Paulus Petrus Gerardus "Paul" Boersma (born 15 November 1959, Sint Nicolaasga) is professor of phonetic sciences at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between

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 ...

and phonetics. Boersma is mainly known for designing the

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Praat Praat (; , ''wikt:praat#Dutch, "talk"'') is a free software, free computer software package for speech analysis in phonetics. It was designed, and continues to be developed, by Paul Boersma and David Weenink of the University of Amsterdam. It ca ...

(together with David Weenink). Since February 2022, Boersma has been the director of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT).

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External links

Paul Boersma's home page

Praat: Doing phonetics by computer
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