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New platform for research about heritage languages 29 November 2018
HERLING (Research Lab for the Study of Heritage Languages of the Netherlands) is a new centre that aims to bridge the gap between scientific research ...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Leiden 28 November 2018
Leiden University professor of Science-Based Business Simcha Jong Kon Chin has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant.
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Pepijn Reeser: ‘If there’s one thing I’m not, it’s dogmatic.’ 21 November 2018
My 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 words 26 October 2018
Besides 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 research 13 September 2018
From 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 Humanities 30 August 2018
Who 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 2018
That'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 domain 23 July 2018
Linguist 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 Functions 23 July 2018
Fatemeh (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 scholars 20 June 2018
No 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 Leiden 12 June 2018
On 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 language 01 June 2018
The 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 speech 15 May 2018
Why 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 times 14 May 2018
For 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 Magazine 10 May 2018
Alongside several other authors, Guus Kroonen, University Lecturer in Linguistics, published an article in the well-renowned academic journal Science ...