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The research of CLiPS is interdisciplinary between linguistics, psychology, and computer science (Artificial Intelligence). Current research can be divided into three main areas: Psycholinguistics, Language Acquisition (coordinator: Steven Gillis). The main research topic is how very young children learn the language they hear. This process actually starts before babies use conventional words and phrases. That is why we study babies' ...

The analysis and interpretation of texts constitute a central research focus in literary studies. At this moment Humanities research is increasingly being enhanced by means of automation (Digital Humanities). In addition to 'close reading' this development also enables 'distant reading', an umbrella term for new methods of digital text analysis which allow humanities researchers to discover not only micro- but also macrophilological phenomena, ...

The Literature Department clusters literary research across different disciplines: Greek, Latin, French, Dutch, German, English, Italian, Spanish and a number of Scandinavian languages. Its researchers also study comparative literature focussing on a number of topics such as book and genre studies, cultural memory, identity and interculturality, digital humanities, narratology and rhetorics.