Martijn Wieling
Biographic Data
| ID | 224050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martijn Wieling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martijn |
| FAMILY NAME | Wieling |
| SIGNATURE | WIELING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0434-1526 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Bilingual engagement and cognition across the adult lifespan: Insights from regional minority language speakers in the north of the Netherlands
This retrospective cohort study examined the relationship between a continuous measurement of bilingual engagement (operationalized as language entropy) and cognitive aging in regional minority language speakers. We drew Frisian–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 7,448) and Low Saxon–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 10,114) from the Lifelines Cohort Study and included participants aged 20–80, enabling an adult lifespan perspective. Cognitive functioning was measured u…
Minority language happiness: The link between social inclusion, well-being, and speaking a regional language in the northern Netherlands
Belonging to groups is often based on shared features between members and is associated with higher levels of (social) well-being. One especially strong marker of one’s group membership is language. In linguistics, most research about group membership and well-being focuses on migrants and refugees. However, very little research has focused on the link between speaking a regional language and well-being. This is surprising, as regional languages …
Intergenerational Language Transmission of Frisian and Low Saxon in the Netherlands
An important mechanism for language maintenance is transmission from parents to their children. This mechanism is stronger for the regional language Frisian than it is for Low Saxon in the northern Netherlands. In this study, we assessed many variables potentially associated with parental language transmission for these regional languages. We analyzed questionnaire responses from around 25,000 Frisian and Low Saxon speakers participating in the L…
Cognitive Benefits of Learning Additional Languages in Old Adulthood? Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Intervention Study
Second language (L2) learning has been promoted as a promising intervention to stave off age-related cognitive decline. While previous studies based on mean trends showed inconclusive results, this study is the first to investigate nonlinear cognitive trajectories across a 30-week training period. German-speaking older participants (aged 64–75 years) enrolled for a Spanish course, strategy game training (active control) or movie screenings (passi…
Distance over Time in a Maximal Sprint: Understanding Athletes’ Action Boundaries in Sprinting
The present study examined the kinematics of maximal effort sprint running, mapping the relations among a person’s maximal running speed, maximum running acceleration and the distance coverable in a certain amount of time by this person. Thirty-three participants were recruited to perform a simple sprint task. Both forward and backward running were considered. Participants’ position, velocity and acceleration data were obtained using a Local Posi…
Neural representations for modeling variation in speech
Variation in speech is often quantified by comparing phonetic transcriptions of the same utterance. However, manually transcribing speech is time-consuming and error prone. As an alternative, therefore, we investigate the extraction of acoustic embeddings from several self-supervised neural models. We use these representations to compute word-based pronunciation differences between non-native and native speakers of English, and between Norwegian …
The Impact of Alcohol on L1 versus L2
Alcohol intoxication is known to affect many aspects of human behavior and cognition; one of such affected systems is articulation during speech production. Although much research has revealed that alcohol negatively impacts pronunciation in a first language (L1), there is only initial evidence suggesting a potential beneficial effect of inebriation on articulation in a non-native language (L2). The aim of this study was thus to compare the effec…
Individual differences in very young Chinese children’s English vocabulary breadth and semantic depth: Internal and external factors
This study examines the English vocabulary development of 43 very young child English as a foreign language (FL) learners (age 3.2–6.2) in China. They were tested twice for vocabulary breadth (reception and production) and semantic depth (paradigmatic and syntagmatic vocabulary knowledge). The development of the English vocabulary knowledge between these two measurements was predicted using a series of internal factors and external factors. An ex…
Providers’ competencies positively affect personal recovery of involuntarily admitted patients with severe mental illness: A prospective observational study
OBJECTIVE: There is limited research on the patient-provider relationship in inpatient settings. The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of mental healthcare providers' recovery-promoting competencies on personal recovery in involuntarily admitted psychiatric patients with severe mental illness. METHODS: In all, 127 Dutch patients suffering from a severe mental illness residing in a high-secure psychiatric hospital reported the degree…
Analyzing dynamic phonetic data using generalized additive mixed modeling: A tutorial focusing on articulatory differences between L1 and L2 speakers of English
Sharing Is Caring: The Future of Shared Tasks
Shared tasks are indisputably drivers of progress and interest for problems in NLP. This is reflected by their increasing popularity, as well as by the fact that new shared tasks regularly emerge for under-researched and under-resourced topics, especially at workshops and smaller conferences.The general procedures and conventions for organizing a shared task have arisen organically over time (Paroubek, Chaudiron, and Hirschman, 2007, Section 7). …
Variation and Change in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Germanic Languages
In this study, we investigate crosslinguistic patterns in the alternation between UM , a hesitation marker consisting of a neutral vowel followed by a final labial nasal, and UH , a hesitation marker consisting of a neutral vowel in an open syllable. Based on a quantitative analysis of a range of spoken and written corpora, we identify clear and consistent patterns of change in the use of these forms in various Germanic languages (English, Dutch,…
Investigating dialectal differences using articulography
Measuring Foreign Accent Strength in English: Validating Levenshtein Distance as a Measure
With an eye toward measuring the strength of foreign accents in American English, we evaluate the suitability of a modified version of the Levenshtein distance for comparing (the phonetic transcriptions of) accented pronunciations. Although this measure has been used successfully inter alia to study the differences among dialect pronunciations, it has not been applied to studying foreign accents. Here, we use it to compare the pronunciation of no…
Advances in Dialectometry
Dialectometry applies computational and statistical analyses within dialectology, making work more easily replicable and understandable. This survey article first reviews the field briefly in order to focus on developments in the past five years. Dialectometry no longer focuses exclusively on aggregate analyses, but rather deploys various techniques to identify representative and distinctive features with respect to areal classifications. Analyse…
Lexical differences between Tuscan dialects and standard Italian: Accounting for geographic and sociodemographic variation using generalized additive mixed modeling
This study uses a generalized additive mixed-effects regression model to predict lexical differences in Tuscan dialects with respect to standard Italian. We used lexical information for 170 concepts used by 2,060 speakers in 213 locations in Tuscany. In our model, geographical position was found to be an important predictor, with locations more distant from Florence having lexical forms more likely to differ from standard Italian. In addition, th…
Neuter is not Common in Dutch: Eye Movements Reveal Asymmetrical Gender Processing
Inducing a measure of phonetic similarity from pronunciation variation
Analyzing dynamic phonetic data using generalized additive mixed modeling: A tutorial focusing on articulatory differences between L1 and L2 speakers of English
Lexical differences between Tuscan dialects and standard Italian: Accounting for geographic and sociodemographic variation using generalized additive mixed modeling
This study uses a generalized additive mixed-effects regression model to predict lexical differences in Tuscan dialects with respect to standard Italian. We used lexical information for 170 concepts used by 2,060 speakers in 213 locations in Tuscany. In our model, geographical position was found to be an important predictor, with locations more distant from Florence having lexical forms more likely to differ from standard Italian. In addition, th…
Investigating dialectal differences using articulography
Inducing a measure of phonetic similarity from pronunciation variation
Advances in Dialectometry
Dialectometry applies computational and statistical analyses within dialectology, making work more easily replicable and understandable. This survey article first reviews the field briefly in order to focus on developments in the past five years. Dialectometry no longer focuses exclusively on aggregate analyses, but rather deploys various techniques to identify representative and distinctive features with respect to areal classifications. Analyse…
Neural representations for modeling variation in speech
Variation in speech is often quantified by comparing phonetic transcriptions of the same utterance. However, manually transcribing speech is time-consuming and error prone. As an alternative, therefore, we investigate the extraction of acoustic embeddings from several self-supervised neural models. We use these representations to compute word-based pronunciation differences between non-native and native speakers of English, and between Norwegian …
Neuter is not Common in Dutch: Eye Movements Reveal Asymmetrical Gender Processing
Inducing a measure of phonetic similarity from pronunciation variation
Neuter is not Common in Dutch: Eye Movements Reveal Asymmetrical Gender Processing
Measuring Foreign Accent Strength in English: Validating Levenshtein Distance as a Measure
With an eye toward measuring the strength of foreign accents in American English, we evaluate the suitability of a modified version of the Levenshtein distance for comparing (the phonetic transcriptions of) accented pronunciations. Although this measure has been used successfully inter alia to study the differences among dialect pronunciations, it has not been applied to studying foreign accents. Here, we use it to compare the pronunciation of no…
Advances in Dialectometry
Dialectometry applies computational and statistical analyses within dialectology, making work more easily replicable and understandable. This survey article first reviews the field briefly in order to focus on developments in the past five years. Dialectometry no longer focuses exclusively on aggregate analyses, but rather deploys various techniques to identify representative and distinctive features with respect to areal classifications. Analyse…
Lexical differences between Tuscan dialects and standard Italian: Accounting for geographic and sociodemographic variation using generalized additive mixed modeling
This study uses a generalized additive mixed-effects regression model to predict lexical differences in Tuscan dialects with respect to standard Italian. We used lexical information for 170 concepts used by 2,060 speakers in 213 locations in Tuscany. In our model, geographical position was found to be an important predictor, with locations more distant from Florence having lexical forms more likely to differ from standard Italian. In addition, th…
Variation and Change in the Use of Hesitation Markers in Germanic Languages
In this study, we investigate crosslinguistic patterns in the alternation between UM , a hesitation marker consisting of a neutral vowel followed by a final labial nasal, and UH , a hesitation marker consisting of a neutral vowel in an open syllable. Based on a quantitative analysis of a range of spoken and written corpora, we identify clear and consistent patterns of change in the use of these forms in various Germanic languages (English, Dutch,…
Investigating dialectal differences using articulography
Sharing Is Caring: The Future of Shared Tasks
Shared tasks are indisputably drivers of progress and interest for problems in NLP. This is reflected by their increasing popularity, as well as by the fact that new shared tasks regularly emerge for under-researched and under-resourced topics, especially at workshops and smaller conferences.The general procedures and conventions for organizing a shared task have arisen organically over time (Paroubek, Chaudiron, and Hirschman, 2007, Section 7). …
Individual differences in very young Chinese children’s English vocabulary breadth and semantic depth: Internal and external factors
This study examines the English vocabulary development of 43 very young child English as a foreign language (FL) learners (age 3.2–6.2) in China. They were tested twice for vocabulary breadth (reception and production) and semantic depth (paradigmatic and syntagmatic vocabulary knowledge). The development of the English vocabulary knowledge between these two measurements was predicted using a series of internal factors and external factors. An ex…
Providers’ competencies positively affect personal recovery of involuntarily admitted patients with severe mental illness: A prospective observational study
OBJECTIVE: There is limited research on the patient-provider relationship in inpatient settings. The purpose of this study was to measure the effect of mental healthcare providers' recovery-promoting competencies on personal recovery in involuntarily admitted psychiatric patients with severe mental illness. METHODS: In all, 127 Dutch patients suffering from a severe mental illness residing in a high-secure psychiatric hospital reported the degree…
Analyzing dynamic phonetic data using generalized additive mixed modeling: A tutorial focusing on articulatory differences between L1 and L2 speakers of English
The Impact of Alcohol on L1 versus L2
Alcohol intoxication is known to affect many aspects of human behavior and cognition; one of such affected systems is articulation during speech production. Although much research has revealed that alcohol negatively impacts pronunciation in a first language (L1), there is only initial evidence suggesting a potential beneficial effect of inebriation on articulation in a non-native language (L2). The aim of this study was thus to compare the effec…
Cognitive Benefits of Learning Additional Languages in Old Adulthood? Insights from an Intensive Longitudinal Intervention Study
Second language (L2) learning has been promoted as a promising intervention to stave off age-related cognitive decline. While previous studies based on mean trends showed inconclusive results, this study is the first to investigate nonlinear cognitive trajectories across a 30-week training period. German-speaking older participants (aged 64–75 years) enrolled for a Spanish course, strategy game training (active control) or movie screenings (passi…
Distance over Time in a Maximal Sprint: Understanding Athletes’ Action Boundaries in Sprinting
The present study examined the kinematics of maximal effort sprint running, mapping the relations among a person’s maximal running speed, maximum running acceleration and the distance coverable in a certain amount of time by this person. Thirty-three participants were recruited to perform a simple sprint task. Both forward and backward running were considered. Participants’ position, velocity and acceleration data were obtained using a Local Posi…
Neural representations for modeling variation in speech
Variation in speech is often quantified by comparing phonetic transcriptions of the same utterance. However, manually transcribing speech is time-consuming and error prone. As an alternative, therefore, we investigate the extraction of acoustic embeddings from several self-supervised neural models. We use these representations to compute word-based pronunciation differences between non-native and native speakers of English, and between Norwegian …
Minority language happiness: The link between social inclusion, well-being, and speaking a regional language in the northern Netherlands
Belonging to groups is often based on shared features between members and is associated with higher levels of (social) well-being. One especially strong marker of one’s group membership is language. In linguistics, most research about group membership and well-being focuses on migrants and refugees. However, very little research has focused on the link between speaking a regional language and well-being. This is surprising, as regional languages …
Intergenerational Language Transmission of Frisian and Low Saxon in the Netherlands
An important mechanism for language maintenance is transmission from parents to their children. This mechanism is stronger for the regional language Frisian than it is for Low Saxon in the northern Netherlands. In this study, we assessed many variables potentially associated with parental language transmission for these regional languages. We analyzed questionnaire responses from around 25,000 Frisian and Low Saxon speakers participating in the L…
Bilingual engagement and cognition across the adult lifespan: Insights from regional minority language speakers in the north of the Netherlands
This retrospective cohort study examined the relationship between a continuous measurement of bilingual engagement (operationalized as language entropy) and cognitive aging in regional minority language speakers. We drew Frisian–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 7,448) and Low Saxon–Dutch bilinguals ( n = 10,114) from the Lifelines Cohort Study and included participants aged 20–80, enabling an adult lifespan perspective. Cognitive functioning was measured u…
Linguistics (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (9 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works)