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 coordinator of the bachelor's and master's programs of Communication and Information Studies, I coordinate the teaching within these four programs (CIW, IBC, C&B, and GC&D) and serve as a point of contact for both teachers and students. As a researcher affiliated with the Centre for Language Studies, I investigate whether 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 focusing 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). I also represent my colleagues in the Representative Council (OC) of the Faculty of Arts during the Faculty Joint Assembly, in which the Faculty Student Council and the Representative Council confer with the Faculty Board.

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

• Speech Production and Comprehension