My main current research interests in linguistics are: the formalism of phonological representation; poetic meter and the way it travels from one tradition to the next; and language policy. Here are some of my recent papers; for a (more) complete list of publications please go to this page.

 

• Studying in a foreign language: Study performance and experiences of German students at a Dutch university
  Paper in Language Learning in Higher Education (August 2020)
   

• Germanic syllable structure
  Chapter for a Handbook on Germanic linguistics. (December 2017).
   

• Language Contact and Constructed Languages
  Chapter for a Handbook on Language contact. (December 2017).
   

• On the Diversity of Linguistic Data and the Integration of the Language Sciences
  Paper with Roberta D'Alessandro (November 2017)
   

• Metaphony as magnetism
  Paper with Roberta D'Alessandro (October 2017)
   

• On silent markedness
  Paper together with Edoardo Cavirani on different kinds of phonological empty positions. (February 2017).

 

• Dual metrics in the Tsjebbe Hettinga's poetry
  Paper on the intriguing metrics of probably the most famous Frisian poet ever. (February 2017).

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• The head in poetic metrics
  Paper on what phonology and poetry can see from each other (January 2017).

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• Van Oostendorp, M. (2015). Parameters in phonological analysis: stress. In A. Fabregas, J. Mateu, & M. Putnam (Eds.), Contemporary Linguistic Parameters. (pp. 234-258). (Contemporary Studies in Linguistics). London: Bloomsbury.

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