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Digital Humanities Small Grant - Results

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The two projects subsidised through the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities Small Grant are nearly finished, and the grant webpage of the overarching project entitled 'D or t? Using Big Data to Explore Linguistic Factors in Dutch Verb Spelling' has been updated accordingly.

Using big data, we were able to enhance the academic knowledge of two specific factors in verb-spelling errors and to offer evidence-based solutions to long-lasting and persistent problem in Dutch language education.

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Writing and verb spelling

For more info on the two projects ('Study 1: The spelling of homophonic verbs preceding the reduced possessive and personal pronoun je' and 'The spelling of the imperative mood in secondary education'), visit https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/centre-for-digital-humanities/projects/small-grants-2024-research-projects#alex-reuneker.

Digital Humanities Small Grant 2023-2024

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Recently, I was awarded the Digital Humanities Small Grant 2023-2024 by the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities. This grant enables me to appoint two student-assistants to participate in the project, as described in the excerpt from the grant proposal below.

In this interdisciplinary project, combining the disciplines of Dutch Linguistics and Digital Humanities, two student assistants will search, index and read available literature on Dutch verb spelling, and they will use and evaluate methodologies from the domain of Digital Humanities to explore a dataset of 6 million verb-spelling answers collected by the first supervisor through the non-profit website Gespeld.nl since 2013.

I’m grateful to Digital Humanities, look forward to working together with two students on the project and by doing so, I hope to enhance our knowledge of spelling difficulties in Dutch verb spelling using data-driven techniques and big-data statistics on data from Gespeld.