Linde Roels obtained a Master’s degree in Spanish and French Linguistics and Literary studies (2016) and the Degree of Teacher (2017), both at Ghent University. During the third year of her Bachelor's degree, she studied one semester at the University of Granada, Spain. In November 2017 she joined the department of Spanish Linguistics as an assistant and started her doctoral research.

Her PhD research, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Renata Enghels and Prof. Dr. Peter Lauwers, focused on intensification strategies in present-day Spanish and adopted a quantitative, sociolinguistic and multivariate perspective. She is particularly interested in patterns of recent language change in teenage talk. As to methodology, her research is mainly corpus-based and is conducted in a functional-cognitive perspective. She succesfully defended her PhD dissertation in June '24.

She collaborates on the development of an informal corpus of present-day spoken Spanish in Madrid (CORMA, UGent), led by Prof. Dr. Renata Enghels and together with colleages Fien De Latte and Nele Van Den Driessche, amongst others. Together with her colleague Fien De Latte, her collaboration has involved taking part in the fieldwork (January and October 2019, two campaigns focussing especially on youth language), monitoring the transcription process of the recorded oral data (PRAAT) and digitalising the corpus (EXMARaLDA). The corpus is a collection of spoken language that represents the dynamic speech of Madrid, as observedd between 2016-2019. It is compiled in order to remedy the scarce documentation of 21st century colloquial Spanish. It consists of 106 conversations among 485 speakers from Madrid, culminating in 57 hours of recoding (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.

Publications

Key publications

Age-based variation and patterns of recent language change : a case-study of morphological and lexical intensifiers in Spanish(2020)
- Linde Roels
- Renata Enghels
La evolución reciente del intensificador mazo (de) en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño: gramaticalización y difusión social(2023)
- Linde Roels

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Teaching

Spaanse Taalkunde I (Ba1, oefeningen syntactische analyse, zinsontleding, semantiek & fonetiek)
Spaanse Taalkunde II (Ba2, oefeningen morfologie, begeleiden paper)
Spaanse Taalkunde III (Ba2, oefeningen syntaxis & semantiek)
Begeleiding bachelor- en masterscripties

Activities

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

International Conference participations

- (with Renata Enghels). "Estrategias de intensificación en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño”, VI Jornadas Internacionales de Lingüística Hispánica. Variación e identidad, Lisboa, 3-5 of April 2017.

- "Mazo (de) y otros recursos de intensificación en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño: factores lingüísticos y sociales”, ORALPES (Oralidad - perspectivas sobre el español), Kandersteg, 15-19 of January 2018.

- “Estrategias de intensificación: un estudio genolectal”, XIII Congreso Internacional Lingüística Xeral, Vigo, 13-15 of Juin 2018.

- "Recursos de intensificación en el siglo XXI: un estudio del habla oral madrileña", II Congreso internacional del español hablado, Valencia, 17-19 of October 2018.

- (with Fien De Latte & Renata Enghels) "El lenguaje juvenil como catalizador de cambio lingüístico en el siglo XXI: estudio contrastivo de los corpus COLAm y CORMA", LingCor, Valencia, 13-14 of December 2018.

- (with Fien De Latte & Renata Enghels) "El lenguaje juvenil como catalizador del cambio lingüístico: estudios de caso en español", XXIXe Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes, Copenhague, 1-6 of July 2019.

- (with Fien De Latte) "El lenguaje juvenil como catalizador del cambio lingüístico: estudios de caso en español", XXXIV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, Valencia, 18-20 of September 2019.

- "Recursos de intensificación en el habla coloquial madrileña: variación genolectal y cambio lingüístico reciente", IX Jornadas Internacionales de Lingüística Hispánica: Lazos y distancias, Lisboa (online), 22-24 of April 2020.

- (with Renata Enghels & Fien De Latte) "Monitoring linguistic change in youth language: a Spanish case study in real time", International Conference on Youth Language 2020, Manchester (online), 26-28 of May 2021.

- (with Renata Enghels) "The Apparent-Time Construct as a proxy to spoken data in the 20th century: a Spanish case study", 17th Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur (online), 27 of June - 02 of July 2021.

- (with Fien De Latte) "Y me enamoré tía, me enamoré que flipas: On the productivity of intensifiers and vocatives in real time", 68° Seminário do Gel, São Paolo (online), 07 of July 2021.

- (with Fien De Latte) "Tía, que hay un huevo de cosas: Monitorizar el cambio en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño: un estudio comparativo entre vocativos e intensificadores", IX Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Hispanistas del Benelux, Amberes, 9-10 of September 2021.

- (with Fien De Latte and Renata Enghels) "Mujeres al borde del cambio lingüístico: estudios de caso en el lenguaje juvenil contemporáneo", Mujeres y discurso: liderazgo, imagen y sociedad, Sevilla (online), 25-27 of October 2021.

- "Monitorizar cambios (socio)lingüísticos recientes en el lenguaje juvenil madrileño: Estudio de recursos de intensificación", XXX Congreso Internacional de Lingüística y Filología Románicas, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, 04-09 of July 2022.

- (with Fien De Latte). "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 of September 2022.

- "Mazo maja, súper bonita y preciosísima: La distribución sociolingüística de los intensificadores en el español madrileño", XXXVII Congreso de la Asociación de Jóvenes Lingüistas, Universidad Complutsense de Madrid, 6-8 of November 2023.

National Conference Participations

- (with Fien De Latte) "Es mazo majete, tío. Monitoring linguistic change in teenage talk: two case studies in Spanish", Linghentian Doctorials, Ghent University, 18-19 of December 2018.

- "Recursos de intensificación en el siglo XXI: un estudio del habla oral madrileña", Jornada de Lingüística Hispánica, Catholic University Leuven, 8 of February 2019.

- "Intensification strategies in Spanish: age-based variation and patterns of recent language change", Linghentian Doctorials, University of Ghent, 18-19 of December 2019.

- "A case-study of recent language change: the intensifier mazo (de) in 21st century Spanish teenage talk", Linguist's Day (LSB), Namur (online), 16 of October 2020. 2nd Prize Best Presentation Award