Henna Tamminen
PhD, University Teacher
Phonetics and LAB-lab henna.tamminen@utu.fi +358 50 362 6100 Assistentinkatu 7 Turku Office: 342 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1845-0854 Tanssi uhanalaisten kielten ja foneettisen maailman tulkkina -hanke |
Areas of expertise
Phonetics; non-native speech learning; speech perception; phonetic training; pronunciation learning; preattentive speech processing; speech production; speech acoustics; bilingualism; mutilingualism
Phonetics; non-native speech learning; speech perception; phonetic training; pronunciation learning; preattentive speech processing; speech production; speech acoustics; bilingualism; mutilingualism
Research community or research topic
Phonetics and Learning, Age & Bilingualism laboratory (LAB-lab)
Phonetics and Learning, Age & Bilingualism laboratory (LAB-lab)
Biography
Research
My research interests are foreign language speech perception learning, bilingual and multilingual speech perception, second language training, pre-attentive speech processing, and production learning of non-native speech.
Our research group at phonetics is the Learning, Age & Bilingualism laboratory (LAB-lab).
Teaching
I have given small group teaching and lecture courses on different topics in phonetics. I have supervised theses on BA and MA levels in Phonetics and in Speech-Language Pathology.
Taught courses since 2007:
Basic level courses: Phonology/Speech Sound Systems and Phonology, Introduction to Experimental Methods, Acoustic Phonetics I, Speech Acoustics (team-taught), Introduction to General Linguistics
Intermediate level courses: Acoustic Phonetics II, Pronunciation and Transcription, Research Project, Phonetics Reading Group, Intermediate Studies Book Exams and Essays, BA Thesis Seminar
Advanced level courses: Research Project, Phonetics Reading Group, Speech Signal Analysis (team-taught), Different Topics in Phonetics (team-taught), Advanced Studies Essays, MA Thesis Seminar
Publications 
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- Fonetiikan ääntämiskurssin vaikutus vieraskielisen puheen piirteiden havaitsemiseen fonetiikan ja logopedian yliopisto-opiskelijoilla (2025)
- Puhe ja kieli
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Listen-and-repeat training of non-native vowel quality: Preliminary findings from speakers of Namibian languages (2024)
- Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - One-day listen-and-repeat training of a non-native vowel duration contrast for speakers of Namibian languages (2024)
- Journal of Second Language Pronunciation
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Production of English vowel duration by multilingual speakers of Namibian English (2024)
- English Today
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The production of voicing in Namibian English stops by speakers of Khoekhoegowab (2024)
- AFinLA-teema
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time (2024)
- Lingua
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Vowel qualities in monosyllabic words in Namibian English (2024)
- Journal of monolingual and bilingual speech
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Orthography does not hinder non-native production learning in children (2023)
- Second Language Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fonetiikan tutkijat etsivät keinoja englannin ääntämisen tukemiseen ja kieliperinnön säilyttämiseen Namibiassa (2022)
- Kieli, Koulutus Ja Yhteiskunta
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Plasticity in speech perception – effects of learning, age and bilingualism (2022) Tamminen Henna
(G5 Article dissertation ) - Aging and non-native speech perception: A phonetic training study (2021)
- Neuroscience Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Motoric Training Alters Speech Sound Perception and Production — Active Listening Training Does Not Lead into Learning Outcomes (2020)
- Journal of Language Teaching and Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Speech sound perception in monolinguals, bilinguals and learners - Language background affects identification and discrimination differently (2019)
- Proceedings of the ofInternational Congress of Phonetic Sciences
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Two types of bilinguals – Two types of production contexts (2017)
- Linguistica Lettica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Learning of a non-native vowel through instructed production training (2015) 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Antti Saloranta, Henna Tamminen, Paavo Alku, Maija S. Peltola
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Non-native memory traces can be further strengthened by short term phonetic training (2015)
- Proceedings of the ofInternational Congress of Phonetic Sciences
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Non-native production training with an acoustic model and orthographic or transcription cues (2015) 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Kimmo U. Peltola, Henna Tamminen, Paavo Alku, Maija S. Peltola
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Phonetic training and non-native speech perception - New memory traces evolve in just three days as indexed by the mismatch negativity (MMN) and behavioural measures (2015)
- International Journal of Psychophysiology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Advanced English learners benefit from explicit pronunciation teaching: an experiment with vowel duration and quality (2014)
- AFinLa-E : Soveltavan Kielitieteen Tutkimuksia
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Foneettiset ääntämisohjeet osana kuuntele ja toista –harjoitusta. (2014) XXVII Fonetiikan päivät, 25.-26. lokakuuta 2013, konferenssijulkaisu Antti Saloranta, Henna Tamminen, Paavo Alku, Maija S. Peltola
(B3 Non-refereed article in a conference publication)
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