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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 |
| Keywords | prosody, human-computer interaction, speech communication, linguistic adaptation, nonverbal communication |
Current contact address
| Country | Netherlands |
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| City | Tilburg |
| Institution | Tilburg University |
| Institute | Department of Communication and Information Sciences |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Bernd Möbius | FR 4.7, Phonetik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2019 |
Programme(s)
| 2018 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Marc Swerts is an international authority in speech communication research. He analyses spoken language in conjunction with visual communicative expressions of face, hands, and body, using innovative methods to elicit natural conversational speech data and studying the social and contextual factors that cause variation in linguistic systems. During his stay in Germany, he focuses on functional and interactive approaches to model both human-human and human-machine interactions. |