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Prosodic cues to syntactic reanalysis. Experimentally tracking Jespersen's cycle in progress

2019

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
Linguistics
A mixed-method investigation of the potential of aikido, a Japanese martial art, as a means to improve intercultural encounters and communication

2019

In our fast-changing world that is ever-more characterised by global flows, systems and networks, intercultural communication is a dynamic field. The ubiquity of cultural and linguistic contact in a ‘flat’ ...read more
Water Landscapes of Turfan

2019

This research contains the water landscapes in the arid region of Turfan (Xinjiang, China). The focus will be both on the anthropological and cultural ties to the elements used to ...read more
Water Landscapes of Turfan

2019

This project is about the water landscapes in the arid region of Turfan (Xinjiang, China). Both the anthropological, cultural aspects as the geographical context of the systems used to access ...read more
Participatory and creative music-making in digitally-augmented musical environments using reinforcement learning methods (BOF19/STA/035)

2019

This project investigates how new technologies in the domain of augmented reality, in particular immersive, three-dimensional sound playback, can enrich participatory, social musicmaking. Central is fundamental research on the relationship between ...read more
Music
The Development of Standard Chinese Education and Its Impact on the Hani Minority in Yunnan, Southwest China

2019

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:

(1) What is ...read more
Akha
Area studies
Asia
Chinese
Chinese education
Contemporary
Didactics
English
Far East
Field research
Hani culture
Hani dialects
Hani language
Hani minority
Hani standard language
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Minority education in China
Oriental languages
Surveys
Tibeto-Burman languages
A linguistics-based protocol for teaching foreign language prosody

2019

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
Linguistics
Politics in late antique Rome: Networks and argumentation in Symmachus’ Letters

2019

The city of Rome, in Late Antiquity, lost much of its privileged status to the new Eastern capital of Constantinople as well as to competing imperial residences in the West ...read more
Decision processes in late antiquity. Networking, persuasion, presentation and governance in the Council Acts of Chalcedon (451)

2019

The Roman empire in Late Antiquity (c. 300-600 A.D.) was long seen as an autocratic state where the emperor took all decisions. Recent studies have emphasized that many imperial laws ...read more
History
A mixed-method investigation of the potential of aikido, a Japanese martial art, as a means to improve intercultural encounters and communication

2019

In our fast-changing world that is ever-more characterised by global flows, systems and networks, intercultural communication is a dynamic field. The ubiquity of cultural and linguistic contact in a ‘flat’ ...read more

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