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Suzanne van der Feest

Office: CMA 2.118
Phone: 512-471-2017
Email: feest@mail.utexas.edu
http://suzanne.vanderfeest.nl

Suzanne V.H. van der Feest is a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer from the Netherlands and joined the CSD faculty in Spring 2009.

She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2007 from the University of Nijmegen, where she worked in the Nijmegen Baby Research Center. She is the recipient of an NWO (Dutch NSF) Rubicon Grant, with which she worked for two years in the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania prior to coming to UT Austin.

Her research focuses on phonology: Using psycholinguistic research methods such as eyetracking, as well as acoustic analyses methods, she investigates the development, nature and organization of the mental lexicon. Suzanne studies infant's and young children's knowledge about the sound structure of their first words, and how adult listeners use different (phonetic) cues for word recognition. She investigates what information is part of lexical representations, and how these representations develop as a result of the interaction between speech perception and production in different languages such as English, Dutch and Spanish. Suzanne works in the CSD Speech Production Lab and has taught Acquisition of Communicative Abilities in Children and Cognition and Communication. She is part of several experimental collaborations with researchers in Canada, the United States and the Netherlands. She has presented her research at international conferences across the world.