Paul Boersma

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Paul Boersma

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Paul Boersma's Degrees

PhD Linguistics University of Amsterdam
Masters Linguistics University of Amsterdam

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According to Wikipedia, Paulus Petrus Gerardus "Paul" Boersma is professor of phonetic sciences at the University of Amsterdam. His research and teaching focus on the relationship between phonology and phonetics. Together with David Weenink, he has developed the speech signal processing program Praat, which has become widely used.

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Paul Boersma's Published Works

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Praat, a system for doing phonetics by computer (2002) (9386)
Praat: doing phonetics by computer (2003) (8050)
Praat : doing phonetics by computer (version 5.1.05) (2009) (1553)
ACCURATE SHORT-TERM ANALYSIS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY AND THE HARMONICS-TO-NOISE RATIO OF A SAMPLED SOUND (1993) (1266)
Praat : doing phonetics by computer (version 4.4.24) (2006) (1198)
Empirical Tests of the Gradual Learning Algorithm (2001) (1044)
How we learn variation, optionality and probalility (1997) (401)
BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN L2 SPEECH PERCEPTION RESEARCH AND PHONOLOGICAL THEORY (2004) (374)
Speak and unSpeak with PRAAT By (2002) (225)
A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Brazilian and European Portuguese. (2009) (208)
Convergence Properties of a Gradual Learning Algorithm for Harmonic Grammar (2013) (129)
The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars* (2008) (110)
Loanword adaptation as first-language phonological perception (2009) (106)
Gradual constraint-ranking learning algorithm predicts acquisition order (1999) (105)
Learning abstract phonological from auditory phonetic catergories: an integrated model for the acquisition of language-specific sound categories (2003) (87)
Some listener-oriented accounts of h-aspiré in French (2007) (81)
The subset problem in L2 perceptual development: Multiple-category assimilation by Dutch learners of Spanish (2002) (80)
Phonology-semantics interaction in OT, and its acquisition* (1999) (72)
Context-specific acoustic differences between Peruvian and Iberian Spanish vowels. (2011) (70)
The linguistic perception of similar L2 sounds (2009) (69)
Modelling the perceptual development of phonological contrasts with Optimality Theory and the Gradual Learning Algorithm. (2003) (68)
Cue constraints and their interactions in phonological perception and production (2009) (61)
A programme for bidirectional phonology and phonetics and their acquisition and evolution (2011) (59)
Linguistic Perception and second language acquisition (2004) (53)
Spectral characteristics of three styles of Croatian folk singing. (2006) (52)
Spreading in functional phonology (1998) (48)
Learning a grammar in Functional Phonology (2000) (46)
Modeling Productivity with the Gradual Learning Algorithm: The Problem of Accidentally Exceptionless Generalizations (2005) (45)
Should Jitter Be Measured by Peak Picking or by Waveform Matching? (2009) (45)
On the need for a separate perception grammar. (1999) (44)
Learning to perceive a smaller L2 vowel inventory: an Optimality Theory account (2008) (42)
Statistical Learning in Specific Language Impairment: A Meta-Analysis. (2017) (41)
Optimality theory and phonological acquisition (2004) (41)
The use of Praat in corpus research (2014) (34)
Visual artificial grammar learning in dyslexia: A meta-analysis. (2017) (34)
SUPERVISION HAMPERS DISTRIBUTIONAL LEARNING OF VOWEL CONTRASTS (2007) (32)
The OCP in the perception grammar (2000) (31)
Review of Tesar & Smolensky(2000); Learnability in Optimality Theory [Review of: B. Tesar, Smolensky (2000) Learnability in Optimality Theory] (2003) (30)
Some Correct Error-Driven Versions of the Constraint Demotion Algorithm (2009) (30)
Distributional Vowel Training Is Less Effective for Adults than for Infants. A Study Using the Mismatch Response (2014) (30)
Fast phonetic learning occurs already in 2-to-3-month old infants: an ERP study (2014) (29)
Prototypicality judgments as inverted perception (2006) (28)
A stochastic OT account of paralinguistic tasks such as grammaticality and prototypicality judgments (2004) (28)
Children With Developmental Language Disorder Have an Auditory Verbal Statistical Learning Deficit: Evidence From an Online Measure (2019) (25)
Optimality-Theoretic learning in the Praat program (1999) (25)
Phonology in perception (2009) (24)
Convergence properties of a gradual learner in Harmonic Grammar (2008) (22)
The Dutch Wordnet (1999) (22)
Stemmen meten met Praat (2004) (22)
The interactive design of an F0-related spectral analyser (2003) (21)
Distributional training of speech sounds can be done with continuous distributions. (2013) (21)
Statistical learning abilities of children with dyslexia across three experimental paradigms (2019) (20)
The Odds of Eternal Optimization in Optimality Theory (2003) (20)
On-line formant shifting as a function of F0 (2009) (19)
Bridging the gap between second-language speech perception research and phonological theory (2004) (19)
Learnability of Latin stress. (2003) (19)
LONG-TERM AVERAGE SPECTRA IN PROFESSIONAL FOLK SINGING VOICES: A COMPARISON OF THE KLAPA AND DOZIVAČKI STYLES (2003) (17)
Discriminating Non-native Vowels on the Basis of Multimodal, Auditory or Visual Information: Effects on Infants’ Looking Patterns and Discrimination (2016) (16)
INVENTORIES IN FUNCTIONAL PHONOLOGY (1997) (16)
Semantics guide infants' vowel learning: Computational and experimental evidence. (2016) (15)
Efficient Evaluation and Learning in Multilevel Parallel Constraint Grammars (2017) (15)
Auditory statistical learning in children: Novel insights from an online measure (2018) (15)
The Elements of Functional Phonology (1997) (14)
MEASURING RELATIVE CUE WEIGHTING: A Reply to Morrison (2005) (13)
An introduction to Optimality Theory: Phonology, syntax, and acquisition (2000) (12)
Observed effects of “distributional learning” may not relate to the number of peaks. A test of “dispersion” as a confounding factor (2015) (12)
Some listener-oriented accounts of hache aspir? in French (2005) (12)
Visual statistical learning in children with and without DLD and its relation to literacy in children with DLD (2020) (12)
Segmental Structure and Tone (2017) (12)
MODELLING THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONSONANT INVENTORIES BY TAKING A FUNCTIONALIST APPROACH TO SOUND CHANGE (1989) (11)
An articulatory synthesizer for the simulation of consonants (1993) (11)
The contribution of individual differences in statistical learning to reading and spelling performance in children with and without dyslexia (2021) (11)
Modeling phonological category learning (2012) (11)
SOUND CHANGE IN FUNCTIONAL PHONOLOGY (1997) (11)
French high-mid vowels are underspecified for height (2015) (11)
Typology and acquisition in functional and arbitrary phonology (1998) (11)
The OCP in Functional Phonology (1998) (10)
Modelling the formation of phonotactic restrictions across the mental lexicon (2009) (10)
A constraint-based explanation of the McGurk effect (2012) (10)
Nasal harmony in functional phonology (2003) (9)
The violability of backness in retroflex consonants (2005) (9)
The perceptual basis of the feature vowel height (2015) (9)
Assessing Visual Statistical Learning in Early-School-Aged Children: The Usefulness of an Online Reaction Time Measure (2019) (9)
The evolution of auditory contrast (2007) (9)
Asymmetries between Speech Perception and Production Reveal Phonological Structure (2011) (8)
Beyond keywords: accurate retrieval from full text documents (1995) (8)
Distributional vowel training may not be effective for Dutch adults (2015) (7)
Synchronic alternations between monophthongs and diphthongs in Franconian tone accent dialects: a metrical approach (2017) (7)
Statistical Learning in the Visuomotor Domain and Its Relation to Grammatical Proficiency in Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder: A Conceptual Replication and Meta-Analysis (2020) (7)
Neural network models for phonology and phonetics (2020) (7)
Detecting categorical perception in continuous discrimination data (2010) (7)
Comparing methods to find a best exemplar in a multidimensional space (2009) (6)
Grammatical performance in children with dyslexia: the contributions of individual differences in phonological memory and statistical learning (2021) (6)
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Simulated distributional learning in deep Boltzmann machines leads to the emergence of discrete categories (2019) (5)
A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Peruvian versus European Spanish (2008) (5)
The history of the Franconian tone contrast (2018) (5)
Introduction: models of phonology in perception (2009) (5)
Learning Abstract Phonological f Categories : An Integrated Mode Language-Specific Sou (2003) (5)
A flexible semantic database for information retrieval tasks (1995) (5)
Grounding Nguni depressor effects (2017) (4)
OVERT FORMS AND THE CONTROL OF COMPREHENSION (2003) (4)
Comparing different Optimality-theoretic learning algorithms for Latin stress (2004) (4)
Discriminating Non-native Vowels on the Basis of Multimodal, Auditory or Visual Information: Effects on Infants’ Looking Patterns and Discrimination (2016) (4)
Modelling the perceptual development of phonological contrasts with OT and the Gradual Learning Algorithm (2001) (4)
Iterated distributional and lexicon-driven learning in a symmetric neural network explains the emergence of features and dispersion (2019) (4)
Intonation in Robot Speech: Does it work the same as with people? (2020) (4)
The evolution of auditory dispersion in symmetric neural nets (2012) (3)
Phonological features emerge substance-freely from the phonetics and the morphology (2022) (3)
Interaction between glottal and vocal-tract aerodynamics in a comprehensive model of the speech apparatus (1995) (3)
Unattended distributional training can shift phoneme boundaries (2022) (3)
Does Distributional Input Improve the Categorization of Speech Sounds? Neurobiological Aspects and Computer Simulations. (2009) (3)
MODELLING THE DISTRIBUTION OF CONSONANT INVENTORIES (1990) (3)
Neural network models for phonology and phonetics 1 (2012) (3)
The odds of eternal optimization in OT (2000) (3)
Phonetically-driven acquisition of phonology (2000) (3)
Language-specific differences in the weighting of perceptual cues for labiodentals (2010) (3)
Sibilant inventories in bidirectional phonology and phonetics (2006) (3)
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Statistical Learning in Specific Language Impairment A Meta-Analysis (2017) (3)
Comparing different Optimality-theoretic learning algorithms: the case of metrical phonology (2004) (3)
EuroWordNet Tools and Resources Report (1998) (2)
[Review of: A. Anttila (1997) Variation in Finnish phonology and morphology] (2001) (2)
School-Aged Children Learn Novel Categories on the Basis of Distributional Information (2022) (2)
Bruce Tesar and Paul Smolensky (2000). Learnability in Optimality Theory. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Pp. vii+140. (2003) (2)
Self-reported L2 input predicts phonetic variation in the adaptation of English final consonants into Italian (2019) (2)
The acquisition of L2 phonetic categories: Single‐, two‐, and multiple‐category assimilation in Dutch learners of Spanish (2002) (1)
THE ACOUSTIC CONTRAST BETWEEN THE DUTCH CONSONANTS /T/ AND /D/ IS REDUCED IN TRACHEO-ESOPHAGEAL SPEECH (2019) (1)
Statistical learning in SLI (Lammertink et al., 2017) (2017) (0)
Universal constraint rankings result from learning and evolution: invited talk (2006) (0)
One-to-multiple vowel mapping in the perception of Dutch learners of Spanish (2001) (0)
Arto Anttila ( 1997 ) : Variation in Finnish phonology and morphology (2013) (0)
Icphs Xvii Regular Session (2011) (0)
Statistical learning in dyslexia (2018) (0)
Bruce Tesar & Paul Smolensky ( 2000 ) Learnability in Optimality Theory (0)
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Some correct error-driven versions of the Constraint Demotion algorithm (2009) (0)
A Model of Prenatal Acquisition of Vowels (2020) (0)
Mean MMR amplitudes (in µV) for the adults in the current study and the infants in [4] . (2014) (0)
Long-term average spectra of singing voices of professional performers of Croatian folk songs: a comparison of the Istrian and dozivacki styles (2005) (0)
CAMA: Statistical Learning in SLI (2017) (0)
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Detecting categorical perception in continuous discrimination data (2012) (0)
Visual statistical learning in early school-aged children (2018) (0)
Learning from multiple acoustic cues for phoneme acquisition : Dutch infants ’ perception , language input , and neural networks (2012) (0)
ACOUSTICS2008/2903 A cross-dialect acoustic description of vowels: Peruvian versus (2008) (0)
Implicit cross-situational word learning in children with and without developmental language disorder and its relation to lexical-semantic knowledge (2023) (0)
Spectral characteristics of the klapa singing of professional folk singers (2010) (0)
FROM A MULTI-MASS MODEL OF THE LUNGS , VOCAL TRACT , AND GLOTTIS (2016) (0)
Distributional learning of novel object categories in school-aged children (2020) (0)
Rule Reversal Revisited: Synchrony and diachrony of the interaction of tone and prosodic structure in the Franconian dialect of Arzbach (2005) (0)
A comprehensive model based on the BiPhon framework has to be a neural network due to its accountability for various types of behavioral data and its compatibility with our current state of knowledge about the mechanism of human brains (2020) (0)
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Measuring (online) word segmentation in adults and children (2021) (0)
Modeling the acquisition of anterior lingual sibilant fricatives in English : Integrating behavioral data with computational learning models 1 : 45-2 : 15 (2010) (0)
Feature economy vs. logical complexity: Predicting the distribution of plosive inventories across the world (2022) (0)
Remarks and Replies Some Correct Error-driven Versions of the Constraint Demotion Algorithm (1) a Small Language (5) a Stratified Tableau with Permuting Ties (2009) (0)
Modelling the Perceptual Developmeut of Phonological Contrasts with Optimality Theory and the Gradual Leal ' Jling Algoritbm (2016) (0)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Comparing methods to find a best exemplar in a multidimensional space Benders (2009) (0)
Measuring (online) word segmentation in adults and children (2020) (0)
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) The contribution of individual differences in statistical learning to reading and spelling performance in children with and without dyslexia (2021) (0)
UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Statistical Learning in Specific Language Impairment (2017) (0)
DIPHTHONGIZATION IN THREE REGIONAL VARIETIES OF SWEDISH (2019) (0)
DIFFERENT REGIONAL VARIANTS OF ENGLISH AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH NATIVE PERCEPTION (0)
EuroWordNet Tools and Resources Report. EuroWordNet (LE-4003) Deliverable D021D025. (1998) (0)
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Semantics guide infants’ vowel learning: computational and experimental evidence (2016) (0)
A neural network for multi-modal category formation in infants (0)
Invited Talk: Universal Constraint Rankings Result from Learning and Evolution (2006) (0)
Statistical learning and literacy skills (2018) (0)
The effects of radiotherapy measured by means of the harmonic-to-noise ratio (1995) (0)
Gradual Constraint-Ranking Algorithm predicts Acquisition Order (2000) (0)
Spectral characteristics of klapa singing performed by professional folk singers (2010) (0)
Using simulated learning to account for tone typology (2018) (0)

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