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Alex Elias wins Jan Brouwer Thesis Award05 March 2020Alex Elias, alumnus of the Research Master Linguistics, has won the prestigious Jan Brouwer Thesis Award for his thesis. Elias, who is currently worki...
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Dutch Studies Open Day: broad and varied02 March 2020From the new street language Smibanese to 17th-century manuscripts: the first national Dutch Studies Open Day explores a wide range of topics. The Ope...
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Yiya Chen has been appointed to Professor of Phonetics01 March 2020Yiya Chen has been appointed professor of Phonetics at Leiden University as of March 1, 2020.
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Learning African sign languages via a video app10 February 2020For many deaf Ghanaians, Ghanaian Sign Language is their first language. But for more deaf signers to be able to fully participate in society, more si...
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Field school in Kenya gives students experience of collaborative linguistic fieldwork24 January 2020Descriptions of different languages help us understand what speakers of different languages share worldwide. At the same time, having descriptions of ...
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Stephan Raaijmakers appointed Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence)13 January 2020Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...
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A unique perspective on (pre)historical migration using linguistics16 December 2019Migration is not only reflected in DNA, but also in language. By tracing changes in language, we learn more about the lifestyle of the people that spe...
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Speaking a foreign language: Is fluency ‘a must’?25 November 2019Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...
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Etymology calendar: every day a word and its history18 November 2019The Etymology Calendar for 2020, which was compiled by five linguistics students from Leiden University, has now hit the shops. After the resounding s...
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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film Festival29 October 2019A film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...
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Looking at British Mandate Palestine through different lenses15 October 2019
Researchers Karène Sanchez and Sary Zananiri tell us about their research project CrossRoads, which investigates Christian communities during British ...
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‘Too many or too few memories can be problematic’26 September 2019The Public Day of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC) has grown in recent years into one of the most popular popular-science events in ...
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Fact-checking from the local council to the European Parliament24 September 2019‘Timmermans says more Polish workers are staying in Poland, but there aren’t any figures to back this up,’ was the headline of NU.nl news website duri...
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The Hague: a city full of linguistic idiosyncrasies23 September 2019The Hague is the archetypal multicultural city. With a different language spoken on every street corner, this makes it a paradise for linguists such a...
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Conference on Multilingualism 2019: a bird's eye view17 September 2019Over 80 speakers from around 15 different countries came together to discuss the latest developments in multilingualism during the Conference on Multi...