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Online curiosity explored: 'We are more likely to accept information uncritically if it answers a question' 19 April 2023What do people wonder about on social media? University lecturer Matthijs Westera is the recipient of an NWO grant to investigate what people are curi...
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about' 19 December 2022Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she en...
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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize 13 October 2022University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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Jenny Doetjes investigates 'How much' with NWO Open Competition grant 04 October 2022Professor Jenny Doetjes has received an NWO grant to research the cross-linguistic properties of quantity expressions and our brain's influence on lan...
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Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’ 30 May 2022In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Car...
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Babies' hearing important in language deficiency 19 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...
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Understanding the brain via language 23 January 2018Professor Jenny Doetjes at Leiden University researches similarities and differences in languages, specifically in the area of numerals and quantifier...