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The Linguistics Olympiad final is coming up soon: ‘The questions shouldn’t be too easy’14 April 2022On Saturday 16 April, secondary school pupils will once again have a chance to sink their teeth into the hardest language-related questions during the...
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant11 April 2022Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their re...
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AI & Humanities: ‘So much untapped potential’01 April 2022The field of artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years. We spoke with Stephan Raaijmakers, professor by special appointment in Com...
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Researchers debunk earlier study: babies may not be able to learn language rules after all24 March 2022For two decades, language experts were certain that babies were able to learn language rules from as young as the age of seven months. However, recent...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for Leiden researchers17 March 2022Five Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will enab...
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Multilingualism in young children is a good thing: 'Languages support each other'10 March 2022During Leiden City of Science 2022, Janet Grijzenhout and Hannah De Mulder will put multilingualism in the spotlight by organising multilingual storyt...
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Charlotte wins thesis award on argumentation theory: ‘This is one way to strategically pin someone down’03 March 2022Everyone has heard arguments like this before as a child: ‘Whether you like it or not, you have to go to school!’ It seems as though you are presented...
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Opposing the French participle clause10 February 2022The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perha...
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PhD candidate Alex Reuneker’s research: What do we mean when we use ‘if’?08 February 2022‘If it rains later, then I’ll take the car.’ In order to reason, we use sentences containing ‘if’ every single day. But how does that work exactly in ...
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Seven projects receive funding from Humanities' JEDI Fund04 February 2022The Faculty of Humanities' Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Fund provides small grants to initiatives in support of diversity and inclu...
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant26 November 2021The PDI-SSH grant will be used by Meuwese to create a web portal and collection of tools and resources, named ‘WetSuite’, that will help researchers a...
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Genetics proves it: Indo-European did not come to Europe on horseback20 October 2021Horses were first domesticated in South-West Russia, is the conclusion drawn by an international team of researchers writing in the well-respected jou...
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From vlogging to organising seminars: students of Italian put their skills into practice18 October 2021Do you gain enough practical experience in an academic language and culture study programme? Certainly, proved the bachelor students of Italian this s...
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Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back'20 September 2021On 1 August, Egbert Fortuin has been appointed Professor of Russian Language and Linguistics. After a five-year term as vice-dean of the Faculty Board...
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‘Different languages of instruction could help African education move forward’09 September 2021The high number of students that we are used to in the West would never have been possible if Latin were still the language of instruction in our univ...