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LCCP Research Seminar Program Spring 2024
The seminar is dedicated to the research and work in progress of Leiden Centre for Continental Philosophy staff and doctoral students. It also welcomes guest speakers.
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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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LECTIO Visiting Scholars Program 2022-2023
LECTIO, the KU Leuven Institute for the Study and Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, invites applications for its Visiting Program 2022-23. Deadline: 10 June 2022. For more information: lectio@kuleuven.be.
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Learning a language is a staggering task
To properly understand how babies absorb a language we need to study the process from a number of different perspectives, linguist Claartje Levelt argues. She accepts her appointment as Professor of Language Acquisition on 27 March with an inaugural lecture entitled ‘Language in its infancy’.
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Gijsbert Rutten
Faculty of Humanities
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Janet Connor
Faculty of Humanities
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Contact in the Prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives
This study analyses the prehistory of a northeastern Siberian population, the Sakha, from both a molecular-genetic and a linguistic perspective.
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Interpreting particles in dead and living languages: A construction grammar approach to the semantics of Dutch ergens and Ancient Greek pou
In this dissertation, the types of context Dutch speakers need to interpret the poly-interpretable word ergens ‘somewhere/anywhere’ are studied.
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‘Kindersprache, Aphasie und allgemeine Lautgesetze’ revisited
The current project aims to revive the idea that sound inventories are structured according to a small set of universal principles by applying insights from current phonological theory and by making use of modern database technologies and data assessing methodologies.
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Open University and Leiden University start Joint Legal Technologies Program
The Open University and Leiden University will join forces to offer a (Dutch-taught) Joint Legal Technologies Program for professionals. In doing so, they can provide the advanced legal informatics training that is necessary in our rapidly digitising society. The joint program is a further development…
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In Search of a Lost Language: Performing in Early-Recorded Style in Viola and String Quartet Repertoires
How might viola and string quartet playing in the performer-centered, moment-to-moment and communicative style heard on early recordings be brought about today?
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Language loosens tongues
Language research generates a wealth of information about people: from our history and cultural differences to the way we learn. Leiden University shares its knowledge and passion for this topic via de MOOC on ‘Miracles of Human Languages’ and the web dossier on Language Diversity.
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CfA: Johnson Program for First Book Authors (Western Michigan University)
The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University is delighted to host the Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, a program designed to provide support and mentorship to scholars working towards the publication of their first book on the law and legal culture of the early middle ages. In…
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Yingjie Fan
Science
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A Grammar of Ghomara Berber
This dissertation provides a grammatical description of Ghomara Berber, a Berber language spoken in North-West Morocco by about 10.000 people. The grammar consists of a description of the phonology, the morphology and the syntax. In the appendices a number of texts and a wordlist are included. The data…
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KemenRistekDikti-Leiden University Joint PhD Scholarship Program
Leiden University and Ristek Dikti have set up a joint scholarship program for PhD degrees. Eligible candidates who wish to take their PhD at Leiden University are invited to register with RistekDikti before April 30, 2019. Candidates need to fulfill the requirements as set by RistekDikti and by Leiden…
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Tijmen Pronk
Faculty of Humanities
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Marian Klamer
Faculty of Humanities
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Kate Bellamy
Faculty of Humanities
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Human Frontier Science Program award for Katharina Riebel
An international research team consisting of Katharina Riebel as leading PI and two international collaborators were awarded a Human Frontier Science Program grant for their proposal ‘Seeing voices’: the role of multimodal cues in vocal learning.
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Contact-induced change in Dolgan
This study explores the role of linguistic data in the reconstruction of Dolgan (pre)history by analyzing contact-induced changes and using them to infer information about the nature of the contact settings in which they occurred.
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Calendar Academic Language Centre
Important dates in the Academic Language Centre calendar
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Joost Grootens
Faculty of Humanities
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Tom Kouwenhoven
Science
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Joan Booth
Faculty of Humanities
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Rick Honings
Faculty of Humanities
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Third International Ismaili Studies Conference (2021) Program & Registration
We are pleased to announce the Program for the “Third International lsmaili Studies Conference: Histories, Philosophies and Communities” (ISC2021), organized by the Leiden University Shii Studies Initiative. This year, ISC2021 will be held virtually on Zoom from Friday, August 6 to Tuesday, August 10,…
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LIACS receives NWO grant in Challenging Big Data program
The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) received a grant award from NWO for a joint proposal with Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI, Amsterdam), Tata Steel (IJmuiden), BMW (Munich), and database company MonetDB. Within the NWO Data Science program ‘challenging big data‘, LIACS is…
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News from the BFW/BPS Study Program Committee
Wednesday 18 January 2017, a university-wide meeting was organized on the upcoming alterations with regard to the role and tasks of Study Program Committees (Opleidingscommissies; OCs) within Leiden University.
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New language museum for Leiden
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 come together for a broad public. It won't be in a building, but at different places in the city. Dynamic, contemporary, flexible and affordable. The details…
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Self-directed learning with mobile technology in higher education
Language learners in higher education increasingly conduct out-of-class self-directed learning facilitated by mobile technology. This project aims to explore how university students use mobile technology for their self-directed language learning and investigate factors that influence their self-directed…
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Five languages in one poem
In the Bachelor Honours Class ‘The Noble Art and Tricky Business of Translation’, Honours students learn about the tricky business of translation. To gain hands-on experience, students had to translate a poem for the seminar on poetry. For some translators-to-be, one language was simply not enough.
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Earlier editions
The Summer School in Languages and Linguistics has been a regular event on the Leiden Centre for Linguistics calendar for over 14 years.
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Language both connects and divides
Author and political scientist Mounir Samuel has spent recent years delving into the many ways that language can exclude people and bring them together.
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Understanding Questions
This project proposes an integrated and comparative study on the syntactic, semantic, prosodic and processing aspects of in-situ wh-questions, taking the Grammar-parser correspondence hypothesis (Phillips 1996, 2003) as a guiding principle.
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A psycholinguistic model for phonological development
In this research project child language phonology is studied from the perspective of a psycholinguistic speech-production model and this model is in turn studied from the perspective of developmental phonology.
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New platform for research about heritage languages
HERLING (Research Lab for the Study of Heritage Languages of the Netherlands) is a new centre that aims to bridge the gap between scientific research and language communities.
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A Grammar of Awjila Berber (Libya): Based on Umberto Paradisi’s Material
This dissertation provides a grammatical description of the Awjila language, a small Berber language spoken in the Libyan oasis of Awjila.
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Koen de Ceuster
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Julia Szirmai
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonid Kulikov
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Schaeken
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Hoftijzer
Faculty of Humanities
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Hugo Koning
Faculty of Humanities
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Inge Ligtvoet
Faculty of Humanities
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Nancy Kula
Faculty of Humanities
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Mahmood Yenkimaleki
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Sylvia Spiers
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah von Grebmer zu Wolfsthurn
Faculty of Humanities