Identifying drivers of language change using neural agent-based models. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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This project studies how unacquainted persons spontaneously engage in interaction in multilingual cities in Switzerland and Belgium. In consequence, it investigates language practices in present-day, urban environments. Officially multilingual cities, such as Fribourg (Switzerland) and Brussels (Belgium), have received extended attention with regard to how language policies are locally implemented. Little is known, however, about how people ...
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 ...
Cappadocian is a seriously endagnered Greek-Turkish mixed language spoken in Greece by Orthodox-Christian immigrants following the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. The research focuses on the documentation of Cappadocian (grammar, lexicon, text corpora), the sociolinguistic status of the language in bi- and trilingual language communities (Cappadocian, Greek, Turkish) and the prospects for revitalisation.
This project focuses on interjections in spoken 16th-century Dutch, contrasted with other Germanic and Romance languages. We will investigate their semantic-pragmatic functions based on a parallel corpus of multilingual textbooks (Colloquia, et dictionariolum, 1536-1700) which we will compile. The project will also provide insight into aspects of linguistic and cultural knowledge transfer through language teaching in Early modern Flanders. ...
Within this project (funding by the Spanish Federal Research Fund (FFI2017-83166-C2-2-R; Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad. Gobierno de España; PI: Susana MartÃn Leralta (Universidad Nebrija, Madrid), 27.467€) we investigate the possible impact of migration on language and emotions. Emotional experiences are closely related to the cultures to which we belong and the languages we speak. As a result of migrations, when people ...