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Advancing the European Multilingual Experience (ATHEME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2019,

"The project Advancing The European Multilingual Experience (AThEME) takes an integrated approach towards the study of multilingualism in Europe by incorporating and combining linguistic, cognitive and sociological perspectives; by studying multilingualism in Europe at three different levels of societal magnitude, viz. the individual multilingual citizen, the multilingual group, and the multilingu ...
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Indeterminism Ltd.: An intervention on the free will debate (INDETERMINISMLTD)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

What is the place of man in nature? How do our everyday conceptions of ourselves and the things around us connect with a scientific picture of the world? These questions loom large in the background of the free will debate. We understand ourselves as free agents facing an open future – but is this a tenable picture vis-à-vis scientific findings? Conceptual as well as empirical neuroscientific argu ...
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Modeling the acquisition of phonotactics (MODACQUPHON)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

Children learn their target language early, fast and efficiently. For instance, nine-month-old infants already display knowledge of the phonotactics of their target language, namely have been shown to react differently to licit versus illicit sound combinations. Children must thus rely on a remarkably efficient phonotactic learning procedure. What does it look like? According to the error-driven l ...
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The here and the hereafter in Islamic traditions (HHIT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"The aim of this project is to write a history of the Muslim paradise and hell. Researchers (PI, RF and two doctoral researchers) will assess the extent to which Islamic traditions favour or reject a view of human existence as directed toward the otherworld. They will do so by examining a variety of intellectual traditions from the inception of Islam in the 7th century CE until today. The focus of ...
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The dynamics and consequences of institutions for collective action in pre-industrial Europe (UNITEDWESTAND)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Europe s economic development in the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, continues to fascinate scholars. In recent debates, institutionalised forms of collective action have been put forward as a key feature of Europe s precocious development. This project examines that connection between institutions and economic development in detail. It also harks back to the origins of such ins ...
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Transnational Digital Networks, Migration and Gender (MIG@NET)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

The project will explore two interrelated sociocultural dynamics that impact the future of European integration and have a profound effect on the development of a common European culture by challenging established ethnic, class, linguistic and gendered divisions. These are: a.  the rise in migrant mobility and the establishment of transnational migrant networks that enable the construction and neg ...
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