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Nieuwscheckers: FVD politicians amplify anti-Semitism on Twitter24 May 2022Politicians 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 2022In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and academics talk about their passion for their field. Student Aline-Priscillia is particu...
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’25 April 2022How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect rec...
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Comenius Senior Fellow grants for three Leiden lecturers21 April 2022Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a 100,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellowship within the scope of the Senior Fellows programme....
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Ukrainian course to start soon: ‘Useful for contact with refugees’21 April 2022The Academic Language Centre is organising an introduction to Ukrainian with the Russian Studies/Russian and Eurasian Studies programmes. This six-par...
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Leiden Slavist in Ukraine: ‘My love for Russia has faded’19 April 2022To read Chekhov in the ‘original’. That was what motivated Arie van der Ent to study Slavic languages and literature with Karel van het Reve at Leiden...
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?19 April 2022
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language ...
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The Linguistics Olympiad final is coming up soon: ‘The questions shouldn’t be too easy’14 April 2022On Saturday 16 April, secondary school pupils will once again have a chance to sink their teeth into the hardest language-related questions during the...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant11 April 2022Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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AI & Humanities: ‘So much untapped potential’01 April 2022The field of artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years. We spoke with Stephan Raaijmakers, professor by special appointment in Com...
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Researchers debunk earlier study: babies may not be able to learn language rules after all24 March 2022For two decades, language experts were certain that babies were able to learn language rules from as young as the age of seven months. However, recent...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers17 March 2022Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enab...
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Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other'10 March 2022During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storyt...
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Charlotte wins thesis award on argumentation theory: ‘This is one way to strategically pin someone down’03 March 2022Everyone has heard arguments like this before as a child: ‘Whether you like it or not, you have to go to school!’ It seems as though you are presented...
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Opposing the French participle clause10 February 2022The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perha...