Veranstaltungsverzeichnis

Veranstaltungsverzeichnis

Institute of Dutch Studies Click here for PDF-Download

Winter semester 2026/2027 2 Seminars
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Committee 		SWS Semester weekly hours Teachers Degree
3.03.311 Naturalistic speech and perception across first and second languages
  • Monday, 10:00 - 12:00, Weekly (from 12.10.26)

Description:
Words are often said to have one "correct" pronunciation, which is listed in dictionaries and taught in classrooms and language courses. Nevertheless, in natural conversation, words are often pronounced very differently from what their dictionary forms suggest. For example, "yesterday" may be pronounced like "yeshay", and "natuurlijk" in Dutch can be pronounced like "tuuk". This phenomenon is called "phonetic reduction". In this seminar, we learn how and why speakers reduce their pronunciations, how listeners still understand them, and what this means for second-language learners, who predominantly learn the "correct" pronunciations. In the first half of the course, we will read some chapters from the book "Rethinking Reduction" (Cangemi et al., 2018) and learn some basic acoustic analysis with Praat. In the second half of the course, you develop your own research question and hypothesis, record speech data, analyse it, present your project, and write it up as a short research paper. The language of the course is English. 		Seminar 2 Dr. phil. Motoki Saito
  • Master
  • Bachelor
  • Master of Education
10.33.346 Basics in R for linguistic analysis
  • Monday, 08:00 - 10:00, Weekly (from 12.10.26)

Description:
In this course, you will learn the basics of R for analysing linguistic data. The course introduces the R syntax itself (e.g., which function reads a csv file?). However, the focus will be on learning to make and justify *analytic* decisions (e.g., how to handle outliers), to document your code in words, and to report your analytic decisions and results in a short analysis report. The language of the course is English. 		Exercises 2 Dr. phil. Motoki Saito
  • Master
  • Bachelor
2 Seminars

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