1,129 search results for “papua language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Alumni from the French Language and Culture programme return to Leiden: ‘I feel like an ambassador for the language’
The pews of the Walloon Church were filled on Friday 23 May, as more than 120 former students of the French Language and Culture programme gathered to attend mini-lectures, a short theatre performance, and a discussion about the state of the discipline.
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Sara PetrollinoFaculty of Humanities
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Jenny DoetjesFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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From Gothic to OMG: the 21st conference on English historical linguistics comes to Leiden
The largest international conference on English historical linguistics is coming to Leiden. From 7 June to 11 June 2021, the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) organises the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-21). Due to Covid measures, the conference takes…
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How infants learn about language within their social context - experimental and observational evidence
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Azeb AmhaAfrican Studies Centre
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Leticia Pablos RoblesFaculty of Humanities
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The language of internet memes
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Hannah De MulderFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Ans de Rooij-van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Relative chronology and the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-European stop systems
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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How language reveals what you're really saying: 'Interesting if it's language-independent'
In a conversation, you provide all sorts of information to the listener. For example, you can indicate that you're certain about something, or that you heard it through someone else. Associate Professor Jenneke van der Wal has been awarded a Vici grant to investigate whether the way people do this is…
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war
According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take this propaganda seriously.
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Marijn van PuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Sophia NautaFaculty of Humanities
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Joosje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Talent for languages test: National Linguistics Olympiad puts language sense to the test for high school students
How would you convert Egyptian hieroglyphs into Latin script? And what is actually the correct translation of dishes on a Vietnamese menu? On Saturday 28 January, high school students from all over the Netherlands will come to Leiden to ponder a series of language-related puzzles. Their goal? To win…
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Abhishek Avtans-Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
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Brenda AssendelftFaculty of Humanities
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Lifeng HanFaculty of Science
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Carole Tiberius appointed professor of Computational Linguistics: 'If you know how systems work, you can better assess their limitations'
ChatGPT, translation machines and bots: for Carole Tiberius, they are a piece of cake. On 1 January, she was appointed professor of Computational Linguistics. 'There ae two elements to the field: computer science and linguistics.'
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Vincent van HeuvenFaculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert Rutten new professor of Dutch Linguistics
Gijsbert Rutten has been appointed professor of Dutch Linguistics with effect from 1 July. In this position, he will focus on language change and language variation, with a particular emphasis on historical sociolinguistics.
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not to metaphor? How producers, products, and publics use figurative language in science communication
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Saskia DunnFaculty of Humanities
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Jin Hee ParkFaculty of Humanities
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Anneke Both-de Vries
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Janet ConnorFaculty of Humanities
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs
Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL). ‘I emailed my thesis supervisor right away.’
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Levina de Wolf
Faculty of Humanities
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Carel SmithFaculty of Law
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Towards better L1-oral language education: Perspectives on good quality oral language teaching and the role of feedback
PhD defence
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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Reassessing the etymology of Greek katharós ‘clean, stainless, pure’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Yingyang WangFaculty of Humanities
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Lucien van BeekFaculty of Humanities
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The role of feedback in Dutch oral language education
Anneke Wurth, PhD candidate at ICLON, wanted to gain insight into what works well in oral language education in the school subject of Dutch in the upper years of havo and vwo. The role of feedback became central to her research.
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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‘Computers can give linguists a push in the right direction’
For decades, linguists have racked their brains over the question of precisely how the syntax of various languages is different. PhD candidate Martin Kroon has developed a computer system that brings us closer to finding an answer. His PhD defence is on 10 November.
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Language during war: the changing position of Russian in Ukraine
The impact of war extends beyond destroyed buildings and torn families. In bilingual Ukraine, the ongoing war with Russia is a major driver for increasingly discarding the Russian language. What does this mean for the position of Russian in Ukraine?
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Pluriversal Politics: Otomi History, Language, Culture and Cosmovision
Film screening and Book Launch
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Yiya ChenFaculty of Humanities