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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,African Studies |
| Keywords | Human Language Technologies, Speech processing, Text-to-Speech systems, Phonetics, Phonology |
| Honours and awards | 2012: Recipient of Festschrift: Language Science and Language Technology in Africa. (Eds Sonja Bosch and HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza), SUN Media, Stellenbosch. 362 pp. ISBN 978-1-920338-79-4. 2010: Recipient of Certificate of Acknowledgement of Leadership in International Research from Vice-Chancellor, North-West University. 1999: Recipient of Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research, University of Stellenbosch. 1998: Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to host a German post-doctoral fellow under the Feodor Lynen Program for one year with financial contribution of Stellenbosch University. Recipient: Dr M Jessen (IMS University of Stuttgart.) 1994: Renewal Grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for interdisciplinary research at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung (IMS), Universität Stuttgart, Germany for the project: The phonetics and phonology of click articulations in Nguni. (Four months.) 1987: Renewal Grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for interdisciplinary research at the Fraunhofer Institut für Artbeitswirtschaft und Organisation, in Stuttgart, Germany for the project: The development of a text-to-speech system for Xhosa. (Seven months.) 1982: Stipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, for research at the Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Bonn. Germany. (Nine months.) |
Current contact address
| Country | South Africa |
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| City | Potchefstroom |
| Institution | North-West University |
| Institute | Research Unit for Language and Literature |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Gerold Ungeheuer | Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn |
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| Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Bullinger | Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft und Technologiemanagement (IAT), Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
| Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Dogil | Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
| Prof. Dr. Jan Christoph Meister | Institut für Germanistik II - Neuere deutsche Literatur, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/1981 |
Programme(s)
| 1980 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme |
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