Research projects
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Turntaking in dialogue in populations with communicative impairment
This project constructs and tests an interactional paradigm to assess the impact of various spoken-language impairments on naturalistic language use.
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Stress in motion
This interdisciplinary pre-registered study investigates how Dutch learners of Spanish produce multimodal lexical stress in Spanish-Dutch cognates (e.g., Spanish profeSOR vs. Dutch proFESsor).
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Relationships between hearing, cognition, spoken language processing, and vocabulary knowledge in hearing-impaired adults and children
In order to shed more light on the relationships between poor auditory input and language performance, this project investigates relationships between crystallised language knowledge, hearing impairment, and individual cognitive abilities.
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Individual differences in clear-Lombard speech modifications in noise
This project documents intertalker differences in the acoustic modifications that speakers apply in noisy conditions.
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Head gestures as precursors of prosodic focus marking in the L2
As prosodic discourse marking is challenging for both L1 and L2 learners, this project investigates whether this bootstrapping function of head gestures in prosodic focus marking also occurs in an L2 context.
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Optimal variability and perceptual improvement in second language learners
This study investigates the effects of using different levels of stimulus variability during training on the learning of second-language pronunciation.
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SPRINT
The focus of SPRINT is intonation, the modulation of voice pitch. Intonation is essential for communication, as it conveys information that helps listeners make inferences about the intent of the speaker.
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Dutch morphologically complex words
The goal of this project is to obtain more information about the role of morphology in general and of morpho-phonetic traces in particular in speech processing.