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, where I’m working on a variety of topics, including microprosodic cues to obstruent voicing contrasts, microprosodic cues to laryngeal coda consonants, the articulatory dynamics of Danish consonants, and the development of software tools for processing and visualizing acoustic data.

Most of my work (including my dissertation) has dealt with the stop consonants of Danish. Colleagues and I have investigated intervocalic voicing and spectral characteristics of stop releases, and used a large legacy corpus of dialect recordings to investigate regional variation in voice onset time, closure voicing, and characteristics of stop releases. We have also proposed a new phonological analysis of the infamous Danish stop-semivowel alternations, suggesting that they are better understood as the outcome of sound change rather than synchronically active phonology.

I have also published on information structure from an interactional linguistics perspective, forensic phonetics, second language acquisition, and morphological change.

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