News
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Lips pouted or not? How improved speaker recognition can help forensic investigations 12 June 2023
Police 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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Language during war: the changing position of Russian in Ukraine 06 June 2023
The impact of war extends beyond destroyed buildings and torn families. In bilingual Ukraine, the ongoing war with Russia is a major driver for increa...
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Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient? 02 June 2023
As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram...
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NWO Open Competition grants for six researchers 22 May 2023
Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunit...
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What influence did French really have on Dutch? 15 May 2023
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch....
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What is news? 'Stories about current events create a sense of belonging' 10 May 2023
For ten months, PhD student Sanne Rotmeijer worked on the editorial boards of various news media on Curaçao and Sint Maarten. She also tracked how new...
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Where does this Inca language come from? Verb conjugations should provide some answers 02 May 2023
When university lecturer Martine Bruil was on exchange in Ecuador as a teenager, she fell in love with the area's ancient languages. Now, more than 20...
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Carole Tiberius appointed professor of Computational Linguistics: 'If you know how systems work, you can better assess their limitations' 26 April 2023
ChatGPT, translation machines and bots: for Carole Tiberius, they are a piece of cake. On 1 January, she was appointed professor of Computational Ling...
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Online curiosity explored: 'We are more likely to accept information uncritically if it answers a question' 19 April 2023
What do people wonder about on social media? University lecturer Matthijs Westera is the recipient of an NWO grant to investigate what people are curi...
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How do people best learn a language? 'It's incredible what you do when you talk' 17 April 2023
According to Nivja de Jong, second language acquisition is 'the most fascinating subject in linguistics'. As a recently appointed professor of Second ...
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'The use of online translation machines in healthcare settings may involve certain risks' 16 March 2023
Researcher and lecturer Susana Valdez investigates how migrants make use of online translation technology in medical situations. Her research suggests...
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Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China? 14 March 2023
Fifteen hundred years ago, the north-west of what we now call China was a jumble of peoples. How did those Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influence...
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NWO Open Competition for research on inclusive religion and identity: 'Impact on LGBTQIA+ community still underexplored' 13 March 2023
What is the impact of religion and its discourse on the lives of queer people in countries where LGBTQIA+ individuals are not accepted? University Lec...
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NWO Open Competition for replication research: 'Deals with fundamental question in my field' 02 March 2023
Innovation through repetition. That is how university lecturer Jurriaan Witteman describes his research on the automatic processing of angry voices in...
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Alumnus Jonathan works with Ukrainian refugees: ‘They still have a smile on their face’ 24 February 2023
When alumnus Jonathan Katzman started his master's programme in Russian and Eurasian Studies, he didn't foresee how useful those skills would be in th...