Welcome to Prof. Asher Laufer’s website.
I am a professor in the Department of Hebrew Language in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the director of its phonetics laboratory. My fields of expertise include phonetics and phonology in general, and Hebrew phonetics and phonology, both historical and geographical, in particular. My research projects cover diverse aspects of phonetics and prosody.
Research Interests
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Articulatory, acoustic, and perceptional phonetics;
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Intonation of colloquial Hebrew;
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Synthesis of Hebrew speech;
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Phonology and morphology of Hebrew throughout the various generations;
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Phonotactics;
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Revival of Hebrew speech;
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Teaching Hebrew as a foreign language;
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The use of computers for teaching Hebrew.