Prof. Dr. Justus Christiaan Roux

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,African Studies
KeywordsHuman 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

CountrySouth Africa
CityPotchefstroom
InstitutionNorth-West University
InstituteResearch Unit for Language and Literature

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gerold UngeheuerInstitut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg BullingerInstitut für Arbeitswissenschaft und Technologiemanagement (IAT), Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Grzegorz DogilInstitut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Prof. Dr. Jan Christoph MeisterInstitut für Germanistik II - Neuere deutsche Literatur, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/1981

Programme(s)

1980Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme