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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden28 May 2021The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre ...
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Gea Hakker: ‘We aim to be the gold standard of language learning’08 March 2021The Academic Language Centre (ATC) is one of the cornerstones of Leiden University. Director Gea Hakker explains how this organisation is providing qu...
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn22 February 2021Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of...
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Marco Spruit wants to develop a language model to improve healthcare10 December 2020By making smart use of available data, the health and care of people can be substantially improved. Marco Spruit wants to use language and machine lea...
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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize!11 November 2020Thijs Porck, expert in medieval English, has won the LUCAS Public Prize because he has made his research and education visible to a wider audience. Th...
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Alex Elias wins Jan Brouwer Thesis Award05 March 2020Alex Elias, alumnus of the Research Master Linguistics, has won the prestigious Jan Brouwer Thesis Award for his thesis. Elias, who is currently worki...
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Archaeologist Omar Aguilar Sánchez receives Mexican youth prize23 October 2019On October 21st, 2019, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, handed out the National Prize for the Youth in the academic achievement c...
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What politicians can learn from Cicero and Dionysius17 October 2019'How do you write a slogan to win an election?' Steven Ooms answers this question in his PhD research into ideas about good prose in the time of Caesa...
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A Persian love story and the creation of a rock classic23 August 2019What is the name of the medieval Persian poet Nezami (✞ ca. 1209) doing on the cover of an Eric Clapton rock album? Asghar Seyed Gohrab, associate pro...
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Playing Cluedo with speech sounds15 August 2019Using 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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Pedagogies in bilingual education06 August 2019In the Netherlands approximately 130 out of 700 secondary schools offer a bilingual stream. However, research about CLIL (Content and Language Integra...
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia02 July 2019The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visi...
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‘Brain scanners are bringing about a revolution in neurolinguistics’01 April 2019Brain scanners have radically changed neurolinguistics. They are increasing our understanding of how the brain processes language. Professor Niels Sch...
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New MOOC: The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World29 November 2018Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle ...
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Speakers store abstract information, irrespective of their language01 June 2018The human brain stores not only individual words, but also all kinds of abstract information about these words. Research by Leiden linguists has shown...