Allard Jongman

As a phonetician, I am interested in the study of speech. My research program investigates units and levels of representation in terms of speech perception and speech production. I use detailed acoustic and perceptual analyses of the speech signal to understand the complex interaction between phonetic, phonological, and lexical information. Acoustic analyses identify cues that uniquely characterize classes of speech sounds. Perceptual experiments investigate the roles these cues play in speech perception. These production and perception experiments seek converging evidence from cross-linguistic data (e.g., Dutch, English, German, Greek, Korean, Malayalam, Mandarin). My research also addresses related questions of language learning: what is the nature of the phonetic representations in learning a second language, and how are these representations affected by one's native language categories? Such issues also enable me to investigate the contribution of language-specific versus more general auditory mechanisms in perception.
Phone: (785) 864-2384
Address: 422 Blake Hall 
1541 Lilac Lane     
University of Kansas 
Lawrence, KS  66044-3177 
USA