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Seminar: 'Data Science meets Humanities' 28 March 2019Seminar 12th of April
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33 sayings highlight multilingual The Hague 25 March 2019Since March 5th, the road between Holland Spoor Station and the old city centre of The Hague (also called the “Loper Oude Centrum”) features 33 saying...
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Melody in speech. Vici grant for Yiya Chen 07 March 2019Unlike Dutch and English, most languages employ melody not only to add nuance to sentences but also to differentiate between words. How languages do t...
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Tessa Askamp: new project director Taalmuseum 26 February 2019
As of February, Pepijn Reeser steps down as the project director of the Taalmuseum (the Language Museum). Exhibition designer and project manager Tess...
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Being an Indonesian PhD in Leiden: what is that like? 24 January 2019Wija Wijayanto and Arum Perwitasari both were Indonesian PhD students at Leiden University, funded by the Leiden-DIKTI Graduate Scholarship Programme....
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Every European citizen trilingual? 15 January 2019
Leiden University linguist Lisa Cheng speaks two Chinese languages, as well as English and Dutch. She is a strong supporter of the European Commission...
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Gijsbert Rutten became LUCL’s new Director of Education 03 January 2019On 1 January 2019, Gijsbert Rutten became LUCL’s new Director of Education. We asked him about his plans.
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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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New platform for research about heritage languages 29 November 2018
HERLING (Research Lab for the Study of Heritage Languages of the Netherlands) is a new centre that aims to bridge the gap between scientific research ...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Leiden 28 November 2018Leiden University professor of Science-Based Business Simcha Jong Kon Chin has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant.
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Pepijn Reeser: ‘If there’s one thing I’m not, it’s dogmatic.’ 21 November 2018My name is Pepijn Reeser, I’m 34 years old and I graduated in 2008 as a historian. I’ve been working in the museum world for about ten years, mainly a...
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A picture tells a thousand words 26 October 2018Besides being a linguist, George Saad is also a photography fanatic. He shares his most beautiful and telling pictures, shot during his field research...
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Exhibition shows importance of language research 13 September 2018From video glasses for the deaf to protecting endangered languages. The Taalmuseum's new exhibition in the hall of the University's former library dem...
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The 2018 Teaching Prize for the Humanities 30 August 2018Who will win this year’s Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Humanities? Who will the students honour with this coveted token of their appreciation? Read...
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50 years of the Academic Language Centre: plus ça change? 28 August 2018That's just learning parrot-fashion. This was the argument with which the proposal to establish a language lab at Leiden University was rejected in 19...