Projects
Voices from the past. Digitizing and unlocking dialect recordings made in the 60s and 70s through the 'Seminar for Dutch and Flemish Linguistics Dialectology " Ghent University
The project "Voices of the past" (= working title) is a supplement to the existing project for a multimedia website for dialectology and Variational in Flanders. As part of the ongoing project were already about 500 dialect recordings were recorded by the then 'Seminar for Dutch and Flemish Linguistics Dialectology "in the 60s and 70s, digitized and combined on a website. In total, the collection of tapes containing about 750 tires dialect ...
Measuring linguistic attitudes with auditory affective priming: Attitudinal variation towards varieties of Dutch KU Leuven
The objective of this work is twofold. It sets out to contribute to the study of language attitudes on a methodological as well as a descriptive level. The main goal of the study is the methodological one. Notwithstanding some exceptions (e.g. Preston 1982), quantitative language attitude research has known little methodological innovation since the introduction of the matched-guise technique in the 1960s (Lambert et al. 1960). This relative ...
A descriptive study of linguistic interpreting strategies in Dutch - Flemish Sign Language interpreting. Exploring interpreters' perspectives to understand the what, how and why. KU Leuven
Research topic
This study sets out to explore linguistic interpreting strategies used by Flemish Sign Language (VGT) interpreters in a monologic simultaneous interpreting setting (Dutch - VGT). It aims to describe the strategic behaviour of interpreters as reflected in their linguistic actions. This focus on the linguistic decision-making process is combined with a desire to understand what motivates the behaviour. Hence the study ...
On the ontological status of the linguistic system: An empirical study on coherence in spoken Surinamese and Belgian Dutch Ghent University
In linguistic research, opinions vary on how language variation functions and how it is structured. One vision emphasises that free variation does not exist, that language variation is structured along parameters such as speech setting or the social profile of the language user, making it possible to distinguish linguistic systems such as standard languages or sociolects. In another vision however, it is argued that there is less structure ...
Audio-description in Dutch: A corpus-based study into the linguistic features of a new, multimodal text type. University of Antwerp
Contributions to formal and computational linguistics Abstract KU Leuven
Syntax and semantics have always taken center stage in linguistics. The accumulated knowledge was stored and transmitted in the form of grammars, dictionaries and specialized publications. With the advent of computational linguistics in the second half of the twentieth century there was a growing interest for the application of that knowledge in systems for automatic speech and language processing, such as machine translation, question-answer ...
The development and representation of Dutch syntax in learners of Dutch as a foreign language and learners of Dutch as a second native language. University of Antwerp
The development of Dutch syntax in learners of Dutch as a foreign language: effects of immersion, language background and training by means of syntactic priming. University of Antwerp
Finish your plate and clean up your language! A mixed methods approach to Colloquial Belgian Dutch and Standard Dutch variation in child-directed speech at Flemish dinner table conversations. KU Leuven
This project studies variation in the way parents address their children, focusing on parents’ selection of Colloquial Belgian Dutch (‘tussentaal’, e.g. gij ‘you’) or Standard Belgian Dutch forms (e.g. jij ‘you’). To acquire a comprehensive view on the matter, a mixed methods approach is adopted, in which quantitative and qualitative approaches are integrated.