Fien De Latte earned a Master’s degree in Ibero-Romance Philology (2017) at Ghent University. She studied one semester at the University of Sevilla (Spain) and completed the first semester of her Master’s program at the University of Pinar del Río (Cuba).

In 2018, after being awarded a Special Research Fund scholarship (BOF), she joined the Spanish Linguistics department and started her PhD research, carried out under the joint supervision of Prof. Dr. Renata Enghels and Prof. Dr. Rob Hartsuiker. In 2019 she was granted a FWO fellowship for the same research project. Her research focuses on nominal terms of address in Peninsular Spanish and adopts a cognitive-functional and corpus-based perspective. She succesfully defended her PhD dissertation in June '24.

She collaborates on the development of the CORMA corpus, led by her supervisor. This corpus is a collection of spoken language that represents the dynamic speech of Madrid, as observed between 2016-2019. It consists of 106 conversations among 485 speakers from Madrid, culminating in 57 hours of recording (see Enghels, De Latte & Roels, 2020). The recordings and transcriptions are currently available on a UGent network drive. Access to the archive can be requested by reaching out to Renata.Enghels@ugent.be.

In February 2020, she was awarded the Premio Duques de Soria de Hispanismo for her Master’s Dissertation, which focuses on the formal, functional and sociolinguistic variation of vocatives in the Spanish of Madrid.

Projects

Projects as PhD researcher

Function and form of the Spanish nominal vocative. Between production, cognition and personality (2018 - 2024)

Publications

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Teaching

Begeleiding Bachelor- en Masterscripties

Activities

Co-guest editor of Special Issue (Languages): "Key aspects of 21st century informal interactions: socio-pragmatic and formal features"

Conference participation:

(with Renata Enghels). El vocativo en el español madrileño contemporáneo: análisis formal, funcional y sociolingüístico. VII Jornadas Internacionales de Lingüística Hispánica, Lisbon, 16-18/04/2018.
El vocativo en el español madrileño actual: influencia de la variable sociolingüística ‘edad’ en su variación lingüística. XIII Congreso de Lingüística Xeral, Vigo, 13-15/06/2018.
Usos vocativos del adjetivo de belleza 'guapo' en el español peninsular: análisis semántico-pragmático y sociolingüístico. II Congreso internacional del español hablado, Valencia, 17-19/10/2018.
(with Linde Roels & Renata Enghels). El lenguaje juvenil como catalizador del cambio lingüístico en el Siglo XXI: Estudio contrastivo de los corpus COLAm y CORMA. LingCor2018, Valencia, 13-14/12/2018.
(with Linde Roels) “Es mazo majete, tío.” Monitoring linguistic change in teenage talk: two case studies in Spanish. Linghentian Doctorials, Ghent University, 18-19/12/2018.
(with Linde Roels & Renata Enghels). El lenguaje de los jóvenes como catalizador del cambio lingüístico en el Siglo XXI: Estudios de caso en español. Congrès de Linguistique et de Philologie Romanes (CILPR), Copenhagen, 01-06/07/2019.
(with Linde Roels & Renata Enghels). El lenguaje de los jóvenes como catalizador del cambio lingüístico: dos estudios de caso en español (nuevos datos). Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, Valencia, 18-20/09/2019.
Hola, guapa, ¿ cómo estás? Vocative uses of guapo (‘pretty, handsome’) in colloquial Peninsular Spanish: a semantic pragmatic and sociolinguistic analysis. Linghentian Doctorials, Ghent University, 18-19/12/2019.
"Tía, tía, mira, un secreto." La variación lingüística del vocativo en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño. IX Jornadas Internacionales de Lingüística Hispánica (virtuales) de la Universidad de Lisboa. 20-22/04/2020.
(with Renata Enghels & Linde Roels). Monitoring linguistic change in youth language: a Spanish case study in real time. International Conference on Youth Language 2021, Manchester/online, 26-28/05/2021.
(Im)polite uses of vocatives in present-day Madrilenian Spanish. INAR 6: Address and politeness, Bergamo/online, 23-25/06/2021.
Polite insults vs. impolite familiarizers & terms of endearment: on the face work of vocatives in present-day Madrilenian Spanish. 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2021), Winterthur/online, 27/06-02/07/2021.
(with Linde Roels). "Y me enamoré tía, me enamoré que flipas”. Monitoring recent linguistic change in Spanish youth language: a comparative study on the productivity of intensifiers and vocatives in real time. 68º Seminário do Grupo de Estudos Linguísticos do Estado de São Paulo (GEL), Universidade Federal de São Carlos/online, 05-09/07/2021.
(with Linde Roels). “Tía , que hay un huevo de cosas” Monitorizar el cambio en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño: un estudio comparativo entre vocativos e intensificadores. Congreso ABHx, University of Antwerp, 09-10/09/2021.
(with Linde Roels & Renata Enghels). Mujeres al borde del cambio lingüístico: estudios de caso en el lenguaje juvenil contemporáneo. Congreso Internacional "MUJER Y DISCURSO: LIDERAZGO, IMAGEN Y SOCIEDAD", Sevilla/online, 25-27/10/2021.
El vocativo en el discurso familiar español: usos pragmáticos y el papel de la jerarquía familiar. XXX Congreso Internacional de Lingüística y Filología Románicas, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, 04-09/07/2022.
(with Linde Roels). "Tía, que hay un huevo de cosas" Difusión social de dos fenómenos expresivos en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño a lo largo del Siglo XXI. XXXVI Congreso de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, Universidad de Sevilla, 21-23/09/2022.

In collaboration with Renata Enghels, Linde Roels & Elena Azofra (UNED Madrid): creation of a spoken corpus of contemporary Madrilenian Spanish - CORMA21 (Corpus Oral de Madrid 2016-2019) (digital access in preparation)