Georg Heike (; born 21 July 1933) is 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 human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

. He studied musicology, phonetics, communication science and psychology at the University of Bonn 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, fir ...

. He was senior scientist at

Marburg University The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...

before he moved to the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

. 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 is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages or dialects systematically organize their sounds or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs. The term can also refer specifically to the sound or sign system of a ...

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 (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...

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

contemporary music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included serial ...

violin making Making an instrument of the violin family, also called lutherie, may be done in different ways, many of which have changed very little in nearly 500 years since the first violins were made. Some violins, called "bench-made" instruments, are made ...

, 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 Greek , ''dialektos'', "talk, dialect"; and , ''-logia'') is the scientific study of linguistic dialect, a sub-field of sociolinguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution and their assoc ...

(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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