Regional pronunciations can result from the phonological contact between a standard language and its dialectal substrate. Such pronunciations might be less diversified compared to their substrate dialects, since regional varieties ...read more
LOKSTAT + is an extension of LOKSTAT, the database of local statistics in Belgium (1800- 1970). LOKSTAT (developed at UGent) is a digital database of demographic, socio-economic and political-institutional statistics, ...read more
All over the world people are struggling to overcome the health and economic impact of COVID19. Faced with a health crisis, economic recession, and social shock which are time and ...read more
The 11th century is commonly seen as the time when Western Christianity first drew strict moral and behavioural boundaries between the servants of the Church and the laity. Recent scholarship ...read more
This project studies "La Movida Madrileña", a countercultural movement that took place mainly in Madrid during the Spanish transition after Francisco Franco's death in 1975, from the perspective of linguistic change. The main objective is to estimate the ...read more
Several recent medical innovations do not conform with the way medicine traditionally operates, but rather blur the boundaries of medicine and/or side-line the doctor-patient relationship as an essential aspect of ...read more
Recent and expected technological developments in prenatal medicine raise new ethical challenges. The facilitation of in utero treatment because of advances in fetal therapy and artificial womb technology entail a ...read more
This project aims at documenting the endangered BIYO language (Hani group of the Lolo-Burmese language family), spoken by ethnic minorities in scattered locations of Southwestern Yunnan Province of China. Nowadays, ...read more
This research project is situated in the domain of multilingual and intercultural (digital) communication. The project aims to evaluate the multilingual Fedasil website (https://www.fedasilinfo.be/en/landingspage) through an analysis of the ...read more
The COVID-19 crisis made the demand for remote interpreting, especially remote interpreting by videolink, particularly acute. This action research project, situated in the context of asylum and migration, investigates the ...read more