CV
A full CV is available on my Ghent University profile.
Education
- PhD in Linguistics, Ghent University (since 2021)
- Master of Linguistics and Literature: Dutch-English, Ghent University, 2021 (summa cum laude)
- Erasmus exchange, English and General Linguistics, King’s College London, 2019 to 2020
- Bachelor of Linguistics and Literature: Dutch-English, Ghent University, 2020 (magna cum laude)
Academic positions
- Doctoral Researcher, Ghent University, November 2022 to present
- FWO PhD Fellowship Fundamental Research. Supervisors: Prof. dr. Ellen Simon and Prof. dr. Holger Mitterer
- Predoctoral Researcher, Ghent University, October 2021 to September 2022
- Supervisor: Prof. dr. Ellen Simon
Research stays
- Visiting Researcher, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, August to October 2025 (host: Prof. dr. Miquel Llompart)
- Fieldwork and data collection, University College London, November 2024 (host: Prof. dr. Stuart Rosen)
- Visiting Researcher, MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University, November to December 2023 (host: Prof. dr. Paola Escudero)
Grants and fellowships
- Francqui Foundation BAEF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Belgian American Educational Foundation, 2026
- FWO Grant for a Long Stay Abroad, 2025
- FWO Grant for Participation in a Congress Abroad, 2025
- FWO Grant for a Short Study Visit Abroad, 2023
- MARCS International Visiting Scholarship, Western Sydney University, 2023
- FWO PhD Fellowship Fundamental Research, 2022 to 2026
Service
- Early-career researcher (OAP) representative, Department Council of Linguistics, Ghent University, 2025 to present
- Co-organiser, Language and Speech Journal Club, Ghent University, 2024 to 2026
- Organiser of the doctoral workshop, 36th conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA 36), Ghent, 2027
- Organising committee, Taal en Tongval 2024 and LinGhentian Doctorials 2023 to 2025
- Co-supervisor of BA and MA theses in English linguistics (since 2022)
- Reviewer for Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Journal of Phonetics, Second Language Research, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, and other journals and conferences
Publications
Verbeke, G. (2026). Perceiving and processing native and non-native accents of English: Evidence from L2 listeners [Doctoral dissertation, Ghent University].
Verbeke, G., Cebrian, J., & Simon, E. (2026). Perception of English vowels across regional accents by Catalan-Spanish bilinguals. JASA Express Letters, 6(7), 075206.
De Timmerman, R., & Verbeke, G. (2026). Modeling monophthongal versus diphthongal /aɪ/ in sung vocal performance with interpretable machine learning. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 160(1), 537‑549.
Verbeke, G., Escudero, P., Mitterer, H., & Simon, E. (2026). Perceiving and identifying vowels in regional accents of English: Evidence from Dutch- and Spanish-speaking L2 listeners. Journal of Phonetics, 117, 101499.
Verbeke, G., Mitterer, H., & Simon, E. (2025). Phonetic reduction in native and non-native English speech: Assessing the intelligibility for L2 listeners. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 28(5), 1266‑1280.
Verbeke, G., & Van Praet, W. (2024). The interplay between prosodic prominence and boundary strength in the production of English checked steady-state vowels. English Text Construction, 17(2), 262‑288.
Verbeke, G. (2024). On the role of ecological validity in language and speech research. In J. Buysschaert & A. Lefèvre (Eds.), Taalkunde nu (pp. 69‑95). Gent: Skribis.
Verbeke, G., Simon, E., Hartsuiker, R. J., Mitterer, H., & De Cuypere, L. (2024). Perceptie van een anderstalig accent: Een experimentele studie naar de perceptieve aanpassing aan een exogeen geaccentueerd Nederlands klinkercontrast. Handelingen: Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, 76, 225‑252.
Verbeke, G., & Simon, E. (2023). Listening to accents: Comprehensibility, accentedness and intelligibility of native and non-native English speech. Lingua, 292, 103572.
Talks
September 17, 2026
Invited talk at SLA Research Seminars, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
June 25, 2026
Paper presentation at 35th conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA), Lisbon, Portugal
June 24, 2026
Paper presentation at 35th conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA), Lisbon, Portugal
March 20, 2026
Outreach at Lodewijk Makeblijde College, Poperinge, Belgium
November 26, 2025
Invited talk at Phon&Phontastic Research Meeting, Adam Mickiewicz University (online), Poznań, Poland
November 23, 2025
Outreach at Wetenschapsfestival Gent 2025, Ghent, Belgium
November 18, 2025
Workshop at Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
May 19, 2025
Poster presentation at Psycholinguistics in Flanders 2025, Lille, France
May 05, 2025
Invited talk at ALLENCAM Research Seminar, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (online), Barcelona, Spain
April 24, 2025
Paper presentation at New Sounds 2025, Toronto, Canada
April 23, 2025
Paper presentation at New Sounds 2025, Toronto, Canada
April 22, 2025
Paper presentation at New Sounds 2025, Doctoral Workshop, Toronto, Canada
January 13, 2025
Poster presentation at LOT Winter School 2025, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
December 13, 2024
Paper presentation at BAAHE Conference 2024: (Trans)Portable: English in the World, Brussels, Belgium
July 09, 2024
Paper presentation at 12th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), Vienna, Austria
July 03, 2024
Paper presentation at 33rd conference of the European Second Language Association (EuroSLA), Montpellier, France
March 15, 2024
Invited talk at MULTIPLEtalkS, Ghent, Belgium
November 28, 2023
Invited talk at MARCS Research Meeting, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia
November 27, 2023
Invited talk at Psycholinguistics Interest Group Meeting, MARCS Institute, Sydney, Australia
December 20, 2022
Paper presentation at LinGhentian Doctorials 2022, Ghent, Belgium
August 24, 2022
Paper presentation at 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Bucharest, Romania
May 19, 2022
Paper presentation at Current Trends in English Linguistics (online), Oldenburg, Germany
March 26, 2022
Paper presentation at Lentevergadering KZM (online), Ghent, Belgium
June 10, 2021
Poster presentation at TABU Dag 2021 (online), Groningen, The Netherlands
May 26, 2021
Paper presentation at 28th Manchester Phonology Meeting (online), Manchester, United Kingdom
Teaching