602 search results for “cognitie and language” in the Student website
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Aleksandra UttenweilerFaculty of Humanities
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
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Priscilla LamFaculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeFaculty 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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‘Language is part of your identity’
Language is omnipresent: when you talk, app or meet in Teams. Understanding how we communicate with one another and what communication does to us is essential. In her inaugural lecture, Nivja de Jong will call to redress the balance between the sciences and the humanities.
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Kate BellamyFaculty 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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Liza van den BoschFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marc BuijnstersFaculty of Humanities
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Tijmen PronkFaculty 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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Ben ArpsFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen KleinherenbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Willemijn HeerenFaculty of Humanities
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Arnout KoornneefFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Yuyang WeiFaculty of Humanities
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Chuang LiuFaculty of Humanities
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Hannah De MulderFaculty of Humanities
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Paz Gonzalez GonzalezFaculty of Humanities
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Tian YangFaculty of Humanities
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood YenkimalekiFaculty of Humanities
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How do our language rules come about?
Many of the language rules we use today were formulated in the 17th and 18th centuries. In a dual track at the universities of Leiden and Brussels, PhD candidate Eline Lismont investigated why some rules became successful while other rules were quickly forgotten.
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Alumni from the French Language and Culture programme return to Leiden: ‘I feel like an ambassador for the language’
The pews of the Walloon Church were filled on Friday 23 May, as more than 120 former students of the French Language and Culture programme gathered to attend mini-lectures, a short theatre performance, and a discussion about the state of the discipline.
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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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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Ancient Greek spelling mistakes shed new light on language development
If you had something important to write down in ancient times, you would usually write in Greek in the eastern Mediterranean. University lecturer Joanne Stolk has been awarded an ERC grant to explore the kinds of spelling mistakes that were made in these scripts. And, more importantly, what improvements…
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Human language inspired AI – and now we can use that AI to learn about language
Yuchen Lian defended her thesis on AI and language evolution at Leiden University.
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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Farrukh Baratov -
Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Joost GrootensFaculty of Humanities
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Paul van ElsFaculty of Humanities
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Renate Dekker
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzanne AdemaFaculty of Humanities
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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How do people best learn a language? 'It's incredible what you do when you talk'
According to Nivja de Jong, second language acquisition is 'the most fascinating subject in linguistics'. As a recently appointed professor of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, she studies the question of how best to teach people a new language.
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Language both connects and divides
Author and political scientist Mounir Samuel has spent recent years delving into the many ways that language can exclude people and bring them together.
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Marjolein LansingICLON