Gil Verbeke

Gil Verbeke is a PhD researcher at the Linguistics Department of Ghent University. His research interests include second language acquisition, speech perception, phonetics and phonology.

In his MA research (Ghent University, 2021), he investigated how Flemish listeners perceive and adapt to L2 accented Dutch. As a predoctoral researcher, he worked on a BOF research project (October 2021 – September 2022; supervisor: Prof. dr. Ellen Simon), which explored the comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native accents of English to English as a Foreign Language learners in Flanders. From 1 November 2022 onwards, he is working on a project funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (supervisors: Prof. dr. Ellen Simon and Prof. dr. Holger Mitterer), aimed at examining how phonetic variation in native and non-native English accents affects intelligibility and spoken word recognition for non-native listeners of English.