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Language development after pediatric brainstem implantation. University of Antwerp

Jolien Faes
Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)
This project aims to examine the oral language development of congenital deaf children with auditory brainstem implants. Thus far, only a handful of studies examined the oral language skills of children and adolescents with ABI, without going into linguistic detail. In this project, the development of their speech production will be investigated into linguistic detail and compared to that of children with typical hearing and another group of ...

Language productivity at work Ghent University

Timothy Colleman, Miriam Taverniers, Renata Enghels, Johanna Barddal, Peter Lauwers, Robert Hartsuiker
Department of Linguistics, Department of Experimental psychology

Language patterns are more or less U+2018productiveU+2019, depending on their lexical scope. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to compare attested productivity, in present-day language use as well as through history, to on-line and off-line language processing, and to measure the impact of
personal variables. Only in this way can one arrive at a better understanding of what productivity is.

Representations of intra- and extra-EU mobilities in digital-only media in the Brexit context Ghent University

Catherine Bouko
Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

The coverage of migration in the media is considered partly to blame for the Brexit vote. While all published studies focus on broadsheets and tabloids, our project will involve content and discourse analyses with a view to identifying the approach to migration by three major digital-only media, in
the Brexit context: Buzzfeed UK, The Huffington Post UK and Vice UK.

Greetings from the past: on the use of interjections in foreign language textbooks from Early modern Flanders Ghent University

Ulrike Vogl
Department of Linguistics

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 ...

Grounding, priming or affording? A multimodal analysis of the underpinnings of interactive alignment. KU Leuven

Bert Oben
Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Leuven
Interactive alignment (i.e. copying behaviour during conversation) has been demonstrated to govern an important share of the interactional dynamics during conversation. From a theoretical point of view, we want to add to the discussion of the mechanisms underpinning interactive alignment. We want to achieve this theoretical goal by studying the phenomenon in hitherto underexplored conversational settings, viz. in conversations where ...

The semantic and pragmatic extensions of the conditional and future in Río de la Plata Spanish: (Inter)subjectivity and attentional coordination KU Leuven

Maria Sol Sansiñena Pascual
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven
The aim of this corpus-based research project is to gain insight into the relationship between the modal and evidential meanings of the Spanish conditional and future, and to inquire into their semantic and pragmatic extensions in the variety of Spanish spoken in and around the Río de la Plata Basin. By investigating the extensions of the erstwhile meanings of the Spanish future and conditional we will also address the question of the ...

Beyond the clause: Encoding and inference in clause combining KU Leuven

Jean-Christophe Verstraete
Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Leuven, Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven
The aim of this project is to examine the interplay between inference and encoding in the emergence and development of clause combining, using methods from interactional linguistics, typology, historical linguistics and synchronic corpus analysis. The empirical focus is on how inferences can mediate paths between clause-internal categories and specialized complex sentence markers, for instance the development of modal elements to markers of ...

Making the invisible uninvisible: the role of analogy in language change KU Leuven

Hendrik De Smet
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics: Grammar and Typology (FunC), Leuven
Language change is said to be caused by analogy when one expression changes under the influence of another similar expression. As an explanation of change, however, analogy has often been criticized because – taking place in speakers’ minds – its operation is invisible and seems impossible to prove. This project tries to make specific predictions about change, which should hold if change is analogically-motivated, aiming to find independent ...

Artificial Hearing: Neural Networks and the Acoustic Identifiability of Children with Cochlear Implants. University of Antwerp

Mike Kestemont
Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS), Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
Approximately 1 of out of 1,000 neonates is diagnosed with a bilateral severe-to-profound hearing loss. Hearing aids, such as cochlear implants (CI), have opened up unprecedented perspectives for these children. Although CIs generally lead to remarkable gains in the spoken language proficiency of hearing-impaired children, their speech remains deviant from normal hearing children's speech, even after several years of device use. Adult speakers ...

Pragmatic markers in native and non-native Englishes: A study into the use of and attitudes to pragmatic markers KU Leuven

Lieven Buysse
Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Brussels Campus

The project is set to contribute to our understanding of the use of pragmatic markers (such as so, well, you know, like) by three different types of language users: native speakers of English, learners of English as a foreign language whose mother tongue is Dutch, and speakers who use English as a means of communication on a day-to-day basis. Its main research objective is to compare these three types of speakers of English in terms ...