Jürg Strässler studied at the University of Zürich and took his first degree in 1977 in English Language and Literature, German Language and Physics. He then took up his studies in Theoretical Linguistics in England at the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College) and finished this postgraduate course with an M.Phil. dissertation on Truth-Conditional Approaches to Semantic Theory. His dissertation on Idioms in English, A Pragmatic Analysis was completed in Zürich in 1982. Since 1981 he has been teaching English at the Alte Kantonsschule Aarau. In 1994 he started lecturing in phonetics and phonology at the University of Zürich and from 1994 till 2002 he held the position of a senior assistant and lecturer in linguistics at the English Department of the University of Berne and worked as the assistant to the editor of Multilingua. Since 2006 he has again been giving lectures in linguistics at the English department of the University of Berne.

During the last few years he has concentrated on lexically-driven parsing within a generative framework. Apart from syntax and semantics, he has also always been interested in phonetics and phonology, especially forensic and clinical phonetics.

Jürg Strässler is a member of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) and of the international organising committee of the Linguistics Colloquium.

Phonetics Website

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