For the purposes of my research master thesis, I decided to study the effect of levodopa (the most common Parkinson’s disease medication) on speech. With help of Trepetlika, the Slovenian Parkinson’s disease asssociation, I recruited Slovenian patients and studied their speech. You can read more about my thesis and results in the abstract here.
This project started as my research master internship with dr. Dicky Gilbers, where we studied the way different languages and cultures use similar strategies to structure their language and music. Go here to read the summary for the paper we published on Slovenian language and music.
In another life, I was studying journalism and wrote an extended master thesis on music documentaries and the driving forces behind them. Click here if you want to read an abstract.
Speech Lab Groningen
I am part of Speech Lab Groningen (PI: prof. dr. Martijn Wieling), where we investigate speech production using acoustic measurements and state-of-the-art methods such as ultrasound tongue imaging and electromagnetic articulography. We also do cool outreach events, such as Lowlands Science (two years in a row!), Expeditie Next or Zpannend Zernike. You can read more about our projects and outreach activities on our website www.speechlabgroningen.nl.
Collaborations
Speech deterioration in Parkinson’s disease
(research assistant in PhD project by Jidde Jacobi, University of Groningen and Macquarie University)
When the voice doesn’t speak to the mind: an articulographic investigation of feedback deficits in Childhood Apraxia of Speech via 3D-electromagnetic articulography and ultrasound
(international collaboration with dr. Stefanie Keulen from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for her post-doc project)
Teja Rebernik
PhD candidate at the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen.