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Department of Cognitive Science

Professor Jonathan Harrington

Professor Jonathan Harrington

Professor and Chair

Contact Details

Phone : +49 89 2180 3546
Fax : +49 89 2180 5790
email : jmh@phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
Homepage : http://www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/~jmh/

External Address

Institut fur Phonetik und Sprachverarbeitung (IPS).
der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany.

Profile

Jonathan Harrington completed an undergraduate course in Modern and Medieval Languages at Cambridge University in 1981 and a PhD in Phonetics in the Department of Linguistics, Cambridge University in 1986. He was a full-time lecturer in experimental phonetics in the Dept. of Linguistics Edinburgh University from 1983-4 and then a full-time post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre for Speech Technology Research, Edinburgh University from 1984-89. He joined the Dept of Linguistics, Macquarie University in October 1989 as a Senior Lecturer. He was Department Head from 1997-9. He was a member of the Cognitive Science and Social Science & Humanities panels of the Australian Research Council from 1993-1994 and co-founded the Australian National Speech Database Committee which produced (from 1991-5) the Australian National Database of Spoken Language (ANDOSL) with ARC infrastructure funding. He was Director of Macquarie University's Speech Hearing and Language Research Centre (SHLRC) from 1990 to 2001, and Deputy Director of the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science from 2000 to 2001. In 2001 he was appointed Professorial Fellow at Macquarie University.

Late 2001, Jonathan Harrington took up the position as Professor and Chair at the Institute for Phonetics and Digital Signal Processing at the University of Kiel in Germany.

Jonathan Harrington is currently Professor of Phonetics and Digital Speech Processing and Director of the IPS, University of Munich. He joined the Institute of Phonetics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in October 2006.

His research interests are in experimental phonetics, laboratory phonology, speech database development, and sound change.

Grants Awarded

  • ARC Special Research Centre Scheme (2000 - 2008) "Centre for Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuropsychology" Coltheart, M., Beckman, M., Davies, M., Harrington, J., Coltheart, V., Kinoshita, S., Bates, T., Nickels, L., Perry, C., Rastle, K., Langdon, R., Lupker, S., Ziegler, J., Corballis, M., Aimola Davies, A., & Breen, N. ($6,991,066)

Selected Publications

Books

  • Harrington, J., & Tabain, M. (Eds.). (2006). Speech Production: Models, Phonetic Processes and Techniques. New York: Psychology Press.
  • Harrington, J., & Cassidy, S. (1999). Techniques in Speech Acoustics. Foris, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Book Chapters

  • Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Watson, C.I. (2005). Deepening or lessening the divide between diphthongs? An analysis of the Queen's annual Christmas Broadcasts. In W.J. Hardcastle & J.M. Beck (Eds.), A Figure of Speech: A Festchrift for John Laver (pp. 227-262). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Harrington, J. (2003). Consonant strengthening and lengthening in various languages: comments on three papers. In J. Local, R. Ogden & R.Temple (Eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI: Phonetic interpretations (pp. 183-196). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Harrington, J., Beckman, M.E., & Fletcher, J. (2000). Manner and place conflicts in the articulation of accent in Australian English. In M. Broe (Ed.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology V (pp. 40-51). Cambridge: Cambridge Universtiy Press.
  • Harrington, J., Fletcher, J., & Beckman, M.E. (1999). Lip and Jaw coarticulation. In W.J. Hardcastle & N. Hewlett (Eds.), Coarticulation (pp. 144-175). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Periodicals

  • Rastle, K., Croot, K., Harrington, J., & Coltheart, M. (2005). Characterizing the motor execution stage of speech production: Consonantal effects on delayed naming latency and onset duration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31(5), 1083-1095.
  • Rastle, K., Harrington, J., & Coltheart, M. (2002). 358,534 Nonwords: The ARC Nonword Database. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55A, 1339-1362. [Link]
  • Fletcher, J., & Harrington, J. (2001). High Rising Terminals and fall-rise tunes in Australian English. Phonetica, 58, 215–229.
  • Cassidy, S., & Harrington, J. (2001). Multi-level annotation in the Emu speech database management system. Speech Communication, 33, 61-77.
  • Bird, S., & Harrington, J. (2001). Speech annotation and corpus tools. Speech Communication, 33, 1-4.
  • Rastle, K., Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Coltheart, M. (2000). Reading aloud begins when the computation of phonology is complete. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 26, 1178-1191.
  • Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Watson, C. (2000). Does the Queen speak the Queen's English? Nature, 407, 927-928.
  • Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Watson, C. (2000). Monophthongal vowel changes in Received Pronunciation: an Acoustic Analysis of the Queen's Christmas Broadcasts. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 30, 63-78.
  • Watson, C.I., Maclagan, M., & Harrington, J. (2000). Acoustic evidence for vowel change in New Zealand English. Language Variation and Change, 12, 51-68.
  • Watson, C.I., & Harrington, J. (1999). Acoustic evidence for dynamic formant trajectories in Australian English Vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, 458-468.
  • Watson, C.I., Harrington, J., & Evans, Z. (1998). An acoustic comparison between New Zealand and Australian English Vowels. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 18, 185-208.
  • Harrington, J., Cox, F., & Evans, Z. (1997). An acoustic phonetic study of broad, general, and cultivated Australian English Vowels. Australian Journal of Linguistics, 17, 155-184.
  • Millar, J., Dermody, P., Harrington, J., & Vonwiller, J. (1997). Spoken Language Resources for Australian Speech Technology. Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Australia, 1, 13-23.
  • Harrington, J., Fletcher, J., & Roberts, C. (1995). An analysis of truncation and linear rescaling in the production of accented and unaccented vowels. Journal of Phonetics, 23, 305-322.
  • Cassidy, S., & Harrington, J. (1995). The place of articulation distinction in voiced oral stops: evidence from burst spectra and formant transitions. Phonetica, 52, 263-284.
  • Harrington, J. (1994). The contribution of the murmur and vowel to the place of articulation distinction in nasal consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 19-32.
  • Harrington, J., & Cassidy, S. (1994). Target and dynamic theories of vowel perception: evidence from a large speech corpus. Language and Speech, 37, 357-373.
  • Harrington, J., Cassidy, S., Fletcher, J., & McVeigh, A. (1993). The mu+ system for corpus-based speech research. Computer Speech and Language, 7, 305-331.
  • Harrington, J., Watson, G., & Cooper, M. (1989). Word boundary detection in broad class and phoneme strings. Computer Speech and Language, 3, 367-382.
  • Harrington, J. (1988). Stuttering, delayed auditory feedback and linguistic rhythm. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 31, 36-47.
  • Harrington, J., & Johnstone, A. (1987). The effects of equivalence classes on parsing phonemes into words in continuous speech recognition. Computer Speech and Language, 2, 273-288.

Published Abstracts

  • Onaka, A., Palethorpe, S., Watson, C., & Harrington, J. (2003). An acoustic analysis of domain-initial strengthening effect in Japanese [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Sixth International Seminar on Speech Production, Sydney, Australia.
  • Onaka, A., Palethorpe, S., Watson, C., & Harrington, J. (2002). Acoustic and articulatory difference of speech segments at different prosodic positions [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology.
  • Stephenson, L., & Harrington, J. (2002). Assimilation of Place Articulation: Evidence from English and Japanese [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology.
  • Rastle, K., Harrington, J., & Croot, K. (2001). Effects of initial phoneme on naming latency: Where do they come from? [Abstract]. Australian Journal of Psychology.
  • Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Watson, C.I. (2000). Vowel change in Received Pronunciation: evidence from the Queen's English [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 7th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology.
  • Palethorpe, S., Beckman, M.E., Fletcher, J., & Harrington, J. (1999). The contribution of schwa vowels to the prosodic accent contrast in Australian English [Abstract]. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco.
  • Harrington, J., Beckman, M.E., Fletcher, J., & Palethorpe, S. (1998). An electropalatographic, kinematic and acoustic analysis of supralaryngeal correlates of word and utterance-level prominence contrasts in English [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.
  • Watson, C., Harrington, J., & Palethorpe, S. (1998). A kinematic analysis of New Zealand and Australian English vowel spaces [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing.
  • Watson, C.I., Maclagan, M., & Harrington, J. (1998). Acoustic evidence of vowel shift in New Zealand English [Abstract]. Abstracts of Laboratory Phonology VI, York, U.K..
  • Rastle, K., Harrington, J., Coltheart, M., & Palethorpe, S. (1998). Reading aloud begins when the computation of phonology is complete [Abstract]. 1998 Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallas.
  • Harrington, J., Beckman, M.E., Fletcher J., & Palethorpe, S. (1997). Kinematic and spectral measures of supralaryngeal correlates of the accent contrast in Australian English high vowels. 134th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102, 3205.
  • Harrington, J., Beckman, M.E., Fletcher, J., & Palethorpe, S. (1997). Competing hypotheses concerning the articulation of stress in English. 131st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 2494.
  • Harrington, J., & Fletcher, J. (1996). Acoustic (non)consequences of gestural variability in the production of accentual prominence (A). 3rd Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Japan [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 100, 2826.
  • Fletcher, J., & Harrington, J. (1995). Coproduction, accent and the tense/lax contrast [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98.5(Pt. 2).
  • Harrington, J., Watson, G., & Cooper, M. (1988). Word-boundary identification in automatic speech recognition [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 84(Suppl. 1), S217.

Published Conference Proceedings

  • Bombien, L., Cassidy, S., Harrington, J., John, T., & Palethorpe, S. (2006). Recent developments in the EMU speech database system. In P. Warren and C. Watson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 313-316). Auckland, New Zealand: Australian Speech Science & Technology Association.

Conference Presentations, Colloquia, and other presentations

  • Harrington, J., Palethorpe, S., & Watson, C. (2007, August). Age-related changes in fundamental frequency and formants: longitudinal study of four speakers. Paper presented at the Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Bombien, L., Cassidy, S., Harrington, J., John, T. & Palethorpe, S. (2006, December). Recent Developments in the Emu Speech Database System. Paper presented at the 11th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, University of Auckland, New Zealand.