293 search results for “berber language” in the Staff website
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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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From oscillations to language: behavioural and electroencephalographic studies on cross-language interactions
PhD defence
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Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour
“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…
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LLRC Multilingualism in the Language Classroom Roundtable
Debate, Roundtable LLRC Event
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Florian SchneiderFaculty of Humanities
f.a.schneider@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2544
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2027
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Lettie DorstFaculty of Humanities
a.g.dorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3026
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden
The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) organises the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-21). Due to Covid measures, the conference takes…
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
- Una Europa: European Day of Languages
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Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language
Workshop-Poetry Lab
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Young Interfaculty Lunch on Inclusive language
Lecture
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Traces of Language Contact in Niya Prakrit
PhD defence
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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Machine Translation Literacy for (language) teachers
Workshop
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NWO grant for Claartje Levelt: how toddlers learn words
Professor Claartje Levelt, together with Paula Fikkert (Radboud University), has received an NWO Open Competition grant for research into the development of word production in toddlers.
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Hossam Ahmed: ‘Listen to your students’
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. Lecturer Hossam Ahmed is one of them. What does he think makes for good education?
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Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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Prof. dr. Holger Gzella elected as member of the Academia Europaea
LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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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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Card making: the language of flowers
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense
Conference, Workshop
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
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Egyptian Diaspora in Paris – Between the Language and Resistance
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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Exhibition on scripts at Oude UB: Pseudo or Don’t
What is writing? And what looks like writing, but isn’t? The Pseudo or Don’t pop-up exhibition explores the boundaries of scripts. The exhibition will run at Oude UB from 9 to 26 October.
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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Exhibition of sound installation 'Bird language' by Helena Nikonole
Exhibition, Exhibition
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Turning the tide from language endangerment to ethnolinguistic vitality
Inaugural lecture
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
PhD defence
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Spiritual Corporeality: Towards Embodied Gnosis through a Dancing Language
PhD defence
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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Public lecture: On the Diversity and the Formation of Creole Languages
Lecture
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The ongoing standardization of Sidaama, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia: challenges and perspectives
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Linguistics and AI Discussion Series: "Using machine translation for language learning in the classroom"
Lecture, Discussion
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The use of language analyses in Dutch citizenship procedures from a legal and ethical perspective
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Quantity expressions on nominal and verbal domain in underrepresented languages spoken in Brazil
Lecture
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The role of linguistic, visual and pragmatic context when predicting language in naturalistic settings
Lecture, LACG Meetings