Adrian Simpson

Adrian P. Simpson (* 1962 ) is a British-German linguist and professor of speech studies. He teaches at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena .

Life

Simpson is from England. From 1981 to 1985 he studied at the University of York and ended the study with a BA Hons. in Linguistics . From 1987 to 1992 he was a lecturer at the English seminar at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , and since 1991 research assistant at the seminar for natural language systems.

In 1992 Simpson became a DPhil. PhD from the University of York. From 1992 to 2001 he was a research assistant and from 1998 academic advisor at the Institute for Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

He completed his habilitation at the same university in 1998. In the following year, Simpson held the chair for phonetics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken . From 2001 to 2003 he was the representative of the professorship for speech science at the Institute for German Linguistics at the University of Jena and then took over this professorship himself in May 2003.

Focus

Simpson's focus is on the phonetic expression of gender in language, the phonetics and phonology of spontaneous speech and the relationship between phonetics and phonology.

Publications (selection)

The Kiel corpus of read, spontaneous speech. Acoustic data base, processing tools and analysis results , Kiel 1997, Institute for Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing
Phonetic databases of German in empirical language research and phonological theory formation , Kiel 1998, Institute for Phonetics and Digital Language Processing

Web links

Literature by and about Adrian Simpson in the catalog of the German National Library
Internet presence at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Biography ( Memento from February 20, 2003 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ Adrian Simpson, Prof. Dr. , Directory of Germanists, published by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Association of Germanists.
^ Adrian Simpson. October 26, 2002, archived from the original on February 20, 2003 ; Retrieved April 2, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Simpson, Adrian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Simpson, Adrian P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British-German linguist and professor of speech studies
DATE OF BIRTH	1962

[1] Adrian Simpson, Prof. Dr. , Directory of Germanists, published by the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Association of Germanists.

[2] Adrian Simpson. October 26, 2002, archived from the original on February 20, 2003 ; Retrieved April 2, 2014 .