Michael Jessen, Ph.D.

Member of:

Linguistic Society of America

Acoustical Society of America

International Society of Phonetic Sciences

Research Interests:

Linguistic Phonetics

Phonetics and phonology of German and Germanic

The integration between phonology and phonetics

Distinctive feature theory and the invariance issue

Implications of instrumental phonetic research for pronouncing dictionaries

Form-function relationships in sound structure

Teaching (selection):

Introduction to phonetics and phonology

Introduction to morphology

The phonetics and phonology of German

Speech synthesis

Speech perception

Selected Recent Publications:

Jessen, M. 1994. Functional differences between consonants and vowels in German. In Ramers, K.H., Vater, H & Wode, H. (eds.) Universale phonologische Strukturen und Prozesse. Tuebingen: Niemeyer. 115-150.

Jessen, M. 1995a. Glottal opening in German obstruents. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 13, 3: 428-431.

Jessen, M. 1995b. German. In van der Hulst, H. (ed.) Word Prosodic Systems in the Languages of Europe. to appear 1997 Berlin & New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Jessen, M., Marasek, K., Schneider, K. & Claßen, K. 1995. Acoustic correlates of word stress and the tense/lax opposition in the vowel system of German. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 13, 4: 428-431.

Jessen, M. 1996a. The relevance of phonetic reality for underlying phonological representation: the case of tense versus lax obstruents in German. In Kleinhenz, U. (ed.) Interfaces in Phonology. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. 294-328.

Jessen, M. 1996b. Phonetics and phonology of the tense and lax obstruents in German. Ph.D. Dissertation, Cornell University.

Claßen, K., Dogil, G., Jessen, M., Marasek, K. & Wokurek, W. 1996. Stimmqualität als Korrelat der Wortbetonung im Deutschen. submitted.

Jessen, M. & Petursson, M. 1997. Voiceless nasal phonemes in Icelandic. submitted.

Jessen, M. in preparation. Invited review for Journal of Pragmatics of Hardcastle & Laver (eds.) 1997. The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences. Blackwell.