Overview
My research interests lie in sound aspects of language, i.e., phonetics and phonology. I primarily investigate phonological patterns and the articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual aspects of speech sounds in the world's languages. Especially, I am interested in tones and laryngeal registers (voice quality).

Another main focus of my research is to explore the nature of phonological representations and neurocognitive processes involved in speech production and perception from the perspective of cognitive science. I view phonological representations as being shaped by various cognitive entities such as articulatory gestures (atomic action units), acoustic-auditory features, visual orthographic symbols, etc. Furthermore, I believe that speech and language processing builds heavily upon other cognitive abilities, like motor control, perception, attention and memory.