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
An R package that I’ve been working on,
reapeR, has not made it onto CRAN, the central repository of R packages.reapeRis an R-based interface to the C++ library REAPER (Robust Epoch And Pitch EstimatoR), originally written by David Talkin. More information can be found here.I was at this year’s Phonetics and Phonology in Denmark meeting at Aarhus University, where I presented collaborative work with Nicolai Pharao on the use of pitch and voice quality in the stød contrast in different varieties of Danish. Slides are available here.
Together with Nicolai Pharao and James Kirby, I have written a paper on co-intrinsic pitch effects in Danish and how they interact with other sources of pitch modification. The paper is out in Journal of the International Phonetic Association. A version of the paper with embedded analysis code is available here.
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!