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Speaking a Foreign Language: Is Fluency ‘a Must’?Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...
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Etymology calendar: every day a word and its historyThe Etymology Calendar for 2020, which was compiled by five linguistics students from Leiden University, has now hit the shops. After the resounding s...
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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film FestivalA film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...
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Looking at British Mandate Palestine through different lensesResearchers Karène Sanchez and Sary Zananiri tell us about their research project CrossRoads, which investigates Christian communities during British ...
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‘Too many or too few memories can be problematic’The Public Day of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC) has grown in recent years into one of the most popular popular-science events in ...
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Fact-checking from the local council to the European Parliament‘Timmermans says more Polish workers are staying in Poland, but there aren’t any figures to back this up,’ was the headline of NU.nl news website duri...
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The Hague: a city full of linguistic idiosyncrasiesThe Hague is the archetypal multicultural city. With a different language spoken on every street corner, this makes it a paradise for linguists such a...
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Conference on Multilingualism 2019: a bird's eye viewOver 80 speakers from around 15 different countries came together to discuss the latest developments in multilingualism during the Conference on Multi...
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Manioc and Amazonian Prehistory: Veni grant for Konrad RybkaHow did manioc, a poisonous root, become the staple of Amazonia and change the lives of prehistoric Amazonian peoples? Veni grant recipient, Konrad Ry...
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Thijs Porck wins LUS Teaching Prize 2019Lecturer in Old and Middle English Thijs Porck was awarded the annual Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) Teaching Prize at the opening of the ac...
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Playing Cluedo with speech soundsUsing speech analysis to resolve crimes. That's what Meike de Boer (26) is aiming to do with her PhD research. 'By analysing how a person pronounces "...
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First ever summer school in Africa for and by deaf academicsAcademic studies or an academic career are a big challenge if you are deaf. Particularly in Africa, where many countries don’t even have secondary sch...
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Benjamin Suchard receives Veni grant for research on Nabataean Aramaic as a spoken languageWas Nabatean also a spoken language? And if so, for how long? These are just two questions that historical linguist Benjamin Suchard will address in h...
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First pan-African summer school for deaf academicsResearchers from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the University of Ghana are organising the first-ever pan-African summer scho...
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NWO Open Competition funding for three humanities scholarsManon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen, and Maarten Mous will receive NWO Open Competition funding. This funding amounts to a maximum of 750,000 euros...