499 search results for “cognitie and language” in the Student website
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Stefan NorbruisFaculty of Humanities
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Deborah OyuuFaculty of Humanities
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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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Naomi TruanFaculty of Humanities
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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‘Humans are storytellers’: the power of stories in language development of children and AI models
What do ten-year-old children and chatbots have in common? PhD researcher Bram van Dijk studied language development in both children and AI language models. ‘It’s actually quite practical that we attribute human traits to a chatbot.’
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Wilt IdemaFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden was buzzing on the Evening of Languages
What does it sound like when you create your own words in Chichewa? Can you decipher hieroglyphs after just one workshop? Visitors found answers to these and many other questions during the first edition of the Evening of Languages, held in the brand-new Herta Mohr Building. With a sold-out programme,…
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Victoria NystFaculty of Humanities
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Tijmen PronkFaculty of Humanities
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen KleinherenbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Hester GrootFaculty of Humanities
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Hilde GunninkFaculty of Humanities
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Inocêncio Joao Raul ZandamelaFaculty of Humanities
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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Saskia DunnFaculty 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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Joost GrootensFaculty of Humanities
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Joan BoothFaculty of Humanities
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Marc BuijnstersFaculty 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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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty 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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Priscilla LamFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Tian YangFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood YenkimalekiFaculty of Humanities
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Paz Gonzalez GonzalezFaculty of Humanities
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Marian KlamerFaculty 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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Suzan VerberneFaculty of Science
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Ou OuriligeFaculty of Humanities
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Ziheng ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Guus KroonenFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty 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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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities