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vvolenec@m.ffzg.hr
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Veno Volenec is Associate Professor in the Department of Phonetics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. In 2011, he completed an undergraduate double major in Croatian Language and Phonetics, and in 2013, he completed a graduate degree in Croatian Language and Literature (linguistic track) and Phonetics (scientific track). He earned his PhD in Linguistics at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb in 2018, defending his dissertation Croatian Phonological Alternations in Optimality Theory. From January 2019 to August 2022, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Concordia University in Montreal, and from August 2022 to August 2024 as a tenure-track assistant professor of Linguistics specializing in phonology and phonetics. During 2022, he worked as a linguistic consultant (expert in Croatian language and text-to-speech conversion) for Google on the localization of Google Assistant into Croatian. In 2020, he published a peer-reviewed scientific book titled Generative Phonology, and in the second half of 2024, he is set to complete a peer-reviewed university textbook Phonetics – The Science of Speech, under contract with MIT Press.

His main research interests are phonological theory, the interface between phonology and phonetics, and cognitive neuroscience. His secondary interests include general linguistic theory, generative biolinguistics, and history of linguistics. In collaboration with Charles Reiss, he developed the theory of phonological competence called Logical Phonology and the theory of the phonology-phonetics interface known as Cognitive Phonetics. In these fields, he has published 35 scientific and 14 professional papers and has presented at around 40 international conferences, including 14 invited talks.