Previous studies have argued that remote interpreting raises new issues with respect to the management of understanding and the organization of turn-taking in spoken interpreter-mediated interactions. However, little is known about how remote ...read more
The PhD project studies the development of Standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Pu'er (Yunnan), with the following questions as key issues:
The project aims at defining an didactic protocol based on lingusitic evidence for the explicit teaching of prosody in Italian as a Foreign Language (LS). The study aims at ...read more
Since the second half of 2015, Europe has faced a substantial increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers in need of international protection (UNHCR, 2015). EU ...read more
The PhD project "A Socio-semiotic Approach to Code-switching and Bigraphism in Late Antique Documentary Papyri" is part of the ERC-funded project "Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt (I ...read more
MATCH-eN is a TETRA research project funded by VLAIO. The aim of the project is to develop, test and evaluate an open, shared knowledge platform that allows Flemish social profit ...read more
Greek spelling was standardised in the fifth century BC, but as the language underwent drastic changes on the phonological level (among other levels) in later periods, spelling and pronunciation grew ...read more
Greek spelling was standardised in the fifth century BC, but as the language underwent drastic changes on the phonological level (among other levels) in later periods, spelling and pronunciation grew ...read more
This historical sociolinguistics project analyses the usage of the unstressed personal pronouns le(s), la(s) and lo(s) in a corpus of 16th-century Andalusian texts characterised by communicative immediacy or conceptional orality ...read more
This project explores how prosody interacts with syntactic structure at different stages of an ongoing syntactic change. Innovatively, it will do so using experimental methods, studying the interaction of syntax and prosody. ...read more