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Asher Laufer

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

A. Ph.D. dissertation

1.Synthesis by Rule of a Hebrew Idiolect; The supervisor: Prof. A.J. Fourcin; University of London, 1972, 265 pp.

B. Books

2. Exercises in Phonetic Transcription, Akademon, Jerusalem, 1974, 90 pp. (in Hebrew).

3. Introduction to Acoustic Phonetics, The Open University, Units 5 of the course "Phonology of Modern Hebrew", Tel-Aviv, 1983, 40 pp. (in Hebrew).

4. Acoustic Description of sounds, The Open University, Units 6-7 of the course "Phonology of Modern Hebrew", Tel-Aviv, 1984, 60 pp., (in Hebrew).

(Note: Items 34 are one book:"Units 5, 6-7".)

  1. Studies in Phonetics, The IsraeliAcademy of Sciences, Vol. 7.3, 1985, 69 pp. (in Hebrew).
  2. Intonation, Publications of the Institute of Jewish Studies, HebrewUniversity, Jerusalem, 1987, 130 pp. (in Hebrew).
  3. Exercises in Intonation of Colloquial Hebrew, 2nd edition, HebrewUniversity, Akademon, Jerusalem, 1986, 70 pp. (in Hebrew).
  4. Phonetics and Phonology, The Open University, Units 4-5 of the course "Introduction to Linguistics", Tel-Aviv, 1992, 128 pp. (in Hebrew).
  5. Chapters in Phonetics and inPhonetic Transcription, (The book is accompanied with a CD), Magnes, Jerusalem, 2008, 276 pp. (in Hebrew).

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C. Papers

  1. "Chironomy and head movements in reciting the Hebrew Scriptures", Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1969, Division 4, pp. 93-107 (In Hebrew, Abstract in English on pp. 23-24).
  2. "A programme for synthesizing Hebrew speech", Phonetica - Journal of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences, Vol. 32, Basel, 1975, pp. 292-299.
  3. "Hebrew synthesized by the aid of a computer", Leshonenu, Vol. 40, Jerusalem, 1976, pp. 67-68 (in Hebrew).
  4. "Phonetics and teaching a second language", Ki-l'shon 'ammo, Chaim Rabin Jubilee Volume, Studies in Applied Linguistics, ed. B.Z. Fischler & R. Nir, Council of the teaching of Hebrew, Jerusalem, 1976, pp. 44-58 (in Hebrew).
  5. (a) "Phonetic description of vowels", Leshonenu, Vol. 41, Jerusalem, 1977, pp. 117-143 (in Hebrew).

(b) This article was republished in: Readings In The Phonology Of The Modern Hebrew (1986), The course in Phonology, The Open Univ., Tel-Aviv, pp. 58-84 (in Hebrew).

  1. "Principles of the methods for the production of synthetic speech", Hebrew Computational Linguistics, Vol. 13, Ramat-Gan, 1978, pp. 70-85 (in Hebrew).
  2. (a) "The epiglottis as an articulator", A.Laufer and I.D. Condax, WPP UCLA (Working Papers in Phonetics), Vol. 45, Los-Angeles, March 1979, pp. 60-83.

(b) "The epiglottis as an articulator",A. Laufer and I.D. Condax, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol 9, No. 2, England, December 1979, pp. 50-56.

(c) "The function of the epiglottis in speech", A. Laufer and I.D. Condax, Language and Speech, Vol. 24, England, 1981, pp. 39-62.

(Laufer is the main researcher.)

  1. (a) "The use of the spectrograph for the assertion of phonetic script",in the Ben-Chaim Jubilee Volume, "Research in the Hebrew Language and in Associated Fields", ed. by A. Dotan, D. Tene & G.B. Tsarfati, 1983, pp. 302-309 (in Hebrew).

(b) This article was republished in: Readings In The Phonology Of The Modern Hebrew,The course in Phonology, The Open Univ., Tel-Aviv, 1986, pp. 85-96 (in Hebrew).

  1. "Descriptions of the emphatic sounds in Hebrew and in Arabic", Language Studies 2-3, Jubilee Volume in honour of Aba Ben-David, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1987, pp. 423-438 (In Hebrew, Abstract in English on p. XXXIV).
  2. (a) "The emphatic and pharyngeal sounds in Hebrew and in Arabic", A. Laufer and T. Baer, Language And Speech, England, 1988, Vol. 31, Part 2, pp. 181-205.

(b) Also in: Speech Research, (Status Report on Speech Research), Haskins Laboratories, New-Haven, SR-95/96, 1989, pp. 51-71.

(Laufer is the main researcher.)

  1. "Phonotactics", Chaim Rabin Jubilee Volume, for his 80th birthday, ed. Goshen M., Morag S. & Kogot S., Jerusalem, 1990, pp. 179-193 (in Hebrew).
  2. (a) "Hebrew", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol. 20.2, England, 1990, pp. 40-43.

(b) Also in: Handbook of the International Phonetic Alphabet, ed. Esling J., Cambridge University Press, England, 1999, pp. 96-99.

  1. "The glottal stop", LeshonenuLa'am, Vol. 43, Jerusalem, 1991, pp. 20-24 (in Hebrew).
  2. "Does the 'voiced epiglottal plosive' exist?", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol 21.1, England, 1991, pp. 44-45.
  3. "The 'glottal Fricative'", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol 21.2, England, 1991, pp. 91-93.
  4. "Voicing in contemporary Hebrew", Leshonenu, Vol 57.4, Jerusalem, 1994, pp. 299-342 (in Hebrew.)
  5. "Voice/voiceless against lenis/fortis", Hebrew Linguistics, Vol 39, Ramat-Gan, 1995, pp. 41-65 (In Hebrew, Abstract in English on pp. VI-VII).
  6. "Modifications of the IPA chart", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol 25.2, 1995, pp 81-82.
  7. "Pauses in fluent speech and punctuation", Studies in Hebrew and Jewish Languages Presented to Shlomo Morag, ed. Bar-Asher Moshe, Jerusalem, Bialik Institute, 1966, pp. 277-294 (in Hebrew).
  8. "The common [] is an approximant and not a fricative", Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Vol 26.2, 1996, pp. 113-117.
  9. "Insights into the description of vowels", in: Hebrew Through the Ages, In Memory of Shoshna Bahat, Edited by Moshe Bar-Asher, The Academy of the Hebrew Language, Jerusalem 1977, pp. 373-386 (in Hebrew).
  10. "Voicing in contemporary Hebrew in comparison with other languages" Hebrew Studies 39, Madison, 1998, pp. 143-179.
  11. Y. Sonnenblick, A. Teitelbaum, and A. Laufer (1998) "A Hebrew Synthesizer Based VOCA", Proceedings of the Eighth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, ISAAC, 1, 497.
  12. A. Laufer and A. Teitelbaum (1998) "Hebrew speech synthesis simulating a model of verbal communication", Proceedings of the 12th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, 1998, Division 4, p. 110 (In Hebrew).
  13. Sonnenblick Y., Teitelbaum A., and Laufer A.(1999)"A VOCA using synthesized Hebrew speech", Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Journal of ISAAC-ISRAEL, 15, Jerusalem, pp. 58-69 (in Hebrew. An English abstract on p. a).
  14. "To the definition of the phoneme - the minimal unit in the language communication", Studies in Honor of Prof. M.Z. Kadari, Jubilee Volume, Ramat-Gan, ed. S. Sharvit, Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, 1999, pp. 329-344 (in Hebrew).
  15. "Fundamental frequency contour in Hebrew synthesis by rule - An imitation of a speech communication model", Laufer A., Sonnenblick Y. and Teitelbaum A., ICPhS-99, Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, 1999, pp. 65-69. (Laufer is the main researcher.)
  16. Review of: Sensimetrics Corporation (1997), Speech Production and Perception I: An Interactive Multimedia Course (SPPI), Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sensimetrics Series in Human Communication, CD-ROM Course software + Installation Guide (4 pp.) + User's Guide (32 pp.) + Teacher's Guide (15 pp.) + Workbook (53 pp.). In The Phonetician, The publication of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences - ISPhS 2000-II, No. 82, pp. 79-81.
  17. Review of: Pickett, James M. (1999), The Acoustics of Speech Communication: Fundamentals, Speech Perception Theory and Technology, Boston et al.: Allyn and Bacon, xii + 404 pages (of double columns), ISBN 0-205-19887-2. In The Phonetician, The publication of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences – ISPhS, 2000-II, No. 82, pp. 81-84.
  18. Review of: Patill Dinker B.(2000), The New Phonetic Script, Belgaum, India, ISBN 81-901202-0-4, (XIV + 188 pp.). In The Phonetician, The publication of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences - ISPhS, 2001-I, No. 83, pp. 78-80.
  19. Review of: Wahlster W. (editor, 2000), Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-To-Speech Translation, Springer, Berlin, xii + 677 pages, 224 figs + 88 tables, and the Verbmobil Internet site: In The Phonetician, The publication of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences – ISPhS, 2001-II, No. 84, pp. 88-93.
  20. Review of: Ladefoged, Peter (2001), Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sound of Languages, Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, xxii + 191 pages + CD, ISBN 0-631-21412-7. InThe Phonetician, The publication of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences – ISPhS, 2002-I, No. 85, pp. 65-67.
  21. “Re-thinking of the early Ashkenazi pronunciation”, Kol Le-Yaakov, Yaakov Bentolila Jubilee Volume, Research Papers, Editors: Sivan D. and Halevi-Kirtchuk P., Eshel Beer-Sheva, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, 2003, pp. 259-275.
  22. "Phonetic Transcription of Colloquial Hebrew", Leshonenu, Vol. 66, Jerusalem, 2004, pp. 405-415 (in Hebrew. An English abstract on p. IX).
  23. Review of: Local J., Ogden R. and Temple R. (editors, 2003), Phonetic Interpretation: Papers in Laboratory Phonology VI, Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, xiv + 402 pages, ISBN 0-521-82402-8, In The Phonetician, The publication of the International Society of Phonetic Sciences – ISPhS, 2005-I, No. 91, pp. 44-48.
  24. "Spoken and written Hebrew: Two separate processes (Vocalization Reform)", Leshonenu La'am, Vol. LV, Jerusalem, 2005-6, pp. 156-173 (in Hebrew).
  25. "Contemporary Hebrew feeds mainly from its own Hebrew roots: Hebrew is not a Creole language", Sha'are Lashon: Studies in Hebrew, Arameic and Jewish Languages Presented to Moshe Bar-Asher, ed. A. Maman, S. Fasberg and Y. Broier, Jerusalem, 2007, pp. 117-135 (In Hebrew).
  26. "Pharyngeal articulation in Hebrew", the summary of my invited guest lecture in the International Workshop on Pharyngeals and Pharyngealisation, held in the Research Beehive, Newcastle University, UK, on March 27, 2009. Can be viewed via the site:

D. OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Laufer A.(2007), "The Pharynx and the Larynx in Speech – Photography of the Inner Pharynx with Fiber-optics", 2007, a 20 minutes DVD movie edited in the Language labs. of the HebrewUniversity in Jerusalem; Can be viewed (with poorer resolution) via the site Hebrew).
  1. Laufer A., Delshad E., and Shoval C. (2009), "Sabra Sound: Learning to Pronounce Hebrew". A courseware with audio-visual technology controlled by computers. (An Internet multimedia courseware which can be used in the internet all over the world, free of charge.) The project is in its last stages, and it is already launched in the site of the Hebrew University, in this site: (In English).

E. Public Lectures

1.1969, "Chironomy and head movements in reciting the Hebrew Scriptures", Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division 4, Jerusalem, 5.8.1969.

2.1973, "Hebrew synthesized by the aid of a computer", The 6th World Congress ofJewish Studies, Session D-41, p. D-41, Jerusalem, 1973 (Lecture, in Hebrew).

3.1975, "Speech synthesis by rule of a general Israeli Hebrew idiolect", The 8th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences,Leeds, England, 23.8.1975 (Lecture, and also 9 pp. in the Proceedings).

4.1977, "Intonation of colloquial Hebrew research and its contribution to the syntactical description", The 7th World Congress ofJewish Studies, Session D/7, Jerusalem, 9.8.1997,(Lecture in Hebrew, and English abstract on p. 74 in the Proceedings).

5.1977,"Acoustical-phonetic findings for verifying the language tradition pronunciation descriptions", The 7th World Congress ofJewish Studies, Session D/15, Jerusalem, 9.8.1997 (Lecture in Hebrew, and English abstract on p. 79 in the Proceedings).

6.Laufer A. and Condax I.D. (1978), "The epiglottis as an articulator", Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, ASA-ASJ, 96 Meeting, Honolulu, November 1978, Paper II IS (Lecture, See no. 30, 31, 32, 60).

7.Laufer A.and Condax I.D. (1979), Ninth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Copenhagen, August 1979 (Lecture, See no. 30, 31, 32, 59).

8.1979,"Pronunciation problems of new immigrants to Israel", The Gathering of Ulpan Teachers, Hammador Le-Hanchalat Ha-Lashon, The World Zionist Organization, Beit Ha'am, Jerusalem, May 1979 (Invited lecture, in Hebrew).

9.1980,"What are the pharyngeal sounds?", Israel Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem, 15.1.1980(An Invited guest lecture, in Hebrew).

10.1980,"Phonetics and learning a second language", 3rd Workshop for Teachers of Hebrew as a second Languge, Hammador Le-Hanchalat Ha-Lashon, The World Zionist Organization, Machon Grinberg, Jerusalem, 26th March 1980 (Invited lecture, in Hebrew).

11.1981,"The usages of the sound spectrograph", Annual Gathering of the Speech Therapists in Israel, The Medicine Faculty, Tel-Aviv University, 28.4.1981 (Invited lecture, in Hebrew).

12.1981, "The pharyngeal sounds", The 8th World Congress ofJewish Studies, Session D/13, Jerusalem, 18.8.81 (Lecture, in Hebrew).

13.1981,"Stages in enquiring a second language", Workshop for Teachers of Hebrew as a second Languge, Hammador Le-Hanchalat Ha-Lashon, The World Zionist Organization, Machon Grinberg, Jerusalem, 26.8.81(Invited lecture, in Hebrew).

14.1983,"The help of computers in teaching Hebrew – a survey of educational computer programs for teaching languages in Israel and in the diaspora", The Gathering of Ulpan Teachers, Hammador Le-Hanchalat Ha-Lashon, The World Zionist Organization and the Hebrew University, Machon Grinberg, Jerusalem, 31.3.1983 (Invited lecture, in Hebrew).

15.1983,"Technology in teaching languages", Israel Association for Applied Linguistics - I.A.A.L (ILASH), Technion, Haifa, 26.9.1983 (Invited lecture, in Hebrew).

16.1985, "Acoustic phonetic research to determine findings in Hebrew oral traditions", The 9th World Congress ofJewish Studies, Session D/13, Jerusalem, 18.8.85 (Lecture, in Hebrew).

17.1987,"The role of intonation in Hebrew", Annual Gathering of the Speech Therapists in Israel, The Medicine Faculty, Tel-Aviv University, 13.1.1987 (Invited lecture, in Hebrew).

18.1989,"The role of the epiglottis in speech", The 10th World Congress ofJewish Studies, Session 444, Jerusalem, 16.8.2001 (Lecture, in Hebrew. An English abstract on p. 65 in the Proceedings).

19.1990,"The role of the larynx in speech", 2nd and 3rd year of the MedicalSchool, HebrewUniversity, Ein-Karem, Jerusalem, (Invited Lecture, in Hebrew).

20.1991,"The production of pharyngeal and emphatic sounds in Hebrew and in Arabic", 12th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provance, France, 20.8.1991 (Poster session).

21.1993,"Voicing in spoken Hebrew", The 11th World Congress ofJewish Studies, Session D-14, Jerusalem, 27.6.1993, (Lecture, in Hebrew, p. 81 in the Program).

22.1994,"The computer as a tool in Hebrew language teaching", The Gathering of Hebrew Teachers in North America, The Department of Jewish Education and Culture in the Diaspora, Ramaz High School, New York, 20.7.1994 (Invited lecturer for 4 topics in this subject on a wholeday seminar).

23.Laufer A.and TeitelbaumA. (1997), "Hebrew speech synthesis simulating a model of verbal communication", The 12th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Session D-5142, Jerusalem, 4.8.1998, (Lecture in Hebrew, and abstract on p. 110 in the Proceedings).

24.Laufer A., Sonnenblick Y. and TeitelbaumA. (1998), "The use of a speech communication model to determine the fundamental frequency contour in Hebrew synthesis by rule", IPS-98: International Society of Phonetic Sciences, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, June 27-30, 1998, (Lecture on 29.6.88. Abstract on p. 16 in the Proceedings).

25.Sonnenblick Y., TeitelbaumA., and Laufer A. (1998), "A Hebrew Synthesizer Based VOCA", The 8th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication(ISAAC '98), UniversityCollegeDublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland, 26.8.98 (Lecture. Abstract on p. 497 of the Proceedings).

26.Sonnenblick Y., Teitelbaum A., and Laufer A. (1999), "The utilization of synthetic Hebrew speech in a VOCA", The 35th Annual Conference of the Israeli Speech, Hearing and Language Association (ISHLA), Ein Bokek, The Dead Sea, Israel, 24.2.99.

27.Laufer A., Sonnenblick Y. and TeitelbaumA. (1999),"Fundamental frequency contour in Hebrew synthesis by rule - An imitation of a speech communication model", ICPhS-99, The 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Session 0210, San Francisco, 2.8.1999 (Lecture).

28.1999,"To the memory of Prof. Shlomo Morag – The teacher and the instructor", Israel Academy of Sciences, Jerusalem, 5.10.1999(A assembly/gathering held by the Israel Academy of Sciences, the Academy of the Hebrew Language and the Hebrew University. An Invited guest lecture, in Hebrew).

29.1999,"The secret of the structure of the verbal communication –communication model", Israel Association for Applied Linguistics - I.A.A.L (ILASH), DavidYelinTeachers College, Jerusalem, 3.10.1999(Invited lecture, in Hebrew).

30.2001,"On the pre-Ashkenazi pronunciation", The 13th World Congress ofJewish Studies, Session 444, Jerusalem, 16.8.2001 (Lecture, pp. 65, 84 in the Program).

31.2005,"How to transcribe speech", The 14th World Congress ofJewish Studies, Session 442, Jerusalem, 3.8.2005 (Lecture, pp. 93, 118 in the Program).

32."Pharyngeal articulation in Hebrew", an invited lecture in the International Workshop on Pharyngeals and Pharyngealisation, held in the Research Beehive, Newcastle University, UK, March 26-27, 2009. The abstract can be viewed via the site:

May, 2009.