1,294 search results for “korean language” in the Public website
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Language gets people talking
Studying languages enables you to unearth a lot of valuable information about humans: it reveals our history and explains cultural differences and it even illustrates the process of learning new information. The University is sharing its knowledge of and passion for languages in various new ways, including…
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Signs on Paper: Unlocking the Histories of Sign Languages with AI
This PhD project investigates how automatic sign language recognition technology can be further developed to analyse static images and textual descriptions of signs.
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Learning Russian as a second language through allusive (precedential) phrases: corpus-based study
When literature, cultural aspects, and data-driven language learning meet in a classroom.
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Alignment in Eastern Neo-Aramaic Languages from a Typological Perspective
On October 31st, Paul Noorlander succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Paul on this great result.
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Signs on Paper: Unlocking the Histories of Sign Languages with AI
This PhD project investigates how automatic sign language recognition technology can be further developed to analyse static images and textual descriptions of signs.
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stop sounds at the intersection of phonetics, phonology, language variation and language change
A project on phonology, phonetics, and the space between them.
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Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing Standards across Time and Space
This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world…
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The prehistoric origin and spread of the Indo-Iranian languages
A linguistic test of hypotheses rooted in genetics and archaeology.
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Gea Hakker: ‘We aim to be the gold standard of language learning’
The Academic Language Centre (ATC) is one of the cornerstones of Leiden University. Director Gea Hakker explains how this organisation is providing quality (online) language courses and meeting new demands.
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeFaculty of Humanities
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
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Cattle-talk: the language of colour among East African pastoralists
What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?
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Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese reversed language
On the 24th of October, Nurenzia Yannuar successfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Nurenzia on this achievement.
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A grammar of Ik (Icetod) Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language
This study offers a comprehensive but balanced grammatical analysis of Ik (Icetod), Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language.
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Building a Dynamic and Integrated Linguistic Engine for Ethio-Semitic Languages
Lecture
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Azeb AmhaAfrican Studies Centre
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
On the 26th of September, Cosmas Rai Amenorvi successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Cosmas on this achievement!
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Arend QuakFaculty of Humanities
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I-Fan LinFaculty of Science
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Liza van den BoschSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Manfred HorstmanshoffFaculty of Humanities
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Anouschka van DijkSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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What is shared and what is unique in language and music
Knowledge and culture subproject 1:
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Flora Smit on the relationship between K-pop idols and their fans
Fans of the Korean music movement K-pop go through hell for their idols. In return, artists care deeply about their fans: they even get to decide their hair color. In the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave', PhD candidate Flora Smit takes a closer look at this relationship.
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Mirae Kim on translation issues at K-pop
K-pop is wildly popular. Fans all over the world sing along to the Korean songs, often without understanding exactly what the lyrics mean. University lecturer Mirae Kim explains why these songs are so difficult to translate in the video series
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Lazy Mindreader: a new perspective on “mindreading” from the study of language and narrative
How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?
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Traces of language contact in Niya Prakrit: Bactrian and other foreign elements
On the 6th of November, Niels Schoubben successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Niels on this achievement!
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psychosocial development of children with and without Developmental Language Disorder
Dissertation
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Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea
In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explains how this is possible in the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave'.
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Student Maureen Kuijs about receiving the 2020 Global Korea Scholarship
Maureen Kuijs, third-year BA Korean Studies student, is one of the students that received the 2020 Global Korea Scholarship this year. With this scholarship, Maureen can pursue a Master's degree in Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University, receiving financial support from the South-Korean…
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Janet ConnorFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse Wichers SchreurFaculty of Humanities
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Stefan NorbruisFaculty of Humanities
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Deborah OyuuFaculty of Humanities
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Dynamic Testing and the Relation with School performance and Language difficulties.
What is the effect of a dynamic training in children’s inductive reasoning skills and how is it related to children’s school performances and language development.
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A Grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan Language of Sudan
This thesis investigates the grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic language spoken in the Blue Nile Province of North Sudan. The comprehensive description provides an analysis of the phonology, morphology, and syntax. Ten texts of various genre are given to help illustrated the grammar…
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Language contact: bridging the gap between individual interactions and areal patterns
A new publication that brings together perspectives on language contact phenomena across temporal and spatial dimensions.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Korean Studies at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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I-Hsien LinFaculty of Humanities
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Debora Campos WanderleyFaculty of Humanities
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Adrien DadoneFaculty of Humanities
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Understanding the brain via language
Professor Jenny Doetjes at Leiden University researches similarities and differences in languages, specifically in the area of numerals and quantifiers. Her research provides insight into language patterns, bu also in the working of the human brain. Inaugural lecture on 26 January.
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Naomi TruanFaculty of Humanities
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Aleksandra UttenweilerFaculty of Humanities
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Falling Short of Expectations: Evaluative Languages in Scholarly Book Reviews, 1900-2000
What evaluative languages (errors, mistakes, vices, etc.) did book reviewers employ? To what extent and on what occasions did they invoke early modern vices? And to what extent did this differ across fields or change over the course of the century?
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Pride and Prejudice: Moral Languages in Scholarly Codes of Conduct, 1900-2000
If idioms employed in codes of conduct could be as idiosyncratic as examples suggest, then to what extent did early modern language of vice, too, persist in this genre?
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signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities
In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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From Text to Knowledge: Language Models for Knowledge Graph Extraction and Ontology Learning
This PhD project investigates how language models can be used to extract structured knowledge from text in a way that is accurate, robust, and applicable to real-world use cases.