Prof. dr. Yiya 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. R.J.U. Boogaart

Ronny Boogaart is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. His research interests includes semantics, pragmatics and construction grammar. View the full profile here.

Prof.dr. L.L. Cheng

Lisa Cheng is Academic/Scientific Director and Professor of General Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Her research interests centre upon comparative syntax, and the interactions between syntax and semantics, syntax and prosody, as well as syntax and processing. View the full profile here.

Prof.dr. N.H. de Jong

Nivja de Jong is a Professor Second language Acquisition and Pedagogy. Currently, she supervises PhD students on diverse topics in the field of language learning. View the full profile here.

Prof.dr. M.A.F. Klamer

Marian Klamer is Director PhD programs and Professor of Austonesian and Papuan Linguistics. She works on the description and comparison of small, under-described Austronesian and Papuan languages in Indonesia and is interested in the history and culture of the populations who speak the languages. View the full profile here.

Prof. dr. Stephan Raaijmakers

Stephan Raaijmakers is a professor of Communicative AI at the Centre for Linguistics. View the full profile here.

Dr. Jenneke van der Wal

Jenneke van der Wal is a researcher and teacher with a passion for African languages and linguistics. She wants to understand what our human language ability is in the broadest sense, focusing on morphosyntax and information structure. She believes this is best done through collaborative research. In her teaching and outreach she aims to spark enthusiasm for (African) languages and linguistics, interactively challenging students to think critically and analytically. View the full profile here.

Prof. dr. Michaël Peyrot

Michaël Peyrot’s research focuses on the reconstruction of Proto-Indo-European, in particular the verbal system, and on language contact and prehistory, especially in the Tocharian, Iranian and Indic branches. The leading question is how language contact can be used to draw conclusions about linguistic prehistory. More broadly, he is intrigued by the question how languages have come to be as they are. View the full profile here.