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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

Sarah Bernolet
Ghent University, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS)
In current days of mass migration, many people learn a brand new language at a later age. This is not easy: Languages have both similarities and differences in the sentence structures with which they express particular meanings. For instance, the Dutch and French active sentences are similar in both languages (Le chat chasse la souris - De kat jaagt op de muis [The cat cases the mouse]), but Dutch has three different forms for the full passive ...

A corpus-based analysis of grammatical cohesion in L2 German: Insights into the effect of learners' native language on academic writing proficiency in a foreign language. University of Antwerp

Carola Strobl
Grammar and Pragmatics, Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
This project investigates how advanced learners of German as a foreign language (L2) establish cohesion in their academic writing. The ability to write cohesive texts, that is, use grammatical and lexical devices appropriately to signal the logical structure of a text to readers, is important for academic writing. Research into L2 English has shown that L2 learners use cohesive devices differently from L1 users. Therefore, it is surprising that ...

Population developments co-determine diffusional language change: a close-up view on West-Germanic languages KU Leuven

Freek Van de Velde
Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven

This project investigates the relation between urban population developments and morphological changes in three major West-Germanic languages, English, Dutch, German, from the beginning of Early Modernity to the end of Classical Modernity (1500-1900). The main hypothesis is that morphological simplification accelerates when urban populations grow. Put more succinctly: word structure becomes simpler when cities grow. The reason is that the ...

The Features of Fuzzy Representations: How do language learners specify foreign sounds? University of Antwerp

Sarah Bernolet
Ghent University, Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS)
When language learners speak their foreign language, their accent usually betrays them as being non-native, even at a very high level of proficiency. The sounds of a language are stored in phonological representations defining lexical contrasts, such as the distinction between the words "bad" and "bed". Languages differ in the phonological representations speakers have, for instance in terms of phoneme inventory (i.e., the available sounds of ...

The infrastructure of globalisation. The printing press of the Southern netherlands and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire in Peru, 1535-1800. KU Leuven

Werner Thomas
Early Modern History (15th-18th Centuries), Leuven
Framework The contribution of prints to the European expansion and the globalisation of the Early Modern world can hardly be overestimated. Theknowledge of other continents circulated in Europe almost exclusively inthe shape of prints. Through books and engravings Europeans learned about civilisations at the other side of the world that had been visitedonly by a handful of conquerors, colonists and missionaries. Geographical and anthropological ...

An empirical investigation of L1 and L2 language proficiency: the case of lexical competence in B1 listening and speaking activities. KU Leuven

Elke Peters
Language, Education and Society, Antwerp Campuses, Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics (QLVL), Leuven

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) (Council of Europe, 2001) is probably the most influential document for educational language policy in Europe. The language-neutral CEFR describes language tasks and linguistic competences for any European language and links them to six levels of language proficiency (from A1 to C2) with the explicit aim to make language courses and ...

Mapping linguistic communication across colour divides: Black Afrikaans in Central South Africa Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Gérald Stell
Language and literature
Despite having been constitutionally scaled down since 1994, Afrikaans still functions as a lingua franca in diverse parts of rural and urban South Africa. It is the natural lingua franca in those rural regions of the Western and Northern Cape where it is the dominant native language. It is also the dominant lingua franca of the central part of South Africa, comprising the Free State and Northwest provinces, where the dominant native languages ...

Understanding accents: the intelligibility of regional and non-native accents to English as a Foreign Language learners. Ghent University

Ellen Simon
Department of Linguistics

Listening to a language which is not one’s own native language can be surprisingly difficult, even for advanced learners. This is especially so when the speaker has an unfamiliar regional or non-native accent. While listeners can easily deal with variation in their native language, coping with accent variation in a non-native language is more difficult. In the case of English, with its millions of native and non-native speakers, language ...

Enhancing audio-visual input in order to foster second language learners depth of lexical knowledge. KU Leuven

Piet Desmet
Comparative, Historical and Applied Linguistics, Kulak Kortrijk Campus, Faculty of Arts, Kulak Kortrijk Campus

This project investigates the effectiveness of three enhancement techniques for audio-visual input in order to foster French as a second language learners’ (native language = Dutch) depth of lexical knowledge. Depth refers to the quality of word knowledge or the degree to which learners know a word. Complete mastery of a lexical item thus entails learning a series of interconnected partial knowledge components(e.g. word form, meaning, use). ...