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This archive page contains:
Cindy van Boven:
Morphological reduplication in Sign Language of the Netherlands: a typological and theoretical perspective.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, May/June 2024. Advisors: Roland Pfau, Silke Hamann.
Andrea Alićehajić:
Automatic quantification of prosodic measures in Dutch frontotemporal dementia populations and presymptomatic mutation carriers.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, July 2024. Advisors: Lize Jiskoot (Erasmus MC Rotterdam), Titia Benders.
Katja Štrakl:
Vowel system of North-Eastern Slovene: diversity and perception of the vowels of Prekmurje Slovene.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2024. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Patrik Hrabánek:
Function of creak in Korean: a perception study.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, June 2024. Advisors: Silke Hamann, Michaela Watkins.
Additional material: open anonymized data and scripts.
Amélie Croshere:
Modelling word retrieval issues in aphasic patients in a neural network.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2024. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: simulation scripts.
Enming Zhang:
Musicians read the room: studying the effect of musical training on emotion perception in Mandarin Chinese.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2024. Advisors: Suki Yiu and Paul Boersma.
Additional material: open anonymized data and scripts.
Melissa Garcia Hernandez:
Silence in interaction: a cross-cultural comparison.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2024. Advisor: Titia Benders.
Liwia Sokół:
The rise of aspiration in Polish: how passive contact with a language can alter speakers’ L1.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2024. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Michel van Hoof:
French schwas are weird.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2024. Advisor: Cesko Voeten.
Weronika Polakowska:
The perception of Polish geminates: a study on geminate articulation and social meaning.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2024. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Yimeng Zhang:
Tonal perception of Thai: how does perceptual accuracy differ between tonal and non-tonal speakers?
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2024. Advisors: Suki Yiu and Paul Boersma.
Additional material: open anonymized data and scripts.
Cong Luan Tran:
Positional asymmetry of consonants: a preliminary study.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, May 2024. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Iris Broedelet:
Lexical-semantic deficits in developmental language disorder: the role of statistical learning.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, February 2023. Advisors: Judith Rispens, Paul Boersma.
Kathleen Russell:
The validity of diphthong durations as a marker for speech disorders.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July August. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Mishko Bozhinoski:
An exploration of sonorant–obstruent straddlers.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, July 2023. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Chengjia (Jason) Ye:
Vowels in Shanghai Chinese: acoustic realization
and modeling of their diachronic change with an LSTM network.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: data and analysis.
Nicolette Warren:
How language proficiency affects the
phonetics of singing: a case study on
multi-lingual Korean pop group Stray Kids.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: data and analysis.
Gideon van Wijk:
‘raar’ticity. Substantive, substance-free, and in-between; some approaches to classifying of rhoticity.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2023. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Julius Bijkerk:
Investigating pre-trained self-supervised deep learning models for disease recognition.
Thesis BSc Kunstmatige Intelligentie, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Tristan Chopinez:
Modeling sound merger in north metropolitan French with BiPhon-OT.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Luc Stockholm:
The perception of vowel and glide errors in French and its possible relation to language variation.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Leda Bonzanini:
Testing the OT-writing grammar: Swiss German geminates and their orthography.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Martha Nobbe Smyth:
When speech “behaves so strangely”: the influence of prosody type on the speech-to-song illusion.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Additional material: raw data.
Sven-Flemming Sitanala:
Indonesian stress, what we know and what we don’t: a systematic review.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Maxim Dauenhauer:
One without the other — Can German learners of English learn vowel duration without quality?
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Additional material: observations.
Anastasia Shchupak:
Akanje in a deep Boltzmann machine: searching for phonological categories in a deep unsupervised neural network trained on one specific case of vowel reduction in Russian.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: simulation code.
Diego Ostoja-Kowalski:
Effects of speech rate and elicitation methods on Polish Voice Onset Time.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Nilansha Dargan:
A comparison of Wav2Vec 2.0 and humans in handling frequency shifted speech: a qualitative analysis.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2023. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: data and analysis.
Yimeng Zhang:
Exploring speech acoustics and phonological research.
Research practicum report, BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2023. Advisors: Titia Benders, Marloes Roosingh.
Bence Halpern:
Making speech technology accessible for pathological speakers.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, October 2022. Advisors: Rob van Son, Odette Scharenborg, Michiel van den Brekel.
Jasmin Pfeifer:
Untwisting amusia: what behavior, brain waves and genetic underpinnings reveal about perception in congenital amusia.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam and Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, March 2022. Advisors: Silke Hamann, Peter Indefrey, Paul Boersma, Henkjan Honing.
Victoria Ivanova:
Modelling sensorimotor knowledge in a neural network model of speech.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, August 2022. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Angelica van Beemdelust:
Temporality in bidirectional phonetics and phonology: the STDP neural network model.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, July 2022. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Erik Westermann:
What dictates spelling? An OT account of L1 acquisition of Russian vowel reduction.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, July 2022.
Advisors: Silke Hamann, Alla Peeters-Podgaevskaja.
Husam Al-Gariri:
Prenasalized stops in Iha: an acoustic analysis of allophonic variation.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, July 2022. Advisors: Silke Hamann, Katherine Walker.
Michaela Watkins:
Production of Korean stops: a corpus analysis of the lenis–aspirated stop distinction in Standard Seoul Korean.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Jordan Crowley [a.k.a. Jordan C. Martin]:
Cross-demographic acoustic analysis of the labiodental approximant [ʋ] sound change in Putonghua.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Eunice Tan:
The use of acoustic cues in intonation perception in Chinese-English bilinguals vs. English monolinguals.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2022. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Floor van de Leur:
Feature economy versus logical complexity: predicting the distribution of plosive inventories across the world.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2022. Advisors: Klaas Seinhorst, Paul Boersma.
Erencan Tatar:
Acoustic sampling multi purpose dredging sensor.
Thesis BSc Kunstmatige Intelligentie, University of Amsterdam, July 2022. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Lina Pozhydaeva:
Mesoclisis: why not? An OT analysis of mesoclisis use in Brazilian and European Portuguese.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2022. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Lucia Cimrová:
The perception of emotions in speech in two closely related languages.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2022. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: data and analysis.
Tjeerd van der Wielen:
Metrical structures can be semantically primed: Dutch stress assignment in generic drug names.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Alessandro Pecoraro:
Come xea, Ele? — Realisations of /l/ in Venetian proper.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Zion Smith:
Effect of phonological proximity on the identification of novel languages.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Paula Pels:
Aspiration of the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ in Rioplatense Spanish: a phonological perception experiment.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Cecilia Suha:
Vacillating suffixes: learners of Hungarian and native speakers.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Kiara Edwards:
Phonological changes and third language acquisition.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Tori van Oostveen:
Dutch sung and spoken vowel space: how vowels are used to strengthen song.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Marloes Roosingh:
Paternal infant-directed speech: an acoustic study on the vowels of Dutch parents.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Titia Benders.
Long Pham:
Acceptability of comparative illusions as a function of interactions between repeatability of a verb phrase and active production task.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Titia Benders.
Lieke Schuurmans:
Being a tone-language speaker and a musician: the superpower to discriminate melodies?
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Titia Benders.
Issy Davison:
The effect of morphological priming on dyslexics in a memory task.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Titia Benders.
Ceyda Ceylan:
Language recovery in polyglot aphasic patients.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Titia Benders.
Ray Pelupessy:
Can an AI learn Irish? The emergence of phonological features in Irish initial mutations.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2022. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Anastasia Shchupak:
Akanje and Optimality Theory: employing the bidirectional grammar model BiPhon to analyse one case of vowel reduction in Russian.
Paper for the course Linguistic Theories in the BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2022. Advisor: Titia Benders.
Itsik Pariente:
Theoretical issues in Modern Hebrew phonology.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, October 2021. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Silke Hamann.
Joachim Kokkelmans:
A synchronic and diachronic OT typology of sibilant inventories.
PhD thesis, University of Verona, May 2021. Advisors: Birgit Alber, Silke Hamann, Alessandro Vietti.
Klaas Seinhorst:
The complexity and learnability of phonological patterns: simulations, experiments, typology.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, February 2021. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Silke Hamann.
Alžběta Kučerová:
Perception of Czech speech by Czech monolinguals and Czech–Vietnamese bilinguals.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2021. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Roos Jansen:
Do Dutchies schwa a lot? The possible influence of Dutch pronunciation on the perception of spoken English.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2021. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Nils Karsten:
A phonetic-phonological account of hiatus resolution in Dutch.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2021. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Nicolò de Bigontina:
The phonological categorization of [jː] in Milanese Italian.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2021. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Mishko Bozhinoski:
The moet-moed split. An undocumented split in the province of Antwerp.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2021. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Caleb Baker:
Different regional variants of English and their interaction with native perception.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2021. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Domonkos Király:
The roles of lexicality, primary stress and vowel harmony in Hungarian word segmentation.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2021. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Rorick Terlou:
Phonetic category emergence and adaptation in a bidirectional phonological and phonetic neural network.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2021. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Sandra Meijer:
The emergence of consonant categories in a virtual brain.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2021. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Klaske van Sluis:
Total laryngectomy. Exploring voice outcomes and functional issues.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisors: Michiel van den Brekel, Paul Boersma, Lisette van der Molen, Rob van Son.
Jan-Willem van Leussen:
The emergence of French phonology.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Tamás Biró.
Merel van Witteloostuijn:
Examining the contribution of statistical learning to grammar and literacy acquisition.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisors: Judith Rispens, Paul Boersma, Frank Wijnen.
Imme Lammertink:
Detecting patterns: relating statistical learning to language proficiency in children with and without developmental language disorder.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisors: Judith Rispens, Paul Boersma, Frank Wijnen.
Xinyu Zhang:
The emergence of adaptive contrast: evidence and lack thereof from Dutch voiceless sibilants.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2020. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Ruiting Dong:
An experimental analysis of tone sandhi in the Harbin dialect — focusing on some irregular disyllabic words.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2020. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Eugenio Palombella:
A perceptual investigation in spoken Trøndersk Norwegian.
Thesis Research MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2020. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Additional material: full data.
Chisaki Takemoto:
What is an “effective” activity in the second language classroom?
Thesis MA Language and Education, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Jona van der Schelde:
Phonological and phonetic similarity as underlying principles of imperfect rhyme.
Thesis MA Language and Society, University of Amsterdam, May 2020. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Jingnan Yang:
Distributional learning of Mandarin lexical tones in bidirectional deep neural network.
Tutorial Research MA Linguistics & Communication, University of Amsterdam, July 2020. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Cocky Buur:
Welkom bij een nieuwe vlog: een onderzoek naar de uitspraak van blog en vlog in de Nederlandse taal.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2020. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Victoria Ivanova:
Ancient articulations: reconstructing Proto-Indo-European from a gestural perspective.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Simon Boerstra:
L1 vowel change as a result of L2 immersion.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Husam Al-Gariri:
When vowels are empty and consonants collide: exploring the consonant clusters of Mukallawi Arabic in Strict CV.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisor: Marijn van ’t Veer.
Alice Angelini:
Diverging epenthesis processes as result of syncopation: an Optimality Theory account of Syncope, Anaptyxis and Paragoge in two Emiliano-Romagnolo dialects.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisor: Suki Yiu.
Angelica van Beemdelust:
The addition of time to a restricted deep Boltzmann machine using a holistic model,
and the machine’s ability to distinguish between different sequences of sounds.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: simulation scripts.
Zackary Gibson:
A neural network for multi-modal category formation in infants.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: simulation script.
Erik Westermann:
Revisiting Dutch stress: a bidirectional account of stress assignment through Optimality Theory.
Thesis BA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2020. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Fergus O’Dowd:
Determinants of phonotactic acceptability: sonority or lexical statistics?
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2019. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Silke Hamann.
Jenny Tsiara:
Analysis of VOT in Greek patients with non-fluent aphasia.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2019. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Bram Kooiman:
Whisper to speech. Real-time individualised audio style transfer.
Thesis MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam, June 2019. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Ella Velner:
Intonation in robot speech: does it work the same as with people?
Thesis MSc Information Studies, University of Amsterdam, June 2019. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Maartje de Graaf.
Additional material: appendix B.
Jona Bosman:
A bidirectional LSTM network for pitch estimation of speech sounds.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2019. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Quincy Liem:
Does the gay accent exist? An acoustic comparison between homosexual and heterosexual Dutch male millennials.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, June 2019. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Esther Wan:
Muzikale en lexicale toonhoogte. Over de relatie tussen een muzikaal gehoor en de perceptie van toontalen.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, June 2019. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Jeroen Breteler:
A foot-based typology of tonal reassociation: perspectives from synchrony and learnability.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, May 2018. Advisors: Paul Boersma, René Kager.
Veronica Miatto:
Vowel insertion in the Italian adaptation of English loanwords.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2018. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Rosan Surman:
Washing the TV: the curious case of the voiceless affricate in the L2 English of native Swedish speakers.
Thesis MA Language and Society, University of Amsterdam, October 2018. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Nanette Boxma:
Syllable structure development in Dutch monolingual children.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, April 2018. Advisors: Silke Hamann, Jeannette Schaeffer.
Lisa Boekel:
Vocal development in young children with hearing loss.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2018. Advisors: Silke Hamann.
Sam van den Bosch:
The Ganong effect in auditory word perception by L1 and L2 English speakers.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, December 2018. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Casper van Velzen:
The phonological component of the Dutch mental lexicon is small-world.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2018. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: data and scripts.
Naomi Legius:
/s/-Voicing in English by Italian L1-speakers.
Thesis BA English Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam, June 2018. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Şule Çavdar:
Second language phonology: the perception and production of diphthongs by Turkish L2 English speakers and the role of motivation in L2 learning.
Thesis BA English Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam, June 2018. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Magnun Rochel:
The phonetics and phonology of Brazilian Portuguese [ATR] harmony.
PhD thesis, Unicamp, November 2017. Advisors: Maria Bernadete Marques Abaurre, Silke Hamann.
Renee Clapham:
Automatic evaluation of voice and speech intelligibility after treatment of head and neck cancer.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, November 2017. Advisors: Michiel van den Brekel, Frans Hilgers, Rob van Son, Catherine Middag.
Yaming Zhang:
Distributional learning of extrinsic vowel duration differences by Mandarin native speakers.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2017. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Nour Tamim:
Voicing contrast of stops in the Palestinian Arabic dialect.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2017. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Ruth Collins:
Formalisation of English-origin loanword perception in Hawaiian.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2017. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Laura de Rooij:
Asymmetries in the processing of French high- and low-mid vowels: [ATR] or [RTR] feature specification.
First-year project report Research Master Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Amsterdam, July 2017. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Leya Eğilmez:
Loanword adaptation of the English voiced post-alveolar affricate /dʒ/ in Dutch.
Thesis BA English Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam, August 2017. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Talitha Eikenhout:
Vin Vis Zand Zee. Een onderzoek naar de productie van Nederlandse stemhebbende fricatieven bij Molukse Nederlanders.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2017. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Joppe Anna Pelzer:
Swedish diphthongs. A study on the occurrence of diphthongisation in three varieties of Swedish.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2017. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Thomas Klein:
Ik ben /baŋ/. Assimilatie van Nederlandse leenwoorden in het Indonesisch.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2017. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Lisa Darko:
The relationship between perception and production of English /d/-/t/ in initial position by Dutch native speakers.
Thesis BA English Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam, June 2017. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Sophie ter Schure:
The relevance of visual information on learning sounds in infancy.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, April 2016. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Caroline Junge.
Chris Deacon:
Portugal: Europe’s mistaken identity.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, October 2016. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Gisela Govaart:
A pan is not for writing: making and testing a tool for online feedback on vowel production of the English /ɛ/–/æ/ contrast.
First-year project report Research Master Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Amsterdam, June 2016. Advisors: Makiko Sadakata, Paul Boersma.
Additional material: production tool.
Jonathan Weinand:
Phonology without sound.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2016. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Natalia Aralova:
Vowel harmony in two Even dialects: production and perception.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, September 2015. Advisors: Brigitte Pakendorf, Sven Grawunder, Silke Hamann, Paul Boersma.
Karin Wanrooij:
Distributional learning of vowel categories in infants and adults.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, April 2015. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Titia van Zuijen.
Ilaria Colombo:
On the phonemic status of labial approximants in Dutch.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2015. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Mary Bless:
Interference in early acquisition Dutch-English bilinguals: a phonetic examination of voice onset time in Dutch and English bilabial plosives.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2015. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Sabine van Straaten:
Neural Network modeling of phonemic and graphemic paraphasias.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2015. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Wanda Polak:
In welke fonologische context komt afleiding met de achtervoegsels -ig, -erig en -achtig voor?
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2015. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Eva Swaalf:
The perception of fronted /u/ by Dutch learners of English – an exploratory study.
Thesis BA English Language and Culture, University of Amsterdam, January 2015. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Kateřina Chládková:
Finding phonological features in perception.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, March 2014. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Silke Hamann, Paola Escudero.
Wan-Lung David Li:
Prosodic structures of different Japanese dialects and the universality of the syllable.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2014. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Marieke van den Heuvel:
Production and perception of the Dutch /ɑ/-/a/ continuum: variation within and between speakers.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, June 2014. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: data, appendices.
Florian Kuhlewind:
Vibrato and Open Quotient in the singing voices of female jazz and classical singers.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, May 2014. Advisors: Louis Pols, Paul Boersma.
Isabel Keijer:
Phonetic or phonological variation? Learning surface forms for nasalized vowels in a bidirectional OT environment.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, April 2014. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Johannah O'Mahony:
The prosodic cues used in the disambiguation of disjunctive questions.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, October 2014. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Marieke van Essen:
De perceptie van Nederlandse initiële plofklanken door Egyptische immigranten.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, September 2014. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Gisela Govaart:
Adding music to a vowel contrast: can the learning of an unknown vowel contrast benefit from the addition of musical features to a distributional learning task?
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2014. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Silke Hamann.
Maartje ter Hoeve:
Modelling late bilingualism with neural networks. An investigation of the bilingual’s phonological space.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2014. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: Praat simulation scripts.
Marja Caverlé:
Initial plosive consonants of the Low Saxon dialect of Raalte.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2014. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Merel Maslowski:
Reducing articulatory effort in non-word tokens. The word frequency effect on intervocalic lenition of /t d/ in Danish.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, May 2014. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Tessa Verhoef:
Efficient coding in speech sounds: Cultural evolution and the emergence of
structure in artificial languages.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, September 2013. Advisors: Bart de Boer, Simon Kirby, Paul Boersma.
Titia Benders:
Nature’s distributional-learning experiment: infants’ input, infants’ perception, and computational modeling.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, March 2013. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Paola Escudero, Dorothy Mandell (UvA - Developmental Psychology).
Alma de Jonge:
Unsupervised learning:
modelling the earliest stages of phonological acquisition.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2013. Advisor: Silke Hamann.
Lisan Schuttenhelm:
Perception of the non-native phone [g] in Dutch: where lies the VOT boundary?
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2013. Advisors: Silke Hamann, Paul Boersma.
Laura Boekel:
Emergence of features and phonemes in a neural network with a single input continuum.
Thesis MSc Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Amsterdam, August 2013. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Sheean Spoel:
De trein naar Alkmáár en Àlkmaar. Onderzoek naar de intonatie van opsommingen in het Nederlands.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, August 2013. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: data, R scripts, Python scripts, Praat scripts.
Maike Prehn:
Vowel quantity and the fortis–lenis distinction in North Low Saxon.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, January 2012. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Marc van Oostendorp (Leiden University and Meertens Institute), Ben Hermans (Meertens Institute), Wolfgang Kehrein.
Klaas Seinhorst:
The evolution of auditory dispersion in symmetric neural nets.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2012. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: Praat scripts for the unimodal and bimodal simulations.
Daniele Dalmasso:
Diachronic change in the postvocalic /r/ in the Dutch of Amsterdam.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, February 2012. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Mike Duyvesteijn:
Låperikker en fämuler: het onbepaalde meervoud van het huidige Scandinavische zelfstandig naamwoord gemodelleerd, getest en vergeleken met behulp van de Optimaliteitstheorie.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, December 2012. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Mart van Baalen:
Oplijning van tekst en geluid in Praat.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2012. Advisor: David Weenink.
Suzanne Verwoerd:
De theorie van de kritische periode toegepast op verschillende aspecten van de fonologische verwerving van een tweede taal.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2012. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Jelrik van Hal:
Hilvejsum: Hoe Goois is de televisie-r?
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2012. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Additional material: the example sound that the judges heard.
Johanna de Vos:
Does enhanced bimodal distributional training improve perception of English /æ/ and /ε/ for adult native speakers of Dutch?
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2012. Advisors: Karin Wanrooij, Paul Boersma.
Marieke van den Heuvel:
De rol van de eerste formant bij perceptieve restoratie van /i/.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, May 2012. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Björn Köhnlein:
Rule reversal revisited: synchrony and diachrony in the Franconian dialect of Arzbach.
PhD thesis, Leiden University, April 2011. Advisors: Marc van Oostendorp (Leiden University and Meertens Institute), Paul Boersma, Ben Hermans (Meertens Institute).
Alessandro Lopopolo:
Population structure and acquisition dynamics influence language complexity
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, November 2011. Advisor: Bart de Boer.
Andreea Geambașu:
Are phoneme categories context-dependent or context-independent?
Thesis MSc Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Amsterdam, July 2011. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Jorina Bodelier:
Tone and intonation in the Lemiers dialect of Ripuarian.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2011. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Etske Ooijevaar:
Cue weighting in the perception of Dutch sibilants.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2011. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Dorine Diemer:
Categorieën leren uit normale verdelingen.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, June 2011. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Jorina Bodelier:
The influence of an L1 allophonic opposition on the acquisition of an L2 phonological contrast.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, June 2010. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Kim Cruden:
Ritmische reflectie van taal op muziek: onderzoek naar het Spaans en Italiaans.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, June 2010. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Irene Jacobi:
On variation and change in diphthongs and long vowels of spoken Dutch.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, February 2009. Advisors: Louis Pols, Fred Weerman (UvA - Dutch), Jan Stroop (UvA - Dutch).
Jan-Willem van Leussen:
Investigating consonant inventories with acoustic and articulatory models.
Thesis MA Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam, September 2009. Advisors: David Weenink, Maarten van Someren (UvA - Artificial Intelligence).
Irene ter Avest:
The /a:/-/ɑ/ contrast for Spanish-speaking learners of Dutch.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2009. Advisor: David Weenink.
Kim Clason:
“Jordanese” then and now: a diachronic study of Jordanese Dutch vowels.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2009. Advisor: David Weenink.
Marieke Gerrits:
Dutch vocabulary of adult L2 learners.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2009. Advisors: Paola Escudero, Paul Boersma.
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, August 2009. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
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, August 2009. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Kateřina Chládková:
Auditory cues determine allomorphy: vocalized and non-vocalized prepositions in Czech.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2009. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Wolfgang Kehrein.
Karin Wanrooij:
Does distributional input improve the categorization of speech sounds? Neurobiological aspects and computer simulations.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, July 2009. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
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, June 2009. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Paola Escudero.
Klaas Seinhorst:
De [y] in Russische leenwoordadaptatie.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, August 2009. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Mijke Mulder:
Modern Hebreeuwse klinkers: maakt leeftijd verschil? Een akoestische analyse.
Thesis BA Hebreeuwse Taal & Cultuur, University of Amsterdam, June 2009. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Irene Zwiep (UvA - Hebrew).
Etske Ooijevaar:
L'épenthèse des semi-consonnes en français : une recherche empirique.
Thesis BA Franse Taal & Cultuur, University of Amsterdam, 2009. Advisors: Petra Sleeman (UvA - French), Paul Boersma.
Jan-Willem van Leussen:
Emergent optimal vowel systems.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, December 2008. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Titia Benders:
Fifteen-month old infants' sensitivity to vowels' first and second formants in novel word learning.
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2008. Advisors: Paola Escudero, Suzanne Curtin (University of Calgary), Daniel Swingley (University of Pennsylvania).
Mascha Kuijlenburg:
Perceptie van de twee Kroatische tch-klanken door Nederlanders.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2008. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Diana Apoussidou:
The learnability of metrical phonology.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, January 2007. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Margarita Gulian:
Distributional training for discrimination of L2 contrasts: with or without explicit instruction?
Thesis MA Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, February 2007. Advisors: Paul Boersma, Paola Escudero.
Maaike Vondenhoff:
Meaning in melody: the correlation between lexical tone and musical pitch in Mandarin Chinese.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, August 2007. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Karin Wanrooij:
The phonological representation of /s/ versus /sh/ in Japanese.
Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, August 2007. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
David Weenink:
Speaker-adaptive vowel identification.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, December 2006. Advisor: Louis Pols.
Jeannette Elsenburg:
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Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2006. Advisor: Paola Escudero.
Anne-Marieke Samson:
Abstraction in
language acquisition: competence or performance?
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2006. Advisor: Paola Escudero.
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, August 2006. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
María Angélica González Díaz:
Activation and inhibition: control mechanisms in a bilingual brain; an Optimality Theory modelling.
Thesis MA General Linguistics, University of Amsterdam, August 2006. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Sophie Arnoult:
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Thesis BA Taalwetenschap, University of Amsterdam, July 2006. Advisor: Paul Boersma.
Paola Escudero:
Linguistic perception and second language acquisition: explaining the attainment of optimal phonological categorization.
PhD thesis, Utrecht University, November 2005. Advisors: Wim Zonneveld (Utrecht University), Paul Boersma, René Kager (Utrecht University).
Christine Clement:
Development of vocalizations in deaf and normally hearing infants.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, December 2004. Advisors: Florien van Beinum, Anne Baker (UvA - Language Pathology).
Barbertje Streefkerk:
Prominence: acoustic and lexical/syntactic correlates.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, October 2002. LOT 58. Advisors: Louis Pols, Louis ten Bosch (Nijmegen University).
Annika Hillen:
Relatie tussen het brabbelen en het doorkomen van tandjes.
Master’s Thesis, University of Amsterdam.
Corina J. van As:
Tracheoesophageal speech. A multidimensional assessment of voice quality.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2001.
Jan S.C. van Dijk:
Mechanical aspects of hearing.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2001.
Elgendy, A.M.:
Aspects of pharyngeal coarticulation.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2001. LOT 44.
Bettina Simonsen:
Synthesised speech with unit election. Creating a restricted domain speech corpus for Dutch.
Master’s thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2001.
Rody Aldenhoven:
Articulatorische compensatie voor een bijtblok bij kinderen met spraakontwikkelingsdyspraxie [Articulatory compensation for a bite block for children with speech developmental dyspraxia].
Master’s thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2001.
Brigitte Boon-Kamma:
Verstaanbaarheid na totale laryngectomie [Intelligibility after total laryngectomy].
Master’s thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2001.
Martine Muller:
Uitbreiding van de bestaande taalstandaard 1;6-4;0 naar bruikbaarheid voor kinderen van 1;0-1;6 jaar [Extending the usefulness of the existing language standard 1;6-4;0 to younger children of age 1;0-1;6].
Master’s thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2001.
Daniel S. Salomons:
Optimale woonplaatsherkenning voor 118. Het selecteren van
een trainingscorpus en de effecten daarvan [Optimal recognition of city names for the Dutch number inquiry services. The selection of a training corpus and its effects].
Master’s thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2001.
Monique van Troost:
Spectrale analyse van babygeluidjes [Spectral analysis of baby sounds].
Master's thesis, University of Amsterdam, 2000.
Kino Jansonius-Schultheiss:
Twee jaar spraak en taal bij schisis [Two years of speech and language in cleft palate children].
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1999.
Monique van Donzel:
Prosodic aspects of information structure in discourse.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1999.
Sylvie Mozziconacci:
Speech variability and emotion: production and perception.
PhD thesis, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, November 1998 (210 pages). Advisors: Dik Hermes (Technical University Eindhoven), Aad Houtsma (Technical University Eindhoven), Louis Pols.
Paul Boersma:
Functional phonology: formalizing the interactions between articulatory and perceptual drives.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, September 1998. Advisor: Louis Pols.
Hardcopies are available from the author.
Irma M. Verdonck-de Leeuw:
Voice characteristics following radiotherapy for early glottic cancer: the development of a protocol.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam [Studies in Language and Language Use 33], 1998. Advisors: Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum, Louis C.W. Pols.
IFApub-135: Caroline E. Schwippert:
Categorical perception in dyslexic and normal-reading adults: Discrimination and classification of three phoneme contrasts.
Master’s thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1998.
Xue Wang:
Incorporating knowledge on segmental duration in HMM-based continuous speech recognition.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 14 April 1997 (Studies on Language and Language Use 29, 190 pages). Advisors: Louis Pols, Louis ten Bosch.
Annemarieke Kiestra:
Vroegtijdige communicatieve interventie in de moeder-kind interactie: onderzoek naar de toepasbaarheid en de effecten van een communicatief interventieprogramma bij moeder-kindparen met een verstoorde relatie.
Doctoraalscriptie (MA thesis), University of Amsterdam, July 1997. Advisor: Jeannette van der Stelt.
Henning Reetz:
Pitch perception in speech: a time domain approach. Implementation and evaluation.
PhD thesis, University fo Amsterdam (Studies in Language and Language use 26, IFOTT, 236 pages). Advisors: Louis C.W. Pols, Aditi Lahiri.
Astrid van Wieringen:
Perceiving dynamic speechlike sounds. Psycho-acoustics and speech perception.
PhD Thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1995 (256 pages).
Dick R. van Bergem:
Acoustic and lexical vowel reduction.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1995 (IFOTT Studies in Language and Language Use 16; 195 pages).
IFApub-129: Corina J. van As:
Analyse van Provox stem [Analysis of the Provox Voice].
Master’s thesis, 1995 (72 pages).
IFApub-128: Ineke van den Dikkenberg-Pot:
Vocalisaties van dove peuters [Vocalizations by deaf toddlers].
Master’s thesis, 1995 (47 pages).
Jeannette van der Stelt:
Finally a word. A sensori-motor approach of the mother–infant system in its development towards speech.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 14 September 1993 (IFOTT Studies in Language and Language Use 4, 226 pages). Advisors: Louis C.W. Pols, Frans X. Plooij, Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum.
Rob J.J.H. van Son:
Spectro-temporal features of vowel segments.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 3 September 1993 (IFOTT Studies in Language and Language Use 3, 195 pages). Advisor: Louis Pols.
Cecile T.L. Kuijpers:
Temporal coordination in speech development. A study on voicing contrast and assimilation of voice.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam (165 pages), 7 April 1993. Advisors: Louis C.W. Pols, Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum.
In this book:
Paul van Alphen:
HMM-based continuous-speech recognition. Systematic evaluation of various system components.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam (216 pages).
Amos van Gelderen:
De evaluatie van spreekvaardigheid in communicatieve situaties; globale beoordeling en gedetailleerde analyse van spreekprestaties van 11- en 12-jarigen [The evaluation of speaking ability in communicative situations; global rating and detailed analysis of oral performance of students of 11 to 12 years of age].
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam (265 pages).
Herman J.M. Steeneken:
On measuring and predicting speech intelligibility.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam (165 pages).
Mirjam T.J. Tielen:
Male and female speech. An experimental study of sex-related voice and pronunciation characteristics.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam (180 pages).
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Arja Boasson:
Perceptual streaming bij inherente patronen in amadindemuziek: een psycho-akoestisch onderzoek naar de grenzen voor splitsing en coherentie bij een anharmonische boventoonstructuur en een pentatonisch equidistant toonsysteem.
Doctoraalscriptie (MA thesis), University of Amsterdam, August 1992. Advisor: Jan van Dijk.
IFApub-120: Reinier Kortekaas:
Cellular automata and speech recognition.
Doctoraalscriptie (MA thesis), University of Amsterdam (36 pages).
IFApub-119: Sander Kloosterman:
Herkenning van klinker-segmenten met neurale netwerken [Recognition of vowel segments by using neural networks].
Master’s thesis, University of Amsterdam (71 pages).
Louis F.M. Bosch:
On the structure of vowel systems: an extended dispersion model.
PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1991 (190 pages).
René van Egmond:
Metingen aan een clavecimbel-zangbodem.
Doctoraalscriptie (MA thesis), University of Amsterdam, 1990(??). Advisor: Jan van Dijk.
In this book:
Els A. den Os:
Rhythm and tempo of Dutch and Italian; a contrastive study.
PhD thesis, State University of Utrecht (117 pages).
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