1,191 search results for “austronesian language and linguistics” in the Staff website
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Yanan WangFaculty of Humanities
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Creating a sign language out of everything and everywhere: An example from the deaf people of Bissau
PhD defence
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
- International conference on Russian-language literature in emigration
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ECOLe
Welcome to the Expertise Centre for Teaching and Learning (ECOLe). Here you will find information on didactics, teacher development, teaching innovation, assessment and the use of teaching tools at humanities. Have a question or need advice? E-mail ecole@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
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English Department turns 75: English Studies alive and kicking in Leiden
At the end of May, the Leiden English Language and Culture Programme, formerly known as the Department of English Language and Literature, celebrated its 75th anniversary (starting from the appointment of the first professor of English Studies). Over 220 alumni, staff present and past, and students…
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Understanding the role of prosody at multiple levels of linguistic organization: Experimental and crosslinguistic insights
Lecture, SMILE Talks
- Advisory group Work Balance
- Overview faculty institutes and key-users
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Formants are better predictors of vowel markedness than features
Lecture, SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
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Maartje van der Woude appointed Mercator Fellow in Göttingen
Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude has been appointed as a Mercator Fellow at the University of Göttingen’s research group Mobility Rights in the Global Context of Multiple Crises, which studies human rights and migration in times of crisis.
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers
Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applications are from researchers at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden Observatory, the LUMC and the Faculty of Archaeology.
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Five pilot interdisciplinary modules for professionals to start in 2024
Leiden University is known for its pioneering research and teaching. By offering education to professionals (lifelong learning), we want to bring this research and teaching expertise to the field and thus further increase our impact on society. With the aid of a grant from Leiden University Academy,…
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University
From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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The wisdom of the Nahua
Indigenous philosophies have been ignored for too long. This prompted Osiris González Romero to study the wisdom of the Nahua in Mexico. Their philosophy has an important message for the consumption society: see the earth and nature as living beings and not just as resources. PhD defence 22 June.
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Joni OysermanFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Daniëlle van der Schaaf
Faculty of Humanities
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In memoriam: Takamitsu Muraoka (1938-2026)
On February 10, 2026, emeritus Professor Dr. Takamitsu Muraoka (1938–2026) passed away, one day after celebrating his 88th birthday. From 1991 until his retirement in 2003, he held the chair of Hebrew Language and Culture, Israelite Antiquities, and Ugaritic at Leiden University.
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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ChatGPT has left-wing bias in Stemwijzer voting advice application
The AI chatbot ChatGPT has a clear left-liberal bias when filling in the Stemwijzer voting advice application. This was discovered by master's student Merel van den Broek during an assignment for the Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing course.
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Do – Re – Mi – Fa – Tone! The fluidity of tone and Ubuntu Linguistics
Inaugural lecture
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Celebrating 40 Years of the Dutch Studies programme
Alumni event, Lustrum
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Interested in becoming a member of The Young Academy? Let your supervisor know
Research
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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From Azerbaijani to Swedish: ‘Multilingualism improves your understanding of others’
September 26 is the European Day of Languages. There are 24 official languages in Europe but some 200 languages in total are spoken on our continent. What good are all these different languages? And should we all learn Azerbaijani or Swedish? We asked Lisa Cheng, Professor of General Linguistics.
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In memoriam: Vincent van Heuven (1949-2026)
Vincent van Heuven passed away unexpectedly on Friday 6 February 2026 at the age of 76 at his home in Kûbaard (Friesland), the Netherlands.
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’
It was while wearing clogs at a Dutch theme park in Japan that Cindy Heijdra really got to know Japan. Over 20 years later, she is studying again: to be a primary school teacher.
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Annelies Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Anna DlabacovaFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Vicky AlcaldeFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbet WinkelmolenFaculty of Humanities
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Rob GoedemansFaculty of Humanities
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Jeanne Giberius-Vignaud
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke van der WalFaculty of Humanities
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Jully Acuña Suarez
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke Baart-LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Leticia de Pedro Andrés
Faculty of Humanities
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Emma Bierings
Faculty of Humanities
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Philomeen DolFaculty of Humanities
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Rossana Hoogendoorn-Gagliano
Faculty of Humanities
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Roosmaryn PilgramFaculty of Humanities
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Andries van HeldenFaculty of Humanities
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Znati am Dahhane
Faculty of Humanities
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Anooshik Maleki Bakhshmandi
Faculty of Humanities
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Isaac Eaton
Faculty of Humanities