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The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit' 01 September 2023A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do w...
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Lips pouted or not? How improved speaker recognition can help forensic investigations 12 June 2023Police investigations use wiretapped phone recordings as investigative material fairly regularly. But how do they know that the voice on the recording...
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NWO Open Competition grants for six researchers 22 May 2023Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunit...
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NWO Open Competition for replication research: 'Deals with fundamental question in my field' 02 March 2023Innovation through repetition. That is how university lecturer Jurriaan Witteman describes his research on the automatic processing of angry voices in...
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about' 19 December 2022Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she en...
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From a second-year project to an academic paper: ‘It was such a cool opportunity’ 17 November 2022It does not happen very often that a research project for a second-year bachelor's course gets turned into a proper academic paper. But International ...
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NWO grant for Claartje Levelt: how toddlers learn words 26 September 2022Professor Claartje Levelt, together with Paula Fikkert (Radboud University), has received an NWO Open Competition grant for research into the developm...
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Neurolinguists investigate the brain: not two, but three options for brain functional categories 01 September 2022Based on the results of a language-switching experiment, PhD candidate Fatemeh (Simeen) Tabassi Mofrad MA and Professor Niels Schiller have discovered...
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’ 30 May 2022In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Car...
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Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize 04 June 2021Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children,...
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Whispering out loud 03 May 2021Whispp, a Leiden-based speech technology start-up, is developing an app to help people who stutter express themselves more freely. Among those working...
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‘Brain scanners are bringing about a revolution in neurolinguistics’ 01 April 2019Brain scanners have radically changed neurolinguistics. They are increasing our understanding of how the brain processes language. Professor Niels Sch...
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Learning even the simplest language rules is not easy 11 December 2018A large interdisciplinary NWO research project attempted to discover the cognitive origin of the human ability to learn linguistic rules. This is not ...
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Speakers store abstract information, irrespective of their language 01 June 2018The human brain stores not only individual words, but also all kinds of abstract information about these words. Research by Leiden linguists has shown...