2,053 search results for “cognitive and language” in the Public website
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A grammar of Ik (Icetod) Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language
This study offers a comprehensive but balanced grammatical analysis of Ik (Icetod), Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language.
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Language contact: bridging the gap between individual interactions and areal patterns
A new publication that brings together perspectives on language contact phenomena across temporal and spatial dimensions.
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Alignment in Eastern Neo-Aramaic Languages from a Typological Perspective
On October 31st, Paul Noorlander succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Paul on this great result.
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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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Language gets people talking
Studying languages enables you to unearth a lot of valuable information about humans: it reveals our history and explains cultural differences and it even illustrates the process of learning new information. The University is sharing its knowledge of and passion for languages in various new ways, including…
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Conference: "Senses, Cognition, and the Body" (Padova, 5-7 June)
From 5 to 7 June, the conference "The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices" will take place at the University of Padova. The conference programme can be found below. The conference can be attended virtually through the registration link below.
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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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Pardon my French? Dutch-French Language Contact in The Netherlands, 1500-1900
The main aim of this project is to provide a full analysis of the actual influence of French on Dutch in The Netherlands during the period of 1500 - 1900.
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A micro-trial study to investigate the effectiveness of public speaking treatments in children
Which intervention technique is more effective in reducing public speaking anxiety in children aged 9 – 12 years, exposure or restructuring cognitions?
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A Grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan Language of Sudan
This thesis investigates the grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic language spoken in the Blue Nile Province of North Sudan. The comprehensive description provides an analysis of the phonology, morphology, and syntax. Ten texts of various genre are given to help illustrated the grammar…
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2012 Two major NWO subsidies for language research in Leiden
Professor Johan Rooryck will be examining cognition and core knowledge systems and how possession is expressed in different languages. Rooryck and fellow researchers have been awarded two NWO grants totalling 2.75 million euro to carry out two research programmes: 'Knowledge and Culture' and 'Lend me…
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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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psychosocial development of children with and without Developmental Language Disorder
Dissertation
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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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Nivja de Jong
Faculty of Humanities
n.h.de.jong@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2956
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Marga Sikkema-de Jong
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
jongtm@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3881
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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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MS@Work study
Predictors of work functioning in persons with multiple sclerosis
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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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Axel Palmér
Faculty of Humanities
a.i.palmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
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Stylistics of Dutch
The purpose of this programme is to join knowledge and insights from linguistics, literary analysis, and rhetoric, for the purpose of developing a set of methods for the stylistic investigation of any type of text in Dutch.
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Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
From Crisis to Critique
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The effects of multilingualism
More than half of Europeans speak two or more languages. Linguist Lisa Cheng investigates the various forms of multilingualism in Europe from a linguistic, cognitive and sociological perspective. She looks for instance at the way in which minority languages influence the standard language of a country,…
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Physiological responses to a social-evaluative situation
How is the development of physiological responses to social evaluation in adolescence affected by other normative developments, such as pubertal, socio-cognitive and psychosocial development? Are social anxiety and public speaking anxiety associated with characteristic patterns of stress responses…
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Does feedback targeting text comprehension trigger the use of reading strategies or changes in readers' attitudes? A meta-analysis
Our previous meta-analysis (Swart et al., 2019) had shown that feedback targeting text comprehension given when students perform a reading task positively influences learning from text. So far, differences in the effects of feedback were explained by design features, such as the timing and richness…
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signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities
In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.
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Guido Band
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
band@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3998
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Roderik Gerritsen
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
r.j.s.gerritsen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7334
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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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Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities in the formative years of the modern Middle East (1920-1950)
This project aims to revisit the ways in which religious minorities in the Middle East participated in, contributed to, and opposed the Arab nationalism of the post-war years, when the British and French ruled the region via the Mandates. Research question: How did religious minorities in the Middle…
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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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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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The work of abyss and time: towards an emancipatory poetics of the tropics and critical autoethnographic practices of research within media art
This doctoral project by artist and educator Luiz Zanotello engenders a postcolonial understanding of time, space and movement by means of artistic research methods. The project examines the contradictory effects of the abyssal line of thought within the tropics as a starting point.
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Our team
Researchers from five different discplines work together in this interdisciplinary initiative.
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Career Prospects
A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.
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Eveline Crone
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
ecrone@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Moji Aghajani
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.aghajani@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6030
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Julie Hall
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.m.hall@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Roy de Kleijn
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
kleijnrde@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3915
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Jiangnan Sun
Science
j.sun@biology.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Martin Kolnes
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.kolnes@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Marja Oudega
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.h.oudega@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ili Ma
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
i.ma@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Samarth Varma
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.varma@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727