F. (Frank) Tsiwah, PhD

Assistant ProfessorHe/Him

Faculty of Arts

Telephone:

E-mail:

f.tsiwah rug.nl

ORCID Research Portal

Publications

Akan Aphasia Language Tasks (AALT): piloting aphasia language assessment tasks for Akan research

Owusu Antwi, A., Webster, J., Salis, C., de Kok, D., Tsiwah, F. & Jonkers, R., 28-Aug-2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Communication Disorders.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Auditory acuity to vowels is more refined in adulthood compared to childhood

Polsterer, K. M., Hoekzema, N., Tienkamp, T. B., Rebernik, T., Sekeres, H. G., Amooie, R., Buurke, R. S. S. J., de Vries, W., Tsiwah, F., Wieling, M. B. & Abur, D., May-2026, In: JASA Express Letters. 6, 5, 7 p., 055201.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

From thought to language: Comparing schizophrenia spectrum disorders and Wernicke's aphasia with machine learning and LLMs

van der Zande, P., Cranenburgh, A. V. & Tsiwah, F., 2026, In: Schizophrenia Research: Cognition. 45, 8 p., 100443.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Generating Completions for Broca's Aphasic Sentences Using Large Language Models

van Vaals, S., Matusevych, Y. & Tsiwah, F., 1-Dec-2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Development of auditory discrimination of vowels from middle childhood to adulthood

Polsterer, K., Hoekzema, N., Rebernik, T., Tienkamp, T., Tsiwah, F., Wang, L., Sekeres, H. G., Amooie, R., de Vries, W., Wieling, M. & Abur, D., 2024.

Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › Academic

Generating Completions for Fragmented Broca's Aphasic Sentences Using Large Language Models

van Vaals, S., Matusevych, Y. & Tsiwah, F., 2024, (Submitted) arXiv, 11 p.

Research output: Working paper › Preprint › Academic

Perception of grammatical tone in Akan patients with left and right hemisphere brain damage

Tsiwah, F., Popov, S. & Bastiaanse, R., 2024, In: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 38, 5, p. 399-417 19 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Semantic-based NLP techniques discriminate schizophrenia and Wernicke’s aphasia based on spontaneous speech

Tsiwah, F., Mayya, A. & van Cranenburgh, A., 2024, 5th RaPID Workshop: Resources and Processing of Linguistic, Para-Linguistic and Extra-Linguistic Data from People with Various Forms of Cognitive/Psychiatric/Developmental Impairments, RAPID 2024 at LREC-COLING 2024 - Workshop Proceedings. Kokkinakis, D., Fraser, K. C., Themistocleous, C. K., Fors, K. L., Tsanas, A. & Ohman, F. (eds.). European Language Resources Association (ELRA), p. 1-8 8 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review