Machine Learning of Natural Language Processing Programme info Micro-credential: Machine Learning of Natural Language Processing Programme info Micro-credential: Machine Learning of Natural Language Processing Study load: 12 ECTS credits Language of instruction: English Maximum number of participant…

Edwige Sijyeniyo academic interim staff postdoc Research Edwige Sijyeniyo Research team Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS) The development of Dutch syntax in learners of Dutch as a foreign language: effects of immersion, language background and train…

Jennifer Thewissen tenure track asst. professor Research Jennifer Thewissen Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise Jennifer Thewissen specialises in learner corpus research and second language acquisition. She actively researches the concept of accuracy and its development across proficiency…

Peter Petré professor Peter Petré About Peter Petré I am a full professor in English linguistics at the University of Antwerp, and hold a PhD from the KU Leuven (Belgium). As a researcher, I aim at keeping a wide view, combining insights and research methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, h…

Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Sociolinguistics search menu search content Publications Journal articles, book chapters, etc. in psycholinguistics The effects of discourse coherence on the persistence of sentence structures Source Journal of experimental psychology: lea…

Sarah Bernolet associate professor Research Sarah Bernolet Research team Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS) Expertise I investigate sentence production patterns (do you prefer "My grandma's jacket is yellow" or "The jacket of my grandma is yellow"?) …

Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Sociolinguistics search menu search content Events Clips Colloquium - Remi van Trijp: Language as a Living System: From Constructions to Populations Time - location Friday 07/11/2025 at 14h:00 - Room S.M. 104 Abstract Over the past few dec…

Edwige Sijyeniyo academisch medewerker postdoc Publicaties Edwige Sijyeniyo The development of abstract syntactic representations in beginning L2 learners of Dutch Bron Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science - ISSN 2520-100X-7 (2023) p. 289-309 Auteur(s) Rianne van Lieburg, Edwige Sijyeniyo, Robert J…

Alena Anishchanka onderwijsbegeleider Publicaties Alena Anishchanka The FLANDMOT database: L2 Motivation in French and English among 1,300 Flemish Secondary-School Learners Bron Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA, 2025, Auteur(s) Jennifer Thewissen, Alena Anishchanka Citatielin…

Sarah Bernolet hoofddocent Publicaties Sarah Bernolet The lexical boost effect is stronger in main clauses than in subordinate clauses Bron Frontiers in Language Sciences - ISSN 2813-4605-3 (2025) p. Auteur(s) Rianne van Lieburg, Sarah Bernolet Citatielink Intralingual and interlingual effects in a …

Rianne van Lieburg postdoc mandaat FWO Publicaties Rianne van Lieburg The lexical boost effect is stronger in main clauses than in subordinate clauses Bron Frontiers in Language Sciences - ISSN 2813-4605-3 (2025) p. Auteur(s) Rianne van Lieburg, Sarah Bernolet Citatielink Two sides of the same coin?…

Sara Budts unpaid staff Research Sara Budts Research team Centre for Urban History To do or not to do? A corpus-based study of cognitive economizing in grammatical change across the lifespan. 01/10/2016 - 30/09/2020 Abstract The main goal of the proposed project is to determine the extent to which i…

Peter Petré professor Peter Petré About Peter Petré I am a full professor in English linguistics at the University of Antwerp, and hold a PhD from the KU Leuven (Belgium). As a researcher, I aim at keeping a wide view, combining insights and research methods from linguistics, psycholinguistics, h…

Peter Petré professor Research Peter Petré Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC) Expertise Language change. Broad expertise on, mostly, English (all periods, both at the aggregate level and that of individual mental grammars), but …

Karl Hendrickx associate professor Research Karl Hendrickx Research team Personal Rights and Property Rights Government and Law Expertise Karl Hendrickx's research focuses on plain and correct legal language in different types of legal texts. He analyses the lexical and syntactic characteristics of …

Peter Petré professor Peter Petré Predictable ways of being unpredictable: Unconventional uses of verbal constructions The main goal of this project is to unveil cross-linguistic systematicity in the way language users exploit certain syntactic structures to encode unconventionality, i.e. to indic…

Johan van der Auwera emeritus occasional assignment Research Johan van der Auwera Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise Description and explanation of elements of grammar (English, Germanic languages, European languages, all languages) Explaining the dominance of postverbal negation in Sout…

Edwige Sijyeniyo academic interim staff postdoc Publications Edwige Sijyeniyo The development of abstract syntactic representations in beginning L2 learners of Dutch Source Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science - ISSN 2520-100X-7 (2023) p. 289-309 Author(s) Rianne van Lieburg, Edwige Sijyeniyo, Robe…

Alena Anishchanka education supervisor Publications Alena Anishchanka The FLANDMOT database: L2 Motivation in French and English among 1,300 Flemish Secondary-School Learners Source Social Sciences and Digital Humanities Archive – SODHA, 2025, Author(s) Jennifer Thewissen, Alena Anishchanka Citati…

Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and Sociolinguistics search menu search content Psycholinguistics Research in Psycholinguistics The psycholinguistic research within CLiPS investigates language processing at all levels of the system (sounds, words, sentences, texts). The focu…

Reinhild Vandekerckhove professor Research Reinhild Vandekerckhove Research team Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS) Expertise Sociolinguistic study of online communication, with a focus on gender and age related variation patterns and the impact of e…

Margot Vancauwenbergh doctoral scholarship holder Research Margot Vancauwenbergh Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Predictable ways of being unpredictable: Unconventional uses of verbal constructions. 01/10/2022 - 30/09/2026 Abstract This project focuses on the exploitation of certain linguistic …

Sarah Bernolet associate professor Publications Sarah Bernolet The lexical boost effect is stronger in main clauses than in subordinate clauses Source Frontiers in Language Sciences - ISSN 2813-4605-3 (2025) p. Author(s) Rianne van Lieburg, Sarah Bernolet Citation link Intralingual and interlingual …

Nicola Swinburne postdoctoral scholarship hold. Research Nicola Swinburne Research team Grammar and Pragmatics Expertise Synchronic syntactic-semantic variation in Italian dialects. Sociolinguistic aspects of Italian dialects. Grammaticalisation of auxiliary verbs. Cross-linguistic similarities in '…

Rianne van Lieburg postdoc researcher FWO Publications Rianne van Lieburg The lexical boost effect is stronger in main clauses than in subordinate clauses Source Frontiers in Language Sciences - ISSN 2813-4605-3 (2025) p. Author(s) Rianne van Lieburg, Sarah Bernolet Citation link Two sides of the sa…