CV

Education

• ReMA in Linguistics and Communication Sciences, Radboud Univsersity, 2026
  • thesis: The Role of Individual Differences in Spanish Prosodic Variation
• BA in International Business Communication (Spanish), Radboud University, 2024
  • thesis: The effects of beat gestures and written stress marks on the acoustic realisation of lexical stress by Spanish native speakers

Work experience

• 2025-2026: Research Intern
  • Radboud University
  • ‘It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it’ research project
  • Duties includes: Design of an experimental study on prosodic production in Spanish and analysis of prosodic speech data
  • Supervisors: Lieke van Maastricht & Aurora Troncoso Ruiz
• 2024-2026: Research Assistant
  • KBA Nijmegen
  • Duties included: Participant recruitment and large-scale data collection across international research projects
• 2025: Research Intern
  • Radboud University
  • Learning Dutch for Ukrainians research project
  • Duties includes: Design of an experimental study on language learning and data collection with Ukrainan refugee children in the Netherlands
  • Supervisors: Mirjam Broersma, Louise Shepperd & Jelle Brouwer
• 2024: Teaching Intern
  • Cross Your Borders
  • Duties includes: Giving global citizenship classes in highschools and investigating future educational materials
• 2023: Teaching Assistant
  • Radboud University
  • Duties includes: Assisting in Information Science courses and supporting student learning

Areas of Expertise

• Speech production, prosody, and second language acquisition
• Statistical analysis and modelling (R, Python; mixed-effects models)
• Acoustic and multimodal analysis of speech and gesture (Praat, Python, R)
• Language learning, individual differences, and gesture-speech interaction
• Experimental design and participant-based research
• Academic writing and scientific presentation

Publications

Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-Speech Hand Movements

Bosker, H. R., Hoetjes, M., Hustin, D., Pouw, W., & van Maastricht, L. (2026). "Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-Speech Hand Movements." Open Mind 2026. 10.

How beat gestures and written stress marks affect lexical stress production in Spanish

Hustin, D., Bosker, H. R., Hoetjes, M., Pouw, W., & van Maastricht, L. (2025). How beat gestures and written stress marks affect lexical stress production in Spanish. In 6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe: PaPE 2025 Book of Abstracts (pp. 49–50).

Talks

Beat gestures and written stress marks affect lexical stress production in Spanish

July 2025

Doenja Hustin, Hans Rutger Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Wim Pouw, Lieke van Maastricht

10th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS 2025), Radboud University, Nijmegen.

How beat gestures and written stress marks affect lexical stress production in Spanish

June 2025

Doenja Hustin, Hans Rutger Bosker, Marieke Hoetjes, Wim Pouw, Lieke van Maastricht

6th Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (PaPE 2025), Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca.