Peter Jurgec has been awarded a Rubicon grant to do research at LUCL. His project is entitled The unique sounds of Slovenian. His project aims to prov...

Comparison between babies and song-birds when they are learning a non-existent language—a study of this kind has never been tried before. But this is ...

LUCL congratulates Isabelle van de Calseyde with winning the LSr Teaching Prize!

LUCL is glad to announce that two of its members have been awarded an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant.

Four of Leiden's top researchers have been awarded substantial grants by the European Research Council.

Prof. Willem Adelaar has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to do research on Central and Southern American Indian languages.

David Shakouri has been awarded a PhD-position by NWO for the PhDs in the Humanities Programme.

Professor Ingrid Tieken (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, LUCL) and Dr Herman Siemens (Institute for Philosophy) have each been awarded an NW...

Ingrid Tieken, Professor at the English Department of Leiden University, has been awarded a Vrije Competite grant by NWO.

What are the advantages of speaking a second language? Why do some people find it easier to learn a second language than others? Does a dialect count ...

Every year many Leiden lecturers and students visit an international university for the purposes of research or study. In the coming newsletters a dif...

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has received a special award: the Order of St. Mellitus, in recognition of her services to the history of the Bishops of...

Rinus Verdonschot has been awarded a Canon Foundation Research Fellowschip to spend one year (2011-2012) ar Nagoya University, Japan.

Professor Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has been awarded a fellowship at Clare College at the University of Cambridge from February to August 2011. Sh...

Prof.dr. Vincent van Heuven has been appointed as a member of the Royal Academie of Dutch Sciences (KNAW).