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Maartje Schreuder (M.J.)

Research profile

Forensic Phonetics and Linguistics, General Linguistics, Phonology, Phonetics, Forensic psychology.

 

My current research focuses mainly on forensic case work in the fields of Speaker Identification, Intelligibility Enhancement of Audio Recordings, Authenticity and Integrity of Audio Recordings, and Linguistic Text Analysis. (Details)

 

Other research areas:

 

 

My dissertation, titled Prosodic Processes in Language and Music, focuses on speech prosody: rhythm, intonation, and phrasing.

 

Research projects

Current research projects

  • Reference corpus of Dutch drug users I: MDMA/Ecstasy. With Viktoria Papp, Prof. dr. Jan Ramaekers and Dr. Eef Theunissen. (IAFPA research grant 2011).
  • Experiment on expectancy bias in speaker recognition by police investigators, with Karst Maas (Police Academy), and Melanie Sauerland.
  • Experiment on expectancy bias in speaker recognition by phone tap interpreters.
  • Earwitness identification and affective responses to auditory reminders of traumatic experiences. With Thomas Meyer and several students.
  • Choice blindness for voices, by forensic speech experts, with Anna Sagana, Melanie Sauerland and Henry Otgaar.
  • Speech intelligibility and expectancy bias, several experiments with students and phone tap interpreters.
Recent publications
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Other publications

 

  • Schreuder, M. (2013). Wie uitte die noodkreten, Trayvon Martin of George Zimmerman? Een bespreking van (on)mogelijkheden van forensisch spraakonderzoek. Expertise en Recht, 5-6, 185-192. (paper online)
  • Krix, A., Sauerland, M., & Schreuder, M. (2013). Hoe getuigen zichzelf kunnen verhoren: de zelfrapportage voor getuigen. Expertise en Recht, 5-6, 180-185. (paper online)
  • Scheuder, M. (2012). Hab ich das richtig gehört? Was Menschen glauben, im Kontext eines Verbrechens zu verstehen. BDÜ info NRW, 39, October 2012.
  • Schreuder, M. (2011). Hoorde ik dat nou goed? Wat mensen denken te verstaan in een misdaadcontext. Linguaan, 22 (4): 34-39.
  • Schreuder, M., D. Gilbers & H. Quené (2009). Recursion in Phonology. Lingua,119: 1243–1252 (doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2009.02.007).
  • Schreuder, M. & D. Gilbers (to appear). Restructuring the melodic content of feet. To appear in Phonologica.
  • Schreuder, M. (2006). Prosodic Processes in Language and Music. PhD Dissertation, Groningen Dissertations in Linguistics (GRODIL) 60, University of Groningen.
  • Gilbers, D. & M. Schreuder (2006). The Structural Resemblance of Music and Language, In: Tarasti, E., Forsell, P. & R. Littlefield (eds.). Music and the Arts Vol.II, Proceedings from ICMS 7 (pp. 492-504). Finnish Network University of Semiotics, Imatra, Finland.
  • Schreuder, M. & D. Gilbers (2006). Phrasing in Language and Music, In: Tarasti, E., Forsell, P. & R. Littlefield (eds.). Music and the Arts Vol.II, Proceedings from ICMS 7 (pp. 505-515). Finnish Network University of Semiotics, Imatra, Finland.
  • Eerten, L. van, Schreuder, M. & D. Gilbers (2006). Mineur en Majeur in Emotionele Spraak [Major and Minor in Emotional Speech]. TABU35 (1/2): 1-15.
  • Schreuder, M., Eerten, L. van, & D. Gilbers (2006). Music as a Method of Identifying Emotional Speech. In: Devillers, L., Martin, J.C., R. Cowie, & E. Douglas-Cowie (eds.). Proceedings of theWorkshop LREC 2006 on Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect (pp. 55-59). Genoa, Italy. LIMSI-CNRS, FR, QUB, UK, A. Batliner, Erlangen University, Germany.
  • Gilbers, D., Schreuder, M. & N. Knevel (2004). Crossing the Boundaries. The Phonetician, 89: 43-47.
  • Gilbers, D., Schreuder, M. & N. Knevel (eds., 2004). On the Boundaries of Phonology and Phonetics. (2004). University of Groningen.
  • Gilbers, D., Schreuder, M. & N. Knevel (2004). Introduction to On the Boundaries of Phonology and Phonetics. In: Gilbers, D., Schreuder, M. en N. Knevel (eds., 2004): 7-15.
  • Schreuder, M. & D. Gilbers (2004). The Influence of Speech Rate on Rhythm Patterns. In: Gilbers, D., Schreuder, M. en N. Knevel (eds., 2004): 183-202.
  • Schreuder, M. & D. Gilbers (2004). Recursive Patterns in Phonological Phrases. In: Bel, B. & I. Marlien (red., 2004). Speech Prosody 2004 Nara, Japan: 341-344,.
  • Gilbers, D. & M. Schreuder (2003). Ritme. De overeenkomsten tussen taal en muziek. [Rhythm. The similarities between language and music]. Armada, tijdschrift voor wereldliteratuur, nr 29/30: Darwin & co. Over taal, evolutie en literatuur: 143-156.
  • Gilbers, D. & M. Schreuder (2002). Language and music in Optimality Theory. Available as ROA 571-0103 (24 pages).
  • Schreuder, M. (2001). Conflicting constraints in language and music. Proceedings of BCN Philosophy of Science and Mind, Groningen: 65-76.
  • Gilbers, D. & M. Schreuder (2000). Taal en muziek in Optimaliteitstheorie. [Language and music in Optimality Theory]. TABU 30 (1-2): 1-26.
  • Schreuder, M. (1999). Taal en Muziek, de structurele tweeling van ons cognitieve systeem. [Language and Music, the structural twins of our cognitive system.] Doctoral thesis, University of Groningen.

 

Reviews

  • Paper for Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Special Issue Memory formation and suggestibility in the legal process (Petrila, Otgaar, Sauerland, eds.). (review: 2013).
  • Book proposal review: Forensic Communication. A Handbook of Psychology and Linguistics. Edited by Gavin Oxburgh, Trond Myklebust, Tim Grant and Becky Milne, Wiley-Blackwell. (review: 2013.)
  • Paper for Conference volume PLM2009, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (to appear).
  • Phonologica (to appear).
  • Linguistics in the Netherlands, volume 20 (2003). Edited by Leonie Cornips and Paula Fikkert. John Benjamins Publishing Company: Amsterdam/Philadelphia.

 

 

Presentations

 

2013

 

June 18 - Workshop Forensisch spraak- en audio-onderzoek, Forensic Psychology Update 2, Maastricht University (invited).

June 13 - Lecture on a forensic expert witness case report on audio recordings, in the course Expert Skills Lab, MA Forensic Psychology (in English, invited)).

Jan. 18 - Lecture Forensisch spraakonderzoek en verwachtingseffecten, nieuwjaarslezing voor de Nederlandse Vereniging van Jonge Strafrechtadvocaten (NVJSA), Paleis van Justitie Den Haag (invited).

2012

 

Nov. 28 - Forensisch Spraak-, Taal- en Audio-onderzoek [Forensic speech, language, and audio analysis], InTenS Studievereniging Taalwetenschap Radbouduniversiteit Nijmegen, November 28, 2012 (invited).

Sept. 8 - Forensisch Spraak-, Taal- en Audio-onderzoek [Forensic speech, language, and audio analysis], for judicial interpreters and translators, Tolken Select, Congrescentrum Kontakt der Kontinenten, Soesterberg, September 8, 2012 (invited).

July 6 - Guest lecture ‘Forensisch spraakonderzoek en verwachtingseffecten’, De Jonge Balie Den Haag (young lawyers), Paleis van Justitie, Den Haag (invited).

June 14 - Guest lecture 'Authenticity and integrity analysis of audio recordings: a death threat on cassette tape.' MA course Expert Witness Skills Lab: Meet the Expert, MA Forensic Psychology, Maastricht University.

April 12 - Workshop ‘Forensisch spraakonderzoek en verwachtingseffecten’, Vierde Maastricht Forensisch Symposium, Maastricht.

Febr. 18 - Workshop ‘Forensisch Spraak-, Taal- en Audio-onderzoek’ voor juridisch tolken en vertalers Tolken Select, De Eenhoorn, Amersfoort.

 

2011

 

June 25 - Workshop ‘Forensisch Spraak-, Taal- en Audio-onderzoek’, Alumni masteropleiding Forensic Science van Universiteit van Amsterdam, Politie Utrecht, afdeling Forensische Opsporing (op uitnodiging).

July 6 - Workshop ‘Forensisch spraakonderzoek en verwachtingseffecten’, Forensic Psychology Update, Maastricht University.

July 27 - Lecture ‘Expectancy bias and forensic speaker identification’, Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, Bundeskriminalamt Vienna.

July 27 - Lecture ‘Reference corpus of Dutch drug users I: MDMA / Ecstasy’, Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, Bundeskriminalamt Vienna, with Vica Papp, Eef Theunissen, & Jan Ramaekers .

 

2010

 

Oct. 9 - Workshop ‘Forensisch Spraak-, Taal- en Audio-onderzoek’, Alumnivereniging van SIGV-gediplomeerde gerechtstolken en juridisch vertalers, Breukelen.

May 27 - Lezing ‘Forensisch Spraak-, Taal- en Audio-onderzoek’, Scriptiedag Algemene Taalwetenschap, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

 

2009

 

Nov. 27 - Workshop ‘Forensisch Spraak-, Taal- en Audio-onderzoek’, Workshop Taptolken, Noordelijke Tolkencommissie, Rechtbank Assen.

Oct. 13 - Forensisch taal-, spraak- en audio-onderzoek [Forensic language, speech, and audio research]. TMFI Information visit of prosecution officers of Southern Limburg. Maastricht University.

Sept. 15 - Guest Lecture ‘Language’. Course Introduction to Psychology, in the Research Master Fundamental Neuroscience. Maastricht University.

Sept. 10 - Authenticiteits- en Integriteitsonderzoek van Audio-opnamen [Authenticity and Integrity research of audio recordings], a case for the Amsterdam police. TMFI-colloquium, Maastricht University.

 

2008

 

March 27 - Guest Lecture ‘Taaltrotters’, minor course Second Language Acquisition in Linguistic Perspective, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Groningen.

 

2007

 

March 2 - Taalkunde. Toekomstoriëntatiecongres Nederlandse Taal en Cultuur, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

 

2006

 

May 23 - Music as a Method of Identifying Emotional Speech. Workshop LREC 2006 on Corpora for Research on Emotion and Affect. Genoa, Italy. (With Laura van Eerten and Dicky Gilbers).

 

2005

 

Oct. 21 - What you hear is not what you get. CLCG Linguistics Colloquium, University of Groningen.

June 3 - Speaking in Minor and Major Keys TABU-day 2005, University of Groningen. (With Laura van Eerten and Dicky Gilbers).

June 3 - Variations in Optimality Theory: Simulated Annealing and other methods. TABU-day 2005, University of Groningen. (With Tamás Bíró and Dicky Gilbers).

 

2004

 

Jan. 14 - Rhythm and Phrasing in Language and Music. Colloquium of the Institute of Cognitive Science (invited), Universiteit van Osnabrück, Duitsland. (With Dicky Gilbers).

Jan. 29 - Recursive Structure in Phonological Phrases. BCN Posterpresentation, AZG, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. (With Dicky Gilbers).

Jan. 30 - Phonetics in Phonology. Workshop 'On the Boundaries of Phonology and Phonetics'. University of Groningen. (With Dicky Gilbers).

Febr. 7 - Recursive Patterns in Phonological Phrases. TIN-dag 2004 (Taalkunde in Nederland), Universiteit van Utrecht. (With Dicky Gilbers).

March 24 - Recursive Structure in Phonological Phrases. Speech Prosody 2004, Nara, Japan (With Dicky Gilbers).

Oct. 13 - Restructuring Rhythm Patterns. Sound Intelligence, Groningen.

 

2003

 

Jan. 13 - Rhythm and Phrasing in Language and Music. Universiteit van Amsterdam (invited). Music and Artificial Intelligence Colloquium, ILLC. (With Dicky Gilbers).

May 22 - Restructuring Rhythm Patterns. 11th Manchester Phonology Meeting. University of Manchester, Engeland. (With Dicky Gilbers).

June 20 - Restructuring Rhythm Patterns. Tabu-day 2003 (Taalkundig bulletin), Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. (With Dicky Gilbers).

Dec. 18 - Restructuring Rhythm Patterns. Dag van de Fonetiek 2003, Universiteit van Utrecht. (With Dicky Gilbers).

 

2002

 

Sept. 6 - Rhythm and Phrasing in Language and Music. Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen (invited). (With Dicky Gilbers).

Nov. 2 - Restructuring the melodic content of feet. 9th International Phonology Meeting, University of Vienna, Austria. (With Dicky Gilbers).

 

2001

 

April 3 - Taal en muziek in Optimaliteitstheorie: Ritmische variabiliteit. Poésie et Musique, Luik, Belgium. (With Dicky Gilbers).

April 3 - Taal en muziek in Optimaliteitstheorie: Frasering. Poésie et Musique, Luik, Belgium. (With Dicky Gilbers).

June 8 - Language and Music in Optimality Theory I: Rhythm and structure. 7th International Congress on Musical Signification, Imatra, Finland. (With Dicky Gilbers).

June 8 - Language and Music in Optimality Theory II: Phrasing. 7th International Congress on Musical Signification, Imatra, Finland. (With Dicky Gilbers).

June 22 - Language and music in Optimality Theory I: Rhythm and structure. TABU-dag 2001, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. (With Dicky Gilbers).

June 22 - Language and music in Optimality Theory II: Phrasing. TABU-dag 2001, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. (With Dicky Gilbers).

 

2000

 

Febr. 2 - Ritmische herstructurering in taal en muziek, BCN Posterpresentation. AZG, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. (With Dicky Gilbers).

 

1999

 

Dec. 23 - Taal & Muziek, de structurele tweeling van ons cognitieve systeem. Scriptiedag Algemene Taalwetenschap, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.

 

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