Marija Tabain

Biography

Marija Tabain’s research is in articulatory and acoustic phonetics. Her work has explored many different languages from all over the world, but especially minority and endangered languages. In collaboration with fieldwork linguists, native speakers and electrical engineers, she has conducted analyses using a wide range of techniques (spectrography, ultrasound, electropalatography, electromagnetic articulometry), with a particular focus on less-studied consonant sounds and complex consonant systems, including consonant and vowel realizations at different prosodic levels. Her work has helped us to understand the many wonderful ways that human speech can be realized by different language speakers.

Since 2019 she has been the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of the International Phonetic Association, with special responsibility for the Illustrations of the International Phonetic Alphabet; she is also an executive member of the permanent council of the International Phonetic Association.