Rasmus
Puggaard-Rode
Hi! I’m Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, roughly pronunced [ˈʁɑsmus ˌpʰukːɒːˀˈʁoːɤ]. I’m a postdoctoral fellow in the Spoken Language Processing group led by James Kirby at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig Maximilian University.
My work combines corpus and experimental methods to untangle the many different ways categorical differences between speech sounds (especially consonants) can be realized phonetically, and what this means for the structure of language. This work involves working with both well-described Nordic languages and under-resourced languages of south-east Asia and Australia. I also work on developing general-purpose tools and pipelines for processing, analyzing, and visualizing speech data.
I hold a PhD in phonology and phonetics from Leiden University. My dissertation deals the class of consonant sounds in Danish known as stops: how they are phonetically realized, how they are structured in the grammar of the language, and how they vary among speakers of different dialects.
News
Michaela Watkins, Paul Boersma, Silke Hamann, and I have had a collaborative paper accepted at Interspeech on using F0 ratio as a diagnostic for the presence of creaky voice using data from Seoul Korean and Modern Standard Danish.
Our group in Munich hosted the third International Conference on Tone and Intonation in Herrsching. In addition to having great conversations and running around with a microphone during Q&A’s, I also presented a poster with Nicolai Pharao about what appears to be a specialized pitch accent used by some speakers of Danish for contrastive emphasis. Materials can be found here.
Katie Jepson, John Mansfield and I are organizing a special session on the stylized sustained prosody pattern found in the narrative register of many native Australian languages. It’s at this year’s Australian Linguistic Society meeting at the Gold Coast campus of Griffith University in December. Please get in touch if you’re interested in contributing!
Camilla Søballe Horslund, Henrik Jørgensen and I published a paper in the Danish journal Danske Studier that critically compares the modern Danish-language textbooks in phonetics. The paper can be found here.
I will be at the sixth Phonetics and Phonology in Europe conference in Mallorca in June, where I’ll present co-authored work with James Kirby and Nicolai Pharao on the interaction between co-intrinsic F0 caused by the laryngeal contrast in stops and other prosodic demands on pitch level in Danish.