Rasmus
Puggaard-Rode
Hi! I’m Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, roughly pronounced [ˈʁɑsmus ˌpʰukːɒːˀˈʁoːɤ]. I am Associate Professor of Phonetics at the University of Oxford, based at the phonetics lab, and an Official Fellow of Kellogg College.
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. Before coming to Oxford, I was a postdoc in the Spoken Language Processing group at the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing, Ludwig Maximilian University.
News
I contributed to a paper that describes the translation of a patient-reported outcome measure, the Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test, into a broad range of languages. The project was spearheaded by Ahmad Sedaghat and Hye Pae and is published in the International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology.
Josh Penney and I co-wrote a paper on automatic identification of the onset of creaky voice that was accepted for this year’s Interspeech in Sydney. I won’t be able to go, but if you’ll be there, do make sure to talk to Josh about the work!
I wrote a tutorial on how to generate and analyze multitaper spectra in R which has now found a home on Linguistics Methods Hub.
I recently visited the University of Copenhagen to kickstart my small research grant from the John Fell Oxford University Press Fund to investigate Danish /d/-vocalization in real and apparent time using the LANCHART corpus. Thanks to everyone there for your hospitality!
I was at this year’s Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians at the University of Warwick, where I presented collaborative work with Francesco Burroni and Aleese Block on the acoustic and articulatory outcome of /d/-vocalization in Danish. The presentation won the Peter Ladefoged Award. You can find the slides here.