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• An experimental approach to the interaction of tone sandhi and focus expression in six dialects of Chinese Research project

  This project employs a systematic experimental approach to examine the interaction of these two hitherto independent lines of research (tone sandhi and focus realization) in six dialects of Chinese, which lie on a continuum between dialects with dense tonal distributions and sparser distributions. In…

• Summer School in Languages and Linguistics is now open. News - 9 March 2020

  The Leiden Summerschool in Languages and Linguistics, including courses in Papyrology, is now open. BA/MA/PhD students are welcome to attend.

• Dutch Linguistics (MA)

  The master’s programme in Dutch linguistics at Leiden University provides you with a deep understanding of the Dutch language and the multifaceted research into the structure and use of the Dutch language. During the programme you will not only gain in-depth knowledge of Dutch linguistics, but also…

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  Paul van der Werf System Developer

  ISSC

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  Dick Smakman University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL)

  Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is one of seven institutes housed within the Faculty of Humanities.

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  Adrien Dadone Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

• National language and feminist activism in Republican China: the 1924 Congress for the Advancement of Education Event - 15 April 2026

  Lecture, China Seminar

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  Olga Nozdracheva PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Paul Kloeg Head Datamanagement

  Leiden University Libraries

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  Paul Hudson Associate Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Paul Cliteur Professor Emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Paul Nieuwenburg Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Paul Wouters Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Paul van Dronkelaar Junior Functional Application Manager

  Student and Educational Affairs (SEA)

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  Paul Uit de Weerd PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Paul van Steijn Student Assistant

  Student and Educational Support

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  Paul van der Linden Helpdesk Staff Member

  ISSC

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  Paul van der Velde Postdoc

  International Institute Asian Studies

• The linguistic past of Mesoamerica and the Andes: a search for early migratory relations between North and South America Research project

  The aim of the project is to unravel the genetic and contact relations between the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica (Mexico and western Central America) and the Middle Andes region (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia), as part of a larger endeavor to understand the historical process of the peopling of the Americas…

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  Paul de Hoog Board advisor

  Faculty of Science

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  Jill Jeffery University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Sign Languages and Deaf People (SL&D) lecture series Event
• Linguistics (BA)

  There is not a day without language: we use it to read, to write, to communicate. But do you ever wonder how you learned to speak your own language as a child? And how, as an adult, do you learn new languages? Linguistics has the answer to those questions. In the BA Linguistics at Leiden University…

• Sound of Mind: electrophysiological and behavioural evidence for the role of context, variation and informativity in human speech processing Research output

  In this dissertation, electrophysiological (EEG) and behavioural measures are used to investigate how allophonic tonal variants and sub-phonemic features are processed during Mandarin and Dutch speech production, visual processing of written words and reading aloud.

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  Paul Behrens Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

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  Paul Vedder Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Historical Linguistics and Philology Historical and Comparative Linguistics

  The topic of Historical Linguistics and Philology at LUCL is language change in its broadest sense.

• Language documentation Ecuador Centre for Indigenous Americas Studies

  Collaborative linguistic research on indigenous languages of Ecuador: description, documentation & materials

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  Hilde Gunnink Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ronald Kon Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Forensic linguistics and speech evidence Applied Linguistics

  Investigating specific language and speech behaviour of people.

• The speaker in speech – the interdependence of linguistic and indexical information Research project

  Which features characterize speakers’ voices, and how are these features determined by what a speaker is saying?

• From Gesture to Language Research project

  Like any language, the natural sign languages (henceforth: SLs) of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that SLs make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…

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  Paul van der Werf Professor

  Faculty of Science

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  Paul van der Elst Senior Engineer Integration

  ISSC

• Language diversity, its genesis, history and cognitive base Research project

  The project aims at highlighting and strengthening Dutch research into the diversity of the world’s languages from a historic and a cognitive perspective.

• Alor-Pantar languages: origins and theoretical impact Research project

  This research project focuses on the extended documentation and investigation of these non-Austronesian (‘Papuan’) languages.

• Language Use in Past and Present Research project

  The research programme Language Use in Past and Present brings together linguists within LUCL whose central focus is both on actual language data, including language use in earlier stages of the language, and, taking a variationist perspective, on language change in various aspects.

• 24th International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics Event - 6 June 2027

  Conference

• Unknown 18th-century Dutch: language variation in private letters Research output

  How did common people write in the late eighteenth century? Little is yet known on this topic, since our knowledge is mainly based on printed texts written by a small part of the (male) elite population. This dissertation – written from a sociolinguistic point of view – gives us new insights into late-…

• Leiden University Centre for Linguistics Humanities

  There are over 7,000 languages in the world and over half of the world’s population is bilingual. But how do all these people use their language? And how do these languages differ from one another? Under the slogan of ‘Interconnecting linguistic diversity,’ the researchers from the Leiden University…

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  Herman Paul Academic director/ Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages Research output

  This dissertation provides an overview of the phonological developments of the Qinghai-Gansu languages, comparing them to the reconstructed ancestral language.

• Contact in the Prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives Research output

  This study analyses the prehistory of a northeastern Siberian population, the Sakha, from both a molecular-genetic and a linguistic perspective.

• Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change Event - 10 July 2026

  Conference

• Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars Event
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  Maximilian Paul Eckardt PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

• Versatility of phonemic pitch in affective iconicity and perceptual reorganisation Research output

  On the 19th of November, Tingting Zheng successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Tingting on this achievement!

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  Paul van Leeuwen Lecturer

  Faculty of Science