1,145 search results for “frits language acquisition” in the Public website
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Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese reversed language
On the 24th of October, Nurenzia Yannuar successfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Nurenzia on this achievement.
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
PhD defence
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Pride and Prejudice: Moral Languages in Scholarly Codes of Conduct, 1900-2000
If idioms employed in codes of conduct could be as idiosyncratic as examples suggest, then to what extent did early modern language of vice, too, persist in this genre?
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Falling Short of Expectations: Evaluative Languages in Scholarly Book Reviews, 1900-2000
What evaluative languages (errors, mistakes, vices, etc.) did book reviewers employ? To what extent and on what occasions did they invoke early modern vices? And to what extent did this differ across fields or change over the course of the century?
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psychosocial development of children with and without Developmental Language Disorder
Dissertation
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Axel Palmér
Faculty of Humanities
a.i.palmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Object shift in the Scandinavian languages: syntax, information structure, and intonation
This thesis discusses the constructions relevant to Object Shift from the intonational perspective, by presenting experimental data from all the Scandinavian languages.
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Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous
This book celebrates Maarten Mous, professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University.
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The empathic mind in children and adolescents with Specific Language Impairments (SLI)
The ‘empathic mind’ in children with Specific Language Impairments (SLI); what can children with SLI understand of other people’s minds and emotions?
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'Three pitfalls and fallacies in the desire for a smaller government'
On the 22nd of January 2016 the article: 'Drie valkuilen en denkfouten in de drang naar een kleinere overheid' (translation from Dutch: 'Three pitfalls and fallacies in the desire for a smaller government') written by prof. dr. Frits M. van der Meer & Mr. dr. G.S.A. Dijkstra was posted on Mejudice:…
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Reporting obligation for acquisitions in the Dutch telecom sector: some (liability) issues
Providers of telephone, internet or data centers can be seen as companies of vital importance because of their national importance. This comes as no surprise. In the Netherlands, additional legislation was deemed necessary to protect national security and a legislative proposal was presented in April…
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Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
From Crisis to Critique
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Less government, but who is thinking long term?
On the 18th of November the article: 'Minder overheid, maar wie denkt er na over de lange termijn? (translation from Dutch: 'Less government, but who is thinking long term?') written by prof. dr. Frits M. van der Meer was posted on Mejudice: 'an independent forum for discussions aiming to stimulate…
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Understanding the brain via language
Professor Jenny Doetjes at Leiden University researches similarities and differences in languages, specifically in the area of numerals and quantifiers. Her research provides insight into language patterns, bu also in the working of the human brain. Inaugural lecture on 26 January.
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Jesse Wichers Schreur
Faculty of Humanities
j.g.wichers.schreur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1611
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Victoria Nyst
Faculty of Humanities
v.a.s.nyst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2208
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Eduardo Alves Vieira
Faculty of Humanities
e.alves.vieira@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5638
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Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative
How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?
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Acquisition of early African photographs by explorer and photography pioneer Alexine Tinne
Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on film. These photographs represent some of the earliest images taken in the heart of the African continent.
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The Golden Mean of Languages; Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540-1620)
In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French…
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Haunted Europe. Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media
Haunted Europe offers a comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland…
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Maaike Lycklama à Nijeholt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.p.lycklama@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marieke Baldee
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.h.baldee@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Azeb Amha
Afrika-Studiecentrum
a.amha@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3364
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of Bantawa: Grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal
This dissertation provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar of Bantawa, a Kiranti (Rai) language spoken in Eastern Nepal.
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Babies' hearing important in language deficiency
During the first year of life, babies adapt to the language they hear around them. In the event of hearing difficulties, this can lead to a language deficiency, which is not so easy to resolve, says Professor of English Linguistics Janet Grijzenhout. Inaugural lecture 19 March.
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Clause linkage in Ket
This work provides a typologically oriented description of clause linkage strategies in Ket, a highly endangered language spoken in Central Siberia. It is now the only surviving member of the Yeniseian language family with the last remaining speakers residing in the north of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk pro…
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Willemijn Heeren
Faculty of Humanities
w.f.l.heeren@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7068
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M. Y. Priscilla Lam
Faculty of Humanities
m.y.p.lam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Benjamin Suchard
Faculty of Humanities
b.d.suchard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Ben Arps
Faculty of Humanities
b.arps@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2222
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
y.z.zhang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2519
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Aleksandra Uttenweiler
Faculty of Humanities
a.uttenweiler@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Language as a time machine
About 90 per cent of Austronesian and Papuan languages are under threat of soon becoming extinct. Marian Klamer is the only professor in the world who researches both these language groups. She records languages before they disappear and sheds new light on the history of Indonesia. Inaugural lecture…
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In search of the frontier between sound and language
Comparison between babies and song-birds when they are learning a non-existent language—a study of this kind has never been tried before. But this is what Claartje Levelt, Carel ten Cate (Leiden University) and Jelle Zuidema (University of Amsterdam) are attempting.
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The Dark Middle Ages: Language of Vice in Histories of Science, 1700-1900
In comparing a selection of 18th-century histories to a representative sample of 19th-century histories of science, this project inquires: Which early modern vices persisted into the 19th century and to what extent were those vices embodied in anecdotes, conveyed through commonplaces, or symbolically…
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Operators in the lexicon. On the negative logic of natural language
Operators in the Lexicon opens with an old chestnut: why are there no natural single word lexicalizations for negations of the propositional operator and and the predicate calculus operator all: why neither *nand nor *nall?
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Hodegetics: Language of Vice in Student Advice Literature, 1700-1900
This project analyzes to what extent hodegetical textbooks relied on each other in warning their readers against vicious habits, how much continuity their catalogs of vice displayed, and to what extent vices that persisted throughout the 18th and 19th centuries were associated with easy-to-remember…
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Arabic and Aramaic in Iraq: Language and Syriac Christian Commitment to the Arab Nationalist Project (1920-1950)
Tijmen Baarda defended his PhD thesis on 8 January 2020
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How Arabic influenced Berber, and the typology of contact-induced change
This project investigates the influence that Arabic (esp. dialectal Arabic) has had on the Berber languages of Northern Africa.
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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
w.l.idema@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Paul van Els
Faculty of Humanities
p.van.els@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2595
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Marc Buijnsters
Faculty of Humanities
m.m.e.buijnsters@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2920
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Arend Quak
Faculty of Humanities
arend.quak@kpnmail.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
b.p.m.dongelmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Enrico Odelli
Faculty of Humanities
e.odelli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2188
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I-Fan Lin
Science
i.lin@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Liza van den Bosch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
l.j.van.den.bosch@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3724
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
h.f.j.horstmanshoff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2166