Ocke-Schwen Bohn (born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 14 May 1953 [1]) is a professor of English Linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark. [2] He specializes in phonetics and psycholinguistics, especially second language and cross-language speech perception, foreign accented speech, and infant speech perception, and he has also conducted work on the phonetics of an endangered language ( Föhr North Frisian), [3] on interlanguage intelligibility, and on language in autobiographical memory. Bohn currently serves as member of the editorial board of Journal of Phonetics [4] and Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. [5] He also organized the 2016 edition of the International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds) conference. [6]
Bohn received an M.A. (“Staatsexamen”) in English and Geography from Kiel University in 1979,[ citation needed] and Ph.D. (”dr. phil.”) in English Linguistics from Kiel University in 1984. [7] He completed a postdoctoral fellowship on an NIH grant (PI: James E. Flege) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1989.[ citation needed] Since 1996, he has been professor of English Linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark. [1]
Bohn is internationally recognized for his research on infant speech perception, cross-language speech perception, vowel perception, and second language speech. [8] Bohn's collaborations in these areas have resulted in the influential [9] Speech Learning Model and its revision, [10] [11] in insights on infant, native, and cross-language vowel perception (with Winifred Strange and with Diane Kewley-Port), in the discovery of universal patterns of infant vowel perception (with Linda Polka), and in the study of cross-language perception of a range of consonants and vowels (with Catherine Best and with Terry Gottfried). Bohn is probably best known for his Desensitization Hypothesis [12] and for his work (with Linda Polka) on the Natural Referent Vowel framework. [13] His work on second language speech has provided support for the assumption that the capacity for phonetic category formation remains intact over the life-span. [1]
Ocke-Schwen Bohn (born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 14 May 1953 [1]) is a professor of English Linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark. [2] He specializes in phonetics and psycholinguistics, especially second language and cross-language speech perception, foreign accented speech, and infant speech perception, and he has also conducted work on the phonetics of an endangered language ( Föhr North Frisian), [3] on interlanguage intelligibility, and on language in autobiographical memory. Bohn currently serves as member of the editorial board of Journal of Phonetics [4] and Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. [5] He also organized the 2016 edition of the International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds) conference. [6]
Bohn received an M.A. (“Staatsexamen”) in English and Geography from Kiel University in 1979,[ citation needed] and Ph.D. (”dr. phil.”) in English Linguistics from Kiel University in 1984. [7] He completed a postdoctoral fellowship on an NIH grant (PI: James E. Flege) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1989.[ citation needed] Since 1996, he has been professor of English Linguistics at Aarhus University in Denmark. [1]
Bohn is internationally recognized for his research on infant speech perception, cross-language speech perception, vowel perception, and second language speech. [8] Bohn's collaborations in these areas have resulted in the influential [9] Speech Learning Model and its revision, [10] [11] in insights on infant, native, and cross-language vowel perception (with Winifred Strange and with Diane Kewley-Port), in the discovery of universal patterns of infant vowel perception (with Linda Polka), and in the study of cross-language perception of a range of consonants and vowels (with Catherine Best and with Terry Gottfried). Bohn is probably best known for his Desensitization Hypothesis [12] and for his work (with Linda Polka) on the Natural Referent Vowel framework. [13] His work on second language speech has provided support for the assumption that the capacity for phonetic category formation remains intact over the life-span. [1]