BIO
Major Research Interests
Experimental phonetics: the production and perception of speech, laryngeal control in consonants, distinctive tone, Southeast Asian languages, especially Thai.

EDUCATION
Education: B.A., 1949, Yeshiva University;
M.A., 1950, PhD, 1960, Columbia University.

EXPERIENCE
1943-46 U.S. Army

1950-53 Teacher, Jersey City, NJ public high schools

1953-55 Fulbright teacher of English and linguistics, Songkhla and Bangkok, Thailand

1959-63 Research Staff, Haskins Laboratories

1963-64 Associate Professor of Speech, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York; Research Associate, Haskins Laboratories

1964-65 Research Staff, Haskins Laboratories (Acting Head, Speech Research)

1965-67 Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

1965- Research Associate, Haskins Laboratories

1967-92 Professor of Linguistics, The University of Connecticut (Founding Department Head, Sept. 1967-Jan. 1974)

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Abramson, A.S. (1962). The vowels and tones of standard Thai: Acoustical measurements and experiments. Indiana U. Research Center in Anthropology, Folklore, and Linguistics, Pub. 20. Bloomington. (PDF)

Lisker, L., & Abramson, A.S (1964). A cross-language study of voicing in initial stops: Acoustical measurements. Word, 20, 384-422.(PDF)

Lisker, L., & Abramson, A.S (1967). Some effects of context on voice onset time in English stops. Language and Speech, 10, 1-28. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S, & Lisker, L. (1970). Discriminability along the voicing continuum: Cross language tests. Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague (pp. 569-573). (PDF)

Lisker, L., & Abramson, A.S (1971). Distinctive features and laryngeal control. Language, 47, 767-785. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S (1972). Tonal experiments with whispered Thai. In A. Valdman (Ed.), Papers on linguistics and phonetics to the memory of Pierre Delattre (pp. 29-55). The Hague: Mouton. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S, & Lisker, L. (1973). Voice-timing perception in Spanish word-initial stops. Journal of Phonetics, 1, 1-8. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S (1975). The tones of Central Thai: Some perceptual experiments. In J.G. Harris & J.R. Chamberlain (Eds.), Studies in Thai linguistics in honor of William J. Gedney (pp. 1-16). Bangkok: Central Institute of English Language. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S (1977). Laryngeal timing in consonant distinctions. Phonetica, 34, 295-303. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S (1978). Static and dynamic acoustic cues in distinctive tones. Language and Speech, 21, 319-325. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S (1979). The noncategorical perception of tone categories in Thai. In B. Lindblom & S. Ohman, Frontiers of speech communication research (pp. 127-134). London: Academic. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S., Nye, P.W., Henderson, J.B., & Marshall, C.W. (1981). Vowel height and the perception of consonantal nasality. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 70. 329-339. (PDF)

Lisker, L., & Abramson, A.S (1987). Phonetic validation of distinctive features: A test case in French. R. Chanon & L. Shockey (Eds.), In honor of Ilse Lehiste (pp. 183-190). Paris: Dordrecht. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S. & Ren, N. (1990). Distinctive vowel length: Duration versus spectrum in Thai. Journal of Phonetics, 18, 79-92. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S (1995). Laryngeal timing in Karen obstruents. In F. Bell-Berti & L.J. Raphael (Eds.), Producing speech: Contemporary issues (pp. 155-165). New York: American Institute of Physics. (PDF)

Abramson, A.S. (2001). The stability of distinctive vowel length in Thai. In K. Tingsabadh & A.S. Abramson, Eds., Essays in Tai linguistics (pp. 13-26). Bangkok: Chulalongkorn University Press. (PDF)