Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is one of seven institutes housed within the Faculty of Humanities.
Established in 2005, the institute focuses on linguistic research and (language) teaching at Leiden University. It offers excellent opportunities for both researchers and students alike to study a wide variety of the world’s languages. The Academic Language Centre, as part of LUCL, provides language services to university students and staff but also to individuals and groups outside the university.
News
Leiden Language Blog (EN & NL)
Upcoming events
Research projects
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Prosody profiles: individual differences in the perception and interpretation of prosodic cues -
A documentation of Sanye (Dahalo), a critically endangered Cushitic language of Kenya -
Disentangling the roles of social and biophysical factors in the evolution of linguistic diversity in South America
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Meaning making and information integrity in the age of AI -
Smarter edits: Post-editing translations with LLM suggestions
PhD projects
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Epistemicity in Cinyungwe -
Historical and Linguistic Development of the Signing Community in Mozambique: The Emergence of local sign through contact, influence and linguistic Variation -
Implications of legal recognition of UgSL on Communication and Instruction for Deaf learners in Primary school in Uganda -
Nationalism in Moroccan Malḥūn -
Professional Users’ Perspectives on Metaphors in Machine Translation
