Dr. Charlotte Gooskens

Associate professor - principal investigator

• PhD from Nijmegen University 1997 (the role of intonation for the perception of Dutch and English dialects)
• MA General Linguistics from Leiden University 1992 (a contrastive study of Danish and Dutch intonation)

• Special interests and sub-projects
• Linguistic distances
• Mutual intelligibility of closely related languages
• Perceptual dialectology
• Sociolinguistics
• Intonation

c.s.gooskens@rug.nl Homepage

Prof. Dr. Vincent van Heuven

Professor - principal investigator

• Special interests and sub-projects
• Phonetics
• Speech perception
• Mutual intelligibility of closely related languages
• Automatic speech recognition

v.j.j.p.van.heuven@hum.leidenuniv.nl Homepage

Dr. Renée van Bezooijen

Senior researcher - Project member since March 2006

• PhD from Radboud University Nijmegen 1984 ("Characteristics and recognizability of vocal expressions of emotion")
• MA from Radboud University Nijmegen 1977

• Special interests and sub-projects
• Language attitudes
• Language variation
• Methodological aspects of intelligibility assessment
• Mutual intelligilibility of Dutch, Frisian and German
• Mutual intelligibility of dialects of Dutch

r.v.bezooijen@let.ru.nl

Dr. Anja Schüppert

Assistant Professor - Project member since January 2007

• PhD from Groningen University 2011 ("Origin of Asymmetry: Mutual intelligibility of spoken Danish and Swedish")
• M.A. Scandinavian Linguistics from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (L1 influence on L2 Swedish prosody)

• Special interests and sub-projects
• Mutual intelligibility of closely related languages
• Speech perception
• Language processing
• Intonation
• Behavioural and neuropsychological methods (esp. EEG)

a.schueppert@rug.nl Homepage

Jelena Golubovic, MPhil

PhD student - Project member since September 2011

• Special interests and sub-projects
• Mutual intelligibility of closely related languages
• Slavic languages
• Language attitudes
• Linguistic landscape
• Metaphor comprehension

j.golubovic@rug.nl

Femke Swarte, MA

PhD student - Project member since September 2011

• MA in Linguistics from Groningen University 2011 ("Language Attitudes of Adults Living in Friesland Towards the Frisian Language")
• MA in German from Groningen University 2011 ("A Comparative Research into the Variation of German and Dutch Comparative Systems")

• Special interests and sub-projects
• Language attitudes and language contact
• Multilingualism
• Language planning
• Minority languages

f.h.e.swarte@rug.nl LinkedIn

Stefanie Voigt, MA

PhD student - Project member since September 2011

• Special interests and sub-projects
• Language attitudes
• Language contact
• Multilingualism
• Language planning
• Minority languages

s.voigt@rug.nl Homepage

Kristy James, BA

Academy Assistant working on the intelligibility of English as a Lingua Franca

k.p.james@student.rug.nl

 

 

 

 



Dr. Wilbert Heeringa

Post doc researcher - Project member since January 2012

• PhD from Groningen University 2004 ("Measuring Dialect Pronunciation Differences using Levenshtein Distance")
• Special interests and sub-projects
• Dialectometry
• Dialect change
• Speech perception

w.j.heeringa@rug.nl Homepage

 



Dr. Nanna Haug Hilton

Assistant Professor - Project member since August 2009

• PhD from York University 2010 (Regional Dialect Levelling and Language Standards: Changes in the Hønefoss Dialect.)
Special interests and sub-projects
• Social meaning of language
• Language change in progress in Norwegian and English
• Phonetic and prosodic variation and change
• Standard language ideologies

n.h.hilton@rug.nl Homepage