Projects
Interactive vocal rhythms Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Disfluencies and Eye MOvements during Speech: what can they reveal about language production? Ghent University
Speech production is full of disfluencies, which are “henomena that interrupt the flow of speech and do not add propositional content to an utterance” However, it is not well understood why speakers are so often disfluent. To reveal the underlying causes of disfluency, most approaches attempt to relate the pattern of disfluencies to difficulties at specific levels of language production. The current project will also investigate disfluency ...
Solving Combinatorial and Probabilistic Problems in Natural Language. University of Antwerp
Growing Scientists. STEM-representations, identity construction and active citizenship in fictional and nonfictional children's literature. University of Antwerp
Between compassion and solidarity. Constellations of empathy in novels of social criticism (1848-1980) Ghent University
The project examines the construction of empathy in Flemish novels of social criticism (1848-1980). The corpus consists of novels which strategically evoke empathy for and within the working class to criticize perceived social injustice. A cognitive and narratological analysis of these constellations of empathy allows us to chart the developments and the coherence of this strong tradition of social criticism .
Single Sided Deafness - consequences for children's language development & intervention via early cochlear implantation. KU Leuven
Children with SSD, a congenital severe to profound sensorineural unilateral hearing loss ≥ 80 dB HL, constitute a patient group for which there is no standard care. It is widely acknowledged, however, that these children experience direct and indirect consequences of the one-sided sensory deprivation. The general aim of the present doctoral research was twofold. First, we aimed to contribute to the knowledge about the difficulties children ...
Psychological and behavioral trait-frailties in the etiopathogenesis of severe major depressive disorder. University of Antwerp
Lateralization patterns in (a)typical speech dominants Ghent University
The human brain processes cognitive functions asymmetrically but it remains surprisingly unclear how functions co-lateralize, how large the variability in the degree of laterality is, and what consequences atypical lateralization has for interhemispheric communication and task performance. The current project aims to chart the laterality of language (sub)processes (speech production, reading, auditory processing) and non-linguistic functions ...