1,327 search results for “cognitie and language” in the Public website
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Introducing Tingting Hui, PhD candidate at LUCAS
Tingting Hui started her PhD project at LUCAS in September 2015. Her promotors will be Ernst van Alphen and Yasco Horsman from the Literary Studies department.
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Looking back at the Junius Symposium and looking forward to the future of Old Germanic Studies
On Friday, the 24th of April 2015, the Junius Symposium voor Jonge Oudgermanisten, a symposium for junior researchers in the field of language, culture and history of the (early) medieval Germanic tribes, was organized by Peter Alexander Kerkhof (LUCL) and Thijs Porck (LUCAS).
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Counting and Accountability. The Politics of Numbers in the democracy of Classical Athens
We live in a data-drenched society awash with numbers. An inhabitant of the democratic polis of Athens (5th and 4th centuries B.C.E.) increasingly found himself surrounded by numerical data. This project aims to analyze the communicative functions and the political meaning(s) ascribed to these public…
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Beyond Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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NWO grant for Claartje Levelt: how toddlers learn words
Professor Claartje Levelt, together with Paula Fikkert (Radboud University), has received an NWO Open Competition grant for research into the development of word production in toddlers.
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Maarten Kossmann appointed as professor for Berber Studies
The University Executive Board has appointed Maarten Kossmann as professor for Berber Studies as of April 1, 2017. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics management team would like to congratulate Maarten with this appointment, which will strengthen LUCL’s descriptive linguistic research in general…
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Meet English Language and Culture in Barcelona
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Meet English Language and Culture in Thessaloniki
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Meet English Language and Culture in Athens
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Meet English Language and Culture in Madrid
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Hossam Ahmed: ‘Listen to your students’
Three Humanities lecturers received the Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) this year. Lecturer Hossam Ahmed is one of them. What does he think makes for good education?
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Meet English Language and Culture in London
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Meet English Language and Culture in Milan
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Meet English Language and Culture in Rome
Conference, Meet us in your country
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Workshop: Other Forms of Understanding Language
Workshop-Poetry Lab
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Svetlana Kharchenkova on The Diplomat about decreased number of U.S. books in China
The number of books by U.S. authors released in China has drastically decreased in recent years. Assistant professor Svetlana Kharchenkova wrote an article about this for the Diplomat.
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Economic thinking in the Socratic authors and Aristotle
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking in late 5th- and 4th-century philosophical circles.
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Introducing Lucien van Beek
Lucien van Beek studied Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University, focusing on Ancient Greek. As of February 2015, Van Beek will be project manager at Ineke Sluiter’s Greek-Dutch dictionary project.
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Prof. dr. Holger Gzella elected as member of the Academia Europaea
LUCL member prof. dr. Holger Gzella has been elected as member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).
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Traces of Language Contact in Niya Prakrit
PhD defence
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Alisa van de Haar: ‘People with linguistic skills have always played a very important role in society’
Who was professionally involved in language between 1550 and 1650? And what were the financial returns of this language sector? Assistant Professor Alisa van de Haar has received an ERC Starting Grant to map out the situation in Northwest Europe between 1550 and 1650.
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Lunchtime Speaker Series: Between Logic, Language and Information: adventures in understanding large language models in hybrid settings
Lecture
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52nd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Adult language acquisition and syntactic change
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Jurjen DonkersFaculty of Humanities
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Chiara RavinettoFaculty of Humanities
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Inge VeldhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Opinion Diversity through Hybrid Intelligence
This dissertation explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) can effectively and responsibly contribute to complex decision-making processes. By combining AI and human intelligence, Hybrid Intelligence (HI) emerges, allowing the strengths of both humans and machines to be utilized.
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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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The Proposed Languages in Education Policy for Botswana: Will it Make Local Languages a Social Development Resource?
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Celebrating Language: WDO's 19th Lustrum Symposium
Festival, Lustrum Symposium
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Alex Elias wins Jan Brouwer Thesis Award
Alex Elias, alumnus of the Research Master Linguistics, has won the prestigious Jan Brouwer Thesis Award for his thesis. Elias, who is currently working as a PhD-student at UC Berkeley, wrote his thesis under supervision of prof. dr. Marian Klamer.
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The value of languages (to their users and communities)
Conference
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Male birds may sing, but females are faster at discriminating sounds
It may well be that only male zebra finches can sing, but the females are faster at learning to discriminate sounds. Leiden researchers publish their findings in the scientific journal Animal Behaviour.
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The emergence of sign language in Côte d’Ivoire
Lecture
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Studying the historical roots of sign languages – methodological issues
Lecture
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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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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Delimiting ‘language maintenance’ – what is it, and what is it not?
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Inflection in Kaaɓooje
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense
Conference, Workshop
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53rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming!
Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and quiet. Leiden computer scientist Felienne Hermans has developed Hedy, a programming language that teaches children how to program. An educational way to…
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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Interaction in language, language in interaction - Some exercises in the philosophy of linguistics
Lecture, Interactionality seminars
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Producing affective language: experimental and corpus-based approaches
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Egyptian Diaspora in Paris – Between the Language and Resistance
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
- 2nd Annual Meeting Sign Languages In the Netherlands (SLIN 2024)