What is WOT?
Being part of CLIN, WOT is a multilingual discussion and study platform for all linguists at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and beyond. The goal is to bring together young (at heart) linguistic researchers who want to share their research in exchange for tips and tricks from their peers. The fields discussed range from sociolinguistics to second language acquisition to neurolinguistics (and much more). Besides presentations, we also offer workshops and plan on organizing more informal get-togethers as well.
On this page, you can find our previous speakers and topics, as well as the upcoming presentations and workshops.
If you wish to join one of our upcoming lectures or workshops, or you are interested in giving a talk on your topic, you are requested to contact the supervisors: Magda.Serwadczak@vub.be and Moira.Van.Puyvelde@vub.be
Upcoming discussions
9 December 2022: Presentation by Hielke Vriesendorp (Utrecht University)
16 December 2022: Presentation by Maica Espínola Rosillo (University of Granada)
26 January 2023: Lecture by Ludovic De Cuypere (VUB)
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- All WOT-seminars take place in the professorenzaal C5.03., unless announced otherwise.
- Note: during midday sessions, a small lunch is provided, if the session is in the afternoon we offer coffee and cake.
Abstracts
"What is your gender? Six-option multiple choice questions as the most accurate, inclusive and clearest measure of participant gender in survey research
Presentation by Hielke Vriesendorp (Utrecht University)
With increased attention for gender identities outside the male-female binary, new questions have been raised in demographic and sociological research on how to most accurately and most ethically ask participants about their genders, moving beyond just "male" and "female". The current study addresses this question by means of a large-scale survey of queer participants (N=682). It is found that rather than preferring open questions (hypothetically allowing for the most detail and nuance), participants preferred a multiple choice question which included both 5 pre-set options (man, woman, non-binary, etc.) and an option to type out one's gender manually. I argue that these findings form a methodological starting point toward a macro or meso level queer approach to the study of language and gender.
Previous WOT discussions
| 6/12/2022 | Dr. Amanda Roig Marín | University of Alicante | The Anglicisation of Spanish vocabulary after the COVID-19 pandemic |
| 30/11/2022 | Drs. Melissa Schuring | KU Leuven | The Stylization Task: A new method to elicit sociolinguistic stereotypes |
| 30/06/2022 | Drs. Nathan Vandeweerd | Vrije Universiteit Brussel & l'Université libre de Bruxelles |
Phraseological complexity in L2 French: investigating variation across modes |
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15/06/2022 |
Dr. Lisa Hilte | Universiteit Antwerpen | Do teenagers write differently on WhatsApp depending on their conversation partners? |
| 20/05/2022 | Drs. Georgia Knell | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | What the eyes don’t see, the mind won’t learn: investigating the role of salience in the initial processing of morphology in SLA |
| 11/03/2022 | Drs. Fien De Malsche | Universiteit Antwerpen | The importance of small talk in corporate communicative contexts |
| 17/12/2021 | Drs. Julie Van Ongeval | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | A diachronic study of Dutch verbal cluster order variation. |
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18/11/2021 |
Drs. Magda Serwadczak | Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Universiteit Antwerpen | Reconstructing oral discourse in writing: an analysis of orality markers and entextualization strategies in historical witness depositions |
| 21/02/2020 | Drs. Eva Koch | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | Workshop on eye-tracking as a method in linguistic research |
| 16/12/2019 | Drs. Yasmin Crombez | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | What to Choose? Lexical Preference as a Road into Respondents’ Attitudes towards English Loanwords |
| 16/12/2019 | Miss Paola Mureddu | Vrije Universiteit Brussel | The influence of L2 on L1: a study of homographs and cognates in English and Italian |
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14/10/2019 |
Drs. Carolin Schneider | University of Duisburg-Essen | ’Bueno, uhm’ – Interjections as a Code-switching Practice among People living with Alzheimer’s Dementia |
| 04/06/2019 | Miss Graziela Dekeyser | KU Leuven |
Lost in Translation? Emotional Confusion among Ethnolinguistic Minority Children: A Family Approach |
| 19/03/2019 |
Drs. Ily Hollebeke & Drs. Rachida Aghallaj |
VUB/
KU Leuven |
Promoting early multilingualism in childhood and childcare: Family language policy and parents’ perspectives on communication with professionals |
| 12/02/2019 |
Mr. Francisco Miguel Valada |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
The effects of instruction on the acquisition of phonological distinctions in a second language: the case of Portuguese |
| 14/12/2018 |
Drs. Nathan Vandeweerd Drs. Rachel Rubin |
VUB/ UCLouvain | Lexicogrammatical complexity in Learner Language |
| 30/11/2018 | Mr. Víctor Pérez Béjar | Universidad de Sevilla | Suspended clauses in Spanish |
| 30/11/2018 | Mr. Serge Bibauw | KU Leuven | Dialogue-based CALL: a multilevel meta-analysis |
| 16/11/2018 | Mr. Peng Bi | Syntactic Complexity Development for Chinese EFL Learners: Insights from an Annotated Learner Corpus | |
| 04/09/2018 | Miss Jinling Li | University of Tilburg |
Chineseness as a Moving Target: Changing infrastructures of the Chinese Diaspora in the Netherlands |
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24/08/2018
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Miss Kathy MinHye Kim | Michigan State University |
Sleep-dependent consolidation of second language grammar knowledge: The pre-sleep awareness status matters |
| 22/06/2018 | Miss Clara Ureña Tormo | Universidad de Alcalá | Teaching Spanish idioms from a Cognitive Linguistics perspective |
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18/05/2018 |
Dr. Nanna Hilton |
University of Groningen (The Netherlands) |
Stimmen: A Citizen Science Approach to LVC |
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26/04/2018 |
Miss Isa Hendrikx |
Université Catholique de Louvain |
Intensifying constructions in French-speaking L2 learners of Dutch or English: Longitudinal results |
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12/03/2018 |
Miss Vanessa De Wilde |
Universiteit Gent |
Uncovering covert knowledge of English in children |
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19/02/2018 |
Dr. Iris Van de Voorde |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Introduction to PhD project “Pluricentricity in language history. Building blocks for an integrated history of Dutch (1550-1850)” |
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05/12/2017 |
Miss Geòrgia Pujadas Jorba |
University of Barcelona |
Focus and non-focus L2 learning through subtitles and captions |
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05/10/2017 |
Mr. Toivo Glatz |
University of Groningen (The Netherlands) |
Game-based literacy training in Dutch |
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26/06/2017 |
Dr. Memet Aktürk-Drake |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
When divergent state ideologies converge on mother-tongue instruction in immigrant languages: The case of Turkish in Western Europe |
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13/06/2017 |
Dr. Hanneke Loerts |
University of Groningen (The Netherlands) |
The awful Dutch gender system: ERPs reveal difficulties in gender processing in native and bilingual Dutch speakers |
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11/05/2017 |
Prof. Dr. Niels Schiller |
Leiden University (The Netherlands) |
Morphological Processing in Language Production |
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03/05/2017 |
Joint lecture: Miss Carmen Pascual & Miss Marina González Sanz |
Universitat de València (CP) & Universidad de Sevilla (MGS) |
The Impact of CLIL in a Multilingual Context: the Valencian Region (CP) & Influence of gender and role on interruptions in the Political Talk Show (MGS) |
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23/02/2017 |
Drs. Eva Koch |
Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Incidental second language morphosyntactic learning in conversation: The acquisition of stem allomorphy in German strong verbs by adult native speakers of Dutch |
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22/11/2016 |
Prof. Bertha Gregoria Salvador Jiménez |
Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, Cuba |
Presentation on the phonological system of Spanish and some procedures for its acquisition |