research interests & projects
I am a PhD candidate at Phonetic Sciences, ACLC, University of Amsterdam.
My research interests are:
- perceptual basis of phonological features
- acquisition of phonological categories
- L1, L2, and cross-language speech perception and production
I'm currently working on the following:
- Tracing phonological vowel length across languages through pre-attentive detection of vowel duration differences: An ERP study (with Paola Escudero and Silvia Lipski)
- Acoustic and perceptual cues to high vowels in Southern British English (with Silke Hamann and Daniel Williams)
- Vowel boundaries in production and perception: Portuguese and Spanish (with Paola Escudero)
- Perceptual categorization of vowel height (with Titia Benders)
- Perceptual cues to high vowels in Czech (with Šárka Šimáčková and Jonáš Podlipský)
- Effect of L2 proficiency in L2 vowel perception: Spanish learners of British and American English (with Paola Escudero)
- Introduction of a Word level into the model of Bidirectional Phonetics and Phonology (with Jan-Willem van Leussen)