Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Potsdam
Faculty of Human Sciences, Cognitive Science Unit, Department of Linguistics
Faculty of Human Sciences, Cognitive Science Unit, Department of Linguistics
Linguistics: phonetics/laboratory phonology, language acquisition, psycholinguistics
My research focuses on the nature and boundaries of phonological categories. In both adults and infants, I investigate
Specific topics include
A variety of behavioural and online experimental measures are used such as
Education
- Ph.D. Linguistics - University of Potsdam
Structured Variability in Voicing Cue Relations - with Prof. Dr. Adamantios Gafos & Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
- M.Sc. Linguistics - University of Potsdam (partial)
- M.A. English/German Literature & Linguistics - Ghent University, 2015 - with Prof. Dr. Ellen Simon
Simultaneous bilingual phonological acquisition. A longitudinal case study on the voicing contrast of two Dutch-English bilingual siblings.
- B.A. English/German Literature & Linguistics - Ghent University, 2014
My research focuses on the nature and boundaries of phonological categories. In both adults and infants, I investigate
- how and when phonological categories emerge,
- how detailed, structured, and specific their representations are and
- how variable and malleable they are in perception and production.
Specific topics include
- speaker-specific variability within/across phonological categories
- the effect of phonetic variability on minimal pair learning
- structured relations between phonetic cues
- phonetic convergence/accommodation and the perception/production link
A variety of behavioural and online experimental measures are used such as
- gaze data from eye-tracking, pupillometry
- acoustic-phonetic analyses of cues
- reaction times
- categorisation and rating tasks
Education
- Ph.D. Linguistics - University of Potsdam
Structured Variability in Voicing Cue Relations - with Prof. Dr. Adamantios Gafos & Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan
- M.Sc. Linguistics - University of Potsdam (partial)
- M.A. English/German Literature & Linguistics - Ghent University, 2015 - with Prof. Dr. Ellen Simon
Simultaneous bilingual phonological acquisition. A longitudinal case study on the voicing contrast of two Dutch-English bilingual siblings.
- B.A. English/German Literature & Linguistics - Ghent University, 2014