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. 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. 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 gave a talk at the Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie in Paris as part of the Séminaires de Recherches en Phonétique et Phonologie series. I discussed several years of (collaborative work) on the synchrony and diachrony of stop vocalization in Danish. I had a great time discussing my work with the Paris phoneticians. You can see the slides here.
I was second opponent at Maria Evjen’s public viva at the University of Oslo. Maria and I had a really fun and engaging discussion about her work on the /ʃ/–/ç/ merger in Norwegian.
I will be at this year’s Phonetics and Phonology in Denmark meeting at Aarhus University, where I’ll be presenting collaborative work with Nicolai Pharao on the use of pitch and voice quality in the stød contrast in different varieties of Danish.
I will be at this year’s Colloquium of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians at the University of Warwick, where I’ll be presenting collaborative work with Francesco Burroni and Aleese Block on the acoustic and articulatory outcome of /d/-vocalization in Danish. You can read the abstract here. Hope to see you there!
I have received a 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. This project will run over the next few years.