University of Amsterdam
Visiting address:
P.C. Hoofthuis room 6.34, Spuistraat 134
Postal address:
PO Box 1642, 1000 BP Amsterdam, The Netherlands
email:
phone: (+31) 20 525 2194
I am a linguist, more precisely a phonologist and phonetician, and my areas of interest include:
- phonological features, especially their emergence in a non-nativist approach,
- perceptual cues to segmental contrasts from a synchronic, diachronic and typological perspective,
- the acquisition and learnability of phonological categories and phonological restrictions,
- computer simulations of phonological and phonetic acquisition,
- and retroflexes in all shapes and flavours!
Currently, I'm working on diachronic change in loanword adaptations, and on the interaction of phonology and orthography. Furthermore, I'm looking at congenital amusia and its impact on speech perception, the phonetics and phonology of Bantu languages (together with Nancy Kula and Laura Downing), and Catalan (together with Francesc Torres-Tamarit).