Projects
The language connectome: insights from advanced structural and functional imaging techniques KU Leuven
One of the most intriguing aspects of human kind is our unique capacity for rapidly acquiring speech and language in the early years of life. However, disorders in speech and language are among the most common developmental problems in childhood. They can restrict the child from social participation and academic achievement and may lead to a permanent dysfunction. Equally, children’s intellectual and linguistic or communicative skills play an ...
Words, not things. Analyzing the discourse of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Tragedies (1966-68) from a system theory perspective. KU Leuven
The first part of the project is of a comparative nature. Using a conceptual framework stemming from major contributions within the fields of both Polysystem Theory and Translation/Adaptation Studies, the study will shed light on the ways ...
The role of learning processes in visual word recognition. KU Leuven
Language assessment in young children with an autism diagnosis KU Leuven
The majority of young children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) display a significant delay in their language development. The evolution of their language skills between the ages of two and seven follows different patterns: some children rather steeply reach typical levels, others progress more slowly to phrase speech, and still others remain minimally verbal. Language development in ASD is usually conceived as depending on the ...
What happens in the pretest: An empirical investigation of pretesting effects in incidental L2 vocabulary learning. KU Leuven
Incidental vocabulary learning is one of the most extensively researched topics in SLA. A commonly used design to measure the effect of an incidental learning activity (e.g., reading, listening, viewing), is the pretest-posttest design. However, this design may be susceptible to inadvertent learning effects caused by pretesting (e.g., Swanborn & de Glopper, 1999). Pretesting effects are well-documented in psychological and educational ...
Environmental factors in the language development of young children with an autism diagnosis KU Leuven
The majority of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) display a significant language delay, which may be resorbed to varying extents between 2 and 7 an autistic child will develop language. Language development in ASD is usually conceived as depending on the improvement of socio-communicative skills, much as in typically developing children. However, there are reasons to believe that in some children on the autism spectrum ...
The Acoustic Change ComplEx Predictive validaTion study: ACCEPT study University of Antwerp
Fulbright Scholarship Postdoctoral Researcher 2022 University of Antwerp
Traumatizing Metaphors: Hosea's Animal Imagery in Light of Cultural Trauma Studies KU Leuven
By combining cognitive metaphor studies and cultural trauma studies, this project intends to investigate whether animal metaphors in the book of Hosea can be considered linguistic tools for the transmission of collective trauma from the Northern kingdom of Israel to the Persian province of Yehud. Grounded in so-called Persian hypothesis, this thesis explores how Yehud’s intellectuals used animal metaphors not only to express trauma but, first ...