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Building a Phonological Inventory - Feature Co-occurrence Constraints in Acquisition
The Feature Co-occurrence Constraint theory proposed in this dissertation provides a means to capture the development of the language learning child's segment inventory.
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(Extra)Ordinary letters: A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch
In this dissertation, a corpus of 595 seventeenth-century letters (mainly private ones) written between 1664 and 1672 is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective.
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The Phonology of Proto-Central Chadic
This study looks at the diverse phonological systems found within Central Chadic, and reconstructs the phonological system of their ancestor language.
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Development of a academic monitoring system for students with learning problems in secondary school
Students with learning problems experience difficulties in reading, writing, and content-area learning into and throughout their secondary-school years
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Chinese Final Particles and the Syntax of the Periphery
In this research, for the first time a detailed description as well as systematic and comparative analysis of the final particle system in Chinese are provided.
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Modification and Reference in the Chinese Nominal
This study proposes a theory for the encoding of specificity and definiteness in the Chinese nominal based on Cantonese, Mandarin and Wenzhou data.
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Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome
This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).
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‘Man's empathy comes from language and stories’
Man is nature's mind-reading champion: we are better able than any other living beings to empathise with others. This comes in part from our story-telling culture, according to Max van Duijn. PhD defence 20 April.
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Autumn School in Medieval Languages and Culture 2021
In close collaboration with the Center for Medieval Studies (Fordham), Centre for Medieval literature (Odense and York) and Centre for Medieval Studies (York), the University of Ghent organizes an Autumn School for PhD- and MA-students in Medieval Studies (18-22 October 2021). It will be organized in…
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Expression and Recognition of Emotion in Native and Foreign Speech: The Case of Mandarin and Dutch
This study investigates the perception and production of emotional prosody by native and non-native listeners and speakers, i.e. Chinese and Dutch listeners and speakers, including Dutch L2 learners of Chinese.
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Conceptualising and developing the practice of CLIL teachers
How do teachers conceptualise, develop and implement an effective CLIL practice?
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Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא im Lichte der antiken Bibelübersetzungen. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer vermuteten Höflichkeitsfunktion
My research addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew, often translated with “please”, from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations (Greek, Syriac, Latin). It combines textual criticism, translation technique, discourse pragmatics, and the…
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Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects: an experimental approach
This study examines the mutual intelligibility between all 225 pairs of 15 Chinese dialects, in two main branches, i.e., six Mandarin dialects and nine non-Mandarin (Southern) dialects.
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The Syntax of Object Marking in Sambaa: A comparative Bantu perspective
This thesis investigates the syntax of object marking in Sambaa and the Bantu languages in general, with particular focus on Swahili and Haya, as points of comparison.
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Innovation in tradition
This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).
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Reading Arabic: legibility studies for the Arabic script
What is the cost of visual complexity? This dissertation sets out to determine the effect of the complexity of word formation on the legibility of Arabic and the role that vocalization plays in reading.
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Knowledge development of secondary school L1 teachers on concept-context rich education in an action-research setting
This thesis reports on a study that examined the development of L1 teachers’ practical knowledge when they researched and implemented concept-context rich education in an action-research setting.
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Martijn Lemmen
Faculty of Humanities
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Yumeng Wang
Science
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Arie Verhagen
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah De Mulder
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten Kossmann
Faculty of Humanities
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Michaël Opgenhaffen
Faculty of Humanities
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Pablo Isla Monsalve
Faculty of Humanities
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Amos van Baalen
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Michaël Peyrot
Faculty of Humanities
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Göran Sundholm
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos Robles
Faculty of Humanities
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Janet Grijzenhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Mert Yazan
Science
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Ronny Boogaart
Faculty of Humanities
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Fei Bai
Faculty of Humanities
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Neeltje van den Bedem
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Tessa Verhoef
Science
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Anne Sytske Keijser
Faculty of Humanities
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Ying Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Get to know Roberta D'Alessandro and discover the architecture of language
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 words. Roberta D'Alessandro carries out research on the architecture of language. There is now a dossier about her work online.
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Call for Abstracts - Conference Language Learning Resource Centre, Leiden University, June 5th, 2020
The Language Learning Resource Centre (Leiden University) is organizing a one-day conference (June 5th, 2020) on the interplay between second language learning practice, theory, and research.
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The added value of multimedia to repeated story book reading in preschool age
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British Celtic Influence on English Phonology
This dissertation assesses the influence of British Celtic on the phonological development of English during and shortly after the Anglo-Saxon settlement period, ca. AD 450-700.
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Temporal Construals of Bare Predicates in Mandarin Chinese
This study presents the first systematic investigation and detailed theoretical analysis of the temporal interpretations of sentences with bare (aspectually unmarked) predicates in Mandarin.
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Thy Name is Deer. Animal Names in Semitic Onomastics and Name- Giving Traditions: Evidence from Akkadian, Northwest Semitic, and Arabic
Hekmat Dirbas defended his thesis on 14 February 2017
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Important findings in plain language: Leiden University introduces lay talk
PhD ceremonies in the Academy Building will be much easier for family, friends and other non-specialist audience members to follow after the summer. The Doctorate Board is pleased to have decided that as of 1 September, all Leiden PhD candidates will begin their PhD defence with a lay talk. ‘It can…
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John Ash and the Rise of the Children's Grammar
Making extensive use of primary source materials this study contributes to existing scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century grammars and grammarians by providing an in-depth study of Ash’s Grammatical Institutes and its influence on other popular grammars for children.
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In Search of the Truth: A Sufi Reading of Modern Palestinian Literature, 1950-2010
This research aims to address the connection between Sufism and modern Arabic Literature (specifically, Palestinian literature).
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The Phonology of Shaoxing Chinese
This thesis presents a thorough survey of the central aspects of the phonology of Shaoxing Chinese from a synchronic perspective and on the basis of recent theoretical phonological developments, with the secondary goal of casting some light on current issues in Modern Chinese (Mandarin).