Dr. J. (Johanneke) Caspers
Position:
- Lecturer
- Second language acquisition
- Phonetics
- Prosody
- Dutch
- Turn taking
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2157 |
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| E-Mail: | j.caspers@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics, LUCL Dutch Studies |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex P.N. van Eyckhof 3 2311 BV Leiden Room number 302C |
Research
My research focuses on the acquisition of prosody (pitch accents, boundary tones, stress) in Dutch as a second language.
Key publications
- Pitch movements under time pressure. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. 1994
- Who’s next? The melodic marking of question versus continuation in Dutch. Language and Speech 41, 375-398. 1998
- Experiments on the meaning of four types of single-accent intonation patterns in Dutch. Language and Speech 43, 127-161. 2000
- Local speech melody as a limiting factor in the turn-taking system in Dutch. Journal of Phonetics 31, 251-276. 2003
- With A. van Santen: Nederlands uit Franse en Chinese mond, Invloed van T1 op de plaatsing van klemtoon in Nederlands als tweede taal? Nederlandse Taalkunde 11, 289-318. 2006
Teaching activities
- introduction to general linguistics
- introduction to second language acquisition
- seminars in second language research (an introductory seminar and research groups)
- Dutch as a second language (didactics)
CV
I studied Linguistics and Phonetics at Leiden University and wrote a MA thesis on co-articulation. After a year of teaching Dutch as a second language I was employed as a PhD student by NWO. I defended my thesis entitled ‘Pitch movements under time pressure’ in 1994. A postdoctoral research project on the meaning of melodic elements in Dutch started in 1995, and was followed by a second postdoctoral research project on the function of melodic elements in Dutch dialogue. In 2003 I was appointed senior lecturer at the department of Dutch Studies, where I teach linguistics and second language acquisition. From July 2007 till July 2009 I was seconded to the Centre for Foreign Languages (‘Expertisecentrum Moderne Vreemde Talen’, ICLON), for two days a week.
2011
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Rasier, L. & Hiligsmann, Ph. & Caspers, J. & Heuven, V.J.J.P., van (2011)
Accentual marking of information status in Dutch and French as foreign languages: Production and perception. In: Wrembel, M., Kul, M., Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, K. (Eds.), Achievements and Perspectives in SLA of Speech: New Sounds 2010, Volume 2 (Polish Studies in English Language and Literature), 32. , pp. 227-238. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
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Caspers, J. (2011)
De waarneming van klemtoon door sprekers van het Nederlands als tweede taal: is er invloed van de moedertaal? In: Rasier, L., Heuven, V., van, Defrancq, B., Hiligsmann, P. (Eds.), Nederlands in het perspectief van uitspraakverwerving en contrastieve taalkunde (Lage Landen Studies), 2. , pp. 45-63. Gent: Academia Press.
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Caspers, J. (2011)
Perception of word stress location by native and non-native speakers of Dutch. In: Zonneveld, W., Quené, H., Heeren, W. (Eds.), Sound and sounds, Studies presented to M.E.H. (Bert) Schouten on the occasion of his 65th birthday, pp. 45-57. Utrecht: UiL OTS.
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Caspers, J. & Kepinska, O. (2011)
The influence of word-level prosodic structure of the mother tongue on production of word stress in Dutch as a second language. In Lee, W.S. & Zee, E. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 420-423). Hong Kong
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2010
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Rasier, L. & Caspers, J. & Heuven, V.J.J.P., van (2010)
Accentual marking of information status in Dutch and French as foreign languages. Production and perception. In Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, K., Wrembel, M., Kul, M. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on the Acquisition of Second Language Speech, New Sounds 2010 (pp. 379-385). Poznań, Poland
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Wouden, A., van der & Caspers, J. (2010)
Internationale Neerlandistiek 48 (2). Redactie thema: Nederlandse partikelbeschrijving in internationaal perspectief.
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Caspers, J. & Wouden, A., van der (2010)
Modal particles in Dutch as a second language, Evidence from a perception experiment. Linguistik online, 44 (4)
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Balen, E., van & Caspers, J. & Wouden, A., van der (2010)
Modale partikels in het Nederlands als tweede taal: aanwijzingen voor een vaste verwervingsvolgorde. Internationale Neerlandistiek, 48 (2), pp. 31-40.
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Wouden, A., van der & Caspers, J. (2010)
Nederlandse partikelbeschrijving in internationaal perspectief: waar zijn we eigenlijk en waar moet het toch naar toe? Internationale Neerlandistiek, 48 (2), pp. 52-62.
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Caspers, J. (2010)
The influence of erroneous stress position and segmental errors on intelligibility, comprehensibility and foreign accent in Dutch as a second language. Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2010, pp. 17-29.
(Article)
2009
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Caspers, J. & Corda, A. (2009)
Expertisecentrum Moderne Vreemde Talen: Wat heeft het te bieden? Levende Talen Magazine, 96 (1), pp. 11-12.
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Moonen, M. & Caspers, J. & Corda, A. & Graaff, R., de & Kraay, T., de & Mantel, A. (2009)
Four-leaf language clover, A tool for teachers of English in Dutch primary Schools. Leiden: Expertisecentrum Moderne Vreemde Talen.
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Lalleman, J.A. & Caspers, J. (2009)
Ik 'grijk' en 'gral' nu even vaak, maar vroeger 'greek' ik liever dan dat ik 'griel', Over regelmatigheden bij sterke werkwoorden. In Boogaart, R, Lalleman, J., Mooijaart, M., Wal, M., van der (Eds.) Woorden wisselen, Voor Ariane van Santen bij haar afscheid van de Leidse universiteit (pp. 77-92). Leiden: Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden.
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Caspers, J. (2009)
Online documentatiecentrum. Leiden: Expertiscentrum Moderne Vreemde Talen.
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Caspers, J. (2009)
The perception of word stress in existing and non-existing Dutch words by native speakers and second language learners. In Botma, B. & Kampen, J., van (Eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2009 Vol. 26. Linguistics in the Netherlands (pp. 25-38). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2008
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Nieuwenhoven, E., van & Corda, A. & Caspers, J. (2008)
Een taaldorp spreekt niet vanzelf. Leiden: Expertisecentrum Moderne Vreemde Talen.
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Wouden, A., van der & Caspers, J. (2008)
Partikels als leerprobleem in het Nederlands als tweede taal. Internationale Neerlandistiek, 46 (3), pp. 33-45.
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Caspers, J. & Wouden, A., van der (2008)
The perception of modal particles in Dutch as a second language. Toegepaste Taalwetenschap in Artikelen, 80 (2), pp. 9-18.
(Article)
2007
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Caspers, J. (2007)
Investigating the relationship between high, low and level contour endings and punctuation symbols in Dutch. In Trouvain, J. & Barry, W.J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1221-1224). Saarbrücken
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Caspers, J. (2007)
Punt, komma of vraagteken? De waarneming van zinsfinale intonatie door eerste- en tweedetaalsprekers van het Nederlands. Neerlandica extra Muros, 45 (3), pp. 2-9.
(Article)
2006
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Caspers, J. (2006)
Lilie Roosman: Phonetic experiments on the word and sentence prosody of Betawi Malay and Toba Batak. [Bespreking van: Phonetic experiments on the word and sentence prosody of Betawi Malay and Toba Batak]. In: Neerlandica extra Muros, 44, pp. 66-67.
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Caspers, J. & Santen, A.J., van (2006)
Nederlands uit Franse en Chinese mond, Invloed van T1 op de plaatsing van klemtoon in Nederlands als tweede taal? Nederlandse Taalkunde, 11 (4), pp. 289-318.
(Article)
2005
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Niioka, Y. & Caspers, J. & Heuven, V.J.J.P., van (2005)
The perception of interrogativity by Japanese speakers of Dutch as a second language. In Doetjes, J.S. & Weijer, J.M., van de (Eds.) Linguistics in the Netherlands 2005 (pp. 139-150). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2004
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Caspers, J. (2004)
On the role of the late rise and the early fall in the turn-taking system of Dutch. In Quené, H. & Heuven, V.J., van (Eds.) On speech and language: Studies for Sieb G. Nooteboom (pp. 27-36). Utrecht: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2003
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Caspers, J. (2003)
Local speech melody as a limiting factor in the turn-taking system in Dutch. Journal of Phonetics, 31, pp. 251-276.
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Caspers, J. (2003)
On the Function of Low and High Boundary Tones in Dutch Dialogue. In Sole, M.J., Recasens, D., Romero, J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1771-1774). Barcelona: Causal Productions.
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Caspers, J. (2003)
Phonetic variation or phonological difference? The case of the early versus the late accent-lending fall in Dutch. In: Weijer, J., van de, Heuven, V.J., van, Hulst, H., van der (Eds.), The Phonological Spectrum Volume II: Suprasegmental structure (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory), 234. , pp. 201-223. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2002
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Buhmann, J. & Caspers, J. & Heuven, V.J.J.P., van & Hoekstra, H. (2002)
Annotation of prominent words, prosodic boundaries and segmental lengthening by non-expert transcribers in the Spoken Dutch Corpus. Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2002 (pp. 779-785). Las Palmas
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Caspers, J. (2002)
On the function of the late rise and the early fall in Dutch dialogue: a perception experiment. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 537-540). Denver: Causal Productions.
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Caspers, J. (2002)
R. Herman (1998) Intonation and discourse structure in English: Phonological and phonetic markers of local and global discourse structure. [Bespreking van: Intonation and discourse structure in English: Phonological and phonetic markers of local and global discourse structure]. In: Glot International, 6, pp. 171-176.
(Book review)
2001
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Wichmann, A. & Caspers, J. (2001)
Melodic cues to turn-taking in English: evidence from perception. In Kuppeveldt, J., van & Smith, R. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue (pp. 180-185). Aalborg, Denemarken
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Caspers, J. (2001)
Testing the perceptual relevance of syntactic completion and melodic configuration for turn-taking in Dutch. In Dalsgaard, P., Lindberg, B., Benner, H. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Speech Cummunication and Technology (pp. 1395-1398). Aalborg, Denemarken: Center for Personkommunikation.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2000
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Caspers, J. (2000)
Experiments on the meaning of four types of single-accent intonation patterns in Dutch. Language and Speech, 43 (2), pp. 127-161.
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Caspers, J. (2000)
Looking for melodic turn-holding configurations in Dutch. In: Hoop, H., de & Wouden, T., van der (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 2000 (AVT Publications), 17. , pp. 45-55. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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Caspers, J. (2000)
Melodic characteristics of backchannels in Dutch Map Task dialogues. In Yuan, B., Huang, T., Tang, X. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 611-614). Beijing: China Military Friendship Publish.
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Caspers, J. (2000)
Pitch accents, boundary tones and turn-taking in Dutch Map Task dialogues. In Yuan, B., Huang, T., Tang, X. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 565-568). Beijing: China Military Friendship Publish.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1999
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Caspers, J. (1999)
An experimental investigation of meaning differences between the 'early' and the 'late' accent-lending fall in Dutch. In: Bezooijen, R., van & Kager, R. (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1999 (AVT publications), 16. , pp. 27-39. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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Caspers, J. (1999)
The early versus the late accent-lending fall in Dutch: Phonetic variation or phonological difference? In Ohala, J.J., Hasegawa, Y., Ohala, M., Granville, D., Bailey, A.C. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences Vol. 2 (pp. 945-948). Berkeley: University of California.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Caspers, J. (1999)
The meaning of melodic elements in Dutch. In Swerts, M. & Terken, J. (Eds.) Proceedings of the ESCA Workshop on Dialogue and Prosody (pp. 77-82). NN: NN.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1998
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Caspers, J. (1998)
Experiments on the meaning of two pitch accent types: the 'pointed hat' versus the accent-leading fall in Dutch. In: NN, NN (Ed.), Proceedings International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 1998, pp. 1291-1294. Sydney: Australian Speech Science and Technology Association.
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Caspers, J. & Heuven, V.J.J.P., van & Zwol, N. (1998)
Experiments on the semantic contrast between the 'pointed hat' contour and the accent-lending fall in Dutch. In: Bezooijen, R., van & Kager, R. (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998 (AVT publications), 15. , pp. 65-79. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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Kirsner, R.S. & Heuven, V.J.J.P., van & Caspers, J. (1998)
From request to command: an experimental study of grammatical form, intonation and pragmatic particle in Dutch imperative. In: Bezooijen, R., van & Kager, R. (Eds.), Linguistics in the Netherlands 1998 (AVT publications), 15. , pp. 135-148. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
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Caspers, J. (1998)
Who's next? The melodic marking of question versus continuation in Dutch. Language and Speech, 41 (3/4), pp. 375-398.
(Article) -
Caspers, J. (1998)
recensie. [Bespreking van: Intonational Phonology]. In: Lingua, an International Review of General Linguistics, 104, pp. 269-274.
(Book review)
1997
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Caspers, J. (1997)
Testing the meaning of four Dutch pitch accent types. In Fakotakis, N., Kokkinakis, G., Dermatas, E. (Eds.) Proceedings 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology Vol. 2 (pp. 863-866). Patras: European Speech Communication Association.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
1996
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Caspers, J. (1996)
Testing the semantics of single-accent intonation patterns. In: Arregui, A. & Cremers, C. (Eds.), Meaning on the HIL, HIL Occasional Papers, pp. 14-32. Leiden: Holland Institute of Generative Linguistics.
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1995
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Caspers, J. & Heuven, V.J.J.P., van (1995)
Effects of time pressure on the choice of accent-lending and boundery-marking pitch configurations in Dutch. In: Pardo, J.M., Enríquez, E., Ortega, J., Ferreiros, J., Macías, J., Valverde, F.J. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, pp. 1001-1004. Madrid: European Speech Communication Association.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
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