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Celebrating 50 years of African Languages and Linguistics in Leiden 07 September 2020
Maarten Mous, Professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University, looks back on the 50th edition of the Colloquium of African Languages and Linguis...
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Ingrid Tieken spellbound by languages of The Hague 11 August 2020
Linguist Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade retired in July, but is pressing on regardless with her languages in The Hague project. An online tour of her H...
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Funding for three new Humanities’ PhD candidates 04 August 2020
Three new PhD candidates at the Faculty of Humanities will receive funding from the Programme Office Sustainable Humanities and NWO. The aim of the gr...
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Podcast: this is how Dutch sounded 1000 years ago 25 June 2020
How did Dutch sound 1000 years ago? This is a question that linguist Peter-Alexander Kerkhof has been pondering for some time already. He recently man...
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A whole new (computational) world 08 June 2020
Historical linguist Lauren Fonteyn is awarded a substantial Digital Infrastructure grant as well as being selected as member of the prestigious Young ...
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Parts of LUCL have ground to a halt 25 May 2020
The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics has been badly affected by the corona crisis: the research in the four labs and the fieldwork has come to...
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Understanding (the value of) machine translation 14 May 2020
Leiden University Lecturer Lettie Dorst wins a prestigious Comenius Senior Fellow grant for a project about machine translation and its use in higher ...
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Armchair travel to the Falkland Islands 07 April 2020
Yliana Rodríguez was in the middle of a second fieldtrip in the Falklands researching Spanish-English language contact, when global lockdown measures ...
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Sneak peek of exhibition Frank Scholten: Archeology and Tourism in the ‘Holy Land’ 06 April 2020
The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (RMO) was due to open its doors to the small photography exhibit Frank Scholten: Archaeology and Tourism in the ‘Holy Lan...
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‘I can’t spend all day giving tutorials now the kids are at home’ 30 March 2020
Lecturers had a week to convert their courses to online teaching. An enormous challenge because remote teaching definitely wasn’t commonplace at Leide...
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Dutch Studies Open Day: broad and varied 02 March 2020
From the new street language Smibanese to 17th-century manuscripts: the first national Dutch Studies Open Day explores a wide range of topics. The Ope...
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Learning African sign languages via a video app 10 February 2020
For many deaf Ghanaians, Ghanaian Sign Language is their first language. But for more deaf signers to be able to fully participate in society, more si...
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Field school in Kenya gives students experience of collaborative linguistic fieldwork 24 January 2020
Descriptions of different languages help us understand what speakers of different languages share worldwide. At the same time, having descriptions of ...
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Stephan Raaijmakers appointed Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) 13 January 2020
Since November 2019 Stephan Raaijmakers is Professor by special appointment of Communicative AI (Artificial Intelligence) at LUCL. Raaijmakers investi...
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A unique perspective on (pre)historical migration using linguistics 16 December 2019
Migration is not only reflected in DNA, but also in language. By tracing changes in language, we learn more about the lifestyle of the people that spe...