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Language loosens tongues 08 May 2015
Language research generates a wealth of information about people: from our history and cultural differences to the way we learn. Leiden University sha...
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Language gets people talking 08 May 2015
Studying languages enables you to unearth a lot of valuable information about humans: it reveals our history and explains cultural differences and it ...
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Linguist Willem Adelaar receives royal decoration 22 April 2015
Linguist Willem Adelaar was appointed to Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion on October 1st. On that very same day he celebrated his 43-year connect...
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Learning a language is a staggering task 26 March 2015
To properly understand how babies absorb a language we need to study the process from a number of different perspectives, linguist Claartje Levelt arg...
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Using an ERC grant to study languages with beans and millet 04 March 2015
Japanologist and linguist Martine Robbeets is going to use her newly acquired ERC Consolidator Grant to study the origins and spread of Trans-Eurasian...
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Language as a time machine 06 February 2015
About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who...
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Vrije Competitie Grant for Lisa Cheng and Anikó Liptak 07 January 2015
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded LUCL researchers prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Anikó Liptak a Vrije Competitie gr...
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Get to know Roberta D'Alessandro and discover the architecture of language 09 October 2014
How does language work and how do we learn a language? The more we know about language, the better we can understand how people interpret the world in...
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Marian Klamer receives NWO Vici-grant 01 October 2014
Linguist Marian Klamer, associated with Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, is one of the 31 scientists to receive a NWO Vici-grant for her rese...
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New language museum for Leiden 15 July 2014
Leiden is to have a new language museum in 2015, a public institute focusing on language in all its facets and where science and social developments c...
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Roberta D'Alessandro granted Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia 04 June 2014
Professor Roberta D’Alessandro, Chair of Italian Language and Culture at the Leiden University, has been awarded one of Italy’s highest honors: she is...
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Alwin Kloekhorst receives Vidi grant 23 May 2014
Alwin Kloekhorst, working at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, has received a Vidi grant for his research on the break-up of the Indo-Euro...
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Anglicist Ingrid Tieken appointed new member of KNAW 21 May 2014
Leiden Anglicist Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is one of the seventeen new members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tieken is Pr...
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NWO Free Competition Grant for Al-Jallad and Akkermans 12 February 2014
Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad and Prof.dr. Peter Akkermans have been awarded with the NWO Free Competition Grant for their research project 'Landscapes of Survi...
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Roberta D'Alessandro appointed member of Global Young Academy 22 January 2014
Professor Roberta D'Alessandro, from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, has been appointed a member of the Global Young Academy (GYA) from ...