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Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) AIHR

Dr. C.C. (Cesko) Voeten

Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Taalwetenschap
Visiting address
  • Spuistraat 134
  • Room number: 6.33
Postal address
  • Postbus 1642
    1000 BP Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2024

    • Buurke, R., Doreleijers, K., Swanenberg, J., Hilte, L., Farasyn, M., & Voeten, C. (2024). Micro and macro variation: Diverse approaches in research on language variation and change. Taal en Tongval, 76(2), 133-139. https://doi.org/10.5117/tet2024.2.001.buur
    • Gao, X., Voeten, C., & Liberman, M. (2024). Prosodic boundaries and givenness in tonal coarticulation in conversational Cantonese. In T. Cho, S. Kin, J. Holiday, & S.-I. Lee-Kim (Eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Conference on Laboratory Phonology: June 27-29, 2024 : Hanyang Institute for Phonetics and Congnitive Sciences of Language (HIPCS) Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea (pp. 419-420). Hanyang University. https://labphon.org/labphon19/proceedings [details]
    • Gao, X., Voeten, C., & Liberman, M. (2024). The impact of prosodic boundary and information structure on tonal coarticulation in spontaneous Cantonese. In Y. Chen, A. Chen, & A. Arvaniti (Eds.), Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Speech Prosody: Leiden, The Netherlands : 2-5 July 2024 (pp. 393-397). (Speech Prosody; Vol. 2024). ISCA. https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-80 [details]
    • Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., Dobó, D., Lukics, K. S., & Lukács, Á. (2024). The role of general cognitive skills in integrating visual and linguistic information during sentence comprehension: individual diferences across the lifespan. Scientific Reports, 14, Article 17797. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68674-3 [details]
    • Voeten, C. C. (2024). De toekomst van onderzoek naar klankverandering: Een dieper begrip door een bredere blik. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 29(1), 43-48. https://doi.org/10.5117/nedtaa2024.1.004.voet [details]
    • Voeten, C. C. (2024). Individuele verschillen in de fonologisering van taalverandering. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 29(1), 4-32. https://doi.org/10.5117/nedtaa2024.1.002.voet [details]
    • Voeten, C. C. (2024). [Bespreking van: L. Smorenburg (2023) Hello, who is this? The relationship between linguistic and speaker-dependent information in the acoustics of consonants]. Nederlandse Taalkunde, 29(1), 141-145. https://doi.org/10.5117/nedtaa2024.1.012.voet [details]
    • Voeten, C., Pinget, A. F., Kingma, M., Stefan, N., & Van de Velde, H. (2024). Listener factors in accent recognition: A perceptual-dialectological study of Frisian. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, 30(2), 153-162. https://doi.org/20.500.14332/60608

    2023

    2022

    • Heeren, W., Voeten, C., & Marks, T. (2022). Speaker discrimination as a function of vowel realization: does focus affect perception? Dutch Journal of Applied Linguistics, 11. https://doi.org/10.51751/dujal9420
    • Voeten, C. C., Heeringa, W., & Van De Velde, H. (2022). Normalization of nonlinearly time-dynamic vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(5), 2692-2710. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0015025

    2021

    • Van de Velde, H., Pinget, A.-F., Voeten, C., & Demolin, D. (2021). Laboratory Sociolinguistics. In G. Kristiansen, K. Franco, S. De Pascale, L. Rosseel, & W. Zhang (Eds.), Cognitive Sociolinguistics Revisited (pp. 557-571). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733945-045
    • Voeten, C. C. (2021). How long is 'a long term' for sound change? The effect of duration of immersion on the adoption of ongoing sound change. Language Dynamics and Change, 12(1), 28-77. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10014
    • Voeten, C. C. (2021). Individual Differences in the Adoption of Sound Change. Language and Speech, 64(3), 705-741. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830920959753
    • Voeten, C. C. (2021). Regional variation in ongoing sound change: The case of the Dutch diphthongs. Journal of Linguistic Geography. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlg.2021.10

    2020

    • Voeten, C. C. (2020). The adoption of sound change: Synchronic and diachronic processing of regional variation in Dutch. LOT. https://doi.org/1887/137723

    2019

    • Voeten, C. C., & Levelt, C. (2019). ERP responses to regional accent reflect two distinct processes of perceptual compensation. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13, 546. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00546

    2018

    • Voeten, C., & van Zaanen, M. (2018). The influence of context on the learning of metrical stress systems using finite-state machines. Computational Linguistics, 44, 329-348. https://doi.org/10.1162/coli_a_00317

    2025

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    2016

    2025

    • Heeringa, W., & Voeten, C. C. (2025). Methods for partitioning the dialect continuum.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2025). Variation and change in Frisian vowel breaking.

    2024

    • Pinget, A.-F., Kingma, M. M., Voeten, C. C., & Van de Velde, H. (2024). A perceptual-dialectological study of accent variation in Frisian.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2024). Variatie en verandering in Friese vocaalbreking.

    2023

    • Pinget, A.-F., & Voeten, C. C. (2023). The perception of regional variation: A novel map-based accent-recognition task.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2023). Fonetische natuurlijkheid als drijfveer van taalverandering?. https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/5JEYS9I1e9zVtL4
    • Voeten, C. C., & Pinget, A.-F. (2023). Hoe we in de 21ste eeuw regionale patronen van taalvariatie in kaart kunnen brengen.
    • Voeten, C. C., & Pinget, A.-F. (2023). Quantitative perspectives on regional variation from the map-based accent-recognition task: The cases of Dutch and Frisian.

    2022

    • Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. S. (2022). Quantifying the relationships between linguistic experience, general cognitive skills and linguistic processing skills. 2491-2496. Paper presented at 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Cognitive Diversity, CogSci 2022, Toronto, Canada.
    • Van de Velde, H., Pinget, A.-F., Voeten, C. C., & Demolin, D. (2022). Laboratoriumsociolinguïstiek: uitgangspunten, onderzoeksobject, doelen en methoden.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2022). From compensation to adoption: the medium-term dynamics of sound change.
    • Voeten, C. C., Heeringa, W., & Van de Velde, H. (2022). A comparison of contemporary normalization methods for time-dynamic vowels.
    • Voeten, C. C., Tamminga, M., & Plotkin, J. (2022). An operationalization of causal factors in vowel shifts.
    • Voeten, C. C., Tamminga, M., & Plotkin, J. (2022). Inferring causal factors in language change: A new method based on selection pressure.

    2021

    • Caballero, J., Vukovic, N., Kepinska, O., Voeten, C. C., & Hoeft, F. (2021). Environmental effects on white matter development and phonological skill among multilingual kindergarteners.
    • Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., Isakoglou, C., McQueen, J. M., & Meyer, A. (2021). Individual differences in language ability: Quantifying the relationships between linguistic experience, general cognitive skills and linguistic processing skills.
    • Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., McQueen, J. M., & Scharenborg, O. (2021). The Effects of Onset and Offset Masking on the Time Course of Non-Native Spoken-Word Recognition in Noise. 133-139. Paper presented at 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021, Virtual, Online, Austria.
    • Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., McQueen, J. M., & Scharenborg, O. (2021). The effects of onset and offset masking on the time course of non-native spoken-word recognition in noise.
    • Hintz, F., Voeten, C. C., Scharenborg, O., & McQueen, J. M. (2021). The presence of background noise reduces interlingual phonological competition during non-native speech recognition.
    • Pinget, A.-F., & Voeten, C. C. (2021). Social factors in dialect recognition: a large-scale study in perceptual dialectology.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2021). Adults’ adoption of a novel allophone category: phonetics, phonology, or both?.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2021). The electrophysiological processing of ongoing phonological change: what can EEG tell us?.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2021). The time course of the adoption of novel phonological variation.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2021). Variation in vowel-[ɫ] transitions between Northern and Southern Standard Dutch.
    • Voeten, C. C., Heeringa, W., & Van de Velde, H. (2021). Analyzing time-dynamic vowels: normalization in the current decade.

    2020

    • Voeten, C. C. (2020). Is misperception a sufficient explanation for phonological change? No, says EEG.

    2019

    • Voeten, C. C. (2019). Does short-term accommodation lead to long-term sound change? Not directly.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2019). From adaptation to acquisition: an experimental investigation of sociophonetic accommodation to ongoing sound change.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2019). How does variation lead to change? The role of individual differences in adults’ acquisition of sound change.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2019). Language variation in the lab: Sociolinguistic differences between Netherlandic and Flemish Dutch are reflected in brain responses in a mismatch-negativity paradigm.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2019). Ongoing developments in the analysis of ongoing sound change: answering new questions using new methods.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2019). Using cluster analysis of predicted random slopes to investigate linguistic variation.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2019). Using random effects to investigate phonetic variation: A puzzling discrepancy between production and perception.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2019). Who turns language variation into language change?.

    2018

    • Voeten, C. C. (2018). Moraic mismatches between the segment and the stress system: The case of Dutch.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2018). Phonological microvariation revealed by electro-encephalography.

    2017

    • Voeten, C. C. (2017). Diachronic change and synchronic variation in Dutch vowel-/l/ sequences: the role of phonetics, phonology, and sociolinguistics.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2017). Dutch-Flemish differences in phonetic categories and accommodation to Standard Dutch speech.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2017). Perception and production differences in Dutch←Flemish speech.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2017). The processing of Standard Dutch speech by Flemish students in the Netherlands.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2017). The processing of Standard Dutch speech by Flemish students in the Netherlands.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2017). The sociolinguistics of Dutch long vowel realization.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2017). What can synchronic data tell us about diachronic change? Regional variation as an apparent-time method for investigating sound change.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2017). When is sound change ‘phonetic’ or ‘phonological’? The case of Dutch /e:,ø:,o:/.

    2016

    • Voeten, C. C. (2016). Learning metrical stress systems using finite-state machines.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2016). Regional variation in the neutralization of pre-/l/ diphthongs in spoken Dutch.
    • Voeten, C. C. (2016). Watching Dutch change: Diphthongization and diphthong neutralization in contemporary spoken Dutch.

    Prize / grant

    • Voeten, C. (2023). The processing of language change: The case of Frisian vowel breaking.
    • Voeten, C. (2022). Evolutionary forces in vowel change.
    • Voeten, C. (2015). Watching Dutch change. Diphthongization and diphthong neutralization in contemporary spoken Dutch.

    Journal editor

    • Freeborn, L. (editor), Genis, R. (editor), Pfau, R. (editor) & Voeten, C. (editor) (2024). Linguistics in Amsterdam (Journal).
    • Pfau, R. (editor), Hamann, S. (editor), Freeborn, L. (editor), Genis, R. (editor) & Voeten, C. (editor) (2023). Linguistics in Amsterdam (Journal). https://www.linguisticsinamsterdam.nl/home

    Talk / presentation

    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2025). Laboratory sociolinguistics: Between variation and processing, T.W.I.S.T. Conference.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2024). Hoe groot is de kans dat het Nederlands in het Engels verandert?, Secondary school Zuiderbos.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2023). Changes in the Philadelphia accent from the perspective of natural selection, Socio-Cultural Evolution Working Group, University of Pennsylvania.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2023). Individuele verschillen in de fonologisering van variatie en verandering, Dag van de Nederlandse Spraakkunst.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2022). From compensation to adoption: the medium-term dynamics of sound change, University of Groningen.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2022). From compensation to adoption: the medium-term dynamics of sound change, The Integrated Language Science and Technology (ILST) colloquium.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2021). Invited discussant at the Fifth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology, The Fifth Edinburgh Symposium on Historical Phonology.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2021). Generalized additive mixed models in R: A tutorial for EEG data, Universität Konstanz.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2020). The adoption of sound change by sociolinguistic migrants, Michigan State University.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2018). The Dutch great vowel shift? A quantitative study of sound change in progress, Eberhard Karls Univ. Tübingen (Germany).
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2018). Generalized additive mixed models in R: A tutorial for EEG data, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2018). Asymmetrical mismatch negativities show differences in phonotactic knowledge between Randstad-Dutch and Flemish-Dutch students in the Netherlands.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2017). Phonemic versus allophonic violations in speakers and acquirers of Standard Dutch, Leiden University.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2017). The psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics of regional accent processing: Some preliminary results, Utrecht University.
    • Voeten, C. (speaker) (2016). Watching Dutch change: diphthongization and diphthong neutralization in contemporary spoken Dutch, Meertens Institute.
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