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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
Taalkunde
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
Archeologie
Azië
Geografisch en kaart gebaseerd
Surveys en enquêtering
Veldonderzoek
Verre Oosten
Participatory and creative music-making in digitally-augmented musical environments using reinforcement learning methods

2019

This project (BOF19/STA/035) 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
Muziek
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
Azië
Chinees
Chinese education
Didactiek
Engels
Hani culture
Hani dialects
Hani language
Hani minority
Hani standard language
Hedendaags
Interculturaliteit
Minority education in China
Oosterse talen
Regiostudies
Surveys en enquêtering
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Tibeto-Burman languages
Veldonderzoek
Verre Oosten
The intonation of closely related varieties. The case of Campania Italian

2019

This project focuses on the intonational differences between diatopically closely related varieties. The case study is represented by the intonation of Salerno Italian, which will be compared with two neighboring ...read more
Taalkunde
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
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
Communicatie
Interculturaliteit
Language and legal counselling. A linguistic ethnography of multilingual support in the legal assistance to asylum seekers in Belgium

2019

Since the second half of 2015, Europe has faced a substantial increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers in need of international protection (UNHCR, 2015). EU law requires ...read more
Communicatie
Interculturaliteit
Taalkunde
A socio-semiotic approach to code-switching and bigraphism in late antique documentary papyri

2019

The PhD project "A Socio-semiotic Approach to Code-switching and Bigraphism in Late Antique Documentary Papyri" is part of the ERC-funded project "Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt (I ...read more
Communicatie
Interculturaliteit
Taalkunde
More than words. The materiality of legal and administrative documents in Roman and late antique oxyrhynchus

2019

The materiality of ancient documents can be "porteuse de sens" i.e. it can bring up more information about the typology, the content, the context and the chronology of the documents. In fact, ...read more
Archeologie
Geschiedenis