769 search results for “arawakan languages” in the Public website

• Development of visual span in Hebrew and Dutch-speaking prereaders Research project

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• A grammar of Tafi Research output

  This book presents the first comprehensive description of Tafi, one of the fourteen Ghana-Togo Mountain (GTM) languages, spoken by approximately 4,400 people in the southeastern part of Ghana. The description consists of thirteen chapters and is based on a corpus gathered during two fieldwork periods…

• Egbert Fortuin appointed professor of Russian Language and Linguistics: 'I am back' News - 20 September 2021

  On 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, he is eager to fully devote himself to the study programme. His appointment can therefore be summarised in three words: 'I am back'.

• The globalisation of language in popular music lyrics: A critical approach. News - 21 March 2022

  On 7 March, Carlos Roos (lecturer, philosopher, researcher) gave a talk about popular music at Utrecht University, organized by the education committee of Study Association Hucbald (Musicology at Utrecht University).

• Wail and Word: The Emergence of War Fiction in Persian Post-Revolutionary Literature Research project

  This thesis seeks to examine the emergence of Persian novels and short stories during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).

• Sound of Mind: electrophysiological and behavioural evidence for the role of context, variation and informativity in human speech processing Research output

  In this dissertation, electrophysiological (EEG) and behavioural measures are used to investigate how allophonic tonal variants and sub-phonemic features are processed during Mandarin and Dutch speech production, visual processing of written words and reading aloud.

• ‘How can we translate the language of cells into cancer therapies?’ News - 23 April 2021

  On 23 April 2021, Professor Alfred Vertegaal from the Department of Cell and Chemical Biology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) delivered his inaugural lecture ‘Unraveling and exploiting cellular communication codes’. Vertegaal used the opportunity to describe how research in the field…

• have different opinions about cultures associated with the English language News - 17 November 2017

  Teachers of English as a foreign language in China and the Netherlands have different notions of themselves as teachers in relation to cultures associated with the English language. This is stated in the doctoral thesis of Dadi Chen, who graduates from the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching…

• Lindley Murray (1745–1826), Quaker and Grammarian Research output

  In this dissertation, a comprehensive portrait of the American-born Quaker Lindley Murray (1745–1826) is painted and the influence of Murray’s Quakerism on his language use is investigated by analyzing a corpus of 262 of his unpublished private letters.

• Marina Terkourafi in Forbes on the impact of language on perceptions on belonging News - 23 March 2020

  What makes for a good team? In a series of articles on teams, Forbes referred to the work of Marina Terkourafi, professor of Sociolinguistics at Leiden University.

• Leiden through the eyes of… Summer School in Language and Linguistics students News - 10 August 2012

  The Leiden Summer School in Language and Linguistics is visited every year by many scholars worldwide. Four of the 120 participants of the 7th Summer School in 2012, share their view of Leiden.

• The speaker in speech – the interdependence of linguistic and indexical information Research project

  Which features characterize speakers’ voices, and how are these features determined by what a speaker is saying?

• Wit and Wisdom in Classical Arabic Literature Research output

  This book contains the first three Leiden-Aramco Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture delivered by Petra Sijpesteijn, James E. Montgomery and Geert Jan van Gelder.

• Tone sandhi, prosodic phrasing, and focus marking in Wenzhou Chinese Research output

  This thesis investigates the connection between tonal realization and tone change (tone sandhi) in Wenzhou Chinese, and whether and how such a connection is conditioned by prosodic structure and focus marking.

• The Impact of Name Writing on Early Literacy Research project

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• On the nature of preverbal Focus in Greek. A theoretical and experimental approach Research output

  This thesis aims at contributing to our understanding of the semantic and prosodic properties of object foci in Greek, employing theoretical and experimental tools.

• receives Veni grant for research on Nabataean Aramaic as a spoken language News - 12 August 2019

  Was Nabatean also a spoken language? And if so, for how long? These are just two questions that historical linguist Benjamin Suchard will address in his new research project. Suchard is one of three LUCL researchers to receive a coveted Veni grant of 250.000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NW…

• Fieldwork Dealing with an Endangered Language Event - 9 November 2016

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• An experimental approach to the interaction of tone sandhi and focus expression in six dialects of Chinese Research project

  This project employs a systematic experimental approach to examine the interaction of these two hitherto independent lines of research (tone sandhi and focus realization) in six dialects of Chinese, which lie on a continuum between dialects with dense tonal distributions and sparser distributions. In…

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  Karène Sanchez Associate Professor

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  Syahril Siddik PhD student/guest

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  Meike de Boer PhD candidate

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  Neeltje van den Bedem Education and research staff member

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  Benjamin Suchard Postdoc

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  Arie Verhagen Professor emeritus Language, Culture, and Cognition

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  Margaretha Folmer University Lecturer Hebrew and Aramaic

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  Göran Sundholm Professor emeritus Philosophy of Mathematics and of Logic

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  Anne Sytske Keijser Lecturer

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  Pablo Isla Monsalve University Lecturer

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  Judith Bosnak Researcher

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  Geert Warnar Senior University Lecturer

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  Olf Praamstra Professor emeritus by special appointment of Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

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  Wybren Scheepsma Guest

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  Marinus van IJzendoorn

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  Michaël Peyrot University Lecturer

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  Marijn van Putten Guest researcher

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  Adriaan van der Weel Professor Emeritus by special appointment of Book and Digital Media Studies

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  Michael Newton University Lecturer

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  Bram Ieven University Lecturer

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  Evert Jan van Leeuwen University Lecturer

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  Maria van der Schaar Senior University Lecturer History and Philosophy of Logic

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  Marga Sikkema-de Jong Associate Professor

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  Anthonya Visser Guest

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  Wim van Anrooij Professor of Dutch Literature before Romanticism

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  Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen Language Skills Lecturer

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  Annelies Schulte Nordholt University Lecturer

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  Carel Smith Associate Professor

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  Johannes Müller University Lecturer

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• A molecular genetic perspective on speech and language Event - 16 February 2017

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• Neural correlates of vocal learning in songbirds and humans: cross-species fMRI studies into individual differences Research output

  Vocal learning is a trait shared by songbirds and humans. It is also a trait that is restricted by the brain rather than by a species' vocal apparatus. In this dissertation, functional MRI is employed in both species in order to explore potential common neural mechanisms underlying the ability to develop…