Bistra Andreeva
Professor of Phonetics and Phonology in the Dept. of Language Science and Technology at Saarland University
Research interests
My major research interests include the phonetics and phonology of intonation and rhythm, cross-language and individual differences in the production and perception of syllabic prominence in various languages, the relation between intonation and information structure, minority languages, and the interaction between information density and prosodic structure.
Research projects
- SFB 1102, C1: Information Density and the Predictability of Phonetic Structure (2014-2026, funded by DFG)
- Judeo-Spanish in Bulgaria: a contact language between archaism and innovation (2022-2025, funded by DFG)
- Prosodic aspects of Bulgarian compared to other languages with lexical stress (2019-2024, funded by Bulgarian National Science Fund)
- Prosodic manifestations of focus in French and English from a Bulgarian point of view (2021-2023, funded by DAAD & Sofia University)
- Current and completed projects