Lotte Eijk
Postdoctoral Research Associate

Profile

Biography

• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK (2022 - Present)
• PhD Psycholinguistics, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2017 - 2022)
• Lecturer, Leiden University, the Netherlands (2019 - 2020)
• Teaching Assistant and Guest Lecturer, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand (2017)
• MA Speech and Language Pathology, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2016 - 2017)
• MA French Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2015 - 2017)
• Erasmus, Paris-Sorbonne IV, France (2014)
• BA Romance Languages and Cultures (French), Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2012 - 2015)

Career

My research focuses on speech in interaction, combining studies of natural conversation with carefully controlled experiments in both typical speakers and speakers with speech disorders such as stuttering and dysarthria. I enjoy working on multidisciplinary projects, as they offer opportunities to explore topics from diverse perspectives.

Departmental roles

• Teaching Assistant (2023 - Present)

Research

Projects

Projects:

• Talking humans in a social world: communicative modulation of fluent and dysfluent speech production.

This project (PI: Sophie Meekings) investigates the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying everyday conversational speech in both neurotypical individuals and people with a communication disability. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure brain activity in two people as they talk, the study examines how speech is produced and perceived in real-world interactions, and how conditions like stuttering affect communication and employment outcomes.

• Perception of Atypical Voices (Role: PI)

Together with researchers in Language and Linguistics Sciences and at the University of Newcastle, this project investigates the effects of having an ‘atypical’ voice in high-stakes decision making situations.

• Breathing for Speech App (Role: co-PI)

Together with researchers in Language and Linguistics Sciences, in IT Services, and Speech and Language Therapists at York Hospital, this project aims to develop and pilot an app designed to train breathing for speaking.

Research group(s)

• SpeechLab

Grants

• 2024 - 2025: Sparks/YorVoice - Perception of Atypical Voices (£25,033)
• 2024 - 2025: Sparks/YorVoice – Breathing for Speech App (£30,344)
• 2022: Radboud Internationalization travel grant (€700)
• 2019: Radboud Internationalization travel grant (€700)
• 2016: Stichting Nijmeegs Universiteitsfonds (SNUF) individual travel grant (€1200)

Collaborators

• Dr Sophie Meekings

Publications

Selected publications

Meekings, S., Eijk, L., Stankova, S., Maruthy, S., & Scott, S. (2025). Conflicting Evidence for a Motor Timing Theory of Stuttering: Choral Speech Changes the Rhythm of Both Neurotypical and Stuttering Talkers, but in Opposite Directions. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1-10

Eijk, L., Stankova, S., & Meekings, S. (2023). Exploring global and local articulation rate entrainment in typical and atypical speakers. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 3497-3501.

Meekings, S., Eijk, L., Scott, S., & Maruthy, S. (2023). Talking chorally alters speech rhythm and induces fluency in people who stutter- but are these things connected?. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 932-936.

Eijk, L.*, Rasenberg, M.*, Arnese, F., Blokpoel, M., Dingemanse, M., Doeller, C. F., Ernestus. M., Holler, J., Milivojevic, B., Özyürek, A., Pouw, W., van Rooij, I., Schriefers, H., Toni, I., Trujillo, J., & Bögels, S. (2022). The CABB dataset: A multimodal corpus of communicative interactions for behavioural and neural analyses. NeuroImage, 119734. * Shared first authors

Eijk, L., Fletcher, A., McAuliffe, M., & Janse, E. (2020). The effects of word frequency and word probability on speech rhythm in dysarthria. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63(9), 2833-2845.

Eijk, L., Ernestus, M., & Schriefers, H. (2019). Alignment of Pitch and Articulation Rate. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 2690-2694.

Full publications list

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5BhPMwkAAAAJ&hl=en