‘I remember as a
child wondering how it
would feel to be able to
recognise words in such
mysterious languages.’
Dr MARIA
PAOLA BISSIRI
RESEARCH FELLOW, SPEECH AND HEARING SCIENCES
I am Dr Maria Paola Bissiri, I hold a PhD in Phonetics from the
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich in Germany. In my research
work I compare native with non-native speech productions and
investigate speech perception in different languages.
I have been investigating
non-native German
and non-native English
speech, and speech
perception by native
German, English, Italian,
Spanish, Czech, Swedish
and Mandarin listeners.
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I have worked as a Research Fellow in several institutions
across Europe: the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich,
the Charles University in Prague, the University of the Basque
Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain), the University of Bristol,
and the Technical University of Dresden (Germany).
I am happy to work as a researcher, because this allows me to
learn something new every day.
I have always been fascinated by language. I remember
listening to foreign languages as a child and wondering how it
would feel to be able to recognise words in such mysterious
languages. I grew up in Sardinia from Sardinian-Italian bilingual
parents. Sardinian, an archaic Romance lang uage, is a UNESCO
endangered language.