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2015 Roberta D'Alessandro elected Member of the ICSU Committee25 June 2015
As of this October, linguist Roberta D'Alessandro is appointed as Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Freedom and Resp...
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Language loosens tongues08 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 talking08 May 2015Studying 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 decoration22 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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23 April: Correct-your-English Language Day20 April 2015
As a World Language, the English language is important enough as it is. So why have an English Language Day on 23 April, Shakespeare’s birthday? This ...
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Wilders presents his opinions as facts09 April 2015
Geert Wilders has begun to present his political opinions as facts. This is the conclusion of Maarten van Leeuwen, who recently completed a dissertati...
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Learning a language is a staggering task26 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 millet04 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 machine06 February 2015About 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 Liptak07 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 language09 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-grant01 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 Leiden15 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'Italia04 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 grant23 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...