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Laryngeal Contrast and Phonetic Voicing: A

Laboratory Phonology Approach to English,

Hungarian, and Dutch

Wouter Jansen

The work in this thesis was supported by grants from the Behavioral and

Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN) research school Groningen, the Netherlands

Organisation for Scientiﬁc Research (NWO; grant number 200-50-068), and

the European Union’s Training and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) programme

through the Learning Computational Grammars (LCG) project (grant ERBFM-

RXCT980237, principal investigator: John Nerbonne)

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Groningen Dissertations in Linguistics 47

ISSN 0928-0030

RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN

Laryngeal Contrast and Phonetic Voicing: A Laboratory

Phonology Approach to English, Hungarian, and Dutch

Proefschrift

ter verkrijging van het doctoraat in de

Letteren

aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

op gezag van de

Rector Magniﬁcus, dr. F. Zwarts,

in het openbaar te verdedigen op

donderdag 27 mei 2004

om 13.15 uur

door

Wouter Jansen

geboren op 26 januari 1973

te Zuidhorn

Promotor

: Prof. dr. ir. J. Nerbonne

Copromotor

: Dr. D.G. Gilbers

Beoordelingscommissie

: Prof. dr. C. Gussenhoven

Prof. dr. J. Hoeksema

Prof. dr. V. van Heuven

Preface

The work presented in this dissertation has greatly beneﬁted from the generosity

and patience of a number of people, and I am pleased to be able to repay some

of my debt to them, ﬁnally.

First, much of the work presented here was supported ﬁnancially by NWO

(Gebied Geesteswetenschappen), in the form of grant 200-50-068. This grant,

and the travel grant from NWO that allowed me to spend nearly six weeks at

Ohio State University during the summer of 2000, are gratefully acknowledged.

Two further sources of ﬁnancial and infrastructural support should be acknowl-

edged here, and with the same gratitude. First, the ﬁrst four months of my PhD

project were funded by a grant from the BCN graduate school of the University

of Groningen. Second, towards the end of the project I was able to further de-

velop and broaden my work at the Department of Linguistics of the University of

T ubingen through generous ﬁnancial support from the Learning Computational

Grammars (LCG) project, which was funded by the European Union’s Training

and Mobility of Researchers (TMR) programme (grant ERBFMRXCT980237,

principal investigator: John Nerbonne).

Next, I would like to thank my supervisors, Dicky Gilbers and John Ner-

bonne for helping me start a PhD project back in 1997, for encouragement,

feedback, support in many practical matters, and above all for great amounts of

patience in the face of ever-shifting topics and a major disappearing act. Thanks

are also due to the members of my committee, Carlos Gussenhoven, Jack Hoek-

sema, and Vincent van Heuven, for their comments on the original manuscript.

Thanks, furthermore, to Ilse van Gemert for all her help in getting this document

printed.

None of the experimental part of this book would have been realised without

the help of the volunteer subjects who took part in my experiments; I owe them

many thanks for their time and effort.

Moreover, I am indebted to the following people for helpful feedback on

parts of the work presented below as well as on my thinking on the sub-

ject matter in a more general way. They are listed here not in order of im-

portance, nor alphabetically, but in a quasi-chronological order: John Harris,

Moira Yip and the other members of the London phonology reading group;

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