general research interest.
- corpora based quantitative analysis of speaker &
speaking variability
- typoplogy of linguistic voice quality / phonation
types and tonal feature composition
- dialectology, areal typology and
(socio)linguistic accomodation
- ethnography and linguistic anthropology of endangered
language communities
- phonetic lab work (EPG, EGG, ultrasound,
aerodynamics, high speed video, laryngoscopy)
- articulatory and physiological investigation in linguistic
phonetic fieldwork (EPG, EGG, ultrasound,
aerodynamics)
- human linguistic & paralinguistic vocal
behaviour and phonetics of throat singing,
throat games, overtone singing
current projects
- areal typology of glottalization and pharyngealization
in the area of the Caucasus and Transcaucasus (including
languages like Kurdish) [joint work with Don Stilo (MPI
EVAN Leipzig)]
- phonetics and tonology of Ket [joint work with
Ed Vajda (Western Washington U)]
- phonetic-phonemic variation in Vilela [joint
work with Lucia Gallucio (U Buenos Aires) and Juliette
Blevins(MPI EVAN Leipzig)]
- gemination and sibilants in Bangla (Bengali)
[joint work with Arunkumar Ghosh, (Burdwan University)]
- phonetic description of Gata', Bonda & Santali (Munda
languages in CE-India) [joint work with Arunkumar
Ghosh, Burdwan University]
- phonetic structures of Tsez, Beshtl'a, Hinukh,
Dargi [joint work with M. Khalilov (AcadSc
Makhachkala, Dagestan), Arsen Abdulaev (Dagestan), I.
Maddieson (U New Mexico), A. Simpson (U Jena), Diana
Forker (U Bamberg)]
- phonetics (clicks, ejectives, phonation types) of Western
!Xóõ [joint work with Christfried
Naumann (MPI EVAN Leipzig)]
- phonetic, prosodic-syntactic and morphophonemic
features in NE-Thuringian (Mansfelder Mundart)
and N-Saxonian (Ostmeissnisch)[ongoing data
collection and description, joint field work Christoph
Walter]
- acoustic-phonetic correlates of rhythmic
features [joint work with Ines Bose (U
Halle)]
Fieldwork:
- Tuva 1998, 2000, 2001 (Tyvan)
- Khakassia 1998, 2000 (Khakas)
- Tofalaria 2001, 2002 (Tofa)
- Mongolia 2002 (varieties of Tyvan in
Mongolia)
- Germany 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010
(Saxonian and Thuringian varieties of German)
- India 2006 (Santali, Gata', Bangla)
- Namibia 2006 (Western
!Xóõ)
- Egypt 2007 (Ghulfan, a language from
Sudan)
- Daghestan 2009
(Tsez, Hinuqh, Lezgi, Kumyk)
- Argentina 2012 (Vilela)