Hugo Quené — homepage

who, what, where

My name is Hugo Quené.
I am senior associate professor in Phonetics, in the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University.

My e-dress is
  h (dot) quene (at) uu (dot) nl

My office hours are on Tuesdays from 14:00 to 15:30h.

My surface address for mail and visitors is
  Trans 10, 3512 JK  Utrecht, The Netherlands   [ route ]
  room 1.17

teaching

• courses 2009-10	code	period	programme
  Methods of Experimental Research	200800180	1	MPhil Ling
  Methoden van Experimenteel Onderzoek (alternate)	200800181	2	MSc Logo.wet.
  Spreken en Verstaan: Inleiding in de Fonetiek	200300287	2	BA Taalw
  Gevoel en Geluid	200900252	2	BA TCS
  Melodie en Ritme van Talen	200500180	3	BA Taalw

• co-initiator of MSc program in Logopediewetenschap (Clinical Language, Speech and Hearing Sciences) (in Dutch, see this brochure)
• overview of my courses
• overview of supervised theses

research

• Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS
• topics: rhythm and tempo in speech, mental processing of spoken words and sentences, aging and speech communication, general phonetics, research methods, e.g. mixed-effects modeling (multilevel modeling)
• publications
• my work in Google Scholar
• used scripts etc.

convenient

• IPA: phonetic alphabet, phonetic fonts, Unicode
• tutorial about statistics with R (and some useful functions)
• tutorial about Phonetics and Speech Analysis and working with Praat
• UU Library: UU catalogue, Omega, Picarta, WebOfScience
• cursuskrant: course listings, times, etc.

more...

• my pronunciation of my name /hˈyxo kənˈe/
• audio demonstrations in Phonetics Utrecht
• linguistics and language links by Betsy McCall
• many links, linguistic and phonetic and otherwise, by Karen Chung
• speech web sites by Diane Kewley-Port
• neat phonetic sites on the web by Natasha Warner
• inspiration for a sabbatical!

Curriculum Vitae

Hugo Quené received both his M.A. in Phonetics (1984) and his Ph.D. in Linguistics (1989) from Utrecht University, The Netherlands. His dissertation was a phonetic study of speech segmentation, about phonetic cues for word boundaries. He has worked as an assistant professor in Phonetics at Leiden University, and as a research scientist developing linguistic analyses and intonation rules for Dutch text-to-speech systems. Since 1989 he has worked as an assistant professor in Phonetics at Utrecht University. He has spent the year 2001-2002 as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A., where he studied speech rhythm and other topics. From 1999-2006 he held an adjunct position in the Liberal Arts program at Utrecht University.
He is now a senior Associate Professor in Phonetics at Utrecht University. His current research topics include tempo and rhythm of speech, speech perception, aging and speech communication, and research methodology. He teaches courses in phonetics, linguistics and other topics at the BA, MA and graduate level.