Research at CLS
The Centre for Language Studies (CLS) aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the cognitive and social processes underlying language systems, language processing, and language use. We aspire to optimize human communicative interaction. Our approach is to investigate language from single sounds to discourse, including modalities from speech and text to gestures, signs, and images.
Mission
CLS aims to achieve a deeper understanding of the nature of language and the way it functions by explicitly connecting and integrating research on the cognitive and social processes underlying language systems, language processing, language use, and language acquisition. We actively seek to deploy our findings to optimise language-related tasks in society.
Our strategy is to conduct empirical research on language, from single sounds to discourse in multiple modalities, including speech, text, gestures, signs, and images. We highly value diversity in research techniques, applying observational, behavioural, and neurocognitive methods, as well as language and speech technology. To facilitate research, CLS invests in the collection of extensive data sets and in developing innovative automated techniques for analysing text, audio, and video.
Projects
CLS researchers are engaged in a diverse range of research projects. Presented below is a selection of our ongoing projects.
Research groups
Researchers are associated with a research group, and they actively collaborate both within their own group and across different groups whenever feasible.
- Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Multilingualism
- Discourse and Pragmatics
- First Language Acquisition
- Grammar and Cognition
- Language and Communication Effects
- Language Learning, Teaching and Testing
- Language and Social Interaction
- Language and Speech, Learning and Therapy
- Language and Speech Technology
- Language Variation in 4D
- Non-nativeness in Communication
- Sign Language Linguistics
- Speech Production and Comprehension
Participate in our research!
We are always looking for participants. Sign up here, for online or on campus experiments:
- Lab experiments: Sign up as a participant in the Radboud SONA system to take part in our lab experiments.
- Online experiments: Please visit the ROLEG web page for more information.
More information
For further information, please send an e-mail to clslab [at] let.ru.nl.
CLS Talks
CLS Talks take place once a month on Thursdays at 4 pm. These colloquia showcase research done within the CLS, with the aim to increase awareness of the ongoing research in our institute, and to facilitate discussions and collaborations between researchers. In addition, we invite a number of external speakers to share their work with us. If you would like to suggest names for speakers (someone else or yourself), please get in touch with us via clstalks [at] ru.nl (clstalks[at]ru[dot]nl).
If you cannot make it in-person you are welcome to join us via Teams. The Teams link will be sent a few days before each CLS Talk to CLS members.
CLS Talks are open to all interested researchers. If you are not on the CLS mailing list but would like to receive notice about an upcoming talk, please send a message to clstalks [at] ru.nl (clstalks[at]ru[dot]nl).
CLS Talks are organized by Janine Berns, Sybrine Bultena, Kars Ligtenberg, Katharina Pabst & Laura Speed.
The most recent overview of upcoming CLS Talks can be found here:
Education
The Centre for Language Studies (CLS) is involved in language education and in the Research Masters Linguistics and Communication Sciences and Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Arts of Radboud University.
Networks
Networks facilitate research past the borders of our institute. Many researchers of CLS founded and collaborate in networks, of which an overview is presented below.