Dr L.J. van Maastricht (Lieke)

I am a teacher at the Department of Language and Communication, where I teach courses on Spanish language and culture, phonetics, and non-verbal communication. As program director of the bachelor programs of Communication and Information Studies and International Business Communication, I coordinate the teaching within these programs and serve as a point of contact for both teachers and students. As a researcher affiliated with the Centre for Language Studies, I investigate if learners can acquire the prosodic features (stress, intonation, rhythm) of a foreign language and which factors play a decisive role in that process (e.g., the direction in which a language is learned or the complexity of the target feature). Recently I have started focussing on the facilitating effect of hand and/or head gestures and the role of individual differences between learners in this context. In addition to my work at Radboud University, I am on the board of the Dutch Association for Phonetic Sciences (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen).

• Creating the Prosodic Proficiency Test Battery (NWO XS grant)

• Speech Production and Comprehension