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Ellen van Wolde Paul Stephenson Bonnie Schwartz Antal van den Bosch Jan Kok Six recently appointed full professors at Radboud University Nijmegen

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Ellen van WoldePaul StephensonBonnie Schwartz Antal van den Bosch Jan Kok

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Naar taal kijken door de ogen van een computer is net zoiets als naar de hemel kijken met de Hubble- telescoop

Multilingualism is my window into the human mindLanguage is

much more effective with gestures

How is the unimaginable made imaginable?

Looking at language through the eyes of a computer is like looking at the sky with the Hubble telescope

Life is a lot like a game of goose

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I work with large data files containing reconstructions of

the life choices and family relationships of a great number

of ‘random’ people from the past. I use these data to study

patterns and developments in health, partner choice, family

formation, migration and career paths, and how these are

related. Studying past lives is a great way of shedding light on

the interrelatedness of individual options and decisions, local

circumstances and long-term societal changes.

Jan KokProfessor of Comparative history of the course of life MA and PhD University Amsterdam; Senior Researcher Virtual Knowledge

Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences; Guest lecturer Katholieke

Universiteit Leuven.

www.ru.nl/humanities/kok

During conversation we constantly use meaningful bodily

actions, such as gesturing with our hands. As such we convey

meaning relevant to what we are saying and most of the time

mean much more than what we are saying.

To what extent do our bodily actions interact with or shape

language, its processing, and use in communication?

I investigate the relations between meaningful bodily actions,

language, (neuro)cognition, and communication in two

domains: (1) gestures that speakers use spontaneously and

(2) sign languages used by deaf people.

My approach is linguistic as well as psychological and I use

a combination of methods and techniques, such as linguistic

analysis, comparative (developmental, cross-linguistic) and

experimental.

Asli ÖzyürekProfessor of Gesture, language and cognition MA and PhD University of Chicago; Researcher Max Planck Institute;

Researcher Donders Institute.

www.ru.nl/humanities/ozyurek

My research happens in computers; based on large amounts

of digitally stored examples of language use (from movie sub-

titles to debates in the European parliament), computational

models learn to perform complex tasks such as translation

or paraphrasing by example. The way these models work,

and the linguistic elements they choose to work with, reso-

nates well with ideas in theoretical linguistics as well as with

psycholinguistic findings. The same memory-based methods

also prove to be powerful text analytics tools, for extracting

information and knowledge from the vast amounts of free

text that surround us.

Antal van den BoschProfessor of Example-based language modelling MA Tilburg University; PhD Maastricht University; Researcher and Professor

Tilburg University.

www.ru.nl/humanities/bosch

The cosmos. Too big to even begin

to imagine, and yet we try to

build up a conceptual image

of it. As we do with other

elusive concepts such as

grand ideals, God and goodness.

Our conceptualisations help us

get our heads around the

unfathomable. Studying texts

and ideas that make the

unimaginable imaginable,

that is my academic quest.

Ellen van WoldeProfessor of Source Texts of Judaism and Exegesis Old Testament MA, PhD and lecturer Radboud

University Nijmegen; Visiting Professor

Sheffield University; Professor Tilburg

University; Academy Board Member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and

Sciences.

www.ru.nl/humanities/wolde

I study the early and middle Byzantine periods (A.D. 300-1204),

and my published work has focused on political and cultural

history, the history and historio graphy of the Balkans, and

religious warfare.

Before moving to Nijmegen, I taught in the UK, the USA,

and Republic of Ireland, and held research fellowships from

the British Academy (in Oxford), the Alexander von Humboldt

Foundation (in Mainz), the Onassis Foundation (in Athens),

and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (in Uppsala).

Currently, I am writing a cultural history of a Greek and

Byzantine monument, the Serpent Column; researching late

antique and Byzantine views of spiritual combat confronted

with jihad and crusade; and exploring the cultural legacy of

Byzantium and the limited extent to which this has been

included in general histories and theories of Europe.

Paul StephensonProfessor of Medieval HistoryMA and PhD University of Cambridge; MA and MSt University of Oxford;

researcher University of Oxford; Rowe Professor University of Wisconsin,

Professor University of Durham.

www.ru.nl/humanities/stephenson

My research focus is the representation, acquisition and

processing of nonnative language in adults and children.

I investigate morphosyntax and its interfaces with semantics

and pragmatics across a variety of pairings of native language

and target language. My comparative approach seeks to

discover what underlies and constrains linguistic develop-

ment in Interlanguage systems and to explain both

convergence and nonconvergence on the target grammar.

Bonnie SchwartzProfessor of Second language acquisition and cross-linguistic diversity MA and PhD University of Southern California; Honorary Reader

University of Durham; Professor University of Hawaii;

Visiting Professor University of Newcastle.

www.ru.nl/humanities/schwartz

Humanities at Radboud University

Nijmegen include education and

research on Arts, Language and Culture,

Philosophy, Theology, Religion

Studies, History, Communication and

Linguistics.

Education and research in Humanities

provide us with a broad outlook

onto the world.

Humanities