Felix Balmer

Felix Balmer studied English, Spanish and Geman at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and at Universitat de València. His interests in language in general and phonetics and phonology in particulary arose during a stay in Auckland, New Zealand. He is particularly interested in processes of speech perception, especially the role of mishearings in processing connected speech. Since 2008, he is writing is dissertation with the (working) title "Phonetic Ambiguity: Processing Mishearings" within the colloquium "Dimensionen der Ambiguität" ("Dimensions of Ambiguity"). It is an elaboration of his thesis statement "Phonetic, Phonological and Prosodic Triggers for Monegreens" that was awarded the "Tübinger Fakultätspreis Sprachwissenschaft 2007" (Faculty's Price of Linguistics 2007) by Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

Felix Balmer is also teacher for Spanish grammar and translation at Europa-Institut in Reutlingen.

You can find the (current) dissertation abstract here

You can find a detailed CV here

You can find his thesis statement "Phonetic, Phonological and Prosodic Triggers for Mondegreens" here

You can find a handout of a selected talk here ("Processing Connected Speech: Triggers for Mondegreens" presented on November 29th 2008 at Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Contact: felix.balmer(at)uni-tuebingen.de