Projects

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Tracing macro-cyclical change through micro-cycles in historical Chinese

2025

Linguistic changes often follow a cyclical path whereby the original formal expressions are worn down and first reinforced and later replaced by new ones. In how far such ‘micro-cycles’ conspire ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
Asia
Chinese
Corpus linguistics
Diachronic linguistics
Generative syntax
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Middle Ages
Quantitative
DELIAH: Democratic Literacy and Humour

2025

Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the multifaceted role of humour in artistic forms, cultural spaces, and online and offline fora, identifying how humour can either support or undermine democratic ...read more
Art
Belgium
Central Europe
Comparative
Contemporary
Democracy
Dutch
Eastern Europe
Eastern European languages
English
Field research
French
Gender
German
Humor
Interculturalism
Italian
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Media
Northern Europe
Quantitative
Southern Europe
Spanish
Surveys
Theatre and performing arts
Translation Studies
Western Europe
Language Tests for migration and integration: a comparative analysis of evidential and consequential validity

2025

This project proposal seeks to bridge significant gaps in the understanding of Migration or Integration Language Tests (MILTs) by scrutinizing their rationale, construction, operationalization, and impact within the contexts of migration and ...read more
Comparative
Didactics
Dutch
English
Field research
German
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
Surveys
Western Europe
Playing with fire: Disentangling anthropogenic and climate induced fire events during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene in the sandy lowlands of Belgium and the southern Netherlands

2024

The impact of hunter-gatherers on the environment has been a controversial topic since at least the 1960’s. In Northwestern-Europe it is generally assumed that humans only started influencing their environment ...read more
Archaeology
Belgium
Comparative
English
Field research
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
ANNOPHIS. Developing a multilingual, multimodal, and machine learning-driven annotation infrastructure for the analysis, creation, enrichment and cross-cultural comparison of historical formulaic text corpora

2024

Formulaic texts constitute a core interest of researchers working at UGent. Within the Greek section, there are two major ongoing research projects about such genres, an ERC-project about ‘everyday’ texts ...read more
Africa
Antiquity
Digital humanities
Eastern Europe
Greek
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Late Antiquity
Latin
Linguistics
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Southern Europe
SerialKey

2024

The aim of the SerialKey project is to carry out a technological and morphometric study of mass-produced items from the European Final Bronze Age in order to gain a better ...read more
Archaeology
Belgium
Central Europe
Dutch
English
French
Iconography and analysis of images
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Quantitative
Surveys
Western Europe
Independent Antiquities: Contemporary Indie Video Games as Counter-Hegemonic Reception of Greek Mythology?

2024

Video games have a reputation of being overly violent, sexist, and stereotyping. These connotations are the result of dominant hegemonic practices in the game industry, and while they are certainly ...read more
Antiquity
Contemporary
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Media
North America
Quantitative
Southern Europe
Surveys
Western Europe
Understanding accents: the intelligibility of regional and non-native accents to English as a Foreign Language learners

2024

Listening to a language which is not one's own native language can be surprisingly difficult, even for advanced learners. This is especialy so when the speaker has an unfamiliar regional ...read more
English
Linguistics
Quantitative
Ceramic synchronisms in middle bronze age crete

2023

The Middle Bronze Age in Crete is a period of demographic expansion, stunning material cultural production, and growing interaction with the broader Eastern Mediterranean. The archaeological deposits associated with this ...read more
Archaeology
Ceramics
Comparative
Field research
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Quantitative
Southern Europe
A movement-based approach to instrumental music teaching and learning in the early years

2023

To be completedread more
Early Childhood Music Education
Embodied music cognition
instrumental music education
Music
Quantitative

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