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Close or far away? The neighbouring country in Dutch and German regional newspapers
On Tuesday May 12, 2026, Heidi de Ruiter defended her PhD thesis Close or far away? The neighbouring country in Dutch and German regional newspapers, which she wrote under the supervision of…
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Marking L2 written exam answers in an EMI context: no effect of ELF and no foreign language effect on grading by university lecturers
New article, with Lidy Zijlmans and Roeland van Hout. You can find it here. Abstract: We aim to contribute to the discussion on whether the use of English in higher education in…
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Pronouncing Acronyms in Esperanto
Abstract: This chapter investigates how fluent Esperanto speakers pronounce acronyms, replicating and extending Torres-Tamarit and Martínez-Paricio’s (2024) study of Spanish acronyms. Although Esperanto was designed to be maximally regular, no prescriptive rule…
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Diphthongs in Dutch
I wrote a chapter on Dutch for a handbook on polyphthongs in the world’s languages. Below is the abstract. The manuscript is on LingBuzz The core of the Dutch diphtong system are…