Thomas Kettig, assistant professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics (DLLL), has published a new article in the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) titled Pre-aspiration and longitudinal voice quality trends in Received Pronunciation: The case of Queen Elizabeth II. The article examines how Queen Elizabeth II’s speech changed throughout her lifetime.
Kettig research focuses on how speech sounds vary and change through space and time. Some of his research aims to understand why the vowel sounds of English change from one generation of speakers to the next. He has also undertaken the first large-scale, multi-speaker investigation of the Hawaiian vowel systems.
Before joining DLLL at 첥Ƶ, Kettig was at the University of York in the United Kingdom and later taught phonetics at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY). He earned his PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2021. His dissertation, Haʻina ʻia mai ana ka puana: The vowels of ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, focused on the phonetic structure of the Hawaiian language.
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