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The role of the phonological loop in sentence comprehension
Withaar, Rienk
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Acknowledgments
Now that my PhD research project has come to a conclusion and I am about to
publish my thesis, I would like to express my gratitude to a number of people without
whom the project would not be what it is today.
First, I would like to thank Jan Koster and Laurie Stowe for supervising this
research project and for keeping up the pressure at the end of the process. They
encouraged me to go on and finish the job.
Second, I would like to thank the members of my reading committee. I would like
to say thanks to David Swinney for commenting on my thesis and coming all the way
to Groningen for my defense. And to John Nerbonne for the helpful suggestions for
improvement of Chapter 6. Finally, I would like to thank Roelien Bastiaanse for her
suggestions on the aphasia data and, of course, for showing us Mr. Tan’s brains.
Especially, I would like to thank Laurie for the innumerable discussions we have
had about the project and for her constructive comments and encouragement, not to
mention for the force-feeding sessions at her place with people of the project, or any
other lot for that matter.
Additionally, my defence would not have been possible without the support of
André and Laura, who will be standing by my side on the 24th of June and who helped
me out in the frantic days before the defence.
I would also like to thank my colleagues in the Neurological Basis of Language
project, Christer, Hein, John, Laura, Laurie, Marco, Monika, and Monique for the
fruitful discussions and suggestions about experiments, conference abstracts, and
rudimentary versions of this thesis. Especially Hein’s suggestion about changing the
order of presentation of the articulatory suppression and no-load blocks and John’s
idea about the response bias turned out to be major break throughs in this research.
And I would also like to thank my project members for spicing up conference visits,
for showing the courage to celebrate Sinterklaas with teasing poems and all.
Further, I would like to thank my colleagues at the departments of Dutch and
Linguistics, Bart, Claartje, Danielle, Dicky, Dieuwke, Dirk-Bart, Esther, Femke,
Gerard, Jacques, Jan-Wouter, Joanneke, Judith, Maaike, Maartje, Roel, Roelien,
Shalom, Sible, Stasinos, Tjeerd, Tony, and Victor for providing the much-needed
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distraction from the job. I really appreciated the coffee breaks, corridor chats, lunch
conversations, and football matches and tournaments.
And I would also like to mention the staff at the administration, Alice, Anna,
Belinda, Jolanda, Nathalie, Tineke, and Wyke in these acknowledgments. They have
always been more than willing to help me out with the reproduction of yet another
pretest.
Finally, I would like to thank my colleagues at the Faculty of Arts Library, Aly,
Annet, Geert, Geke, Ger, Greetje, Ineke, Jean-Marc, Jelga, Lideke, Mary, Michiel,
Mimi, and Tom, for having put up with my final dissertation stress.