Projects
Bootstrapping operations in language acquisition: a computational psycholinguistic approach. University of Antwerp
Language development after pediatric brainstem implantation. University of Antwerp
CLIL in primary education VIVES
Is 'leuk' sufficiently cool? The social meaning of English loanwords: an acquisitional perspective. KU Leuven
Assessing and promoting newcomer children's psychosocial, linguistic, and cultural developmental outcome: A two-phased mixed-method interdisciplinary study KU Leuven
The grammar of imperatives and the imperatives of grammar. KU Leuven
Imperatives like Go away! or Don't touch that! are the linguistic expressions that humans use to get other humans to do, or not do, certain things (like going away or not touching something). Although imperatives are very prominent in child-directed speech, research to date has not systematically probed their significance for language acquisition. This project will address this gap in the literature, by conducting an empirically based ...
The interaction between information structure, syntax and semantics: a comparative linguistic and interdisciplinary analysis. KU Leuven
One of the major functions of language is to convey information between speakers and hearers. Speakers have several linguistic means at their disposal to structure the information they want to communicate, e.g. active (Nous avons pris la décision) vs passive sentences (La décision a été prise) refer to the same referential content but the way in which the information is structured differs. Information Structure (IS) is a basic ingredient of ...