Projects
Adolescent chat language in Flanders: the language geography of Flemish (sub)standardization processes. University of Antwerp
What stays and what goes? Monitoring patterns of recent language change in Spanish youth language Ghent University
Recent important sociocultural changes, such as the expansion of mass media, have profoundly changed language interaction, especially between teenagers. This project aims to investigate how the Spanish teen language has changed over the past two decades. Concretely, the project has four main objectives. First, it will investigate the rate and nature of language change by monitoring six characteristics operating at the lexical and syntactic ...
What stays and what goes? Monitoring patterns of recent language change in Spanish youth language Ghent University
Recent important sociocultural changes, such as the expansion of mass media, have profoundly changed language interaction, especially between teenagers. This project aims to investigate how the Spanish teen language has changed over the past two decades. Concretely, the project has four main objectives. First, it will investigate the speed of language change by monitoring phenomena mostly operating at two different levels, namely the lexicon ...
What with Sign Language? A longitudinal investigation into the language development of young deaf children with a cochlear implant (CI) Ghent University
This study investigates the language development of congenitally deaf chidren who receive a CI in the first year of life. Four questions are addressed: (1) how does the deaf child with CI develop Dutch, (2) and Flemish Sign Language, (3) what is the relationship between these two languages, and (4) what is the influence of communication choice on language development?
What you see is what you get? Use and effectiveness of multimodal input for second language learning KU Leuven
Nowadays, the Internet offers numerous kinds of online videos, among which educational ones (e.g. MOOCs, flipped classroom, TED talks, but also numerous channels on YouTube). Those videos enable people to get instruction in a multitude of different subjects by themselves. This phenomenon usually involves more frequent contact with foreign languages via audiovisual input. Therefore, the easy availability of foreign online educational videos ...
The what, how, and who of proactive language control. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
activated to some degree and compete with each other. Language
control is the process used to minimize this cross-language
interference and select words in the appropriate language during
multilingual language processing. While ample research has
investigated language control, most studies investigated reactive
language control, which entails ...
Disfluencies and Eye MOvements during Speech: what can they reveal about language production? Ghent University
Speech production is full of disfluencies, which are “henomena that interrupt the flow of speech and do not add propositional content to an utterance” However, it is not well understood why speakers are so often disfluent. To reveal the underlying causes of disfluency, most approaches attempt to relate the pattern of disfluencies to difficulties at specific levels of language production. The current project will also investigate disfluency ...
What can language variation tell us about insubordination? A comparative analysis of independent complement clauses in geographical and stylistic varieties of Spanish. University of Antwerp
A descriptive study of linguistic interpreting strategies in Dutch - Flemish Sign Language interpreting. Exploring interpreters' perspectives to understand the what, how and why. KU Leuven
Research topic
This study sets out to explore linguistic interpreting strategies used by Flemish Sign Language (VGT) interpreters in a monologic simultaneous interpreting setting (Dutch - VGT). It aims to describe the strategic behaviour of interpreters as reflected in their linguistic actions. This focus on the linguistic decision-making process is combined with a desire to understand what motivates the behaviour. Hence the study ...