On the Physiology of Voice Production in South Siberian Throat Singing / Analysis of Acoustic and Electrophysiological Evidence
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DISSERTATION
zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie (Dr. phil.) vorgelegt der philosophischen
Fakultät der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenb erg Fachb ereich Musik-, Sp ort-
und Sprechwissenschaft von
Sven Grawunder
geb. 02.07.1971, in Halle a.d.Saale
Datum der Einreichung: 13.05.2005
http://email.eva.mpg.de/~grawunde/files/GrawPhD3.pdf
I’m a research fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. There I’m basically working on phonetics and phonology of a number of languages, especially from the Caucasus, Siberia, India, Southern Africa and Argentina. But recently I started doing research on the phonetics of human primates (chimps & bonobos).
SVEN GRAWUNDER
What am I doing?
In general …
- I’m eager to learn about modelling language change driven by language contact, social structures and geography
- I’m deeply interested in voice, voice perception and voice production from an evolutionary, behavioral and cultural perspective
- I’m deeply interested in the mechanisms of sound change and language involving acquisition, learning and accommodatin
- I enjoy doing field work e.g. in language documentation projects, and such engaged in documenting endangered languages
- I’m eager to learn more about specific phonetic details in individual languages, such as
- Ket (Yeniseic, Central Siberia)
- Tsez, Bezhta, Hinuqh, Dargi, Lezgi, Chamalal, Avar, Chechen, Ingush (Nakh-Dagestanian, North-East Caucasus), Georgian (Kartvelian),
- Gta’, Bonda (Munda, India)
- Hoocaak (Sioux, USA)
- German (especially Thuringian-Saxonian varieties)
- Taa (Tuu (KhoiSan))
- Kurmanji Kurdish (Iranian, Turkey/Armenia/Iraq/Azerbaidjan/Iran/…)
- Yoruba (Niger-Kongo), Oko, Ebira (Atlantic-Congo)
- Vilela (Lule-Vilela)
- Welsh (Celtic)
