Ocke-Schwen Bohn (born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 14 May 1953[1]) is a professor of English Linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark.[2] He specializes in phonetics and psycholinguistics, especially second language and cross-language speech perception, foreign accented speech, and infant speech perception, and he has also conducted work on the phonetics of an endangered language (Föhr North Frisian),[3] on interlanguage intelligibility, and on language in autobiographical memory. Bohn currently serves as member of the editorial board of Journal of Phonetics[4] and Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics.[5] He also organized the 2016 edition of the International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds) conference.[6]
Biography edit
Bohn received an M.A. (“Staatsexamen”) in English and Geography from Kiel University in 1979,[citation needed] and Ph.D. (”dr. phil.”) in English Linguistics from Kiel University in 1984.[7] He completed a postdoctoral fellowship on an NIH grant (PI: James E. Flege) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1989.[citation needed] Since 1996, he has been professor of English Linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark.[1]
Research edit
Bohn is internationally recognized for his research on infant speech perception, cross-language speech perception, vowel perception, and second language speech.[8] Bohn's collaborations in these areas have resulted in the influential[9] Speech Learning Model and its revision,[10][11] in insights on infant, native, and cross-language vowel perception (with Winifred Strange and with Diane Kewley-Port), in the discovery of universal patterns of infant vowel perception (with Linda Polka), and in the study of cross-language perception of a range of consonants and vowels (with Catherine Best and with Terry Gottfried). Bohn is probably best known for his Desensitization Hypothesis[12] and for his work (with Linda Polka) on the Natural Referent Vowel framework.[13] His work on second language speech has provided support for the assumption that the capacity for phonetic category formation remains intact over the life-span.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c Nyvad, Annemette (2019). "Preface". In Nyvad, Annemette; Hejná, Michaela; Højen, Anders; Jespersen, Anna Bothe; Sørensen, Mette Hjortshøj (eds.). A Sound Approach to Language Matters: In Honor of Ocke-Schwen Bohn. Aarhus: Department of English, Aarhus University. pp. 18–10. doi:10.7146/aul.322.218. ISBN 978-87-7507-440-2.
- ^ "Ocke-Schwen Bohn - Research - Aarhus University". Retrieved 21 February 2022.
- ^ Bohn, Ocke-Schwen (2004). "How to organize a fairly large vowel inventory: the vowels of Fering (North Frisian)" (PDF). Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 34 (2): 161–173. doi:10.1017/s002510030400180x. S2CID 59404078.
- ^ "Editorial Board - Journal of Phonetics". Elsevier. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
- ^ "Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics". De Gruyter. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
- ^ "New Sounds 2016 - Conference organizer". Retrieved 21 February 2022.
- ^ Bohn, Ocke-Schwen (1984). The L2 acquisition of English sentence structure: the early stages: a case study of four German children. Kiel: Kiel University.
- ^ Interview in Organon: Cardoso, W., & Alves, U. K. (2015). "Interview with Ocke-Schwen Bohn". Organon, 30(58), 321-239.
- ^ Wayland, Ratree. Preface. (2021). In R. Wayland (Ed.), Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress (pp. Xxiii-Xxvi). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108886901.001
- ^ Flege, James Emil; Bohn, Ocke-Schwen (2021). The Revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r). In Wayland, R. (ed.). Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 3–83. doi:10.1017/9781108886901.002. S2CID 234057047.
- ^ Flege, James Emil; Bohn, Ocke-Schwen; Aoyama, Katsura (2021). The revised speech learning model (SLM-r). In Wayland, R. (ed.). Second language speech learning: Theoretical and empirical progress, 84-118. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 84–118. doi:10.1017/9781108886901.002. S2CID 234057047.
- ^ Bohn, Ocke-Schwen (1995). Cross-language speech perception in adults: First language transfer doesn't tell it all. In Strange, W. (ed.). Speech perception and linguistic experience: Issues in cross-language research. Timonium: York Press. pp. 279–304.
- ^ Polka, Linda; Bohn, Ocke-Schwen (2011). "Natural Referent Vowel (NRV) framework: An emerging view of early phonetic development" (PDF). Journal of Phonetics. 39 (4): 467–478. doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2010.08.007.