Jonathan Harrington

Jonathan Harrington (* 1958 ) is a British-born professor of phonetics at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Harrington studied Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics at Downing College , Cambridge , where he received his PhD in Phonetics in 1986. After various positions, u. a. at the University of Edinburgh and Macquarie University in Sydney , he became a professor at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel .

In 2006 he took over the chair from Hans Günther Tillmann at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He was best known for his research on sound change , which he examined using the example of Queen Elizabeth II's Christmas speeches.

Fonts

• Speech Production: Model, Phonetic Processes and Techniques. New York, Psychology Press (2006)
• The Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora. Wiley-Blackwell (2010)

Web links

• Homepage of Jonathan Harrington

Individual evidence

1. ^ Maximilian G. Burkhardt: Sound Check . insightLMU 1 (2012), p. 3 ( online ; PDF; 368 kB)
2. ↑ Jonathan Harrington, Sallyanne Palethorpe, Catherine I. Watson: Does the Queen speak the Queen's English? In: Nature . tape 408 , no. 6815 , December 2000, ISSN  0028-0836 , p. 927-928 , doi : 10.1038 / 35050160 .