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 ...
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 ...
The development and representation of Dutch syntax in learners of Dutch as a foreign language and learners of Dutch as a second native language. University of Antwerp
The interaction of gender and social class in Flemish online teenage talk. University of Antwerp
Novel approaches to Predict-and-Optimize KU Leuven
This PhD is positioned under Conversational Human-Aware Technology for Optimisation (CHAT-Opt), a research project led by Professor Tias Guns, for which an ERC Consolidator Grant running from 2021 to 2026 has been given. The CHAT-Opt project is motivated by the observation that, in reality, solutions found by constraint programming solvers often do not fully match the outcomes desired by domain experts. In order to align this present ...
From dialectal chaos to linguistic uniformity? Exploring the role of standardization and dialect contact in Early Modern Antwerp Vrije Universiteit Brussel
process of normative pressure leading to variant reduction, recent
empirical research shows that standard languages are more likely to
emerge in the everyday language use of the wider population
through bottom-up processes of dialect contact. For Dutch, such a
bottom-up perspective has only been applied to the seventeenthcentury Northern ...
Chaos before order? A quantitative approach to variation in the Arabic papyri (7th-9th centuries CE) Ghent University
Arabic was catapulted onto the world stage by the Arab-Islamic conquests of the 7th century CE. Within a few centuries, it was the international medium of science and communication. ‘Classical Arabic’, as this stage is called by modern scholars, has traditionally provided the lens through which the earliest documents of the Islamic period have been read (7th-9th centuries CE). Yet, these documents contain considerable variation, sometimes ...