Research Groups

The main concern of research in this group is how dynamic and categorical aspects of speech are connected and how sound change can emerge from the sometimes ambiguous relationship between the two. more

Research in the Spoken Language Processing group focuses on the development and application of computational and statistical methods to the phonetic analysis of spoken language. more

The Clinical Neuropsychology Research Group (EKN) investigates motor speech and phonological disorders in neurologically impaired children and adults, as well as disorders of nonverbal communicative functions in patients with neuropsychological impairments after stroke or in the course of progressive neurodegenerative syndromes. more

The IPS has been one of the world's leading institutes in speech production research for decades and has state-of-the-art laboratory equipment. A particular research focus is speech production at the interface between phonetics and phonology. more