Jens-Peter Koester

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jens-Peter Koester

Jens-Peter Koester (born April 29, 1942 in Magdeburg ) is a retired German professor of applied linguistics and phonetics .

Life path

Jens-Peter Koester attended school in Altmark and after the family moved to the Federal Republic of Westphalia and Lower Saxony. After graduating from high school, in the summer semester of 1963 he began studying general linguistics , philosophy , psychology , pedagogy , English and Romance studies at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel and in the same semester became a member of the Weinheimer Corps Alemannia Kiel. After completing his undergraduate studies, he moved to the Sorbonne in Paris in 1965 , where he also studied phonetics and in 1966 obtained the Diplôme de Phonétique. He returned to Kiel and completed his other courses in 1968 with the state examination for teaching and Magister Artium.

This was followed by employment as a research assistant in English in Kiel and Stuttgart, as a lecturer in German in Reading in England and as a research assistant in phonetics in Hamburg. In 1973 he received a Phonetics major in phonetics summa cum laude with an opus eximium on the history of speech synthesis at the University of Hamburg. phil. PhD.

In 1974 he accepted a professorship for applied linguistics at the University of Trier after he had turned down professorships for applied linguistics at the University of Laval in Quebec and the Free University of Brussels . He also turned down another appointment to a professorship for speech communication at the University of Florida in the USA in 1990.

In Trier, Koester founded the independent subject of phonetics and was appointed to the newly created professorship in 1991, which he held until he retired in 2007. He became internationally known as a phonetician and developed Trier into a scientific stronghold of forensic phonetics. By applying phonetic knowledge, he was able to develop scientific methods that are used in comparative court reports for convicting offenders.

His research interests included general and applied phonetics, forensic communication, applied linguistics, voice, speech and language disorders, phonology as well as English and Romance philology.

As part of the academic self-administration, Koester headed the Phonetics department at Trier University since 1974. From 1991 to 1995 he was Senator of the University of Trier, from 1991 to 1993 Vice Dean of the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the University of Trier, from 1993 to 1995 its dean. Since 1988 he has been the head of the Phonetics Transfer Office at Trier University.

For almost four decades he was involved in international scientific associations. In the International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS) he was auditor from 1971 to 1987, vice president from 1987 to 1995, secretary general from 1991 to 1998, executive vice president from 1995 to 1998 and president from 1998 to 2003. Since 2003 he has been the former president of the ISPhS. From 1996 to 2002 he was chairman of the research committee of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA), from 1997 to 2004 chairman of the IAFPA accreditation committee. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Permanent Council of the Organization of International Congresses of Phonetic Sciences, which is responsible for the scientific planning and content organization of the four-year congress for phonetic sciences.

In 2005 Jens-Peter Koester was awarded membership of the Kösener Corps Marchia Brünn zu Trier.

Honors

Jens-Peter Koester was honored as a "Fellow" in 1979 by the International Society of Phonetic Sciences (ISPhS). In 1985 the ISPhS awarded him the "Kay Elemetrics Award" and in 1986 the "Svend Smith Memorial Award".

The American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) honored him in 1995 as a "Fellow".

The Acoustical Society of America (ASA) awarded Koester a "Fellow" in 1996 and the "Silver Certificate" in 2002.

Publications

Books

  • Jens-Peter Köster: Historical development of synthesis apparatus for the generation of static vowel-like signals along with studies on the synthesis of German vowels. Hamburg 1973
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Studies on Phonetics and Linguistics, Miscell IX. Hamburg 1973–1985, 10 independent volumes
  • Viktor A. Borowsky and Jens-Peter Köster: New Tendencies in Applied Phonetics I. Hamburg 1985
  • Viktor A. Borowsky and Jens-Peter Köster: New Tendencies in Applied Phonetics II. Hamburg 1987
  • Jens-Peter Köster: New Trends in Applied Phonetics III. Hamburg 1990
  • Angelika Braun and Jens-Peter Köster: Studies in Forensic Phonetics. Trier 1995

Essays

(Selection from 51 scientific articles)

  • Jens-Peter Köster and Svend Smith: On the interpretation of electrical and photoelectric glottograms. Folia Phoniatrica 22, 1970, pp. 92-99.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Rôle de l'intonation dans l'information émotionnelle de phrases allemandes synthétisées. In: A. Rigault and R. Charbonneau: Proceedings of the 7th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Montreal 1971. Den Haag 1972, pp. 914-929.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Assessment of synthetic vowel-like signals by students of different ages and their consequences for language teaching. Hamburg Phonetic Contributions 9, 1973, pp. 47-84.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Artificial intonation patterns in the judgment of German and non-German listeners. Hamburger Phonetic Contributions 13, 1974, pp. 21-39.
  • Jens-Peter Köster and Jean A. Dreyfus-Graf: Optimization de phonocodes par tests d'intelligibilité avec des sujets allemands , text of the Exposé Présentés aux 6èmes Journées d'Etude sur la Parole (Groupement des Acousticiens de Langue Française), Toulouse 1975. Toulouse 1975, vol. I, pp. 405-410, vol. II, pp. 158-159.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Outline of historical approaches to speech synthesis. Speech Analysis and Synthesis IV, 1975, pp. 41-104.
  • Jens-Peter Köster and Jean A. Dreyfus-Graf: Phonocodes and the perception of constructed languages. Hamburger Phonetic Contributions 7, 1976, pp. 35-82.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Giulio Panconcelli-Calzias contribution to the history of phonetics. In: H. Hollien and P. Hollien: Current Issues in the Phonetic Sciences. Amsterdam 1979, pp. 37-47.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Artificial language and pronunciation training. Hamburger Phonetic Contributions 40, 1982, pp. 25-40.
  • Jens-Peter Köster and MK Ashoff: On the relationship between performance and code in the recognition of coded speech. Advances in acoustics. Göttingen 1982, pp. 899-902.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Automatic lie detection from the voice? in: W. Kühlwein: New developments in applied linguistics. Tübingen 1986, pp. 118-119.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Auditory speaker recognition for experts and naive people. In: Rudolf Weiss: Festschrift for Hans-Heinrich Wängler on the occasion of his 60th birthday, Hamburg 1987, pp. 171–180.
  • Jens-Peter Köster and Herbert R. Masthoff: An economical method for the automatic recognition of verbal control commands. In: Viktor Borowsky and Jens-Peter Köster: New Tendencies in Applied Phonetics II. Hamburg 1987, pp. 117–128.
  • Herbert R. Masthoff and Jens-Peter Köster: An acoustic method for room and system monitoring. Advances in acoustics. Oldenburg 1986, pp. 705-708.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: A new computer-aided audiometric method based on feature contrast. In: W. Kühlwein and B. Spillner: Language and Individual. Tübingen 1988, pp. 134-137.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: An automatic word recognition procedure and its application to phonetic training. Festschrift for Gerhard Nickel, Heidelberg, 1988, pp. 418–427.
  • Bernard Harmegnies et Jens-Peter Köster: Effet du type d'échelle fréquencielle sur la reconnaissance du locuteur par méthodes spectrales. In: J.-P. Köster: New Trends in Phonetics III. Hamburg. 1990, pp. 59-69.
  • Jens-Peter Köster and Gerhard Kordmann: Recognizing German vowels with neural networks. Progress in Acoustics, Bochum 1991, pp. 1053-1056.
  • Hermann J. Künzel and Jens-Peter Köster: Measuring Vocal Jitter in Forensic Speaker Recognition. In: Proceedings 44th Annual Meeting, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, New Orleans, February 17-22, 1992, p. 113-114
  • Albert Landercy, Bernard Harmegnies, Jens-Peter Köster, E. Absil and Nicole Martin: Analyze de la variabilité du specter à long terme: réflexions méthodologiques et études de cas. Actes des 19èmes Journées d'Etude sur la Parole, Bruxelles, 19-22 May 1992, pp. 561-566.
  • Herbert Masthoff and Jens-Peter Köster: Automatic and semi-automatic recognition of speakers based on their voice. In: Kurt Nixdorff: Applications of acoustics in defense technology. Meppen, 15.-17. September 1992, pp. 135-146.
  • Jens-Peter Köster and Herbert R. Masthoff: Automatic speaker verification with Voice Bolt. Progress in Acoustics, Frankfurt 1993, pp. 1024-1027.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Profiles in Phonetics: Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia. The Phonetician CL-61, 1993, pp. 3-10.
  • Jens-Peter Köster and Herbert R. Masthoff: A method for acoustic quality control on ceramic products. Progress in Acoustics, Dresden 1994, pp. 749–752.
  • Herbert R. Masthoff and Jens-Peter Köster: Evaluation of the muzzle bang for the identification of handguns. In: Kurt Nixdorff: Applications of acoustics in defense technology. Meppen, 13.-15. September 1994, pp. 292-302.
  • Herbert R. Masthoff and Jens-Peter Köster: Identification of speakers in a whisper. In: Kurt Nixdorff: Applications of acoustics in defense technology. Meppen, 13.-15. September 1994, pp. 270-277.
  • HJ Künzel, HR Masthoff and J.-P. Köster: The relation between speech tempo, loudness, and fundamental frequency: an important issue in forensic speaker recognition. Science & Justice 35/4, 1995, 291-295
  • Jens-Peter Köster and Olaf Köster: Achievement of new processes for enhancing masked voice recordings. In: Kurt Nixdorff: Applications of acoustics in defense technology. Meppen, 17th – 19th September 1996, pp. 48-58.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Giulio Panconcelli-Calzia: Un contributo italiano alla scienza della fonetica in Germania. In: Daniela Giovanardi e Harro Stammerjohann: I Lettori d'italiano in Germania. Tübingen, 1996, pp. 59-68.
  • Olaf Köster and Jens-Peter Köster: Acoustic excitation of the vocal tract: synchronization of digital high speed imaging, EGG, and the speech wave. In: Angelika Braun: Studies on voice and language. Stuttgart. 1996, pp. 1-11.
  • Victor Omozuwa and Jens-Peter Köster: Intrinsic F0 of Voiced Intervocalic Consonants and Tones: An Electroglottographic study. The Nigerian Journal of the Humanities 8, 1996, pp. 92-106.
  • Harry Hollien and Jens-Peter Köster: Speaker Identification by Aural-Perceptual Approaches. Contributions to Phonetics and Linguistics 46, 1996, pp. 135–152.
  • Jens-Peter Köster: Effects of physical exertion on the basic tone of the human voice. In: Bodo Nolte: Applications of acoustics in defense technology. Meppen, 26.-28. September 2000, pp. 52-57.
  • Jens-Peter Köster and Angelika Braun: Auditory speaker recognition by experienced and inexperienced listeners. In: Rüdiger Hoffmann: Phonetics - Speech Signal Processing - Rehabilitation Technology. Professor Dieter Mehnert on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Dresden 2000, study texts on language communication, volume 18, p. 41-52
  • Jens-Peter Köster and Carsten Grasmück: The effect of MP3 and ATRAC compression on speaker-typical parameters of the speech signal. In: Bodo Nolte: Applications of acoustics in defense technology. Meppen, 14.-16. September 2004, pp. 126-132.
  • V. Olaf Köster and Jens-Peter Köster: The Auditory-perceptual Evaluation of Voice Quality in Forensic Speaker Recognition. The Phonetician 89, 2004, pp. 9-37.
  • A. Braun, J.-P. Köster, HJ Künzel and H.-J. Odenthal: Speaker Recognition in Germany. In: Dietrich Wolf: Contributions to the history and recent development of speech acoustics and information processing. Werner Endres on his 90th birthday, Dresden 2005, pp. 78–86, series: Study texts on language communication, volume 35 (R. Hoffmann)

literature

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Awards of the ISPhS

See also

personal data
SURNAME Koester, Jens-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German linguist and phonetician
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg