Research projects
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From Kukatja to Yingkutja?
This project aims at understanding the social meaning and communicative place of Yingkutja in the contemporary linguistic ecology of Balgo, drawing from previous fieldtrips, and techniques from modern sociolinguistics and communication studies.
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The Language of Pain in Bolivian Spanish and Quechua
The ability to feel pain is universal to all human beings, regardless of ethnicity, gender, or age. It has been shown, however, that the exact nature of one’s pain experience is all but universal and can differ greatly depending on social factors.
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BLiMP-NL
In this project a large collection of Dutch sentences with linguistic minimal pairs is created to research how well language models can pick the correct one.
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Putting discourse particles in context
Dutch discourse particles (e.g. eigenlijk) are frequent and important in conversation. This project addresses the as of yet unanswered question how people with acquired communication disorders (ACD) use these important linguistic elements.
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Processing pronouns of address (ImPro)
In various languages, speakers have a choice between using a polite or informal pronoun when addressing others. This project focusses on the impact of the use of a polite or informal pronouns on the addressee.
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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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Deep Learning Across Languages
This research project will investigate what determines successful learning of grammar by neural networks, and conduct this investigation with various languages differing in word order and morphological complexity.
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The nature of the mental lexicon
This project addresses how to use computational modelling to link levels of description, from neurons to cognition and behaviour, in understanding the language system.
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MultiplEYE
Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research.
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Do discourse expectations immediately affect pronoun resolution during reading?
Using self-paced reading and eye-tracking during reading, the project investigates at which point during comprehension the bias in interpersonal verbs plays a role.
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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.
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The Language Leak
This project aims at uncovering the architecture of the multilingual sentence processing system and explaining how multilingual’s languages interact.