786 search results for “samen language” in the Public website
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Meet English Language and Culture in Thessaloniki
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Meet English Language and Culture in Athens
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Interaction in language, language in interaction - Some exercises in the philosophy of linguistics
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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Young Interfaculty Lunch on Inclusive language
Lecture
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Leiden Workshop on Creole Languages (WoCL)
Conference
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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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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Time and memory
A study concerning the collective memory in the region of the Bene lo Ya/ Ene lo I'ya, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca.
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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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52nd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Female Spies or 'she-Intelligencers': Towards a Gendered History of Seventeenth-Century Espionage
By analysing neglected (continental) spy centres and integrating these groups of female intelligencers into the traditional, male-orientated historical narratives, this project will proceed towards a gendered history of early modern espionage.
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Counting and Accountability. The Politics of Numbers in the democracy of Classical Athens
We live in a data-drenched society awash with numbers. An inhabitant of the democratic polis of Athens (5th and 4th centuries B.C.E.) increasingly found himself surrounded by numerical data. This project aims to analyze the communicative functions and the political meaning(s) ascribed to these public…
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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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Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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The Proposed Languages in Education Policy for Botswana: Will it Make Local Languages a Social Development Resource?
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Commission-Van der Staaij presenteert revisie Reglement van Orde
Op 30 oktober presenteerde de Commissie tot Revisie van het Reglement van Orde, onder voorzitterschap van Kees van der Staaij (SGP), haar bevindingen aan Kamervoorzitter Khadija Arib.
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Podcast on resilience gives a boost to worrying youths
What if you get excluded? Are apps against fear and stress effective? How do you keep your brain in shape? The first season of the new podcastseries ‘BreinGeheim’ is about the social contexts of adolescent development and how teens become resilient individuals. Leiden-based behavioural scientist sit…
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Bart Schermer about attack on citizens' right to demonstrate
Media outlets Investico, de Groene Amsterdammer and Trouw reported on the wide-scale collection by the Dutch police of personal data of demonstrators and their family members. Bart Schermer, Professor of Privacy and Cybercrime, commented on the issue.
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NVIC students Embassy visit
On November 9th, the students of NVIC visited the Dutch Embassy. Marwan Khalil and Imane Makouri, two students, share their experience:
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Looking back at the Junius Symposium and looking forward to the future of Old Germanic Studies
On Friday, the 24th of April 2015, the Junius Symposium voor Jonge Oudgermanisten, a symposium for junior researchers in the field of language, culture and history of the (early) medieval Germanic tribes, was organized by Peter Alexander Kerkhof (LUCL) and Thijs Porck (LUCAS).
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Introducing Lucien van Beek
Lucien van Beek studied Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, focusing on Ancient Greek. As of February 2015, Van Beek will be project manager at Ineke Sluiter’s Greek-Dutch dictionary project.
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The value of languages (to their users and communities)
Conference
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Playing Cluedo with speech sounds
Using speech analysis to resolve crimes. That's what Meike de Boer (26) is aiming to do with her PhD research. 'By analysing how a person pronounces
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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The emergence of sign language in Côte d’Ivoire
Lecture
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Studying the historical roots of sign languages – methodological issues
Lecture
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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Language diversity, education, and activism in multilingual Mexico
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Two Vrije Competitie Grants for LUCL researchers
LUCL is pleased to announce that two Vrije Competitie Grants have been awarded to LUCL researchers. Prof.dr. Lisa Cheng and dr. Jenny Doetjes have been awarded a grant for their project 'Understanding questions'. Prof.dr. Michael Kemper (UvA) and prof.dr. Jos Schaeken have been awarded a grant for the…
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The ‘evolution’ of the Innateness Hypothesis for language
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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Alex Elias wins Jan Brouwer Thesis Award
Alex Elias, alumnus of the Research Master Linguistics, has won the prestigious Jan Brouwer Thesis Award for his thesis. Elias, who is currently working as a PhD-student at UC Berkeley, wrote his thesis under supervision of prof. dr. Marian Klamer.
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Producing affective language: experimental and corpus-based approaches
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Language as shaped by and for social interaction
Lecture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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Veni grant Lucien van Beek
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded dr. Lucien van Beek a Veni grant. This grant offers young researchers the possibility to develop their innovative ideas for a period of three or four years. The awarded research proposal focuses on the Ancient Greek dialects' contribution…
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LLRC conference: curriculum and course design for language teaching
Conference
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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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African Languages as Medium of Instruction - the case of Nigeria
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Opportunities for language revitalisation through digitization: the example of Ejagham
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming!
Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and quiet. Leiden computer scientist Felienne Hermans has developed Hedy, a programming language that teaches children how to program. An educational way to…
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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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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information