William J. Barry

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William J. Barry (* 1943 in Ireland ) is a German phonetician . Born in Ireland, he came to Germany at a young age and studied and taught a.o. a. in Kiel with Klaus J. Kohler , whose later employee he became. In 1992 he took over the Institute for Phonetics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken . His main research interests were speech synthesis (microsegement synthesis), rhythm and prominence, production and perception, the application of language knowledge in questions of learning pronunciation, speech and voice pathologies, and language technology in general.

Prof. Barry retired in September 2008.

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Most of his publications were created in collaboration with other publicists:

  • 2007: Rhythm as an L2 problem: How prosodic is it?
  • 2006: Strength of British English accents in altered listening conditions
  • 2005: Phonetic knowledge in speech technology - and phonetic knowledge from speech technology (Springer Verlag)
  • 2004: Methodological aspects of the auditory assessment of voice quality
  • 2004: Interaction between segmental structure and rhythm. A look at Italian dialects and regional standard Italian
  • 2003: Do Rhythm Measures Tell us Anything about Language Type?
  • 2002: The Phonetics and Phonology of English Pronunciation (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier), ²2005, ISBN 978-3884767405
  • 2002: Differential weighting of phonetic properties in cross-dialectal perception
  • 2001: Must diphone synthesis be so unnatural?
  • 2001: Cross-language Similarities and Differences in Spontaneous Speech Patterns
  • 2000: The prosody of excitement in horse race commentaries
  • 1999: Sociophonetic considerations on German dialects in Lorraine (France)
  • 1999: Trends and Results in Phonetic Research and Its Use for Foreign Language Teaching
  • 1998: Time as a factor in the acoustic variation of schwa.
  • 1998: Implications of energy declination for speech synthesis.
  • 1997: Another R-tickle
  • 1996: Some fundamental problems of looking at connected speech
  • 1996: The relevance of phonetics for pronunciation teaching
  • 1995: Schwa vs. schwa + / r / in German

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SURNAME Barry, William J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barry, Bill; Barry, William John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish phonetician
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Ireland