Hans van de Velde

Hans van de Velde is a Professor of Sociolinguistics at Utrecht University's Department of Languages, Literature and Communication and part of the Institute for Language Sciences. He also serves as a senior researcher at the Fryske Akademy, focusing on Frisian language studies. His research spans multiple areas including:

• Language variation and change
• Sociophonetics
• Standardization processes
• Minority languages
• Acoustic-phonetic analysis
• Language contact

Recent scholarship highlights his work on:

• 2024: Visible Vowels software for language transfer studies
• 2023: Sociophonetics of rhotic sounds and Frisian-Dutch education policy
• 2022: Frisian standardization and consonant analysis tools

Contact: h.vandevelde@uu.nl