1,118 search results for “austronesian language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Joseph SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Sjors Neijens
Faculty of Humanities
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Syria, one year after the revolution: The role of women and minorities
Lecture, Workshop
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Jaqueline Caniguan Caniguan
Faculty of Humanities
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Elena Solá Simón
Faculty of Humanities
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Roos Bakker
Faculty of Humanities
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Cecilia Mignanti
Faculty of Humanities
- Una Europa: European Day of Languages
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Genetics proves it: Indo-European did not come to Europe on horseback
Horses were first domesticated in South-West Russia, is the conclusion drawn by an international team of researchers writing in the well-respected journal Nature. Their conclusion resolves a longstanding archaeological question. But, surprisingly enough, this domestication did not contribute to the…
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‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages
Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she has made it her mission to encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to make fewer statements about life expectancy. 'Such a conviction can…
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Willem AdelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Rubicon awarded to neuroscientist Simeen Tabassi Mofrad
Neuroscientist Simeen Tabassi Mofrad has been awarded a Rubicon grant to conduct research on cortical and allelic determinants of age-related cognitive decline at University of Oxford. She holds the first rank among all Rubicon applicants in NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).
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A Computational Approach to the Segmental and Tonal Classification of Yue Dialects
Lecture, CHiLL series
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The dynamics of contact-induced change and language shift
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Celebration of the Georgian Language Day
Conference
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Machine Translation Literacy for (language) teachers
Workshop
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Executive Board visits institutes: ‘We want to talk to our colleagues in the place where it all happens’
Board members Annetje Ottow and Hester Bijl recently visited the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL, Faculty of Humanities) and the Mathematical Institute (MI, Faculty of Science). This was the start of a series of visits to institutes at our university. The focus is on talking to researchers…
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Briitta van Staalduinen receives Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association
Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class and Inequality. Her dissertation, Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State, aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare…
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Lips pouted or not? How improved speaker recognition can help forensic investigations
Police investigations use wiretapped phone recordings as investigative material fairly regularly. But how do they know that the voice on the recording actually belongs to the suspect? PhD student Laura Smorenburg is trying to answer that question.
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NWO Open Competition for replication research: 'Deals with fundamental question in my field'
Innovation through repetition. That is how university lecturer Jurriaan Witteman describes his research on the automatic processing of angry voices in the brain. The original research was conducted 20 years ago, but, with an NWO grant, Witteman is now going to see if those results are accurate.
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A Luwian song in Old Hittite and its relevance for the study of negation compounds
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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Computational approaches to diachronic language micro-variation
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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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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Traces of Language Contact in Niya Prakrit
PhD defence
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Meike de BoerFaculty of Humanities
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Katinka ZevenFaculty of Humanities
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Zhaole YangFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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NWO Open Competition for research on inclusive religion and identity: 'Impact on LGBTQIA+ community still underexplored'
What is the impact of religion and its discourse on the lives of queer people in countries where LGBTQIA+ individuals are not accepted? University Lecturer Eduardo Alves Vieira wants to know just that. With an NWO-grant, he will take a closer look at the inclusive religion movement in Brazil.
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Neele Boelens: ‘I think it is important to get young people to vote’
Neele Boelens is a board member at DWARS, the youth organisation of political party GroenLinks. In addition, she is studying towards two degrees at Leiden University: Linguistics and Public Administration. A busy year, especially with the upcoming elections.
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Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
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Nathan Albury-GarcésFaculty of Humanities
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Floor van den Berg
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijn van 't Veer
Faculty of Humanities
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Alba Hermida Rodríguez
Faculty of Humanities
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Anneloes van IwaardenFaculty of Humanities
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Marco van Kerkhoven
Faculty of Humanities
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Bahareh SoohaniLeiden University Library
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Bryan O' DonovanFaculty of Humanities
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Arno van 't Hoog
Faculty of Humanities
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Reden Valencia Libo-onFaculty of Humanities
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Marcelo Marques Miranda
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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From judge to police officer: a lack of understanding for deaf people in legal proceedings
The cultural linguistic minority group of deaf people who communicate using sign language systematically experiences limited access to fundamental rights. Linguist Joni Oyserman identified this problem and has received a Meijers grant to fund her investigation.
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Speech levels and Verbal Art in languages of Indonesia
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Gregory McLean
Faculty of Humanities
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Adrian Stenton
Faculty of Humanities