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What is news? 'Stories about current events create a sense of belonging'10 May 2023For 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 answers02 May 2023When 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 2023ChatGPT, 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 2023What 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 2023According 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 2023Researcher 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 2023Fifteen 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 2023What 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 2023Innovation 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 2023When 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...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers31 January 2023From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages and more: six Leiden ...
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war23 January 2023According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take Russia’s words and m...
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas'20 January 2023University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking o...
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'19 December 2022Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she en...
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From a second-year project to an academic paper: ‘It was such a cool opportunity’17 November 2022It does not happen very often that a research project for a second-year bachelor's course gets turned into a proper academic paper. But International ...