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Citations
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4760
National Ranking
191

Overview

Marc Swerts is affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands and focuses on research within the field of psychology, with a significant emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology. Their research spans several subfields, including social psychology, language and linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, and linguistics and language.

Their work consistently addresses topics related to multisensory perception and integration, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, syntax, semantics, and linguistic variation. Additionally, their research covers phonetics and phonology, hearing loss and rehabilitation, linguistic variation and morphology, and hearing impairment and communication.

Among recent publications are studies that explore various aspects of speech, language perception, and social communication. Examples include:

  • The interplay of prosodic cues in the L2: How intonation, rhythm, and speech rate in speech by Spanish learners of Dutch contribute to L1 Dutch perceptions of accentedness and comprehensibility (2020, Speech Communication)
  • The Role of the Auditory and Visual Modalities in the Perceptual Identification of Brazilian Portuguese Statements and Echo Questions (2020, Language and Speech)
  • Contextualising Smiles: Is Perception of Smile Genuineness Influenced by Situation and Culture? (2020, Perception)
  • Backchannel Behavior Influences the Perceived Personality of Human and Artificial Communication Partners (2022, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence)
  • Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch (2022, Journal of Phonetics)

The primary venues in which Marc Swerts has published include Language and Speech, Speech Communication, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, Language and Cognition, and Perception.

Marc Swerts has collaborated frequently with a number of researchers. Notable co-authors with multiple joint publications include Constantijn Kaland, Emiel Krahmer, Peter Blomsma, Gabriel Skantze, and Lieke van Maastricht.

Best Publications

  • Filled pauses as markers of discourse structure

    M.G.J. Swerts

  • The Effects of Visual Beats on Prosodic Prominence: Acoustic Analyses, Auditory Perception and Visual Perception.

    Emiel Krahmer;Marc Swerts

  • Prosodic features at discourse boundaries of different strength

    M.G.J. Swerts

  • Prosody as a Marker of Information Flow in Spoken Discourse

    Marc Swerts;Ronald Geluykens

  • Audiovisual prosody and feeling of knowing

    Marc Swerts;Emiel Krahmer

  • Prosodic marking of information status in Dutch and Italian: a comparative analysis

    Marc Swerts;Emiel Krahmer;Cinzia Avesani

  • On the alleged existence of contrastive accents

    EJ Emil Krahmer;Mgj Swerts

  • Facial expression and prosodic prominence: Effects of modality and facial area

    Marc Swerts;Emiel Krahmer

  • Corrections in spoken dialogue systems

    Marc Swerts;Diane J. Litman;Julia Hirschberg

  • Real vs. acted emotional speech

    Janneke Wilting;Emiel Krahmer;Marc Swerts

  • Prosodic and other cues to speech recognition failures

    Julia Hirschberg;Diane J. Litman;Marc Swerts

  • Emotional Tears Facilitate the Recognition of Sadness and the Perceived Need for Social Support

    Martijn J. H. Balsters;Emiel J. Krahmer;Marc G. J. Swerts;Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets

  • How Children and Adults Produce and Perceive Uncertainty in Audiovisual Speech.

    Emiel Krahmer;Marc Swerts

  • Adaptation in Gesture: Converging Hands or Converging Minds?.

    Lisette Mol;Emiel Krahmer;Alfons Maes;Marc Swerts

  • Predicting automatic speech recognition performance using prosodic cues

    Diane J. Litman;Julia B. Hirschberg;Marc Swerts

  • Child-robot interaction across cultures

    Suleman Shahid;Emiel Krahmer;Marc Swerts

  • Pitch, eyebrows and the perception of focus

    E. Krahmer;Z. Ruttkay;M. Swerts;W. Wesselink

  • Prosodic and lexical indications of discourse structure in human-machine interactions

    Marc Swerts;Mari Ostendorf

  • Annotation of prominent words, prosodic boundaries and segmental lengthening by non-expert transcribers in the spoken Dutch corpus

    Jeska Buhmann;Johanneke Caspers;Vincent J. van Heuven;Heleen Hoekstra

  • The prosody of information units in spontaneous monologue

    Marc Swerts;Ronald Geluykens

  • Contrast and accent in Dutch and Romanian

    M.G.J. Swerts

  • Perceiving incredulity: The role of intonation and facial gestures

    Verònica Crespo Sendra;Constantijn Kaland;Marc Swerts;Pilar Prieto

  • Filled pauses as markers of discourse structure

    M. Swerts;A. Wichmann;R.-J. Beun

Frequent Co-Authors

Emiel Krahmer
Emiel Krahmer Tilburg University
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets Tilburg University
Pilar Prieto
Pilar Prieto Pompeu Fabra University
Jean Vroomen
Jean Vroomen Tilburg University
Diane Pecher
Diane Pecher Erasmus University Rotterdam
John-Dylan Haynes
John-Dylan Haynes Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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