1,161 search results for “paula language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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    Development of broad Languages and Cultures BA programme to change to ‘Renewing and Strengthening Language Programmes’
        
    
As you may know, a draft profile for a broad BA programme in Languages and Cultures has been in development for some time. On 21 December 2021, the Faculty Board decided to end the design process of that broad bachelor’s degree programme. However, as the Faculty Board and partners in the discipline…
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    European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
    
    
Festival
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    Kiana ShahrasbiFaculty of Science
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    Tom KouwenhovenFaculty of Science
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    Digging for treasure in archives: what did spoken Scots sound like?
        
    
How did Scottish speakers sound hundreds of years ago? University lecturer Mo Gordon thinks the answer to that question can be found in church archives. 'It can be a boost to your identity to know the history of your language.'
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    Yumeng WangFaculty of Science
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    Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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    Olaf KaperFaculty of Humanities
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    Mert YazanFaculty of Science
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    The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit'
        
    
A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do we know when it's time to change turns? University lecturer Johanneke Caspers has been awarded an NWO Open Competition grant to investigate the role of…
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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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    European Day of Languages
    
    
Festival
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    Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language
        
    
In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. Auden. A poetry translation contest added lustre to the occasion. There were no fewer than three winners.
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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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    Hossam AhmedFaculty of Humanities
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    Alumni interview with Marleen Hogendoorn
        
    
Marleen Hogendoorn (36) studied Dutch Language and Culture at Leiden University and is now editor-in-chief of the feminist monthly OPZIJ.
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    Henrike JansenFaculty of Humanities
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    Where does this Inca language come from? Verb conjugations should provide some answers
        
    
When university lecturer Martine Bruil was on exchange in Ecuador as a teenager, she fell in love with the area's ancient languages. Now, more than 20 years later, she is starting a research project on the kinship of the language Awapit with the Quechua language that was spread by the Incas.
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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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    Ziheng ChengFaculty of Humanities
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    Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
    
    
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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    PhD candidate Alex Reuneker’s research: What do we mean when we use ‘if’?
        
    
‘If it rains later, then I’ll take the car.’ In order to reason, we use sentences containing ‘if’ every single day. But how does that work exactly in the Dutch language? Alex Reuneker wrote his 628 page dissertation on the subject. Ceremony on 26 January.
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    Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
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    Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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    Jorge Duran SolorzanoFaculty of Humanities
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    Yee Man NgFaculty of Science
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    The role of linguistic, visual and pragmatic context when predicting language in naturalistic settings
    
    
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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    Methods in Experimental Linguistics: Poster Session by MA students
    
    
Poster session
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    Stephan RaaijmakersFaculty of Humanities
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    Series: Beyond Discourse: An Introduction to Conversation Analysis in Linguistics Research and Elsewhere
    
    
Lecture
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    Applied Linguistics and AI Discussion Series: "Using machine translation for language learning in the classroom"
    
    
Lecture, Discussion
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    Reducing or Reinforcing Gender Bias? A Study on the Application of ChatGPT in Translation from a Feminist Perspective
    
    
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
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    Three questions about delayed language development in children
        
    
Around seven per cent of children have difficulty learning their mother tongue because they have some form of developmental language disorder (DLD). World DLD Day on 15 October called attention to this disorder. Development psychologist Neeltje van den Bedem explains why this is important.
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    Using mobile technology for self-directed language learning
        
    
Self-directed learning is more suitable for intermediate and advanced language learners than for beginners.
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    Ideophones in Brazilian Portuguese: focusing on Afro-diasporic contexts in Brazil
    
    
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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    Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
        
    
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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    Xiaochen ZhengSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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    Joanne StolkFaculty of Humanities
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    Fernanda Korovsky MouraFaculty of Humanities
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    Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
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    Wim TiggesStudent and Educational Affairs (SEA)
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    Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’
        
    
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.
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    Leiden students help with primary school language lessons
        
    
De Regenboog primary school in The Hague has a high percentage of children whose first language is not Dutch. In the ‘Children of the City’ project, Education and Child Studies students help primary school children practise their Dutch.
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    Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto: ‘I have to speak to my cats in Galician’
        
    
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. University lecturer Maria Del Carmen Parafita Couto speaks about bilingualism.
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    NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
        
    
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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    How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia?
        
    
Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…
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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’.…
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    Claartje LeveltFaculty of Humanities
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    Cattle, rather than geometric shapes, determine how the Hamar see the world
        
    
Sara Petrollino, a university lecturer in linguistics, strongly believes that language influences the way we see the world. An NWO Open Competition (XS) grant will enable her to test this hypothesis among the Ethiopian Hamar people. ‘The idea that everyone thinks in geometric shapes is culturally de…
 
