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RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • The phonetic description of sound systems in different languages: Dutch, Belgian Limburg dialects, Lusoga, Punjabi, Zulu.

  • Instrumental phonetics: electropalatography and asymmetries in speech production.

  • Motor speech disorders: speech errors in dysarthria and intelligibility.

  • Phonetic distance in dysarthric speech.

  • Neurophonetics: Foreign Accent Syndrome.

  • The quantification of phonetic complexity.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

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2025

  • Berthier, M., Moreno-Torres, I., Verhoeven, J., Davila, G. (2025). Revisiting the boundaries of different altered accents profiles. Cortex, 184, pp. 209-220.

  • Genette, J., Gillis, S., Verhoeven, J. (2025). Intrinsic vowel fundamental frequency in children with and without hearing impairment. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, pp. 1 - 27.

  • Miller, N., Reyes-Aldasoro, C., Verhoeven, J. (2025). Lateral Asymmetry in the Articulation of British English Speech Sounds: an Electropalatographic Study. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. pp. 1-19.

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TEACHING

  • Articulatory Phonetics.

  • Acoustic Phonetics.

  • Phonetics & Phonology.

  • Anatomy & Physiology.

  • Instrumental Phonetics.

  • Language and Medium.

  • Writing systems of the world's languages.

  • General Phonetics.

PASSIONS

MY FAMILY

... DESIGN

... FOOD

Professor Jo Verhoeven, Chair in Experimental Phonetics

City St George's, University of London, UK
Department of Language and Communication Science

" I studied phonetics at Edinburgh University where I obtained an MSc and PhD in Phonetics. It was there that I became passionate about the immense variety of different speech sounds in the languages of the world. I was trained in practical phonetics in the tradition of David Abercrombie, Peter Ladefoged, Ian Catford and John Laver".

" I have published on a wide variety of topics in phonetics ranging from intonation to the instrumental analysis of speech and the phonetic description of speech pathology".

" Besides a keen interest in practical and experimental phonetics, I do research on the phonetic characteristics of motor speech disorders. I have carried out several studies of Foreign Accent Syndrome. In 2012, I was fellow of the Advanced Studies Institute of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts and this gave me the opportunity to focus on Foreign Accent Syndrome research. More recently, I am studying the phonetic characteristics of dysarthria and apraxia of speech, asymmetries in speech articulation and differences in the phonetic complexity of speech sounds".

Jo Verhoeven

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