1,401 search results for “cognitieve and language” in the Public website
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Three Comenius Teaching Fellowships for Leiden lecturers
Four lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius Teaching Fellowships to innovate within their teaching, together with their project teams. They have been awarded one €100,000 fellowship within the Senior Fellows programme and two €50,000 fellowships within the Teaching Fellows progr…
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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize!
Thijs Porck, expert in medieval English, has won the LUCAS Public Prize because he has made his research and education visible to a wider audience. Thijs has reached the national media, secondary schools and a lot of views with his blogs and videos. The prize consists of a certificate, trophy, 1000…
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A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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The development of the Tocharian accent
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Visuality of Deaf People in Contemporary Times
Lecture
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Guram Odisharia: Literary responses to the Abkhaz-Georgian conflict
Arts and culture, Q&A
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LUCIP Book Launch "Introducing Chinese Philosophy: From the Warring States to the 21st Century"
Lecture
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Maintaining Self While Adapting: Chinese Foreign Language Teachers’ Identity Development in an Intercultural Context
PhD defence
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Whose Language Is It, Anyway? Mapping Arabic in Modern Hebrew Literature
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Theory of Mind in Language, Minds and Machines: a Multidisciplinary Approach
PhD defence
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Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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‘The Honours Academy is a testing ground’
Pushing the limits and trying things out. The academic year of the Honours Academy started on 10 October and all the speakers encouraged students to jump in at the deep end.
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Primacy and collapse in intonational melodies: Insights from imitation
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Mistaken Identities
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium
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Reanalysing asymmetry in Xichangana (S53): evidence from applicative constructions
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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Gerda Henkel Research Grant for Meike de Goede
Meike de Goede has received a research grant of €14,600 from the Gerda Henkel Foundation for her research on the post-colonial silencing of anti-colonial resistance in Congo-Brazzaville.
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Leiden Essay Film Festival
Festival
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Conference: The Poetics of Olfaction, 1500–1800
Conference
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Paneldiscussie: Een Rijkdom aan Talen
Debate, Paneldiscussie
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
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What politicians can learn from Cicero and Dionysius
'How do you write a slogan to win an election?' Steven Ooms answers this question in his PhD research into ideas about good prose in the time of Caesar and Emperor Augustus. This period is considered a high point for the development of literature. The Roman Cicero and the Greek Dionysius of Halicarnassus…
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Descriptive Linguistics: Interactive idea sharing session
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistic Seminars
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From INsight to inSIGHT: Understanding prosodic adaptation in speech perception
Lecture, SMILE Talks
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Peter Liebregts guest lecturer in Canterbury
At the invitation of the Centre for Early Christianity and Its Reception (CECIR), Peter Liebregts, Full Professor of Modern Literatures in English (LUCAS), visited the University of Kent in Canterbury from March 17 to 20, to give a lecture and a masterclass.
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Evidence: fact finding
Leiden Law School has a strong tradition of research in the field of fact-finding and evidence in criminal cases.
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Special sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes seven special sessions. When making a submission, authors are asked to indicate whether they want their paper to be considered for a special session. You can find descriptions of each below.
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About LUMAN
The Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN) brings medical anthropologists together with the aim of fostering interfaculty collaborations and creating common ground for working interdisciplinary on health-related themes in Leiden and beyond.
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Anna DlabacovaFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Annelies Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PetrollinoFaculty of Humanities
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Ariëlle ReitsemaFaculty of Humanities
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Susana ValdezFaculty of Humanities
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Rutger Hoekstra -
Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Formants are better predictors of vowel markedness than features
Lecture, SMILE - Experimental Linguistics series
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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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Disentangling ghost segments and number marking in Sengwer
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series
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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
- This Time for Africa! series
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Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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Putting migraine into words: the patient’s account is crucial for diagnosis
Migraine can’t be diagnosed with a blood test, scan or physical examination. Language therefore plays a crucial role in its diagnosis. Neurologist Joost Haan has researched the relationship between language and migraine, and looked at how migraine is described in fiction. His PhD defence is on 22 Oc…
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How do you prepare students to engage with wicked problems?
Climate change, social inequality, and the COVID-19 crisis are examples of wicked problems—issues that require collaboration across different disciplines. In partnership with the African Studies Centre, David Ehrhardt and Caroline Archambault (LUC), along with African partners, are researching the best…
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‘Funding is often hard to find. But not this time!’
‘It is a fantastic sum of money,’ enthuses classicist Professor Ineke Sluiter. ‘It gives me not just an award, but a task as well. And in all honesty, I prefer it that way.’ She is already brimming with ideas about what she will do with her Spinoza Prize.
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Lettie Dorst: ‘Translation programmes change how we interpret the world’
Associate Professor Lettie Dorst has received a Vidi grant to research how machine translation programmes such as Google Translate and ChatGPT translate words and expressions used metaphorically. This still regularly goes wrong, resulting in far too literal, incorrect and sometimes incomprehensible…
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Experiment: Leiden University student writes thesis with just AI tools for supervision
As an experiment, student Alicia Cai relied solely on AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude for supervision while writing her thesis. What lessons were learned?
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Six NWO grants for FGW researchers: this is what the scientists are going to do
Six projects from the Faculty of Humanities recently received grants of up to 750,000 euros from the NWO Open Competition. Researchers involved tell how they will spend this money.