Willemijn Heeren
Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS - Language processing a
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Willemijn Heeren is an assistant professor at Utrecht University's Department of Languages, Literature and Communication, and a researcher at the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. After obtaining a propedeutic diploma in Mathematics from Leiden University in 1998 she studied Linguistics, also at Leiden University, and received her MA degree (cum laude) by the end of 2001. In 2006 she received the PhD degree from the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, for a thesis entitled 'Perceptual Development of Phoneme Contrasts in Adults and Children'. From 2006 until 2015 she has held several positions as postdoctoral researcher: (1) in the NWO-CATCH project CHoral (2006-2010, University of Twente, Human Media Interaction group), (2) in the EU FP7 Dual Pro project (2008-2010, Leiden University, LUCL), (3) under a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship in the Interpitch project (2011-2012, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Equipe Audition), and (4) under an NWO-Veni grant on the project "Prosody in whispered speech: retrieving alternative cues to pitch" (2010-2015, Leiden University, LUCL).
Research Interest
pathology
