3,453 search results for “paula language and linguistics” in the Public website
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Lucja CzortFaculty of Humanities
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Tracy Huang
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Natalia Gofman
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Mariëtte Groeneveld
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Ahmad Rifai
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Zhibo Mu
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Floris Meertens
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Nanouk Sabel
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Rosa VersluisFaculty of Humanities
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Children's stories as a window to investigate empathy
Researcher Max van Duijn and PhD student Bram van Dijk apply language models to stories told by children to investigate empathy. For this research, they received the Best Paper Award at the Computational Natural Language Learning Conference in Singapore.
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Elise AlbertsFaculty of Humanities
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Crit CremersFaculty of Humanities
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Prestigious Fellowship for Ingrid Tieken
Professor Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has been awarded a fellowship at Clare College at the University of Cambridge from February to August 2011. She will use the opportunity to pursue her research on the relationship between the history of grammar writing and actual usage.
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Neural correlates of vocal learning in songbirds and humans: cross-species fMRI studies into individual differences
Vocal learning is a trait shared by songbirds and humans. It is also a trait that is restricted by the brain rather than by a species' vocal apparatus. In this dissertation, functional MRI is employed in both species in order to explore potential common neural mechanisms underlying the ability to develop…
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Rosa van StratenFaculty of Humanities
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The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) aims to demonstrate its relevance to society by means of high-quality research, excellent education and various outreach activities. A few highlights:
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Siavash Rafiee RadFaculty of Humanities
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The Impact of Name Writing on Early Literacy
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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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Claiming Beowulf as a European Epic: Non-Anglophone Appropriations of an Old English Poem
How did nineteenth-century non-Anglophone translators and authors creatively engage with the poem Beowulf?
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Forensic speech recognition: emerging scientific field in Leiden
On 4 June 2018, students of the Forensic Speech Science master’s course visited the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) in The Hague. They were presented with practical examples, such as speech research with voice recordings of suspects. Forensic phonetics is a young, rapidly developing discipline…
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grant for Xiaochen Zheng to explore cognitive control processes of language
'Psychologists think I’m a linguist but linguists think I’m a psychologist,' says cognitive neuroscientist Xiaochen Zheng. With the Veni grant she will be able to bring these two fields of research closer together. Read her answers to five questions.
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Winged Words
The prehistory of communication metaphors
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Sjef Barbiers moves to INT: ‘Especially in times of AI, we need to keep Dutch relevant’
Professor Sjef Barbiers is leaving his job as scientific director of LUCL for the position of scientific director of the Institute for the Dutch Language (INT) from 1 September.
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Do you have any questions about the Industrial Ecology master’s programme? Please contact us! It is also possible to schedule a call with our study advisors or one of our students. Moreover, we have online Walk-In hours every third Friday of the month.
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Election as Honorary Member of the LSA
Prof. Dr. Willem Adelaar has been elected as Honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA)
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Suzan VerberneFaculty of Science
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2015 Roberta D'Alessandro elected Member of the ICSU Committee
As of this October, linguist Roberta D'Alessandro is appointed as Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the conduct of Science (CFRS).
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Introducing Tingting Hui, PhD candidate at LUCAS
Tingting Hui started her PhD project at LUCAS in September 2015. Her promotors will be Ernst van Alphen and Yasco Horsman from the Literary Studies department.
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About us
The Academic Language Centre is part of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and provides language services to students and staff of Leiden University and the Leiden University Medical Centre.
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Motivating and Motivation in Bilingual Education
What motivates learners in bilingual education to learn English and how can and do teaching practices contribute to that motivation?
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PhD candidate Camil Staps figured out what ‘out’ means
Words originally intended to indicate space, such as ‘out’, are also regularly used to indicate cause and effect. Why does this happen? And how does it work in other languages? PhD candidate Camil Staps decided to find out.
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Alex Reuneker awarded Frans van Eemeren prize
University lecturer Alex Reuneker has won the Frans van Eemeren Prize for his paper 'Assessing classification reliability of conditionals in discourse'.
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Anglicist Ingrid Tieken appointed new member of KNAW
Leiden Anglicist Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade is one of the seventeen new members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Tieken is Professor of Historical Sociolingusitics of English.
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Marco Spruit wants to develop a language model to improve healthcare
By making smart use of available data, the health and care of people can be substantially improved. Marco Spruit wants to use language and machine learning in the coming years to identify and solve the biggest care issues in the region of The Hague. He has been appointed Professor of Advanced Data Science…
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Claire SmuldersICLON
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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About the programme
During this programme you will acquire in-depth knowledge of one of eight world regions by studying its politics, economy, history and culture, and a local language. You will gain the ability to place regional developments in a global context, providing a strong preparation for the labour market in…
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Mermru: Building a Dynamic and Integrated Linguistic Engine for Ethio-Semitic Languages
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Researchers debunk earlier study: babies may not be able to learn language rules after all
For two decades, language experts were certain that babies were able to learn language rules from as young as the age of seven months. However, recent research carried out by a consortium of four Dutch baby labs led by researchers from Leiden cast doubts on this certainty. We spoke to researchers Andreea…
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Tim LamérisFaculty of Humanities
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Special award for Ingrid Tieken
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade has received a special award: the Order of St. Mellitus, in recognition of her services to the history of the Bishops of London.
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Opposing the French participle clause
The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perhaps one of the most unfathomable grammatical constructions in Dutch. For what (or who) is serving whom (or what)? It actually means ‘ice and weather permitting’.…