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
This project aims to determine the text characteristics of Flemish secondary school textbook reading materials, as well as the influence of these features on learners' comprehension.read more
The proposed project sets out to examine how regional and non-native accents in spoken English affect the intelligibility for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners. Listening to a second ...read more
Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages.
Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar, especially orthography and syntax. This method was used for more than five hundred years, from the eleventh century to the early ...read more
This project investigates how healthism, belonging, and empowerment are articulated and embodied by Les Mills instructors. The study also explores how current normative societal ideologies are mirrored, reproduced, and contested ...read more
Second language (L2) learners often resort to machine translation (MT) to help them during the writing process, which is why it is important to understand how L2 learners use MT ...read more
To fully understand the long development of the form-function pairings involved in the Latin tenses, we must view them as part of a system - a system that relates to ...read more
Left dislocation (LD) patterns consist of a topic and a comment which says something about the topic. The comment usually contains a resumptive element ('they' in (1), referring to 'the ...read more
My research examines linguistic awareness in the Greek world by focusing on ancient linguistic approaches that still inform the Modern Greek debate on the definition of a national language. The ...read more