Research projects
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Explicit and implicit communication across languages and cultures
With this study, we hope to understand how people from different cultures and speaking different languages interpret and communicate information differently.
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Language variation and change in the Upper Amazon: a new koiné?
The study examines language levelling in Peru's Alto Amazonas and the influence of indigenous languages on Spanish.
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Stress in motion
This interdisciplinary pre-registered study investigates how Dutch learners of Spanish produce multimodal lexical stress in Spanish-Dutch cognates (e.g., Spanish profeSOR vs. Dutch proFESsor).
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Survey Language Attitudes in the Low Countries
This project concerns a survey about the languages spoken and taught in the Netherlands and Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia) and the attitude of language users towards the different languages, and organized a study afternoon about this.
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Spread the new(s)!
By investigating the (socio)linguistic factors in the functional implementation of a standard language, this project hypotheses that newspaper were crucial in the expansion of the Dutch standard language.
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Morphological effects on syntactic variation
In the literature on syntactic variation, several correlations between syntactic and morphological variation have been identified. In this project, we explore the possible correlation by evaluating existing generalisations and arguing for new ones.
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New emoji proposal
How do new emojis come about? With this study Verheijen wants to examine how the emoji submission process works in practice.
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Effects of emoji in webcare
This project investigates the use of different kinds of emoji together with different aspects of 'Conversational Human Voice' (CHV) in webcare, and explores language style accommodation with emoji in webcare in terms of usage and effects.
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Nimwèègs from a dynamic point of view
The city dialect of Nijmegen, known as Nimwèègs in the local vernacular, is a dialect spoken in the city of Nijmegen. This project aims at understanding the communicative place of Nimwèègs in the linguistic ecology of Nijmegen.
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Crossing versus nested dependencies in Dutch and German verb clusters
A classic study shows that German sentences that contain nested dependencies between nouns and verbs are harder to understand that the Dutch versions with crossing dependencies. Our project replicates and improves on the study.