477 search results for “applied linguistics” in the Staff website
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The origin of Lithuanian DAUG ‘many’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Johan Rooryck receives honorary doctorate from Tromsø University
Professor Johan Rooryck, currently executive director of cOAlition S, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Tromsø for his commitment to open access in science. He will be awarded the honorary doctorate on 1 September.
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Organising an event about AI? Ask SAILS for help
AI has applications in all kinds of fields. Would you like to organise an event on the possibilities of AI in your research field? The Leiden interdisciplinary research programme SAILS offers you experts on content, money and other support.
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns
This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It is even more exciting that its first professor, Ramaz Kurdadze, will return to Leiden this year to teach students interested in the language. Kurdadze…
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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Extraction of linguistic atlas/dialect survey data
Lecture, Workshop Series
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SAILS researcher Anne Meuwese awarded PDI-SSH grant
The 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 apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to legal textual data from public bodies.
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Extra information faculties on OER
The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.
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Reminder: apply for a Grassroots or shoots now!
Education
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Meetings and events
Are you organising a symposium or event and are you looking for a professional and experienced team to take care of the arrangements? Looking for a great venue in Leiden or The Hague, or will the event be taking place online? The Events Office is here to help.
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'Small' Field School 2 projects: apply for funding
Education, Research
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Apply now for a Grassroots or Grass shoots grant!
Education
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Apply for a Virtual International Cooperation Projects grant
Education
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Apply for the LDE GMD Seed Fund 2024 now
Research
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Apply for the Dutch subsidy for Virtual International Collaboration (VIS)
Education, Finance
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Apply now: Graduate Summer School on EU Law and Digitalisation
Education
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Apply for the Frontier of Children's Rights Summer School
Education
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Lisa Cheng
Faculty of Humanities
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Teaming up with Portugal: as a doctor, how do you talk to a patient?
As a doctor, coming to a decision together with a patient: how do you do that in the best possible way? Researchers Geert Warnar and Roosmaryn Pilgram, who jointly teach a course within the MA in Dutch Studies, are entering into a virtual collaboration with the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa to find the…
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The Leiden-Birmingham lectures: Comparative Cross Modal Linguistics
Lecture, Workshop
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Sociolinguistics Circle 2025
Conference
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44th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (#SOEMEHL44)
Conference, Symposium
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
PhD defence
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Priority modality, scalarity and modal concord in Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Winged Words: Diachronic and Comparative Perspectives on Conceptual Metaphors
Conference
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Lucien van Beek receives LUF grant: 'It is a great feeling to be able to work on my ideas'
University lecturer Lucien van Beek has been awarded a LUF Praesidium Libertatis Grant. He will use the sum of 75,000 euros to research the thinking of people in ancient and prehistoric times. To do that, he will look for unusual or striking metaphors in the earliest Indo-European languages.
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Apply now for pilot funding to diversify archaeological practice
Organisation
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Approaching Mandarin wh-ex situ: D-linking effect
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Counting events: Syntax and semantics of Chinese verbal classifiers
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Kiem initiative culminates in plan to apply for larger grant
The interdisciplinary Kiem project ‘Violence as a Population Health Problem’ has resulted in a plan to apply for a large, yet-to-be-decided research grant. The so-called pressure cooker session at the heart of the project proved very effective.
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European Day of Languages
Festival
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Kiem call: apply for a seed grant for interdisciplinary research
Research
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Apply for the Lorentz Center Chemistry Workshop competition
Research
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Language during war: the changing position of Russian in Ukraine
The impact of war extends beyond destroyed buildings and torn families. In bilingual Ukraine, the ongoing war with Russia is a major driver for increasingly discarding the Russian language. What does this mean for the position of Russian in Ukraine?
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NWO Open Competition for replication research: 'Deals with fundamental question in my field'
Innovation through repetition. That is how university lecturer Jurriaan Witteman describes his research on the automatic processing of angry voices in the brain. The original research was conducted 20 years ago, but, with an NWO grant, Witteman is now going to see if those results are accurate.
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Lips pouted or not? How improved speaker recognition can help forensic investigations
Police investigations use wiretapped phone recordings as investigative material fairly regularly. But how do they know that the voice on the recording actually belongs to the suspect? PhD student Laura Smorenburg is trying to answer that question.
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Eduardo Alves Vieira
Faculty of Humanities
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Apply for a Museums, Collections and Society scholarship
Research
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’
How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect recipe, which consists of his various projects alongside his regular research, including a Twitter account and a major international film.
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First generation of students graduate from Applied Archaeology: ‘It is a peculiar and wonderful specialisation.’
In 2019, Federico Cappadona was one of the first students to enroll in the new master’s specialisation Applied Archaeology. He recently graduated and he is happy to share his experience.
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From judge to police officer: a lack of understanding for deaf people in legal proceedings
The cultural linguistic minority group of deaf people who communicate using sign language systematically experiences limited access to fundamental rights. Linguist Joni Oyserman identified this problem and has received a Meijers grant to fund her investigation.
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Do you know how to apply for funding within your department?
Finance
- This Time for Africa! series
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Apply for the Dutch subsidy for Virtual International Collaboration Projects (VIS)
Education
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Apply for the Dutch subsidy for Virtual International Collaboration Projects (VIS)
Education
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Models of linguistic diversity and Amazonian pre-history: a view from the Northwest Amazon
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series