Max-Planck-Institut
Contact
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 315
fax: +49 (341) 3550 - 333
e-mail: cissewski@eva.mpg.de
Sven Grawunder
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig,
Germany
phone: +49 341 3550 342
e-mail: grawunder@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
I am a speech scientist, phonetician and linguist. Currently I am working as a guest researcher collaborating with colleagues at the department of human behavior, ecology and culture and the primatology department. Before that I worked as post-doc research fellow at the linguistic department of the MPI EVA (2005 –2015).
General Research Interest
- comparative phonetics and vocal physiology of human primates
- linguistic voice quality/ phonation types and non-linguistic throat singing, throat games, overtone singing (http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6114/1517.2.full)
- modeling language change, especially sound change
- human linguistic & paralinguistic vocal behavior and social hierarchies
Current Projects
- phonetics of vocalizations in field data of wild chimpanzees in the Taï forests [joint work with Cathy Crockford (MPI EVA) and Natalie Uomini (MPI SSH, Jena)]
- comparative laryngeal anatomy of great apes [joint work with Gottfried Hohmann (MPI EVA), Alexander Stoessel (MPI EVA, Uni Jena) and Cathy Crockford (MPI EVA)]
