Ana María Fernández Planas (16 October 1968 – 15 August 2021) was a Spanish

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and

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from

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Biography

Ana Maria Fernández Planas was born in

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on 16 October 1968. After earning a doctorate in linguistics from the

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(UB), she began her research in the field of

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and Catalan. In 1984, she became coordinator of the journal '. She was a professor of linguistics at UB, and in 1998 she became the technical manager of its Phonetics Laboratory. In 2018, she received the Antoni Caparrós Award from the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation and UB for best knowledge transfer project. She was one of the pioneers in the introduction of

electropalatography Electropalatography (EPG) is a technique used to monitor contacts between the tongue and hard palate, particularly during articulation and speech. A custom-made artificial palate is moulded to fit against a speaker's hard palate. The artificial p ...

in Spain. Among her most outstanding scientific contributions is the calculation of the values of the perceptual thresholds of duration and the

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in Spanish. She published more than 100 scientific works, including numerous articles on phonetics in specialized journals (such as ', '' Estudis Romànics'', ', ''

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'', ''Onomázein'', ''Géolinguistique'', ''Head and Neck'', and ''

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'') and some books on the same topic. Ana María Fernández Planas died in Blanes on 15 August 2021.

Selected works

* ''Prácticas de transcripción fonética en castellano'' (2001), with , Salvatella * ''Así se habla. Nociones fundamentales de fonética general y española'' (2005), Horsori * ''Manual de fonética española'' (2007), with , Ariel

References

External links

Ana Ma. Fernández Planas
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez Planas, Ana Maria 1968 births 2021 deaths 21st-century linguists People from Selva Philologists from Catalonia Phoneticians University of Barcelona alumni Academic staff of the University of Barcelona Spanish women philologists