Even in the past, broad social categories like status played a crucial role in language variation and change. However, language use is also linked to the existence of more locally ...read more
The use of English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education is on the rise both globally and within Flanders, requiring lecturers to impart and students to construe ...read more
This project aims to expand on existing research on the use of AI tools in writing education by not only examining AI-driven pedagogical interventions and their effects but also by ...read more
This project develops and evaluates machine-learning models for the automated processing of historical Greek and Latin texts. Using transformer-based architectures and existing annotated datasets, the project focuses on tasks such ...read more
Low-educated learners make up a large, yet vulnerable population in the world today (Unesco, 2004). Little is known about the second language acquisition process of this group of learners, but there ...read more
This project examines accent bias in Flemish secondary and higher education, focusing on biases towards students with foreign and regional accents. Using a combination of methodologies, we study how teachers perceive students’ ...read more
While ancient Greek literary texts have been extensively studied, non-literary sources such as papyri have not received the same attention. This project aims to explore novel approaches to these sources: ...read more
Soon after the release of ChatGPT, the state of the art of generative AI in lexicography was surveyed (cf. de Schryver 2023). If one is to believe that survey, as ...read more
Over time and space, languages can change fundamentally in their structure (morphosyntax). A key example of such variation is the change between analytic and synthetic morphosyntax. Such variation is clearly ...read more
Listening to a language which is not one's own native language can be surprisingly difficult, even for advanced learners. This is especialy so when the speaker has an unfamiliar regional ...read more