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Here is a list of BA, MA and PhD theses (co-)advised by people then associated with Phonetic Sciences, Amsterdam (Louis Pols, Florien van Beinum, Paul Boersma, Paola Escudero, Wolfgang Kehrein, David Weenink, Bart de Boer).
| February 2012 | Daniele Dalmasso: Diachronic change in the postvocalic /r/ in the Dutch of Amsterdam. Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| November 2011 | Alessandro Lopopolo: Population structure and acquisition dynamics influence language complexity Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Bart de Boer. |
| July 2011 | Andreea Geambașu: Are phoneme categories context-dependent or context-independent? Thesis MSc Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| July 2011 | Jorina Bodelier: Tone and intonation in the Lemiers dialect of Ripuarian. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| July 2011 | Etske Ooijevaar: Cue weighting in the perception of Dutch sibilants. Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| June 2011 | Dorine Diemer: Categorieën leren uit normale verdelingen. Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| June 2010 | Jorina Bodelier: The influence of an L1 allophonic opposition on the acquisition of an L2 phonological contrast. Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| June 2010 | Kim Cruden: Ritmische reflectie van taal op muziek: onderzoek naar het Spaans en Italiaans. Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| September 2009 | Jan-Willem van Leussen: Investigating consonant inventories with acoustic and articulatory models. Thesis MA Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: David Weenink, Maarten van Someren (UvA - Artificial Intelligence). |
| August 2009 | Irene ter Avest: The /a:/-/ɑ/ contrast for Spanish-speaking learners of Dutch. Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: David Weenink. |
| August 2009 | Kim Clason: "Jordanese" then and now: a diachronic study of Jordanese Dutch vowels. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: David Weenink. |
| August 2009 | Marieke Gerrits: Dutch vocabulary of adult L2 learners. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Paola Escudero, Paul Boersma. |
| August 2009 | Maaike Vondenhoff: Tone language and song: an Optimality Theoretic model of the influence of a sung melody on the interpretation of Mandarin lexical tones. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| August 2009 | Adi Ben Arieh: The perception of Dutch /y/ by speakers of Modern Hebrew - The search for the influencing cues. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| August 2009 | Klaas Seinhorst: De [y] in Russische leenwoordadaptatie. Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| July 2009 | Kateřina Chládková: Auditory cues determine allomorphy: vocalized and non-vocalized prepositions in Czech. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Wolfgang Kehrein. |
| July 2009 | Karin Wanrooij: Does distributional input improve the categorization of speech sounds? Neurobiological aspects and computer simulations. Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| June 2009 | Mijke Mulder: Modern Hebreeuwse klinkers: maakt leeftijd verschil? Een akoestische analyse. Thesis BA Hebreeuwse Taal & Cultuur, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Irene Zwiep (UvA - Hebrew). |
| June 2009 | Etske Ooijevaar: L'épenthèse des semi-consonnes en français : une recherche empirique. Thesis BA Franse Taal & Cultuur, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Petra Sleeman (UvA - French), Paul Boersma. |
| June 2009 | Richard Bank: "In soes en sieze zit de a." An acoustical description of Dutch vowels by Spanish learners of Dutch. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Paola Escudero. |
| February 2009 | Irene Jacobi: On variation and change in diphthongs and long vowels of spoken Dutch. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Louis Pols, Fred Weerman (UvA - Dutch), Jan Stroop (UvA - Dutch). |
| December 2008 | Jan-Willem van Leussen: Emergent optimal vowel systems. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| August 2008 | Titia Benders: Fifteen-month old infants' sensitivity to vowels' first and second formants in novel word learning. Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Paola Escudero, Suzanne Curtin (University of Calgary), Daniel Swingley (University of Pennsylvania). |
| August 2007 | Karin Wanrooij: The phonological representation of /s/ versus /sh/ in Japanese. Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| February 2007 | Margarita Gulian: Distributional training for discrimination of L2 contrasts: with or without explicit instruction? Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Paola Escudero. |
| January 2007 | Diana Apoussidou: The learnability of metrical phonology. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| December 2006 | David Weenink: Speaker-adaptive vowel identification. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Louis Pols. |
| August 2006 | Anne-Marieke Samson: Abstraction in language acquisition: competence or performance? Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paola Escudero. |
| August 2006 | María Verónica Rivas: Does the perception of fricatives correspond to their production? The case of Italian vs. Dutch. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| August 2006 | María Angélica González Díaz: Activation and inhibition: control mechanisms in a bilingual brain; an Optimality Theory modelling. Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Paul Boersma. |
| November 2005 | Paola Escudero: Linguistic perception and second language acquisition: explaining the attainment of optimal phonological categorization. PhD thesis, Utrecht University. Advisors: Wim Zonneveld (Utrecht University), Paul Boersma, René Kager (Utrecht University). |
| December 2004 | Christine Clement: Development of vocalizations in deaf and normally hearing infants. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Florien van Beinum, Anne Baker (UvA - Language Pathology). |
| October 2002 | Barbertje Streefkerk: On variation and change in diphthongs and long vowels of spoken Dutch. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Louis Pols, Louis ten Bosch (Nijmegen University). |
| November 1998 | Sylvie Mozziconacci: Speech variability and emotion: production and perception. PhD thesis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Advisors: Dik Hermes (TUE), Aad Houtsma (TUE), Louis Pols. |
| September 1998 | Paul Boersma: Functional phonology: formalizing the interactions between articulatory and perceptual drives. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Louis Pols. Hardcopies are available from the author. |
| April 1997 | Xue Wang: Incorporating knowledge on segmental duration in HMM-based continuous speech recognition. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam. Advisors: Louis Pols, Louis ten Bosch. |
| September 1993 | Rob van Son: Spectro-temporal features of vowel segments. PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam. Advisor: Louis Pols. |