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The doors to his office in the Erasmus building are reminiscent of the bedroom door of a young football fan; stickers that say ‘Nimweegs mot blieve’ or ‘Al mot ik krupe’ wouldn’t lead you to believe that this place belongs to a Peruvian doctor doing scientific research. But after his PhD track in the Amazon, Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia has now set his sights on the dialect of Nijmegen.

Since 1 March 2023, the very first Reading Tutor with automatic speech recognition for Dutch has been implemented in primary schools in the Netherlands and Flanders. The basis for the programme - which gives beginning readers feedback on words and sentences they read aloud - was developed by researchers at Radboud University's Centre for Language and Speech Technology.

What happens to a mother language when students move abroad and stop using it regularly? Vox asked international students and an expert on psycholinguistics and multilingualism.

What role does gender play in conversations between GPs and patients with everyday physical complaints, such as headaches and back pain? Language and communication researcher Ilona Plug studied language use and communication in these conversations and investigated the role that gender plays in them. 'It is important that we become more aware of gender-based assumptions and expectations so that they have less influence on our interpretations and judgements of what people do and say.'

Gerbrich de Jong receives a Doctoral grant for Teachers. The grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) will allow De Jong to do research on Frisian forms of address for the next five years.

Understanding someone in a busy environment becomes easier if the background noise is in a different language than the one you are conversing in. It also helps if you can see the lips of the person you are talking with. What happens when you combine these two factors? Linguist Susanne Brouwer and her colleagues at Penn State University found out.

Humans and machines will join forces to curb one of today’s biggest threats to democracy: fake news, hate speech and misinformation. They will face a new obstacle in the European consortium 'HYBRIDS': an international initiative funded with over 2.9 million euros by EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks, and UKRI’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee.