Dr. Michael Jessen

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,German Language (Linguistics)
Keywordsforensic linguistics, phonetics, phonology

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityWiesbaden
InstitutionBundeskriminalamt
InstituteKT 54

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Justus Christiaan RouxDepartment of African Languages, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/1998

Programme(s)

1997Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2002Michael Jessen: An acoustic study of contrasting plosives and click accompaniments in Xhosa. In: Phonetica, 2002, 150-179
2002Michael Jessen, Justus C. Roux: Voice quality differences associated with stops and clicks in Xhosa. In: Journal of Phonetics, 2002, 1-52
2001Michael Jessen: Phonetic implementation of the distinctive auditory features [voice] and [tense] in stop consonants. In: T. Alan Hall, Distinctive Feature Theory. Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. 237