The goal of the project is to study expressive moments in augmented music realities. Expressive moments are subjective experiences of optimal interaction with, or guided by, music, such as flow, ...read more
Sophie Taeuber, Emmy Hennings and Suzanne Perrottet were pioneers of the historical avant-garde. As members of the artistic movement of Dadaism (°Zurich, 1916) they mocked art institutions and experimented with language, logic and identity while ...read more
The project analyses discourse markers in Italian, by comparing the acquisition of discourse markers by Belgian-Dutch speakers who study Italian as second language with that by Belgian-Dutch speakers who have ...read more
Nodding syndrome (NS) is a poorly understood condition characterized by repetitive involuntary nodding of the head, mental retardation and stunted growth, which mainly affects children aged five to fifteen years ...read more
This PhD project is part of the ERC-CG funded project BantuFirst led by Prof. Koen Bostoen and dedicated to the reconstruction of vocabulary referring to plants and animals in Proto-West-Coastal Bantu, one of ...read more
The Bantu language Swahili (or Kiswahili in the language) is the lingua franca of East Africa, spoken by up to 100 million first- and second-language speakers, especially in Tanzania and ...read more
This CRUMBEL project studies the collections of cremated bone found in Belgium dating from the Neolithic to the Early-Medieval period using state of the art analytical and geochemical analyses. Recording the ...read more
How are rhetoric and medicine combined in the early modern Italian literature? What role does the vernacular play? Which is the legacy of this literature? This project will contribute to ...read more
The purpose of this project is to perform a semantic and etymological study of the Greek verb ἀραρίσκω ‘to adapt’ and its cognates. The origin of the word, i.e. its ...read more
We identify two main aims in the project. The first aim of this study project is to examine the reasons for the poor literacy performance of South African learners who ...read more