Edith De Leeuw
Biographic Data
| ID | 112471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edith De Leeuw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edith |
| FAMILY NAME | De Leeuw |
| SIGNATURE | DE LEEUW E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0751-7451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
An acoustic and articulatory investigation into Liverpool and Wirral lateral production in female and male adolescent speech: Covert articulatory variation in ‘Scouse’ and Wirral speech
Liverpool English, commonly known as ‘Scouse’, is often reported to be a low prestige variety of English. Despite its low prestige, it has been suggested that Scouse has displaced the traditional variety of the neighbouring Wirral peninsula. To this end, this study's objective was to investigate whether Liverpool and Wirral speech differ from one another as revealed through both an ultrasound and acoustic analysis of the lateral phoneme in teenag…
Sound Change in Albanian Monolinguals and Albanian-English Sequential Bilingual Returnees in Tirana, Albania
This research investigated contrastive perception of L1 phonological categories in Albanian-English bilinguals who returned to Albania after living abroad for over on average a decade. In Standard Albanian, there are phonemic contrasts between /c/ and /tʃ/, /ɫ/ and /l/, and /ɹ/ and /r/. These phonemic contrasts do not occur in English. Using a "real speech" binary minimal pair identification task, we compared the accuracy and response times of bi…
Perceptual Discrimination of Phonemic Contrasts in Quebec French: Exposure to Quebec French Does Not Improve Perception in Hexagonal French Native Speakers Living in Quebec
In Quebec French, /a ~ ɑ/ and /ε ~ aε/ are phonemic, whereas in Hexagonal French, these vowels are merged to /a/ and /ε/, respectively. We tested the effects of extended exposure to Quebec French (QF) as a second dialect (D2) on Hexagonal French (HF) speakers' abilities to perceive these contrasts. Three groups of listeners were recruited: (1) non-mobile HF speakers born and living in France (HF group); (2) non-mobile QF speakers born and living …
Prosodic Patterns in Sylheti-English Bilinguals – Addendum
Both authors contributed equally to the conceptualization and design of the project, with KMM leading the Sylheti language
Prosodic Patterns in Sylheti-English Bilinguals
The primary aim of this study was to investigate prosodic prominence across three groups of Sylheti-English bilinguals: first-generation who arrived as adults, first-generation who arrived as children, and second-generation, i.e., born in the United Kingdom to parents who grew up in Bangladesh. To measure prominence, f 0, duration, and intensity were measured across disyllabic words in Sylheti and English. The results showed significant differenc…
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning
We investigated whether expression of social meaning operationalized as individual gender identitity and politeness moderated pitch range in the two languages of female and male Japanese-English sequential bilinguals. The bilinguals were resident in either London (UK) or Tokyo (Japan) and read sentences to imagined addressees who varied in formality and sex. Results indicated significant differences in the pitch range of the two languages of the …
Style-shifting in Multicultural London English in an all-girls homework club: A group of 11-year-old girls in Hackney change their pronunciations of the innovative Multicultural London English diphtho…
This study investigated whether and how pre-adolescent girls style-shift in Multicultural London English (MLE), a variety of English that is relatively new and potentially still changing. We looked at the extent to which five 11-year-old girls in a homework club in East London, where MLE is spoken, changed their pronunciations in different speech contexts. The results showed that the girls did indeed change their pronunciations in the different c…
Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment
Vignettes are short descriptions of real‐life situations that are employed in a survey to assess attitudes and intentions. In many studies, intentions are considered as approximations to actual behavior in real‐life situations. What different applications of vignettes have in common is the effort to adjust the vignettes to the reality of everyday life. Because of this closeness to reality, it is assumed that vignettes are less prone to socially d…
Illusory vowels in Spanish–English sequential bilinguals: Evidence that accurate L2 perception is neither necessary nor sufficient for accurate L2 production
Spanish native speakers are known to pronounce onset /sC/ clusters in English with a prothetic vowel, as in esport for sport, due to their native language phonotactic constraints. We assessed whether accurate production of e.g. spi instead of espi was related to accurate perceptual discrimination of this contrast in second language (L2) speech of Spanish–English sequential bilinguals. A same–different discrimination task in stimulus pairs such as…
Native speech plasticity in the German-English late bilingual Stefanie Graf: A longitudinal study over four decades
Plasticity of native phonetic and phonological domains in the context of bilingualism
How phonetics and phonology inform L1 attrition (narrowly defined) research
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Total Survey Error in Practice
This book provides an overview of the TSE framework and current TSE research as related to survey design, data collection, estimation, and analysis. It recognizes that survey data affects many public policy and business decisions and thus focuses on the framework for understanding and improving survey data quality. The book also addresses issues with data quality in official statistics and in social, opinion, and market research as these fields c…
The Effectiveness of a Mixed-mode Survey on Domestic Violence in Curaçao: Response and Data Quality
To collect reliable statistical data on domestic violence in Curaçao, we conducted a large-scale quantitative study ( n = 816). To meet with the special needs of the population and topic, we designed a tailored mixed-mode survey to assess the prevalence of domestic violence in Curaçao and its health consequences. Great care was taken to reduce selective nonresponse and stimulate open and honest responses. We describe how we implemented and tailor…
Dynamics of first language attrition across the lifespan
This special issue explores the relevance of Dynamic Systems Theory ( henceforth DST) to research in first language attrition (henceforth LI attrition). While research in LI attrition has traditionally drawn on paradigms in other areas of linguistic enquiry, e.g. approaches current in L2 acquisition studies, important developments across a range of disciplines have paved the way for a fundamen- tally different conceptualisation of language develo…
Dynamic systems, maturational constraints and L1 phonetic attrition
The present study comprises a phonetic analysis of the lateral phoneme /l/ in the first (L1) and second language (L2) of 10 late German–English bilinguals. The primary objective of the study was to compare the predictive power of dynamic systems theory with that of maturational constraints through a phonetic investigation of L1 attrition in the lateral phoneme /l/ of the late bilinguals. The results revealed L1 attrition in the lateral phoneme /l…
Survey Measurement and Process Quality
Singing a different tune in your native language: First language attrition of prosody
First language attrition refers to the changes which a first language (L1) undergoes when a second language (L2) is acquired in a context in which L1 use is reduced (Cook, 2003; Köpke, 2004). To date, some studies have focused on complete loss of an L1, for example in the case of children whose contact with their initial language ceased after adoption (Pallier et al., 2003; Ventureyra, Pallier, & Yoo, 2004). Others have investigated more subtle c…
The effects of contact on native language pronunciation in an L2 migrant setting
The primary aim of this study was to determine whether native speakers of German living in either Canada or the Netherlands are perceived to have a foreign accent in their native German speech. German monolingual listeners (n = 19) assessed global foreign accent of 34 L1 German speakers in Anglophone Canada, 23 L1 German speakers in the Dutch Netherlands, and five German monolingual controls in Germany. The experimental subjects had moved to eith…
Measuring language-specific phonetic settings
While it is well known that languages have different phonemes and phonologies, there is growing interest in the idea that languages may also differ in their ‘phonetic setting’. The term ‘phonetic setting’ refers to a tendency to make the vocal apparatus employ a language-specific habitual configuration. For example, languages may differ in their degree of lip-rounding, tension of the lips and tongue, jaw position, phonation types, pitch range and…
Language Attrition Research Network
The article offers information on Research Network on Language Attrition, an international group formed by young researchers. It reports that the network aims at developing theoretical and methodological frameworks for the research works on language attrition. It mentions the worldwide collection of data on attrition by the network, for crosslinguistic comparison purpose. It reports the topics discussed at the network's meeting in January 2006 an…
Hesitation Markers in English, German, and Dutch
This study reports on a number of highly significant differences found between English, German, and Dutch hesitation markers. English and German native speakers used significantly more vocalic-nasal hesitation markers than Dutch native speakers, who used predominantly vocalic hesitation markers. English hesitation markers occurred most frequently when preceded by silence and followed by a lexical item, or when surrounded by silence. German and Du…
Nonresponse in Surveys: Determining the Research Agenda for the Future
La non-réponse dans les enquêtes, élaboration de l'agenda de recherches futures: Dans cet article, nous décrivons les sujets de recherche et leurs priorités tels qu'ils nous ont été présentés par des chercheurs expérimentés dans le domaine de la non-réponse dans les enquêtes qui ont assistés à Copenhague à un séminaire international sur le sujet. Ces experts donnent la plus haute priorité à l'ajustement statistique et à des moyens de réduire la n…
Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing Tailored for Special Populations and Topics
Self-administered questionnaires have many advantages, especially when sensitive questions are asked. However, self-administered paper questionnaires have a serious drawback: Only relatively simple questionnaires can be used. Computer-assisted self-interviewing (CASI) can overcome these problems. CASI can be part of a personal interview in which the interviewer hands the computer over to the respondent for specific questions. It also can be a com…
Children as Respondents in Survey Research: Cognitive Development and Response Quality 1
Les enfants comme répondants dans les enquêtes - Développement cognitif et qualité des réponses. Quoique les enfants ne sont plus une population négligée des statistiques officielles et des enquétes, des études méthodologiques sur des enquêtes d'enfants sont rares. Les chercheurs doivent se baser sur des connaissances ad hoc venant des domaines aussi divers que la psychiatrie enfantine et les tests d'éducation, ou extrapoler à partir de la connai…
Children as Respondents in Survey Research: Cognitive Development and Response Quality 1
Les enfants comme répondants dans les enquêtes - Développement cognitif et qualité des réponses. Quoique les enfants ne sont plus une population négligée des statistiques officielles et des enquétes, des études méthodologiques sur des enquêtes d'enfants sont rares. Les chercheurs doivent se baser sur des connaissances ad hoc venant des domaines aussi divers que la psychiatrie enfantine et les tests d'éducation, ou extrapoler à partir de la connai…
Native speech plasticity in the German-English late bilingual Stefanie Graf: A longitudinal study over four decades
Stability of Scale Quality Under Various Data Collection Procedures: A Mode Comparison on the ‘De Jong-Gierveld Loneliness Scale
Journal Article STABILITY OF SCALE QUALITY UNDER VARIOUS DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURES: A MODE COMPARISON ON THE 'DE JONG-GIERVELD LONELINESS SCALE Get access Theo van Tilburg, Theo van Tilburg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Edith de Leeuw Edith de Leeuw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 3, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, P…
Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing Tailored for Special Populations and Topics
Self-administered questionnaires have many advantages, especially when sensitive questions are asked. However, self-administered paper questionnaires have a serious drawback: Only relatively simple questionnaires can be used. Computer-assisted self-interviewing (CASI) can overcome these problems. CASI can be part of a personal interview in which the interviewer hands the computer over to the respondent for specific questions. It also can be a com…
Survey Participation as Reasoned Action; a Behavioral Paradigm for Survey Nonresponse
Résmné. La participation dans une enquête comme action raisonnée - Un paradigme comportemental pour la non-réponse d'enquête? La non-réponse d'enquête entame la valeur inférentielle des enquêtes par questionnaire. La non-réponse est d'ores et déjà un problème reconnu aux Etats-Unis et en Europe de l'Ouest. Pour lutter convenablement contre le problème de la non-réponse, une connaissance étendue des répondants et des non-répondants est nécessaire.…
Technological Innovations in Data Collection: Acceptance, Data Quality and Costs
Whether computer assisted data collection methods should be used for survey data collection is no longer an issue. Most professional research organizations, commercial, government and academic, are adopting these new methods with enthusiasm. Computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) is most prevalent, and computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) is rapidly gaining in popularity. Also, new forms of electronic reporting of data using co…
Measuring language-specific phonetic settings
While it is well known that languages have different phonemes and phonologies, there is growing interest in the idea that languages may also differ in their ‘phonetic setting’. The term ‘phonetic setting’ refers to a tendency to make the vocal apparatus employ a language-specific habitual configuration. For example, languages may differ in their degree of lip-rounding, tension of the lips and tongue, jaw position, phonation types, pitch range and…
Illusory vowels in Spanish–English sequential bilinguals: Evidence that accurate L2 perception is neither necessary nor sufficient for accurate L2 production
Spanish native speakers are known to pronounce onset /sC/ clusters in English with a prothetic vowel, as in esport for sport, due to their native language phonotactic constraints. We assessed whether accurate production of e.g. spi instead of espi was related to accurate perceptual discrimination of this contrast in second language (L2) speech of Spanish–English sequential bilinguals. A same–different discrimination task in stimulus pairs such as…
Plasticity of native phonetic and phonological domains in the context of bilingualism
Sound Change in Albanian Monolinguals and Albanian-English Sequential Bilingual Returnees in Tirana, Albania
This research investigated contrastive perception of L1 phonological categories in Albanian-English bilinguals who returned to Albania after living abroad for over on average a decade. In Standard Albanian, there are phonemic contrasts between /c/ and /tʃ/, /ɫ/ and /l/, and /ɹ/ and /r/. These phonemic contrasts do not occur in English. Using a "real speech" binary minimal pair identification task, we compared the accuracy and response times of bi…
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning
We investigated whether expression of social meaning operationalized as individual gender identitity and politeness moderated pitch range in the two languages of female and male Japanese-English sequential bilinguals. The bilinguals were resident in either London (UK) or Tokyo (Japan) and read sentences to imagined addressees who varied in formality and sex. Results indicated significant differences in the pitch range of the two languages of the …
Nonresponse in Surveys: Determining the Research Agenda for the Future
La non-réponse dans les enquêtes, élaboration de l'agenda de recherches futures: Dans cet article, nous décrivons les sujets de recherche et leurs priorités tels qu'ils nous ont été présentés par des chercheurs expérimentés dans le domaine de la non-réponse dans les enquêtes qui ont assistés à Copenhague à un séminaire international sur le sujet. Ces experts donnent la plus haute priorité à l'ajustement statistique et à des moyens de réduire la n…
Stability of Scale Quality Under Various Data Collection Procedures: A Mode Comparison on the ‘De Jong-Gierveld Loneliness Scale
Journal Article STABILITY OF SCALE QUALITY UNDER VARIOUS DATA COLLECTION PROCEDURES: A MODE COMPARISON ON THE 'DE JONG-GIERVELD LONELINESS SCALE Get access Theo van Tilburg, Theo van Tilburg Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Edith de Leeuw Edith de Leeuw Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Volume 3, Issue 1, SPRING 1991, P…
Survey Participation as Reasoned Action; a Behavioral Paradigm for Survey Nonresponse
Résmné. La participation dans une enquête comme action raisonnée - Un paradigme comportemental pour la non-réponse d'enquête? La non-réponse d'enquête entame la valeur inférentielle des enquêtes par questionnaire. La non-réponse est d'ores et déjà un problème reconnu aux Etats-Unis et en Europe de l'Ouest. Pour lutter convenablement contre le problème de la non-réponse, une connaissance étendue des répondants et des non-répondants est nécessaire.…
Technological Innovations in Data Collection: Acceptance, Data Quality and Costs
Whether computer assisted data collection methods should be used for survey data collection is no longer an issue. Most professional research organizations, commercial, government and academic, are adopting these new methods with enthusiasm. Computer assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) is most prevalent, and computer assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) is rapidly gaining in popularity. Also, new forms of electronic reporting of data using co…
Children as Respondents in Survey Research: Cognitive Development and Response Quality 1
Les enfants comme répondants dans les enquêtes - Développement cognitif et qualité des réponses. Quoique les enfants ne sont plus une population négligée des statistiques officielles et des enquétes, des études méthodologiques sur des enquêtes d'enfants sont rares. Les chercheurs doivent se baser sur des connaissances ad hoc venant des domaines aussi divers que la psychiatrie enfantine et les tests d'éducation, ou extrapoler à partir de la connai…
Nonresponse in Surveys: Determining the Research Agenda for the Future
La non-réponse dans les enquêtes, élaboration de l'agenda de recherches futures: Dans cet article, nous décrivons les sujets de recherche et leurs priorités tels qu'ils nous ont été présentés par des chercheurs expérimentés dans le domaine de la non-réponse dans les enquêtes qui ont assistés à Copenhague à un séminaire international sur le sujet. Ces experts donnent la plus haute priorité à l'ajustement statistique et à des moyens de réduire la n…
Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing Tailored for Special Populations and Topics
Self-administered questionnaires have many advantages, especially when sensitive questions are asked. However, self-administered paper questionnaires have a serious drawback: Only relatively simple questionnaires can be used. Computer-assisted self-interviewing (CASI) can overcome these problems. CASI can be part of a personal interview in which the interviewer hands the computer over to the respondent for specific questions. It also can be a com…
Hesitation Markers in English, German, and Dutch
This study reports on a number of highly significant differences found between English, German, and Dutch hesitation markers. English and German native speakers used significantly more vocalic-nasal hesitation markers than Dutch native speakers, who used predominantly vocalic hesitation markers. English hesitation markers occurred most frequently when preceded by silence and followed by a lexical item, or when surrounded by silence. German and Du…
Language Attrition Research Network
The article offers information on Research Network on Language Attrition, an international group formed by young researchers. It reports that the network aims at developing theoretical and methodological frameworks for the research works on language attrition. It mentions the worldwide collection of data on attrition by the network, for crosslinguistic comparison purpose. It reports the topics discussed at the network's meeting in January 2006 an…
The effects of contact on native language pronunciation in an L2 migrant setting
The primary aim of this study was to determine whether native speakers of German living in either Canada or the Netherlands are perceived to have a foreign accent in their native German speech. German monolingual listeners (n = 19) assessed global foreign accent of 34 L1 German speakers in Anglophone Canada, 23 L1 German speakers in the Dutch Netherlands, and five German monolingual controls in Germany. The experimental subjects had moved to eith…
Measuring language-specific phonetic settings
While it is well known that languages have different phonemes and phonologies, there is growing interest in the idea that languages may also differ in their ‘phonetic setting’. The term ‘phonetic setting’ refers to a tendency to make the vocal apparatus employ a language-specific habitual configuration. For example, languages may differ in their degree of lip-rounding, tension of the lips and tongue, jaw position, phonation types, pitch range and…
Survey Measurement and Process Quality
Singing a different tune in your native language: First language attrition of prosody
First language attrition refers to the changes which a first language (L1) undergoes when a second language (L2) is acquired in a context in which L1 use is reduced (Cook, 2003; Köpke, 2004). To date, some studies have focused on complete loss of an L1, for example in the case of children whose contact with their initial language ceased after adoption (Pallier et al., 2003; Ventureyra, Pallier, & Yoo, 2004). Others have investigated more subtle c…
Dynamics of first language attrition across the lifespan
This special issue explores the relevance of Dynamic Systems Theory ( henceforth DST) to research in first language attrition (henceforth LI attrition). While research in LI attrition has traditionally drawn on paradigms in other areas of linguistic enquiry, e.g. approaches current in L2 acquisition studies, important developments across a range of disciplines have paved the way for a fundamen- tally different conceptualisation of language develo…
Dynamic systems, maturational constraints and L1 phonetic attrition
The present study comprises a phonetic analysis of the lateral phoneme /l/ in the first (L1) and second language (L2) of 10 late German–English bilinguals. The primary objective of the study was to compare the predictive power of dynamic systems theory with that of maturational constraints through a phonetic investigation of L1 attrition in the lateral phoneme /l/ of the late bilinguals. The results revealed L1 attrition in the lateral phoneme /l…
The Effectiveness of a Mixed-mode Survey on Domestic Violence in Curaçao: Response and Data Quality
To collect reliable statistical data on domestic violence in Curaçao, we conducted a large-scale quantitative study ( n = 816). To meet with the special needs of the population and topic, we designed a tailored mixed-mode survey to assess the prevalence of domestic violence in Curaçao and its health consequences. Great care was taken to reduce selective nonresponse and stimulate open and honest responses. We describe how we implemented and tailor…
How phonetics and phonology inform L1 attrition (narrowly defined) research
Preview this article: How phonetics and phonology inform L1 attrition (narrowly defined) research, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/lab.00013.lee-1.gif
Total Survey Error in Practice
This book provides an overview of the TSE framework and current TSE research as related to survey design, data collection, estimation, and analysis. It recognizes that survey data affects many public policy and business decisions and thus focuses on the framework for understanding and improving survey data quality. The book also addresses issues with data quality in official statistics and in social, opinion, and market research as these fields c…
Experimental Methods in Survey Research: Techniques that Combine Random Sampling with Random Assignment
Vignettes are short descriptions of real‐life situations that are employed in a survey to assess attitudes and intentions. In many studies, intentions are considered as approximations to actual behavior in real‐life situations. What different applications of vignettes have in common is the effort to adjust the vignettes to the reality of everyday life. Because of this closeness to reality, it is assumed that vignettes are less prone to socially d…
Illusory vowels in Spanish–English sequential bilinguals: Evidence that accurate L2 perception is neither necessary nor sufficient for accurate L2 production
Spanish native speakers are known to pronounce onset /sC/ clusters in English with a prothetic vowel, as in esport for sport, due to their native language phonotactic constraints. We assessed whether accurate production of e.g. spi instead of espi was related to accurate perceptual discrimination of this contrast in second language (L2) speech of Spanish–English sequential bilinguals. A same–different discrimination task in stimulus pairs such as…
Native speech plasticity in the German-English late bilingual Stefanie Graf: A longitudinal study over four decades
Plasticity of native phonetic and phonological domains in the context of bilingualism
Style-shifting in Multicultural London English in an all-girls homework club: A group of 11-year-old girls in Hackney change their pronunciations of the innovative Multicultural London English diphtho…
This study investigated whether and how pre-adolescent girls style-shift in Multicultural London English (MLE), a variety of English that is relatively new and potentially still changing. We looked at the extent to which five 11-year-old girls in a homework club in East London, where MLE is spoken, changed their pronunciations in different speech contexts. The results showed that the girls did indeed change their pronunciations in the different c…
Prosodic Patterns in Sylheti-English Bilinguals – Addendum
Both authors contributed equally to the conceptualization and design of the project, with KMM leading the Sylheti language
Prosodic Patterns in Sylheti-English Bilinguals
The primary aim of this study was to investigate prosodic prominence across three groups of Sylheti-English bilinguals: first-generation who arrived as adults, first-generation who arrived as children, and second-generation, i.e., born in the United Kingdom to parents who grew up in Bangladesh. To measure prominence, f 0, duration, and intensity were measured across disyllabic words in Sylheti and English. The results showed significant differenc…
Bilinguals Produce Pitch Range Differently in Their Two Languages to Convey Social Meaning
We investigated whether expression of social meaning operationalized as individual gender identitity and politeness moderated pitch range in the two languages of female and male Japanese-English sequential bilinguals. The bilinguals were resident in either London (UK) or Tokyo (Japan) and read sentences to imagined addressees who varied in formality and sex. Results indicated significant differences in the pitch range of the two languages of the …
Psychology (23 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Linguistics (17 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (13 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (10 works) · Language Development and Disorders (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Attrition (6 works)