The 50th annual conference of the Linguistics Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 2nd, 2019. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research. At this year’s meeting, 72 papers were presented, of which 16 were submitted in writing. read more
Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Dominique Nouveau
In the three decades of its existence, the annual Going Romance conference has turned out to be the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current theoretical ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are… read more
The 49th annual conference of the Linguistic Society of the Netherlands took place in Utrecht on February 3rd, 2018. The annual meetings provide members with the opportunity to report on their ongoing research.At this year’s meeting, 65 papers were presented, of which 19 were submitted in writing.… read more
Edited by Janine Berns, Haike Jacobs and Tobias Scheer
The annual Going Romance conference has developed into the major European discussion forum for theoretically relevant research on Romance languages where current ideas about language in general and about Romance languages in particular are tested. The twenty-third Going Romance conference was a… read more
The first issue of Nota BeNe explores the phenomena of evolution and revolution in language science and in language use. Linguistics has evolved over time, making it the versatile discipline it is today, and the field should continue to remain open to new perspectives and critically consider old… read more
As the last issue of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics (BJL), this volume delves into linguistic ideologies. Language usage and the evaluations we make about it are intricately intertwined: even in the absence of visual cues of the speaker or writer, we intuitively develop perceptions about the… read more
Language teaching practice is known to come with more or less implicit views on what ‘good pronunciation’ sounds like. However, over the past decades, frameworks such as the communicative approach to language learning and the wish for social inclusion have led to a gradual shift in normative… read more
The difficulty of automatically extracting syntactic structures from authentic learner data has previously limited the kinds of questions addressed by means of Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis (CIA; Granger, 2015), or has forced researchers to resort to manual analysis of smaller corpora. This… read more
It is commonly noted that French velar plosives tend to take a fronted realization when followed by a front vowel. These observations are generally not accompanied by representative data, and consequently, little is known about the actual characteristics and spread of the phenomenon. This study… read more
Botma, Sebregts & Smakman (2008, 2010, 2012) have shown that in Dutch there is variation in the neutralization of tense and lax vowels before coda l. In this study, we will extend the scope of their investigation by examining the effect of coda l on preceding diphthongs. A pilot production… read more
