| Ana María Fernández Planas | |
| Birth Date: | 16 October 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Blanes, Catalonia, Spain |
| Death Place: | Blanes, Catalonia, Spain |
| Occupation: | Philologist, phonetician |
| Awards: | Antoni Caparrós Award (2018) |
| Education: | University of Barcelona |
Ana María Fernández Planas (16 October 1968 – 15 August 2021) was a Spanish philologist and phonetician from Catalonia.
Ana Maria Fernández Planas was born in Blanes on 16 October 1968. After earning a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Barcelona (UB), she began her research in the field of articulatory phonetics in Spanish and Catalan.[1] In 1984, she became coordinator of the journal . She was a professor of linguistics at UB, and in 1998 she became the technical manager of its Phonetics Laboratory. In 2018, she received the Antoni Caparrós Award from the Bosch i Gimpera Foundation and UB for best knowledge transfer project.[2]
She was one of the pioneers in the introduction of electropalatography in Spain. Among her most outstanding scientific contributions is the calculation of the values of the perceptual thresholds of duration and the fundamental frequency in Spanish.[3]
She published more than 100 scientific works, including numerous articles on phonetics in specialized journals (such as , Estudis Romànics, , Journal of the International Phonetic Association, Onomázein, Géolinguistique, Head and Neck, and Aphasiology) and some books on the same topic.
Ana María Fernández Planas died in Blanes on 15 August 2021.[4]