Meike de Boer
PhD candidate/ Guest
- Name
- Mr.drs. M.M. de Boer MA
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2125
- m.m.de.boer@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0161-9115
I am a PhD candidate working on Dr. Heeren's NWO VIDI project 'The speaker in speech - the interdependence of linguistic and indexical information’. The project’s goal is to investigate which aspects determine the speaker-specificity of speech sounds, which is essential information for forensic speaker comparisons. My PhD research deals with how and why the speaker-specificity of acoustic-phonetic features depends on whether the first or second language is spoken.
I am a PhD candidate working on Dr. Heeren's NWO VIDI project 'The speaker in speech - the interdependence of linguistic and indexical information’. The project’s goal is to investigate which aspects determine the speaker-specificity of speech sounds, which is essential information for forensic speaker comparisons. My PhD research deals with how and why the speaker-specificity of acoustic-phonetic features depends on whether the first or second language is spoken.
Research
My research investigates how the speaker-specificity of speech sounds depends on the language spoken. I study whether differences in speaker-specificity in the first and second language arise as a result of differences in the speaker’s knowledge of the language and/or as a result of articulatory ease. The focus of my project is on segmental speech features, filled pauses, and hesitation behaviour in spontaneous and read speech. For this, I use speech samples from the Longitudinal Corpus of University College English Accents (LUCEA) of Dutch speakers speaking Dutch and English.
Fields of Interest
Forensic Linguistics and Phonetics, Forensic Expertise, Experimental Phonetics, Psycholinguistics
Curriculum vitae
I have a background in linguistics and criminology. My specializations are: investigative/forensic criminology; legal psychology; and forensic linguistics and phonetics. Besides conducting academic research, I like to be involved in forensic casework.
PhD candidate/ Guest
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Taalwetenschap
- Boer M.M. de, Quené H. & Heeren W.F.L. (2022), Long-term within-speaker consistency of filled pauses in native and non-native speech, JASA Express Letters 2(3): 035201.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2022), Language-dependency of /s/ in L1 Dutch and L2 English, Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the international association for forensic phonetics and acoustics. . Prague: Charles University. 72-73.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2021), Language-dependency of /m/ in L1 Dutch and L2 English. XVII AISV Conference, Zurich. 4 February 2021 - 5 February 2021. [conference poster].
- Heeren W.F.L., Boer M.M. de, Smorenburg B.J.L. & Vloed D. van der (2021), Exploiting Dutch speech collections for forensic speech science, Proceedings Digital Humanities Benelux 2021: The Humanities in a Digital World. Digital Humanities Benelux 2021 2 June 2021 - 4 June 2021. Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2020), Binnensprekervariatie in de uitspraak van /m/ in verschillende talen: abstract. Middag van de Fonetiek 2020 18 December 2020 - 18 December 2020. Amsterdam: Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fonetische Wetenschappen.
- Boer M.M. de (2020), Recognizing speakers in their second language. Virtual European Association of Psychology and Law Conference 23 September 2020 - 25 September 2020.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2020), Spraak als bewijs: uitspraakvariatie tussen sprekers én binnen sprekers, Congresbundel NVC Digitale Marktdag. Digitale Marktdag Nederlandse Vereniging voor Criminologie 19 June 2020 - 19 June 2020. Den Haag: Boom Criminologie. 28.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2020), Acoustics of Dutch filled pauses: general trends and variation. De Grote Taaldag 31 January 2020 - 31 January 2020.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2020), Cross-linguistic filled pause realization: the acoustics of uh and um in native Dutch and non-native English, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 148(6): 3612-3622.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2019), Pauzemarkeerders in L2-Engels: L1 transfer of aangeleerd?, : .
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2019), The speaker-specificity of filled pauses: A cross-linguistic study. Calhoun S., Escudero P., Tabain M. & Warren P. (Eds.). 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 5 August 2019 - 9 August 2019. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.. 607-611.
- De Boer M.M. & Heeren W.F.L. (2019), Individual variation in native and non-native filled pauses, Proceedings of ExAPP 2019. 4th Conference on Experimental Approaches to Perception and Production of Language Variation 26 September 2019 - 28 December 2019. Münster, Germany 8-9.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2019), The idiosyncrasy of filled pauses in L2 English in the context of phonetic convergence. The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE) 26 June 2019 - 28 June 2019. Leeuwarden.
- De Boer M.M. & Heeren W.F.L. (2019), Individual variation in filled pauses in the native and second language. Conference of the Sociolinguistics Circle 5 April 2019 - 5 April 2019. Utrecht.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2019), The role of position in native and non-native filled pause acoustics. Dag van de Fonetiek, Amsterdam. 13 December 2019 - 13 December 2019. [conference poster].
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2019), Cross-linguistic forensic speaker comparisons: do filled pauses contain language-independent features?. Roundtable of the Germanic Society for Forensic Linguistics 5 September 2019 - 8 September 2019.
- Boer M.M. de (2019), Filled pauses in cross-language forensic speaker comparisons: The missing link?. TWIST Conference for Linguistics 12 April 2019 - 13 April 2019.
- Boer M.M. de & Heeren W.F.L. (2018), De realisatie van gevulde pauzes in L1-Nederlands en L2-Engels. Dag van de Fonetiek 21 December 2018 - 21 December 2018.
- Forensisch linguïstisch consultant en analist, e.g. auteurschapsanalyse (ZZP'er)