Theses written at Phonetic Sciences, Amsterdam

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.

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