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Johanna Cronenberg

Post Doc
Université Paris Cité

Short Bio

I first fell in love with phonetics in 2013 in an introductory class that was part of my B.A. in Language and Communication. After finishing my philological and linguistic undergraduate studies, I moved to Munich to study at the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing. I was awarded my PhD in phonetics as part of the ERC project InterAccent supervised by Prof. Jonathan Harrington in 2023. Now I am a Post Doc at the Université Paris Cité where I am working with Prof. Ioana Chitoran on vowel sequences in Romance languages as part of the project DIPVAR.

I am interested in all facets of sound change: its historical, phonological, and phonetic origins and the mechanisms that cause its spread. In my research I apply functional analyses, often on large-scale acoustic data, and computational modelling techniques to gain insights into specific sound changes. Most recently, I have worked on the change from pre- to post-aspirated stops in Andalusian Spanish and on the evolution of diphthongs in Romance languages.

Education

  • PhD in Phonetics and Speech Processing, 2023
    University of Munich

  • M.A. Phonetics and Speech Processing, 2018
    University of Munich

  • B.A. Language and Communication, 2016
    University of Marburg

  • B.A. Romance Philology, 2016
    University of Marburg & University of Madrid