1,324 search results for “first language acquisition” in the Public website
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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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First person
Does the sitter have agency in the making of a photographic portrait? And if so how?
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Language variation at home and abroad: the case of P'urhepecha in Mexico and its US diaspora
By documenting lexical and morpho-syntactic patterns among P’urhepecha speakers in Mexico and the US diaspora, this project will investigate the sources of language variation. The ensuing online dialect atlas will serve as an online resource for speakers, learners and researchers of the language.
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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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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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Marieke Baldee
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.h.baldee@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Maaike Lycklama à Nijeholt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.p.lycklama@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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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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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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Azeb Amha
Afrika-Studiecentrum
a.amha@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3364
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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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Ola Uttenweiler
Faculty of Humanities
a.uttenweiler@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Benjamin Suchard
Faculty of Humanities
b.d.suchard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
m.bruil@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3340
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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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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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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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Right brain hemisphere also important for learning a new language
Novel language learning activates different neural processes than was previously thought. A Leiden research team has discovered parallel but separate contributions from the hippocampus and Broca's area, the learning centre in the left hemisphere. The right hemisphere of the brain also seems to play…
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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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Tian Yang
Faculty of Humanities
t.yang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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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
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Jiaqi Wang
Faculty of Humanities
j.wang.45@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Saskia Dunn
Faculty of Humanities
s.e.dunn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Suzan Verberne
Science
s.verberne@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7043
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Anouschka van Dijk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.j.m.van.dijk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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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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Joram van Ketel
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.e.van.ketel@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7536
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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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Fokelien Kootstra
Faculty of Humanities
f.kootstra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kate Bellamy
Faculty of Humanities
k.r.bellamy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Faculty of Humanities
i.m.tieken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Verba Africana
The project
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Jenny Doetjes appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation
Dr Jenny Doetjes was appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation in February. During her professorship Dr. Doetjes wishes to focus on charting linguistic patterns between languages that, at first glance, seem to have little to do with each other.
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Launch of the Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics
International scholarly publisher Brill has released the most complete and up-to-date reference work on the Chinese language available today. Prof.dr. Rint Sybesma oversaw the project as Editor-in-Chief.
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Gijsbert Rutten
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2112