Interview with Ocke-Schwen Bohn

Abstract

We report an interview we conducted with Professor Ocke-Schwen Bohn, from Aarhus University (Denmark). Professor Bohn is worldwide famous for his work on L2 Phonetic Learning, and has written and organized many important articles, books and book chapters in the field. Professor Bohn is also organizing the next edition of the International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech (New Sounds), which is going to take place in June 2016, at Arrhus University. In what follows, Professor Bohn talks about his career, his views on the area of L2 Phonetic-Phonological Acquisition and what we may expect in the next New Sounds convention.