Projects
Scientific research into qualitative bilingual education Ned-VGT: report, guidelines, and recommendations KU Leuven
This project includes the scientific research into the effectiveness of bilingual education in Dutch and Flemish Sign Language (VGT) and its practical implementation, with the aim of supporting a qualitative organizational form in Flanders. The consortium will investigate which organizational form(s) can be considered effective, which are workable in the Flemish context, how to ensure high-quality language development of both languages ...
The emergence of phonology within six generations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Signing Avatar Framework KU Leuven
Signing language, unlike native subtitling for the hearing impaired and the deaf-community, consists of its own grammar and lexicon and is not directly linked to native speech. Any solutions based on word for word translation are therefore considered as inadequate for the deaf-community. AVATAR develops the first sustainable Pan-European Signing Translation Platform with a clear view to exploitation.
Multimodal stance-taking in interaction KU Leuven
A fundamental property of language is its ability to simultaneously represent subjects, objects or events, and express the speaker’s stance towards these representations. Although stance-taking as a socially contextualized and recognized interpersonal phenomenon has received substantial attention in different subfields of linguistics, its multimodal realization in real-life interaction still remains largely unexplored. The proposed research ...
The contribution of the medial temporal system in humans to semantic processing of words and pictures. KU Leuven
The brain contains several memory systems. Episodic memory deals with episodes in a particular space and time context and is typically associated with structures deep in the temporal lobe (the medial-temporal lobe system). An episodic memory deficit is commonly seen in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Semantic memory refers to our knowledge of the world, the meaning of words and pictures and associations between concepts. Patients with semantic ...
BOF Sabbatical 2020-2021 - Alexander Dhoest. University of Antwerp
Social Cognition and the emergence of institutions KU Leuven
John Searle has famously developed a theory of institutions, of which money, property and marriage are prime examples. The order of explanation in his theory is that a codified institution helps generating particular institutional facts which are usually marked out by status markers: public signs (‘status markers’) indicate that this is my property, or that this counts as money, or that they are married. The problem is ...
HiDD – Historical Dialect Database Ghent University
This project concerns the development of a historical dialect database of the Flemish dialects for studying dialect syntax. The concerned dataset is part of the oldest orally surveyed dialect collection in the language area. Between 1923 and 1982, speakers of 1956 locations of the Dutch and Frisian language translated 141 sentences into their local dialects. They were written down in phonetic writing by trained linguists and published in ...