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Ocke-Schwen Bohn (born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, 14 May 1953 ) is a
professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...
of English Linguistics at
Aarhus University Aarhus University (, abbreviated AU) is a public research university. Its main campus is located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Group, the Guild, and Ut ...
in Denmark. He specializes in
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 ...
and
psycholinguistics Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind ...
, especially second language and cross-language
speech perception Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted, and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonology and phonetics in linguistics and cognitive psychology and percept ...
, foreign accented speech, and infant speech perception, and he has also conducted work on the phonetics of an
endangered language An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a " dead langua ...
(
Föhr North Frisian Föhr Frisian, or ''Fering'', is the dialect of North Frisian spoken on the island of Föhr in the German region of North Frisia. ''Fering'' refers to the ''Fering'' Frisian name of Föhr, ''Feer''. Together with the Öömrang, Söl'ring, and ...
), on interlanguage intelligibility, and on language in autobiographical memory. Bohn currently serves as member of the editorial board of
Journal of Phonetics The ''Journal of Phonetics'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers topics in phonetics and phonology. It was established in 1973 and appears six times a year. It is published by Elsevier and the current editor-in-chief is Taehong Cho (H ...
and Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics. He also organized the 2016 edition of the ''International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds)'' conference.


Biography

Bohn received an M.A. (“Staatsexamen”) in English and Geography from
Kiel University Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public University, public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ...
in 1979, and Ph.D. (”dr. phil.”) in English Linguistics from Kiel University in 1984. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship on an NIH grant (PI: James E. Flege) at the
University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, the Capstone, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of ...
at Birmingham in 1989. Since 1996, he has been professor of English Linguistics at
Aarhus University Aarhus University (, abbreviated AU) is a public research university. Its main campus is located in Aarhus, Denmark. It is the second largest and second oldest university in Denmark. The university is part of the Coimbra Group, the Guild, and Ut ...
in Denmark.


Research

Bohn is internationally recognized for his research on infant
speech perception Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted, and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonology and phonetics in linguistics and cognitive psychology and percept ...
, cross-language speech perception, vowel perception, and second language speech.Interview i
Organon:Cardoso, W., & Alves, U. K. (2015). "Interview with Ocke-Schwen Bohn". ''Organon'', 30(58), 321-239.
/ref> Bohn's collaborations in these areas have resulted in the influentialWayland, Ratree. Preface. (2021). In R. Wayland (Ed.), ''Second Language Speech Learning: Theoretical and Empirical Progress'' (pp. Xxiii-Xxvi). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108886901.001 Speech Learning Model and its revision, in insights on infant, native, and cross-language vowel perception (with Winifred Strange and with Diane Kewley-Port), in the discovery of universal patterns of infant vowel perception (with Linda Polka), and in the study of cross-language perception of a range of consonants and vowels (with Catherine Best and with Terry Gottfried). Bohn is probably best known for his Desensitization Hypothesis and for his work (with Linda Polka) on the Natural Referent Vowel framework. His work on second language speech has provided support for the assumption that the capacity for phonetic category formation remains intact over the life-span.


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Aarhus University profile
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