William J. Barry

William J. Barry ( b. 1943 in Ireland) is one of the leading phonetician of Germany. As a native Irishman, he came at a young age to Germany and studied and taught from Kiel in the German " phonetics Pope " Klaus J. Kohler, whose staff later he became. In Saarbrücken, he took over in 1992, the Institute of Phonetics at the University of Saarland. His research focus was on speech synthesis ( Mikrosegementsynthese ), rhythm and prominence, production and perception, the use of linguistic knowledge in matters of learning of pronunciation, speech and voice pathologies, and language technology in general.

The productive and innovative research of Prof. Barry and the close cooperation with the Institute of Computational Linguistics Saarland University and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) has made the phonetic Institute in Saarbrücken one of the main pillars in Europe. Prof. Barry retired in September 2008.

Writings

Most of his publications have been produced in collaboration with other writers:

  • 2007: Rhythm as to L2 problem: How prosodic is it?
  • 2006: Strength of British English accents in altered listening conditions
  • 2005: Phonetic knowledge in speech technology - and phonetic knowledge from speech technology ( Springer Verlag)
  • 2004: Methodological aspects of auditory evaluation of voice quality
  • 2002: The Phonetics and Phonology of English Pronunciation (Scientific Verlag Trier), ² 2005, ISBN 978-3884767405
  • 2002: Differential weighting of phonetic properties in cross - dialectal perception
  • 2001: Must diphone synthesis be so unnatural?
  • 2001: Cross -language Similarities and Differences in Spontaneous Speech Patterns
  • 2000: The prosody of excitement in horse race commentaries
  • 1999: Socio- Phonetic observations on German dialects in Lorraine (France)
  • 1999: Trends and results of phonetic research and their benefits for foreign language teaching
  • 1998: Time as a factor in the acoustic variation of schwa '.
  • 1998: Implications of energy declination for speech synthesis.
  • 1997: Another R- tickle
  • 1996: The relevance of phonetics for pronunciation teaching
  • 1995: Schwa vs. schwa / r / in German
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