Research centres
Centre for Language and Communication Science Research
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Language and Communication Science

Speech, Phonology and Linguistics Group

The group has explored a range of acquired speech disorders, including Foreign Accent Syndrome, and investigative techniques for speech, such as ultra sound. It has explored the effects of accent on speech processing and rhotic sound production. A recent theme has been the contribution of the cerebellar to language and related cognitive processing, with novel insights published in major journals such as Cortex and The Cerebellum.

Research has also focused on applied linguistics, with two main themes: clinical linguistics and gender discourse in speech and language therapy. For example, the group is applying linguistic and phonetic analysis to further our understanding of aphasia.

The group has attracted funding from the Nuffield Foundation and the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium.

Staff

PhD Students

  • Roberta Iacovelli
  • Husen Owaida
  • Anne Zimmer-Stahl

Publications

2013

De Smet, H.J., Pacquier, Ph., Verhoeven, J., Mariën, P. (2013). The cerebellum: its role in language and related cognitive and affective functions. Brain and Language.

Leadbeater C., and Litosseliti L. (2013) The Importance of Cultural Competence for Speech and Language Therapists. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders (in press).

Litosseliti L., and Leadbeater C. (2013). Speech and Language Therapy: Perspectives on a Gendered Profession. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders 48 (1), pp. 90-101.

Mariën, P., de Smet, E., De Smet, H. J., Wackenier, P., Verhoeven, J. (2013). "Apraxic dysgraphia" in a 15-year-old left-handed boy: a neurodevelopmental disorder reflecting disruption of the cerebello-cerebral network involved in the planning and execution of handwriting. The Cerebellum 12:1, 131-139.

Mariën, P., Vidts A., Engelborghs, S., De Deyn, P.P., Verhoeven, J. (2013). Mastication Dyspraxia: a neurodevelopmental disorder reflecting disruption of the cerebello-cerebral network involved in planned actions. The Cerebellum 12:2, 277-289.

Mariën, P., Wijgerde, E., De Smet, H., Verhoeven, J., Crols, R., De Deyn, P. (2013). The Posterior Fossa Syndrome in Adults. Cortex 49:1, 284-300.

Verhoeven, J., De Pauw, G., Pettinato, M., Hirson, A., Van Borsel, J., Mariën, P. (2013). Accent attribution in speakers with foreign accent syndrome. Journal of Communication Disorders 46:2, 156-168.

Waring, R. and Knight, R-A. (2013). 'How should children with speech sound disorders be classified? A review and critical evaluation of current classification systems', International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 48, 1, 24 -40.

2012

Atanga, L, Ellece, S., Litosseliti, L. and Sunderland, J. (2012). Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan African contexts: Issues and Challenges. Gender and Language 6 (1), 1-20.

De Smet, H.J., Catsman-Berrevoets, C., Aarsen, F., Verhoeven, J., Mariën, P., Pacquier, Ph. (2012). Auditory-perceptual speech analysis in children with cerebellar tumours: A long-term follow-up study. European Journal of Paediatric Neurology

Kloots, H., Gillis, S., de Mayer, S., Verhoeven, J. (2012). De duur van de svarabhaktivocaal in het Standaardnederlands: een pioniersstudie [The duration of Schwa in Standard Dutch]. Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 128, 2-19.

Mariën, P., Tops, W., Crols, R, Jonkers, R., De Deyn, P.P., Verhoeven, J. (2012). Grammar Disruption in a patient with Neuro-Sweet syndrome. Neurocase 18, 235-247.

2011

Kloots, H., Gillis, S., Verhoeven, J. (2011). Van armen to zwerk. Sjwa-insertie in het Standaardnederlands [Schwa insertion in Standard Dutch]. Over Taal 50/2, pp. 34-36

Knight, R-A. (2011). 'Assessing the temporal reliability of rhythm metrics.' Journal of the International Phonetics Association, 41, 3, 271-281.

Litosseliti L., and Leadbeater C. (2011) Gendered Discourses in Speech and Language Therapy. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice 8 (3), 295-314.

Van Hoof, S., Verhoeven, J. (2011). Intrinsic vowel F0: the size of vowel inventories and second language acquisition. Journal of Phonetics 39/2, 168-177.

2010

Kerr J., Hilari K. and Litosseliti L. (2010). Information needs after stroke: what to include and how to structure it on a website. A qualitative study using focus groups and card-sorting. Aphasiology, 24 (10).

Knight, R-A. (2010) 'Transcribing nonsense words: The effect of numbers of repetitions and voices'. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 24, No. 6: 473-484

Knight, R-A. (2010) Sounds for study: Speech and language therapy students' use and perception of exercise podcasts for phonetics. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 22, 3, 269-276.

Mariën, P., De Smet, H., Paquier, P., Verhoeven, J. (2010). Cerebello- cerebral Diaschisis Is the Likely Mechanism of Postsurgical Posterior Fossa Syndrome in Pediatric Patients with Midline Cerebellar Tumours. American Journal of Neuroradiology, 31/9, pp. 82-82.

Mariën, P.,Wackenier, P., de Surgeloose, D., De Deyn, P.P., Verhoeven, J. (2010). Developmental Coordination Disorder: Disruption of the cerebello-cerebral Network evidenced by SPECT. The Cerebellum 9/3, 405-410.

Verhoeven, J., Mariën, P. (2010). Neurogenic Foreign Accent Syndrome: Articulatory Setting, Segments and Prosody in a Dutch speaker. Journal of Neurolinguistics 23, 599-614.

2009

Jones, Mark J., & Kirsty McDougall. (2009). "The acoustic character of fricated /t/ in Australian English: a comparison with /s/ and /ʃ/." Journal of the International Phonetic Association 39: 265-289.

Kloots, H., Gillis, S., Verhoeven, J. (2009). Merk toch hoe sterk. Sjwa-insertie in spontaan gesproken Standaardnederlands (Schwa insertion in conversational Dutch). Nederlandse Taalkunde, 14/1, 45-65.

Lee, M., Thorpe, J., Verhoeven, J. (2009). Intonation and phonation in young adults with Down syndrome. Journal of Voice, 23, 82-87.

Mariën, P., Verhoeven, J., Wackenier, P., Engelborghs, S., De Deyn, P. (2009) Foreign Accent Syndrome as a Developmental Motor Speech Disorder. Cortex 45, 870-878.

Pettinato, M., Verhoeven, J. (2009). Production and perception of word stress in children and adolescents with Down syndrome. Down Syndrome Research and Practice.

Verhoeven, J. (2009). Perceptie van het lexicaal tooncontrast in het dialect van Weert (Perception of the lexical tone contrast in the dialect of Weert). Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuidnederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal-, Letterkunde en Geschiedenis.

2008

De Witte, L., Engelborghs, S., Verhoeven, J., De Deyn, P., Mariën, P. (2008). Disrupted auto-activation, dysexecutive and confabulating syndrome following bilateral thalamic and right putaminal stroke. Behavioural Neurology, 19/3, 145-151.

De Witte, L., Verhoeven, J., Engelborghs, S., De Deyn, P.P., Mariën, P. (2008). Crossed Aphasia and Visuo-spatial Neglect Following a Right Thalamic Stroke: a Case Study and Literature Review. Behavioural Neurology, 19, 177-194.

Jones, Mark J., & Carmen Llamas. (2008). "Fricative realisations of /t/ in Dublin and Middlesbrough English: an acoustic study of plosive frication rates and surface fricative contrasts." English Language & Linguistics 12(3): 419-443.

Knight, R-A. (2008). 'The shape of nuclear falls and their effect on the perception of pitch and prominence: peaks vs. plateaux'. Language and Speech, 51 (3), 223-244.

Mariën, P., Brouns, R., Engelborghs, S., Wackenier, P., Verhoeven, J., Ceulemans, B., De Deyn, P. P. (2008). Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome in Two Relatives with Gillespie Syndrome. Cortex, 44, 54-67.

Vandervliet, J.M., Verhoeven, J., Engelborghs, S., De Deyn, P.P., Parizel, P.M., Mariën, P. (2008). fMRI FIndings in an Aphasic Patient with Reversed Cerebral Dominance for Language. Acta Neurologica Belgica, 108/4, 161-166.

Villafaña Dalcher, Christina, Mark J. Jones, & Rachael-Anne Knight. (2008). "Cue switching in the perception of approximants: Evidence from two English dialects." In Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 14.2: Selected Papers from NWAV 36.