Projects
Ndunga-le: a poorly known Mbaic (Ubangi) linguistic enclave in the CongUbangi watershed Ghent University
Central Africa’s Congo-Ubangi watershed is a major hotbed of linguistic, cultural and human genetic diversity. One of the hallmarks of this region are Ubangi linguistic enclaves geographically far removed from one another and surrounded by Bantu and/or Central Sudanic speakers. Ubangi is at present a highly debated geneaological group. These isolated linguistic pockets appear to resist language shift and are often considered as remnants of ...
Assessing and promoting newcomer children's psychosocial, linguistic, and cultural developmental outcome: A two-phased mixed-method interdisciplinary study KU Leuven
Influence of Auditory and Linguistic Characteristics of Humanoid Agents on Human Reactions within Autonomous Vehicles KU Leuven
This doctoral project explores the role of AI in autonomous vehicles, focusing on how avatars, acting as digital humanoid agents, influence driver behavior through auditory and linguistic signals. The research comprises three experiments: the first examines the effect of auditory alarms on drivers' focus and skill; the second investigates how avatars' auditory and linguistic features affect drivers; and the third compares the efficiency of ...
Refugees' linguistic development: identification of challenges and differences with other categories of learners KU Leuven
The Congo-Ubangi watershed : An interdisciplinary approach to the genesis of a linguistic accretion zone in Central Africa Ghent University
Central Africa’s Congo-Ubangi watershed spans multiple ecozones in the northern margins of the rainforest. It is a major hotbed of
linguistic, cultural and human genetic diversity with deep occupation history. This linguistic accretion zone is home to a complex
mosaic of genealogically and typologically diverse languages spoken by small-size communities with different societal organizations,
material cultures, and ...
אמת in the DSS: a cognitive linguistic, literary, and historical approach KU Leuven
This project aims at a philological discussion and semantic analysis of one of the apparent keywords, ʾemet—generally glossed as ‘truth’, but often meaning something different than English ‘truth’—in the Dead Sea Scrolls, in particular in three key texts in which ʾemet is particularly frequent, the Rule of the Community, the Thanksgiving Hymns, and 4QInstruction. The philological discussion aims largely at a first comprehensive critical ...
Assessing and promoting newcomer children's psychosocial, linguistic, and cultural developmental outcome: A two-phased mixed-method interdisciplinary study KU Leuven
Exploiting linguistic diversity in the classroom: A functional multilingual learning (FML) workshop for teachers Ghent University
The Centre for Diversity & Learning (CDL) is a unique research group at Ghent University dedicated to the theme of 'dealing with diversity' in all kinds of learning contexts. CDL's mission is to focus not only on scientific research but also on providing scientifically based support. This threefold approach translates research insights as clearly as possible for the professional field. In this way, CDL wants to create maximum learning ...