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
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.
I will be at the third International Conference on Tone and Intonation in Herrsching in May to present co-authored work with Nicolai Pharao about what appears to be a specialized pitch accent used by some speakers of Danish for contrastive emphasis. See you there!
I was just at the tenth Phonology in the Nordic Countries meeting in Oslo. I presented work on the acoustics of secondary diphthongs in Danish and the possible emergence of a new one. This work was done in collaboration with Aleese Block (who did the lion’s share of the work but unfortunately couldn’t go) and Francesco Burroni. You can see the slides here.
I have a paper out in Diachronica in collaboration with Henrik Jørgensen and Camilla Søballe Horslund which presents a diachronic perspective on the Danish stop–semivowel alternations couched in Evolutionary Phonology. You can read the paper here.
I am the recipient of a Carlsberg Foundation Reintegration Fellowship for the project Category-shifting Change in Real Time, where I’ll be investigating how small incremental sound changes can cause major structural change using a large longitudinal speech corpus. This work will be based at the Centre for Language Change in Real Time in Copenhagen.