2,557 search results for “linguistics diversity” in the Public website
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Misleading bar and pie charts
People can be easily mislead with graphs. But they don’t necessarily stay misled, the research shows.
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Introducing: Monika Baar
Monika Baar started working in Leiden in September 2015. She's currently the project leader of the ERC Research Project 'Rethinking Disability'.
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Something else than writing an essay: Ruben made a documentary for an assignment
Ruben van Gaalen used a very unique approach for a course of the research master Colonial and Global History: instead of writing an essay, he went to Dublin and made a documentary about African rappers in Ireland.
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'It is important to have discussions about topics that not everybody agrees on'
Today Mikhail Khordorkovsky visits the Leiden University Campus of The Hague to debate with students about the future of Russia. It is the first time this critic of Putin and former captain of industry visits the Netherlands. This event has been organised by the organisation Raam op Rusland and the…
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Genner Llanes-Ortiz’s Leiden Experience: ‘Indigenous stories contain knowledge from deep past’
Back in 2016, Genner Llanes-Ortiz joined the Faculty of Archaeology as an assistant professor in the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples research group. Genner works on the crossroads of anthropology, archaeology, heritage, and human rights. ‘I am investigating how contemporary indigenous peoples are re-connecting…
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How animals flirt with each other
How do animals choose their partners? The answer is simple: it’s all about quality. While humans tend to wear clothes that happen to be in fashion, animals do nothing without a reason. Behind beautiful plumage or a deafening roar is only one message: I am in great shape. The evolutionary courtship displays…
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Successful Open Day for Humanities: ‘Here you feel how it really works’
Full lecture halls, a crowded information fair and a queue for coffee in the basement: during the Open Day, the Faculty of Humanities was inundated with curious prospective students.
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A warm welcome for international students
International bachelor’s and master’s students started the OWL on Monday morning. During this introduction week they get to know their new university, city and each other.
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Victor Gijsbers wins the 2017 Faculty Education Award
Philosophy lecturer Victor Gijsbers has been awarded the 2017 Faculty Education Award. The Faculty Education Award is given each year to the Faculty’s most inspiring lecturer. After attending one of Gijsbers’s lectures, the jury said it was impressed by his energy and dry humour.
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ERC Starting Grant for Thijs Porck: 'Everyone loved Old English in the nineteenth century'
In the nationalist nineteenth century, people developed an interest in medieval language and literature. The study of medieval material in one’s own vernacular was thought to reveal a great national past. But why, then, was Old English studied by Germans, Danes, Italians and many other nationalities…
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‘Once you really learn to listen, a whole new world opens up’
Marcel Cobussen, professor of Auditory Culture and Music Philosophy, has made listening his speciality. From the sounds of a microwave to chirruping birds, he studies how people treat noise in their environment and what kind of information sounds can give. His mission: to teach people to listen better…
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Alumnus Jonathan works with Ukrainian refugees: ‘They still have a smile on their face’
When alumnus Jonathan Katzman started his master's programme in Russian and Eurasian Studies, he didn't foresee how useful those skills would be in the near future. Now, he manages a refugee centre for Ukrainians who have fled their war-torn country.
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The Leiden Connection - screenwriter Gerard Soeteman looks back
Gerard Soeteman (1936) created a furore as a screenwriter of films that became classics (Dutch films: Turks Fruit, Soldaat van Oranje, de Aanslag), but personally he is much more attached to his critical documentaries for television. He studied Dutch in Leiden. How did that help him?
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A look at music in the brain at the LIBC public symposium
How does music affect a test subject’s brain? That was just one of the questions on the minds of the people who came to the LIBC public day to hear Rebecca Schaefer’s talk, as well as to hear from other top researchers about their investigations into music. The five woodwind players in the Calefax reed…
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Using technology for the translation of literature: a user-centred approach
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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“De” outside the cleft: An evidential operator in the C domain
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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What can constructs of high stakes exams tell us about assessment cultures? The case of the new Language arts exam in Norway
Lecture
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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The Sociolinguistics of Rhotacization in the Beijing Speech Community
PhD defence
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The Recontextualisation of a Multiethnolect: The Case of Multicultural London English
Lecture, Sociolinguistics series
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (5)
Workshop Series
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The Three Phases of Early Missing Subjects: Evidence from Creole Language Acquisition
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Time for something different: interactional uses of temporal adverbs in Dutch?
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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boekpresentatie & symposium “Indische Adel”
Conference
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Malayic varieties of Kelantan and Terengganu
PhD defence
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From oscillations to language: behavioural and electroencephalographic studies on cross-language interactions
PhD defence
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Interactionality all through grammar (with examples from Russian and other languages)
Lecture
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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
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Like Dust on the Silk Road
PhD defence
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The DP-Internal Origin of Datives
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Stop! Hey, what's that sound?
PhD defence
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Indo-Slavic lexical isoglosses and the prehistoric dispersal of Indo- Iranian
PhD defence
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Van struikelblok naar bouwsteen
PhD defence
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Doing dialectological fieldwork
Workshop Series
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4. Dialectometry Beyond Classification
Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)
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Liveblog as Genre in Pursuit of Credibility
PhD defence
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Life of Phi: Phi-features in West Germanic and the syntax-morphology interface
PhD defence
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Verfransing onder de loep
PhD defence
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Introduction of a Wapishana-English Bilingual Education Programme
PhD defence
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Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Studies in Tocharian verbal morphology relevant to the cladistic position of Tocharian in Indo-European
PhD defence
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Spanish English contact in the Falkland Islands: an ethnographic approach to loanwords & place names
PhD defence
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These kind of words: number agreement in the species noun phrase in International Academic English
PhD defence
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Pluricentriciteit in de taalgeschiedenis
PhD defence
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Towards the Automatic Detection of Syntactic Differences
PhD defence
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Patterns of language contact in the Tarim Basin in Northwest China
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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The “White Dialect” of young Arabic speakers from Qassim (Saudi Arabia)
PhD defence
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A History of East Baltic through Language Contact: A Seminar on the Occasion of Anthony Jakob’s Defense
Conference
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1. What is dialectometry? Why dialectometry?
Course, Introduction to Dialectometry (2024)