Prof. Dr. Andrea Albrecht
Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Literary studies, recent German literature, cultural studies
Languages
phonetics, sociolinguistics, socio-phonetics
Linguistic distances
mutual intelligibility of closely related languages
experimental linguistics
socio-phonetics
perception of language variation
language attitudes
NWO Free Competition, 2011 – 2015
NWO/FWO (VNC) research grant, 2010
NWO VIDI-Grant, 2007 – 2011
Danish, Dutch, English, German, Norwegian, Swedish
Gooskens, Charlotte (2012). Non-linguists? judgments of linguistic distances between dialects. Dialectologia, 9, 27-51.
Anja Schüppert & Charlotte Gooskens (2012). The role of extra-linguistic factors in receptive bilingualism: Evidence from Danish and Swedish pre-schoolers. International Journal of Bilingualism, 16(3), 332?347.
Nanna H. Hilton, Anja Schüppert, Charlotte Gooskens (2011). Syllable reduction and articulation rates in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish. Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 34 (2), 215-237.
Charlotte Gooskens, Vincent van Heuven & Renée van Bezooijen (2010). Is spoken Danish less intelligible than Swedish? Speech Communication 52, 1022-1037.
Charlotte Gooskens, Renée van Bezooijen & Sebastian Kürschner (2010). The reflection of historical language contact in present-day Dutch and Swedish. In: M. Norde, B. de Jonge & C. Hasselblatt (eds.). Language contact. New perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 103-118.
Charlotte Gooskens & Sebastian Kürschner (2009). Cross border intelligibility – on the intelligibility of Low German among speakers of Danish and Dutch. In: Alexandra N. Lenz, Charlotte Gooskens & Siemon Reker (eds.). Low Saxon dialects across borders – Niedersächsische Dialecte über Grenzen hinweg, Zeitschrift fur Dialektologie und Linguistik, Beihefte 138, 273-297.
Sebastian Kürschner, Charlotte Gooskens & Renee van Bezooijen (2008). Linguistic determinants of the intelligibility of Swedish words among Danes International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 2 (1-2), 83-100.
Charlotte Gooskens, Karin Beijering & Wilbert Heeringa (2008). Phonetic and lexical predictors of intelligibility. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 2 (1-2), 63-81.
Heeringa, Wilbert, Keith Johnson & Charlotte Gooskens (2008). Measuring Norwegian Dialect Distances using Acoustic Features. Speech Communication. 51 (2), 167-183.
Gooskens, Charlotte (2007). The contribution of linguistic factors to the intelligibility of closely related languages. Journal of Multilingual and multicultural development. volume 28, issue 6, pp. 445-467.
NWO Free Competition, € 1.000.000,-. Mutual intelligibility of closely related languages in Europe: linguistic and non-linguistic determinants, 2011-2015. PI. Co-applicant prof.dr. Vincent J. van Heuven, Leiden University. 3 PhD-students and 2 postdocs.
CLARIN, € 58.260,-. Assaying differences via edit-distance of pronunciation transcriptions, 2010. Principal investigator. Cooperation with John Nerbonne from the University of Groningen and researchers from the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam.
NWO/FWO (VNC), € 360.000,-. De onderlinge verstaanbaarheid van taalvariëteiten in de Lage Landen: linguïstische en attitudinele determinanten, 2010. Work leader in Groningen. Cooperation with researchers from Universities of Leuven and Nijmegen. 1 PhD student and 2 postdocs.
NWO VIDI, € 600.000,-. Linguistic determinants of mutual intelligibility in Scandinavia, 2007 ? 2011. Principal investigator. 2 PhD-students and 2 postdocs
Methods in Dialectology, Groningen, 2014
Workshop on Assessing mutual intelligibility of closely related languages during Sociolinguistics Symposium 19 in Berlin from 21 to 24 August 2012
Experimental approaches to production and perception of language variation (ExAPP), in Groningen (2010) and Copenhagen (2013)
Scandinavian studies in the Dutch-speaking region (Scandinavistendagen), Groningen, 2004 and 2010)
Symposium Low Saxon dialects across borders, Groningen, 2009
Workshop Receptive multilingualism: quantitative approaches during the 7th International symposium on bilingualism (ISB7), Utrecht, 2009
Measuring linguistic relations between closely related varieties during the international congress Methods in dialectology, Leeds, 2008
Member of the board of the Dutch association for phonetic science
External advisor for NWO, FWO and NOS (Research council of Norway)
Member of scientific committees: Methods 15 (2014), Sociolinguistic symposium 17, 18 and 19 (2007, 2010 and 2012); Workshop on production, perception & attitude, University of Leuven (2008), Exapp2010 and Exapp2012
Member of reading or opposition committees of dissertations: Chaoju Tang, Leiden University (2009); Charlotte Giesbers, University of Nijmegen; Robert Shackleton, University of Groningen (2010); Jelena Prokic, University of Groningen (2010); Martijn Wieling (2012)
Consulting researcher for projects: Measuring linguistic unity and diversity in Europe, funded by Volkswagen Stiftung (2006-2010); Internordisk sprogforståelse i en tid med øget internationalisering supported by the Nordic Cultural Fund; EuroComGerm, lead by prof.dr. Britta Huffeisen.
married, three children
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Social and behavioural sciences, Languages, Literary studies, recent German literature, cultural studies
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