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Field school in Kenya gives students experience of collaborative linguistic fieldwork24 January 2020Descriptions 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 2020Since 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 linguistics16 December 2019Migration 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...
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Speaking a foreign language: Is fluency ‘a must’?25 November 2019Nivja de Jong, researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), has wo...
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Etymology calendar: every day a word and its history18 November 2019The Etymology Calendar for 2020, which was compiled by five linguistics students from Leiden University, has now hit the shops. After the resounding s...
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Science & Cinema: Leiden researchers at the Leiden International Film Festival29 October 2019A film and quiz at the Old Observatory, a film whose ending you decide or a political satire in The Hague. These are some of the options at Science & ...
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Looking at British Mandate Palestine through different lenses15 October 2019
Researchers Karène Sanchez and Sary Zananiri tell us about their research project CrossRoads, which investigates Christian communities during British ...
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‘Too many or too few memories can be problematic’26 September 2019The Public Day of the Leiden Institute of Brain and Cognition (LIBC) has grown in recent years into one of the most popular popular-science events in ...
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Fact-checking from the local council to the European Parliament24 September 2019‘Timmermans says more Polish workers are staying in Poland, but there aren’t any figures to back this up,’ was the headline of NU.nl news website duri...
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The Hague: a city full of linguistic idiosyncrasies23 September 2019The Hague is the archetypal multicultural city. With a different language spoken on every street corner, this makes it a paradise for linguists such a...
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Conference on Multilingualism 2019: a bird's eye view17 September 2019Over 80 speakers from around 15 different countries came together to discuss the latest developments in multilingualism during the Conference on Multi...
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Manioc and Amazonian Prehistory: Veni grant for Konrad Rybka04 September 2019How did manioc, a poisonous root, become the staple of Amazonia and change the lives of prehistoric Amazonian peoples? Veni grant recipient, Konrad Ry...
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Thijs Porck wins LUS Teaching Prize 201902 September 2019Lecturer in Old and Middle English Thijs Porck was awarded the annual Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) Teaching Prize at the opening of the ac...
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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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First ever summer school in Africa for and by deaf academics12 August 2019Academic studies or an academic career are a big challenge if you are deaf. Particularly in Africa, where many countries don’t even have secondary sch...