Abstract
Samenvattend zien we aan de hand van concrete onderzoeksvraagstukken (bvb. sisklanken, plofklanken…) hoe de weg ons van akoestische studie naar universele typologie leidt. In deze lezing kunnen we de verworven kennis op concrete gevallen toepassen en een inzicht verkrijgen in de contrastieve fonetiek en fonologie, toegepast bvb. op het leren van vreemde talen.
Mini-bio:
Joachim Kokkelmans is postdoctoral research assistant in German Linguistics at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. His work focuses on the phonetics and phonology of Germanic and Romance varieties, with a particular interest in sibilants, sound change and computer-assisted methods.
He holds a Master’s degree in German and Scandinavian Linguistics and Literature from Ghent University (2017) and a Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Verona (2021). In his Ph.D. thesis, co-supervised by professors at the universities of Verona, Bozen-Bolzano and Amsterdam, he gathered data about the sibilant inventories of languages all over the world to create a sibilant typology that reflects and explains the large variation observed. His main interests lie in understanding patterns of dialectal and typological variation, the phonetics-phonology interface, Germanic-Romance contact and Alpine (minority) languages. He teaches German Linguistics to Ladin students at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano.