Valorisation Grant awarded to Ferdy Hubers

On 12 Jan, 2017

Ferdy Hubers has been awarded a Valorisation Grant. This grant of 1500 euros will be used to develop a simple game for blind and visually impaired people to test their knowledge of Dutch idiomatic expressions. This audio game will make use of speech synthesis and will be exhibited in the MuZIEum to show the possiblities of modern technology for blind and visually impaired people.

Prof. dr. Ton Dijkstra, dr. Catia Cucchiarini, and dr. Helmer Strik are the supervisors on this project.

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Project has ended

In 2019, the ISLA project has formally ended. This does not mean, however, that we stop investigating idiomatic expressions. We have collected lots of data we can publish about in the future. Please have a look at our page with publications...

Thank you to all partcipants and speakers of the FLIPR workshop

On the 18th and 19th of June the FLIPR workshop took place organized by us, the ISLA team. During this multidisciplinary workshop, invited speakers presented their research on formulaic language in native and non-native speakers from different perspectives, such as psycholinguistics, L2...

Registration for the FLIPR workshop is now open!

During this multidisciplinary FLIPR workshop, invited speakers will present their research on formulaic language in native and non-native speakers from different perspectives, such as psycholinguistics, L2 acquisition, and computational modelling.

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