1,175 search results for “austronesian language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Xuan TangFaculty of Humanities
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Ben PehrsonFaculty of Humanities
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Jenny Doetjes investigates 'How much' with NWO Open Competition grant
Professor Jenny Doetjes has received an NWO grant to research the cross-linguistic properties of quantity expressions and our brain's influence on language.
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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Chuang Liu
Faculty of Humanities
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Andreas KrogullFaculty of Humanities
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Fenna PoletiekFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Janneke GeursenICLON
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Lustrum: 75 years English Language and Culture programme
Alumni event, Lustrum
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Anouschka van DijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Liza van den BoschFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marc BuijnstersFaculty of Humanities
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The language of Russian propaganda
In 2014 Russia entered Ukraine and occupied Crimea, and about two and a half years ago it began a large-scale invasion. For Ukraine, it’s a war. But Russia calls it a ‘special military operation’. Word choices of this kind affect how people look at issues. A Dutch Research Council (NWO) project led…
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Contribute your ideas: Day of Languages 2026
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar'
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). High time for a chat with Jenneke van der Wal, Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt about the importance of the platform and plans for the…
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Arnout KoornneefFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Social media
Making use of social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. But it also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse of (personal) data.
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Maarten JansenFaculty of Archaeology
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Turan Hanci
Faculty of Humanities
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Yiran Ding
Faculty of Humanities
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Choose a Language! Afternoon: ‘Great that it's more than learning words’
The lecture halls in the Lipsius were full of curious secondary school students in January. During a special profile selection afternoon, they were introduced to the faculty and language studies. ‘I had no idea that Hebrew and Arabic were similar.’
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How AI helps map sign languages
Like spoken languages, sign languages evolve organically and do not always have the same origin. This produces different ways of communication and annotation. Manolis Fragkiadakis wrote his PhD thesis on this.
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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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Students create creative language lessons for primary and secondary education: ‘Not enough attention paid to languages’
The earlier you introduce children to a language, the sooner they can be captivated by it and see that there is more than just Dutch and English. That is the basis for the language lessons for primary education that Alisa van de Haar, university lecturer of French, collaborated on. ‘Deans from different…
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Benjamin Suchard: ‘The more you send out into the world, the more likely it will stick’
How do you make niche subjects interesting and accessible? Benjamin Suchard, historical linguist and researcher, seems to have created the perfect recipe, which consists of his various projects alongside his regular research, including a Twitter account and a major international film.
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Extra information faculties on OER
The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.
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I-Fan LinFaculty of Science
- Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Mily CrevelsFaculty of Humanities
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Annabel MeesterFaculty of Humanities
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Kumiko Hirata
Faculty of Humanities
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Florence Fabbricotti
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeeyoung SeoFaculty of Humanities
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Lidy Bont
Faculty of Humanities
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Lucja Czort
Faculty of Humanities
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Tracy Huang
Faculty of Humanities
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Natalia Gofman
Faculty of Humanities
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Mariëtte Groeneveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahmad Rifai
Leiden University Libraries
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Zhibo Mu
Faculty of Humanities
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Floris Meertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Nanouk Sabel
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…
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Elise AlbertsFaculty of Humanities
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Crit CremersFaculty of Humanities
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Siavash Rafiee RadFaculty of Humanities
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Rosa van StratenFaculty of Humanities
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The syntax of Dutch (non-clausal) manner PPs
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series