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Pepijn Reeser: ‘If there’s one thing I’m not, it’s dogmatic.’21 November 2018My name is Pepijn Reeser, I’m 34 years old and I graduated in 2008 as a historian. I’ve been working in the museum world for about ten years, mainly a...
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A picture tells a thousand words26 October 2018Besides being a linguist, George Saad is also a photography fanatic. He shares his most beautiful and telling pictures, shot during his field research...
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Exhibition shows importance of language research13 September 2018From video glasses for the deaf to protecting endangered languages. The Taalmuseum's new exhibition in the hall of the University's former library dem...
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The 2018 Teaching Prize for the Humanities30 August 2018Who will win this year’s Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Humanities? Who will the students honour with this coveted token of their appreciation? Read...
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50 years of the Academic Language Centre: plus ça change?28 August 2018That's just learning parrot-fashion. This was the argument with which the proposal to establish a language lab at Leiden University was rejected in 19...
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NWO grant for research on semantic universals in the modal domain23 July 2018Linguist Wataru Uegaki received an NWO Grant of 58400 Euro for his research project 'In search of semantic universals in the modal domain'. With this ...
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Mapping Sex-by-genotype Interactions in Brain Functions23 July 2018Fatemeh (Simin) Tabassi Mofrad has recently received a project grant (€ 25,000) from LUF/Gratama Foundation for her ideas in investigating sex-by-geno...
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NWO awards grants to Leiden University Humanities scholars20 June 2018No fewer than three Leiden University Humanities scholars have been awarded funding from the NWO’s Free Competition in the Humanities programme: two g...
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Forensic speech recognition: emerging scientific field in Leiden12 June 2018On 4 June 2018, students of the Forensic Speech Science master’s course visited the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague. They were prese...
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Speakers store abstract information, irrespective of their language01 June 2018The human brain stores not only individual words, but also all kinds of abstract information about these words. Research by Leiden linguists has shown...
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Use of nouns delays speech15 May 2018Why do we sometimes speak more slowly or more rapidly, and why do we sometimes have a longer pause between uttering particular words? This has to do w...
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The journey of our language in prehistoric times14 May 2018For decades, scholars have wondered about the development and dissemination of languages around the world. What are the odds that peoples living thous...
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Guus Kroonen publishes article in Science Magazine10 May 2018
Alongside several other authors, Guus Kroonen, University Lecturer in Linguistics, published an article in the well-renowned academic journal Science ...
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Language and belonging in the 21st century12 April 2018What does it take to truly be ‘one of us’ and what role does language play in this process? In short, what is the difference between ‘a language we un...
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Babies' hearing important in language deficiency19 March 2018During the first year of life, babies adapt to the language they hear around them. In the event of hearing difficulties, this can lead to a language d...