Research projects
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FEAST
In this project, we aim to create an online, open-access, adaptive tool to assess Spanish language proficiency based on both grammar and vocabulary.
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It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
What makes a foreign accent exactly foreign? This project aims to assess language feautres, called prosody, in foreign-language education and research by developing an online tool.
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Cue integration in multimodal L1 and L2 speech
This project investigates how what you see, hear, and know promotes speech comprehension, and how these contributions may change depending on your conversation partner.
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Stress in motion
This interdisciplinary pre-registered study investigates how Dutch learners of Spanish produce multimodal lexical stress in Spanish-Dutch cognates (e.g., Spanish profeSOR vs. Dutch proFESsor).
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Head gestures as precursors of prosodic focus marking in the L2
As prosodic discourse marking is challenging for both L1 and L2 learners, this project investigates whether this bootstrapping function of head gestures in prosodic focus marking also occurs in an L2 context.
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SPRINT
The focus of SPRINT is intonation, the modulation of voice pitch. Intonation is essential for communication, as it conveys information that helps listeners make inferences about the intent of the speaker.
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Dutch morphologically complex words
The goal of this project is to obtain more information about the role of morphology in general and of morpho-phonetic traces in particular in speech processing.