who, what, where
My name is Hugo Quené.
I am professor in quantitative research methods
in the Faculty of Humanities
at Utrecht University:
see my profile page.
E-mail: h (dot) quene (at) uu (dot) nl
Adress: Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, the Netherlands
room 2.18
teaching
research
- at Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS
- topics: quantitative research methods (e.g. mixed-effects modeling), foreign accents and variability (e.g. among international students), self-monitoring while speaking, and general phonetics.
- publications
- profiles at ResearchGate, Google Scholar, academia.edu
- R package, scripts, tools etc.
services
- director of the Centre for Digital Humanities at UU
- co-lead of the theme FAIR Data and Software, within the Open Science Office at UU
- chair of the Linguistics Chamber of the Faculty Ethics Assessment Committee (Humanities) at UU
- member of the steering committee of the focus area Applied Data Science at UU
recommended
- "cheat sheet" about designing quantitative research
- open textbook on Quantitative Methods and Statistics, available at https://hugoquene.github.io/QMS-EN, 272 pp [all materials at doi:10.5281/zenodo.4479620].
- tutorial about Statistics with R (more R stuff on my tools page)
- inaugural lecture: De kansen van spreiding (in Dutch, Utrecht University, 13 March 2017).
- IPA: phonetic alphabet, phonetic fonts, Unicode
- tutorial about phonetics and speech analysis and working with Praat
- UU Library: Catalogue, Picarta, WebOfScience, and much more
more...
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my pronunciation of my name /hˈyxo kənˈe/:
- Utrecht audio demonstrations about speech, hearing, language
- IPA: resources and tutorials about phonetics
- many links, phonetic and otherwise, by Karen Chung
- speech web sites by Diane Kewley-Port
- neat phonetic sites on the web by Natasha Warner
Curriculum Vitae
Hugo Quené received both his M.A. in Phonetics (1984) and his Ph.D. in Linguistics (1989) from Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
His dissertation was a phonetic study of speech segmentation, about phonetic cues for word boundaries. He has worked as an assistant professor in Phonetics at Leiden University, and as a research scientist developing linguistic analyses and intonation rules for Dutch text-to-speech systems. In 1989 he was appointed as assistant professor in Phonetics at Utrecht University. He has spent the year 2001-2002 as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A., where he studied speech rhythm and other topics. From 1999-2006 he held an adjunct position in the Liberal Arts program at Utrecht University.
From 2004 to 2016 he was senior associate professor in Phonetics at Utrecht University.
Since 2016 Quené is professor in Quantitative Methods of Empirical Research in the Humanities.
From 2014 to 2019 he was also director of the undergraduate school in Languages, Literature and Communication.
His current research topics include quantitative research methods, variation in pronunciation, and self-monitoring during speaking.
He has taught many courses in phonetics, linguistics, methods and statistics, and related topics at the BA, MA, graduate, and postgraduate levels.