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.
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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.
I am contributing to research that will be presented in early 2025 at the Phonology in the Nordic Countries meeting in Oslo. The work is on the acoustics of secondary diphthongs in Danish and the possible emergence of a new one, and it is done in collaboration with Aleese Block and Francesco Burroni.
I have a paper out (in Danish) in the most recent issue of Nydanske Sprogstudier about phonetic annotation of stops, which has in recent years been debated extensively in the Danish phonetics community. You can read the paper here, there’s an English abstract here. The paper is partially based on a typological study of annotation practice which you can see here.
I’ve contributed to work that was presented by Kathleen Jepson at two conferences in Australia recently: a coauthored paper with John Mansfield about stylized sustained prosody in narrative speech in native Australian languages at the conference of the Australian Linguistic Society in Canberra, and a paper about what governs vowel duration in Djambarrpuyŋu in phonological contexts where it is not contrastive at the 19th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology in Melbourne. You can read more about the former study here, and about the latter study here.
My recent article in Journal of Phonetics has been selected for the 2023 Best Early Career Scholar’s Article of the Year award. I am very honored, grateful, and proud about this! You can read the paper here.