About
Jürgen Trouvain is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Language Science and Technology Department, Saarland University, Germany. His research focuses on phonetics with emphasis on non-verbal vocalizations, speech fluency, prosody, non-native speech, and the history of speech communication research.
- Active in phonetic analysis of laughter and breath noises
- Contributions to speech disfluency and filler particles in multiple languages
- Expert in historical phonetics, including work on Wolfgang von Kempelen's 18th-century speech machine
- Organizer of international workshops on phonetic learner corpora, history of phonetics, and non-verbal vocalizations
Recent publications address laughter timing in conversation, acoustic properties of breath noises, filler particle analysis in German and Ladino, prosodic features in child speech, and the evolution of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. His teaching includes language science, phonetics, and corpus linguistics courses at Saarland University.
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