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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize 13 October 2022
University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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‘Citizens should be able to rely on information provided by Tax and Customs Administration’ 07 October 2022
Information provided by the Tax and Customs Administration is something that concerns every citizen. So it is not surprising that the Tax hotline rece...
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Jenny Doetjes investigates 'How much' with NWO Open Competition grant 04 October 2022
Professor Jenny Doetjes has received an NWO grant to research the cross-linguistic properties of quantity expressions and our brain's influence on lan...
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NWO grant for Claartje Levelt: how toddlers learn words 26 September 2022
Professor Claartje Levelt, together with Paula Fikkert (Radboud University), has received an NWO Open Competition grant for research into the developm...
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’ 26 September 2022
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (Un...
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Dutch people should stop ‘politely’ switching to English 26 September 2022
Endangered languages can survive if they are taught properly to new speakers, such as people with a migrant background. This is what Professor by Spec...
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From Azerbaijani to Swedish: ‘Multilingualism improves your understanding of others’ 26 September 2022
September 26 is the European Day of Languages. There are 24 official languages in Europe but some 200 languages in total are spoken on our continent. ...
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Neurolinguists investigate the brain: not two, but three options for brain functional categories 01 September 2022
Based 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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Newscheckers wins European Citizen Award 07 July 2022
The fact-checking initiative Nieuwscheckers has won the Dutch round of the European Citizens Award. This prize is awarded annually to projects and ini...
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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’ 20 June 2022
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics ...
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A day as an intern at the Leidsch Dagblad 14 June 2022
The Journalism and New Media study programme is celebrating its 20th anniversary. On the occasion of the anniversary, student Iris Kole gives a glimps...
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Meike de Boer: ‘The word 'uh' can help track down suspects’ 13 June 2022
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. PhD candidate Meike de Boer knows...
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’ 30 May 2022
In 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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Nieuwscheckers: FVD politicians amplify anti-Semitism on Twitter 24 May 2022
Politicians from Forum voor Democratie (FVD) regularly retweet anti-Semitic accounts. They therefore promote players from a social media network in wh...
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Student Aline-Priscillia: ‘I am an odd academic, I’m not very attached to outcomes’ 11 May 2022
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and academics talk about their passion for their field. Student Aline-Priscillia is particu...