Biography:
My name is Merel Padt and I am a third-year undergraduate student double majoring in Communication Sciences & Disorders and German, and minoring in Human Development and Family Studies. I am in the Schreyer Honors College and a Paterno Fellow. I am also on the executive board for the Language and Linguistics Club at Penn State, and outside of school I enjoy all things outdoors and baking.
Project Summary
The research project we plan to conduct examines communicative interactions between Dutch-speaking interlocutors, and how the interaction and patterns of production between two interlocutor’s changes. Furthermore, we expect that interlocutors have difficulty perceiving and producing phonetic contrasts between Dutch and English.