diff --git a/docs/pages/release_notes.md b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
index 507dfcc91b..bf0bb98f04 100644
--- a/docs/pages/release_notes.md
+++ b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
@@ -16,15 +16,21 @@ This is a {{ site.pmd.release_type }} release.
 
 #### Enhanced Matlab support
 
-Thanks to the contribution from [Maikel Steneker](https://github.com/maikelsteneker) CPD for Matlab can
-now parse matlab programs which use the question mark operator to specify access to
+Thanks to the contributions from [Maikel Steneker](https://github.com/maikelsteneker) CPD for Matlab can
+now parse Matlab programs which use the question mark operator to specify access to
 class members:
 
 ```
-lassdef Class1
+classdef Class1
 properties (SetAccess = ?Class2)
 ```
 
+CPD also understands now double quoted strings, which are supported since version R2017a of Matlab:
+
+```
+str = "This is a string"
+```
+
 ### Fixed Issues
 
 *   dart
@@ -48,6 +54,7 @@ properties (SetAccess = ?Class2)
 *   [#1807](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1807): \[ci] Fix missing local branch issues when executing pmd-regression-tester - [BBG](https://github.com/djydewang)
 *   [#1813](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1813): \[matlab] \[cpd] Matlab comments - [Maikel Steneker](https://github.com/maikelsteneker)
 *   [#1821](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1821): \[matlab] \[cpd] Matlab question mark token - [Maikel Steneker](https://github.com/maikelsteneker)
+*   [#1822](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/1822): \[matlab] \[cpd] Double quoted string - [Maikel Steneker](https://github.com/maikelsteneker)
 
 {% endtocmaker %}
 
diff --git a/pmd-matlab/etc/grammar/matlab.jj b/pmd-matlab/etc/grammar/matlab.jj
index f74d0d5bcb..31aca621e7 100644
--- a/pmd-matlab/etc/grammar/matlab.jj
+++ b/pmd-matlab/etc/grammar/matlab.jj
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ PARSER_END(MatlabParser)
 <DEFAULT> TOKEN :
 {
     < STRING: "'" ( <ESC_SEQ> | "'" "'" | ~["\\","'","\n"] )* "'" >
+|   < DSTRING: "\"" ( "\\" | "\"" "\"" | ~["\\","\"","\n"] )* "\"" >
 |   < #ESC_SEQ:
       "\\" ( "b" | "t" | "n" | "f" | "r" | "\"" | "'" | "\\" )
     | <UNICODE_ESC>
diff --git a/pmd-matlab/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/MatlabTokenizerTest.java b/pmd-matlab/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/MatlabTokenizerTest.java
index 426ef34774..cc45bfb48f 100644
--- a/pmd-matlab/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/MatlabTokenizerTest.java
+++ b/pmd-matlab/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/cpd/MatlabTokenizerTest.java
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ public class MatlabTokenizerTest extends AbstractTokenizerTest {
         ));
         Tokens tokens = new Tokens();
         tokenizer.tokenize(sourceCode, tokens);
-        TokenEntry.getEOF();
         assertEquals(2, tokens.size()); // 2 tokens: "end" + EOF
     }
 
@@ -85,6 +84,7 @@ public class MatlabTokenizerTest extends AbstractTokenizerTest {
         assertEquals(13, tokens.size());
     }
 
+    @Test
     public void testQuestionMark() throws IOException {
         SourceCode sourceCode = new SourceCode(new SourceCode.StringCodeLoader("classdef Class1" + PMD.EOL
                 + "properties (SetAccess = ?Class2)"));
@@ -92,4 +92,14 @@ public class MatlabTokenizerTest extends AbstractTokenizerTest {
         tokenizer.tokenize(sourceCode, tokens);
         assertEquals(10, tokens.size());
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testDoubleQuotedStrings() throws IOException {
+        SourceCode sourceCode = new SourceCode(new SourceCode.StringCodeLoader(
+                "error(\"This is a double-quoted string\");"));
+        Tokens tokens = new Tokens();
+        tokenizer.tokenize(sourceCode, tokens);
+        assertEquals("\"This is a double-quoted string\"", tokens.getTokens().get(2).toString());
+        assertEquals(6, tokens.size());
+    }
 }