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Funding for three new Humanities’ PhD candidates04 August 2020Three 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 ago25 June 2020How 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) world08 June 2020Historical 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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FactRank: new tool brings automatic fact-checking a step closer28 May 2020FactRank is a new online tool that automatically detects ‘checkable’ claims made by politicians in parliamentary debates or tweets, and therefore enab...
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Parts of LUCL have ground to a halt25 May 2020The 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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Nine Leiden projects awarded first NWO Science Diplomacy Fund19 May 2020The projects of nine researchers at Leiden University have received funding through the new NWO Science Diplomacy Fund. The Fund is for scientific act...
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Understanding (the value of) machine translation14 May 2020Leiden 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 Islands07 April 2020Yliana 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 2020The 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 2020Lecturers 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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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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Update on Small Grant projects03 March 2020Update on Small Grant project: EASE
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Dutch Studies Open Day: broad and varied02 March 2020From 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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Yiya Chen has been appointed to Professor of Phonetics01 March 2020Yiya Chen has been appointed professor of Phonetics at Leiden University as of March 1, 2020.
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Learning African sign languages via a video app10 February 2020For 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...