Linguistics (research) (MA)
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Prof.dr. Y. Chen
Yiya Chen is a Professor of Phonetics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She studies the sounds of languages with an interdisciplinary approach. The broad goal of her research is to understand the language structures and cognitive mechanisms that underlie speech and speech communication. View the full profile here.
Dr. M. Bruil
Martine Bruil is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. View the full profile here.
Dr. J. Witteman
Jurriaan Witteman is a Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics. He is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in the neural basis of speech perception. He uses neuro-imaging and meta-science methods (meta-analysis, replication) to study these topics and adopts an Open Science approach. View the full profile here.
Prof.dr. M. Terkourafi
Marina Terkourafi is professor Sociolinguistics at the Leiden University Center for Linguistics. Her expertise is in pragmatics and sociolinguistics, with an emphasis on issues of pragmatic variation and experimental pragmatics. View her full profile here.
Dr. G.J. van der Wal
Jenneke van der Wal is Associate professor at the Centre for Linguistics. She is interested in the interface between morphosyntax and pragmatics, and the crosslinguistic variation in this area. Her research focusses on information structure in the Bantu languages. View her full profile here.