Georg Heike (; July 21, 1933 – January 15, 2023) was a German

phonetician Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

and

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

. He studied musicology, phonetics, communication science and psychology at the

University of Bonn The University of Bonn, officially the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (), is a public research university in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the () on 18 October 1818 by Frederick Willi ...

and finished his doctoral thesis in 1960 at the Department of Phonetics and Communication Research headed by Prof. Dr.

Werner Meyer-Eppler Werner Meyer-Eppler (30 April 1913 – 8 July 1960), was a Belgian-born German physicist, experimental acoustician, phoneticist and information theorist. Meyer-Eppler was born in Antwerp. He studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry, ...

. He was senior scientist at

Marburg University The Philipps University of Marburg () is a public research university located in Marburg, Germany. It was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protes ...

before he moved to the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne () is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in 1388. It closed in 1798 before being re-established in 1919. It is now one of the largest universities in Germany with around 45,187 students. The Universit ...

. From 1969 to 1998 he headed the Departement of Phonetics at the University of Cologne. Among his topics of research are

phonetics Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans produce and perceive sounds or, in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign. Linguists who specialize in studying the physical properties of speech are phoneticians ...

phonology Phonology (formerly also phonemics or phonematics: "phonemics ''n.'' 'obsolescent''1. Any procedure for identifying the phonemes of a language from a corpus of data. 2. (formerly also phonematics) A former synonym for phonology, often pre ...

articulatory synthesis Articulatory synthesis refers to computational techniques for synthesizing speech based on models of the human vocal tract and the articulation processes occurring there. The shape of the vocal tract can be controlled in a number of ways which us ...

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

. Georg Heike has also been intensively involved in composing and performing

contemporary music Contemporary music is whatever music is produced at the current time. Specifically, it could refer to: Genres or audiences * Adult contemporary music * British contemporary R&B * Christian adult contemporary * Christian contemporary hit radio * Con ...

, violin making, and

musical acoustics Musical acoustics or music acoustics is a multidisciplinary field that combines knowledge from physics, psychophysics, organology (classification of the instruments), physiology, music theory, ethnomusicology, signal processing and instrument buil ...

Major research topics of Georg Heike

* Development of a German articulatory speech synthesis system. *

Dialectology Dialectology (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logy, -logia'') is the scientific study of dialects: subsets of languages. Though in the 19th century a branch of historical linguistics, dialectology is often now c ...

(Stadtkölner Mundart) * Aesthetic Phonetics Cf. Heike, G (1998) "Musiksprache und Sprachmusik. Schriften zur Musik 1956-98" (Pfau, Saarbrücken)

Selected references on his work in phonetics

* Heike G (1960) Über das phonologische System der Stadtkölner Mundart. ''Zeitschrift für Phonetik'' 14, 1–20 * Heike G (1964) Zur Phonologie der Stadtkölner Mundart. Eine experimentelle Untersuchung der akustischen Unterscheidungsmerkmale. ''Deutsche Dialektgeographie 57'' (Elwert, Marburg) * Heike G (1969) Suprasegmentale Analyse. In: ''Marburger Beiträge zur Germanistik'' No. 30, (Elwert, Marburg) * Heike G, Hall RD (1969) Vowel patterns of three English speakers: a comparative and auditive description. ''Linguistics'' 7, 13–38 * Heike G (1979) Articulatory Measurement and Synthesis, ''Phonetica'' 36, 294–301 * Heike G (1972) ''Phonologie'' (Sammlung Metzler Band 104, Stuttgart) * Heike G (1987) 'Coarticulation' in an articulatory synthesis model of German. ''Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences'', Vol 1: 214–216 (Tallinn) * Heike G, Greisbach R, Hilger S, Kröger BJ (1989) Speech synthesis by acoustic control. ''Proceedings of Eurospeech 1989'', pp. 2020–2022 (Paris) * Heike G, Greisbach R, Kröger BJ (1991) Coarticulation rules in an articulatory model. ''Journal of Phonetics'' 19, 465–471

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