc. 8th International Seminar on Speech Production, Strasbourg.
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Simpson, A. P. (2007). Acoustic and auditory correlates of non-pulmonic sound production in German. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 37(2): 173-182.
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Simpson, A. P.; Meinhold, G. (2007). Compensatory articulations in a case of congenital aglossia. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 21(7): 543-556.
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Simpson, A. P. (2006). Phonetic processes in discourse. In Brown, K., ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, vol. 9, pp. 379-385. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
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Simpson, A. P. (2006). Hesitation phenomena and pauses. In Brown, K., ed., Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Edition, vol. 5, pp. 284-288. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
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Organisations International Phonetic Association
British Association of Academic Phoneticians
Acoustical Society of America
International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics
Mitteldeutscher Verband für Sprechwissenschaft und Sprecherziehung e.V.
© 2012 Adrian P. Simpson