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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’ 20 June 2022
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics ...
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A day as an intern at the Leidsch Dagblad 14 June 2022
The Journalism and New Media study programme is celebrating its 20th anniversary. On the occasion of the anniversary, student Iris Kole gives a glimps...
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Meike de Boer: ‘The word 'uh' can help track down suspects’ 13 June 2022
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. PhD candidate Meike de Boer knows...
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’ 30 May 2022
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Car...
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Nieuwscheckers: FVD politicians amplify anti-Semitism on Twitter 24 May 2022
Politicians 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 2022
In 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 2022
How 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 lecturers 21 April 2022
Three 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 2022
The 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 2022
To 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 2022
On 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 grant 11 April 2022
Ten 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 2022
The 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 all 24 March 2022
For 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...