Koen Plevoets
Biographic Data
| ID | 1202792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Koen Plevoets |
| GIVEN NAMES | Koen |
| FAMILY NAME | Plevoets |
| SIGNATURE | PLEVOETS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3889-1809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Potential of Aikido in Intercultural Business Communication Training
Background: Experiential approaches are gaining recognition in intercultural business communication training. However, aikido's potential as an experiential method remains underexplored. Purpose : This study investigates the assumption that incorporating aikido movements into intercultural business communication training leads to learning gains and increased satisfaction. Method: Using a longitudinal mixed-methods approach, we trained 73 particip…
The production of subject anaphoric devices
This study investigates the production of Italian subject anaphoric devices by monolinguals (L1s), second language speakers (L2s), and heritage language speakers (HLs) with Belgian Dutch as their first or dominant language. Extensive research has shown that bilinguals tend to overuse explicit anaphoric devices compared to monolinguals. While this pattern has been documented across various bilingual profiles, studies directly comparing L2s and HLs…
Students’ attitudes towards an instructor’s foreign accent and non-standard language variety
This study reports the outcomes of a speaker evaluation experiment conducted in a higher educational context in Flanders, in which we investigated the influence of language variety (Standard vs. Colloquial Dutch), accent (Flemish vs. Eastern European) and name (Flemish vs. Eastern European) on students’ perceptions of a female university instructor. The results suggest that participants exhibited a relatively high level of tolerance toward both n…
Lexical frequency modulates current cognitive load, but triggers no spillover effect in interpreting
This study analyses cognitive load in simultaneous interpreting on the basis of naturalistic data from the Polish Interpreting Corpus (PINC). We wanted to find evidence both for the current load (visible immediately after the exposure to the source text word) and the exported load (visible after the production of the translation equivalent in the target text). We operationalised cognitive load as disruptions in fluency, i.e., silent and filled pa…
Metaphors of time across cultures
Discourse markers and turn-planning at the pragmatics-prosody interface
Lectometry and Latent Variables
Ever since its first formulation in Geeraerts/Grondelaers/Speelmann (1999), lectometry has been widely used to map distances between language varieties or “lects”. Often, these distances are given a geometrical representation in a low-dimensional space. Examples are the use of Multidimensional Scaling in Speelman/Grondelaers/Geeraerts (2003) and Ruette et al. (2014) and of Correspondence Analysis in Plevoets (2008), Delaere/De Sutter/Plevoets (20…
Mapping the Structure of Language Repertoires
In this paper, we will discuss the importance of (socio)lectometric research in attempts to empirically map the range and internal structure of language repertoires, on both the level of the individual and the level of the speech community. Spoken data from 10 East Flemish women (city of Ghent) in 5 speech settings are analysed using 3 multivariate statistical techniques: correspondence regression, multidimensional scaling, and cluster analysis. …
The cognitive load of interpreters in the European Parliament
Cognitive load is a major source of processing difficulties in both interpreting and monolingual speech. This article focuses on measurement of cognitive load by examining the occurrence rate of the disfluency uh(m) in two corpora of naturalistic language: the EPICG, with specific reference to Dutch interpretations of French source texts in the European Parliament; and the sub-corpus of non-interpreted parliamentary speeches from the Spoken Dutch…
A corpus-based multivariate analysis of linguistic norm-adherence in audiovisual and written translation
The present paper investigates linguistic norm-adherence in Belgian Dutch written and audiovisual translation. More particularly, it is measured to what extent language use in subtitles, in comparison to regular written translations and non-translations, conforms to explicit linguistic norms. Additionally, we analyze which effect different contextual parameters have on the extent of norm-adherence in Belgian Dutch subtitles. We use the Dutch Para…
The cognitive load of interpreters in the European Parliament
Cognitive load is a major source of processing difficulties in both interpreting and monolingual speech. This article focuses on measurement of cognitive load by examining the occurrence rate of the disfluency uh(m) in two corpora of naturalistic language: the EPICG, with specific reference to Dutch interpretations of French source texts in the European Parliament; and the sub-corpus of non-interpreted parliamentary speeches from the Spoken Dutch…
Discourse markers and turn-planning at the pragmatics-prosody interface
Lexical frequency modulates current cognitive load, but triggers no spillover effect in interpreting
This study analyses cognitive load in simultaneous interpreting on the basis of naturalistic data from the Polish Interpreting Corpus (PINC). We wanted to find evidence both for the current load (visible immediately after the exposure to the source text word) and the exported load (visible after the production of the translation equivalent in the target text). We operationalised cognitive load as disruptions in fluency, i.e., silent and filled pa…
Metaphors of time across cultures
A corpus-based multivariate analysis of linguistic norm-adherence in audiovisual and written translation
The present paper investigates linguistic norm-adherence in Belgian Dutch written and audiovisual translation. More particularly, it is measured to what extent language use in subtitles, in comparison to regular written translations and non-translations, conforms to explicit linguistic norms. Additionally, we analyze which effect different contextual parameters have on the extent of norm-adherence in Belgian Dutch subtitles. We use the Dutch Para…
The cognitive load of interpreters in the European Parliament
Cognitive load is a major source of processing difficulties in both interpreting and monolingual speech. This article focuses on measurement of cognitive load by examining the occurrence rate of the disfluency uh(m) in two corpora of naturalistic language: the EPICG, with specific reference to Dutch interpretations of French source texts in the European Parliament; and the sub-corpus of non-interpreted parliamentary speeches from the Spoken Dutch…
Lectometry and Latent Variables
Ever since its first formulation in Geeraerts/Grondelaers/Speelmann (1999), lectometry has been widely used to map distances between language varieties or “lects”. Often, these distances are given a geometrical representation in a low-dimensional space. Examples are the use of Multidimensional Scaling in Speelman/Grondelaers/Geeraerts (2003) and Ruette et al. (2014) and of Correspondence Analysis in Plevoets (2008), Delaere/De Sutter/Plevoets (20…
Mapping the Structure of Language Repertoires
In this paper, we will discuss the importance of (socio)lectometric research in attempts to empirically map the range and internal structure of language repertoires, on both the level of the individual and the level of the speech community. Spoken data from 10 East Flemish women (city of Ghent) in 5 speech settings are analysed using 3 multivariate statistical techniques: correspondence regression, multidimensional scaling, and cluster analysis. …
Discourse markers and turn-planning at the pragmatics-prosody interface
Lexical frequency modulates current cognitive load, but triggers no spillover effect in interpreting
This study analyses cognitive load in simultaneous interpreting on the basis of naturalistic data from the Polish Interpreting Corpus (PINC). We wanted to find evidence both for the current load (visible immediately after the exposure to the source text word) and the exported load (visible after the production of the translation equivalent in the target text). We operationalised cognitive load as disruptions in fluency, i.e., silent and filled pa…
Metaphors of time across cultures
Students’ attitudes towards an instructor’s foreign accent and non-standard language variety
This study reports the outcomes of a speaker evaluation experiment conducted in a higher educational context in Flanders, in which we investigated the influence of language variety (Standard vs. Colloquial Dutch), accent (Flemish vs. Eastern European) and name (Flemish vs. Eastern European) on students’ perceptions of a female university instructor. The results suggest that participants exhibited a relatively high level of tolerance toward both n…
The production of subject anaphoric devices
This study investigates the production of Italian subject anaphoric devices by monolinguals (L1s), second language speakers (L2s), and heritage language speakers (HLs) with Belgian Dutch as their first or dominant language. Extensive research has shown that bilinguals tend to overuse explicit anaphoric devices compared to monolinguals. While this pattern has been documented across various bilingual profiles, studies directly comparing L2s and HLs…
The Potential of Aikido in Intercultural Business Communication Training
Background: Experiential approaches are gaining recognition in intercultural business communication training. However, aikido's potential as an experiential method remains underexplored. Purpose : This study investigates the assumption that incorporating aikido movements into intercultural business communication training leads to learning gains and increased satisfaction. Method: Using a longitudinal mixed-methods approach, we trained 73 particip…
Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Cognitive Load (2 works)