Examining Polish-English bilingual speakers, we investigate the degree of phonetic synchronicity between C1 and C2 in stop-sonorant and /s/-initial clusters. In the first experiment, articulatory data – gathered with electromagnetic articulography (EMA) – reveal longer target-to-target lags in Polish …

The JWST captures the imagination of the world, inspiring all both young and old. From technological challenges and its ‘origami mirror’ to its powerful cameras looking deeper into the universe than ever before, JWST is fascinating on all levels. With the MIRI-instrument being built in the Netherlands, …

Openbare pleinen hebben een enorme impact op de levenskwaliteit van stadsbewoners, vooral in kwetsbare wijken. Ze kunnen lichaamsbeweging, gemeenschapsinteracties, spel en klimaatadaptatie vergemakkelijken, die allemaal de gezondheid van de lokale bevolking beïnvloeden. Er zijn echter vaak veel vragen …

A pilot speech production experiment combined articulatory data obtained using Electromagnetic Articulography (EMA), along with acoustic measures, to investigate the effects of cluster size (CC vs. CCC) and morpheme boundaries on consonant cluster synchronicity for five speakers of Polish. We found that …

This is the fourth episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the …

This is the third episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the …

This is the second episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the …

This is the first episode of Art in Permacrisis, a podcast on the organization of art workers in the face of the ever-growing stack of crises. How can artists make a living without selling their souls? Can we imagine and practice a sustainable art economy beyond precarity? How should we transform the …

The study evaluated two speech recognition systems, Wav2vec2 and Whisper, for potential biases for Dutch speakers.Results obtained by evaluating on the JASMIN corpus revealed biases against non-native speakers, children, and the elderly,with (slightly) better performance for women. The study emphasizes …

Background The Uganda version of Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI-UG) was culturally adapted and validated from the PEDI-US, a tool used to evaluate the functional capability of children with or without disability aged 6 months to 7.5 years in the areas of self-care, mobility and social …