Biography

Anne-France Pinget (Belgium, 1987) is an Assistant Professor (UD) at the Department of Language, Literature and Communication (TLC) of Utrecht University. Her research is embedded within the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics and spans three domains: sociolinguistics (sound change, imitation, language attitudes), sociophonetics, and second language acquisition (acquisition of variation, language policy, fluency, accent, attitudes).

She obtained her PhD degree in 2015 for her thesis “The Actuation of Sound Change”, studying sound change in progress. The project was financed by a NWO doctoral scholarship (Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen).

In 2015, she started working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Utrecht, where she continues the study of language variation and language change and teaches various courses, mainly on Sociolinguistics. In addition, she started in 2021 as a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics at the Fryske Akademy. As a member of the project Laboratoariumsosjolinguistyk en de taalsituaasje yn Fryslân she is involved in the development of laboratorium and experimental sociolinguistic research.

Publications (selection)

Pinget, A. C. H., Kager, R. W. J., & van de Velde, H. (2020). Linking Variation in Perception and Production in Sound Change: Evidence from Dutch Obstruent Devoicing. Language and Speech, 63(3), 660-685. https://doi.org/10.1177/0023830919880206

Pinget, A. C. H., Rotteveel, M., & van de Velde, H. (2014). Standaardnederlands met een accent: Herkenning en evaluatie van regionaal gekleurd Standaardnederlands in Nederland. Nederlandse taalkunde, 19(1), 3-45. https://doi.org/10.5117/NEDTAA2014.1.PING

Pinget, A. C. H., Bosker, H. R., Quené, H., & de Jong, N. H. (2014). Native Speakers’ Perceptions of Fluency and Accent in L2 Speech. Language Testing, 31(3), 349-365. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265532214526177