Speech Science and Phonetics Department of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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Speech Science and Phonetics Department
Carrier: State of Saxony-Anhalt
Facility location: Halle (Saale)
Type of research: Applied research
Subjects: Humanities
Areas of expertise: Speech Science and Phonetics
Management: Susanne Voigt-Zimmermann (Director)
Employee: approx. 15 (permanent staff)
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The Speech Science and Phonetics Department has been part of the Institute for Music, Media and Speech Studies (IMMS) of the Philosophical Faculty II of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2016 . It stands in the tradition of the Phonetic Collection founded in 1910 and the Institute for Speech Studies founded in 1938 , the first institute of its kind in Germany. These were combined in 1947 to form the Institute for Speech Science and Phonetic Collection , from which the Institute for Speech Science and Phonetics emerged . From 2008 to 2016 the seminar for Speech Science and Phonetics was part of the Institute for Slavic Studies, Speech Science and Phonetics.

history

The Speech Science and Phonetics Department looks back on a history rich in tradition. An unscheduled proofreading for lecture art was first set up at the Friedrichs-Universität Halle-Wittenberg in 1905. Ewald Geißler took over the task on a voluntary basis from December. Since the summer semester of the following year rates were in speech training offered. The rhetoric , elocution and phonetics found its way into the curriculum. Geissler worked with the German language professor Franz Saran . In November 1910 Otto Bremer founded the Phonetic Collection .

After the end of the war in 1919, Richard Wittsack became a lecturer for speech technology and the art of speaking. The scheduled editing was then introduced and Wittsack created a linguistic collection. In 1929 the Department of Speech Studies of the Department of German Philology was established . Another department for voice and language disorders was later set up. An honorary professorship was established in 1937 and the Institute for Speech Studies was founded.

After the Second World War , the institute was merged with the Phonetic Collection to form the Institute for Speech Studies and Phonetic Collection . From 1948 Wittsack could call himself a professor. In the winter semester of 1952/53, the German studies course was introduced in conjunction with training in speech studies . In 1952, Hans Krech became director of the institute. Speech studies and speech training were added to the curriculum as early as 1956 . Krech became Professor of Applied Phonetics and Speech Therapy and in 1960 first Professor of Speech Science in Germany. The university founded its own specialty for this purpose. From 1961 to 1967 Eduard Kurka was head of the institute. The dictionary of German pronunciation , one of the most important reference works on the German language, was written under his leadership in 1964 . From 1967 to 1976 and from 1981 to 1993 Eberhard Stock then headed the institute. He became a professor of speech science here. His successor in the management of the institute was Eva-Maria Krech from 1976 to 1981 and again from 1993 to 1998 , who became a full professor in 1992.

From 1990 to 1995, as part of its orthoepic research , the institute worked together with the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Cologne on a revision of the Great Dictionary of German Pronunciation (funded by the Volkswagen Foundation ). In 1992, an additional master’s degree in speech science and phonetics was created, and in 1994 a local numerus clausus was introduced due to the high number of students . In 1998 Lutz-Christian Anders became Professor of Speech Science and Phonetics. Ursula Hirschfeld received a professorship in 1999. Both then led the institute alternately. Since the winter semester of 2006, a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in speech science was introduced in 2009 . In 2009, leading employees of the institute published the German pronunciation dictionary , which was published by de Gruyter .

The Institute for Speech Science and Phonetics merged with the Institute for Slavic Studies in 2008. However, the two areas were each retained as a separate seminar. The seminar for speech science and phonetics was led alternately by Ursula Hirschfeld and Baldur Neuber . On October 1, 2016, the Institute for Slavic Studies, Speech Studies and Phonetics was split up again. Since then, the Speech Studies and Phonetics division has formed one of the four departments of the Institute for Music, Media and Speech Studies, alongside media and communication studies, music education and musicology. In 2017, Hirschfeld's successor was Susanne Voigt-Zimmermann , who has held the Chair of Speech Science since then and who heads the department alternately with Neuber.

research

The current research focuses are:

  • Knowledge research: knowledge traditions and transformation processes
  • Cultural contact processes
  • Action optimization: analysis - competence - performance
  • Mediumship

Publications

The institute is the editor of the Hallesche Schriften zur Speechwissenschaft and Phonetik .

Former university professors

Well-known graduates

literature

  • Ines Bose (Ed.): Speech Science. 100 years of specialist history at the University of Halle. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 2007.
  • André Hüttner: On the development of linguistic phonetics at the University of Halle (Saale) until 1961. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2019.
  • Eva-Maria Krech, Eberhard Stock (Hrsg.): Speech science - To history and present. Festschrift for the 90th anniversary of speech studies / speech training at the University of Halle. Peter Lang, Frankfurt a. M. 1999.

Web links

Individual proof

  1. ↑ Institute for Slavic Studies, Speech Science and Phonetics (until 09/2016) in the research portal Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on June 3, 2019.
  2. ^ History of the institute , Department of Speech Science and Phonetics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Retrieved March 15, 2020.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 6.2 ″  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 2.6 ″  E