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• Signs on Paper: Unlocking the Histories of Sign Languages with AI HANDS!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies

  This PhD project investigates how automatic sign language recognition technology can be further developed to analyse static images and textual descriptions of signs.

• Prescription and Tradition in Language: Establishing Standards across Time and Space Research output

  This book contextualises case studies across a wide variety of languages and cultures, crystallising key interrelationships between linguistic standardisation and prescriptivism, and between ideas and practices. It focuses on different traditions of standardisation and prescription throughout the world…

• The prehistoric origin and spread of the Indo-Iranian languages Research project

  A linguistic test of hypotheses rooted in genetics and archaeology.

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  Anne Helder Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Szilvia Biro Assistant Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Marco Maiolini PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Hester Ruigendijk Assistant Professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Bart Vogelaar Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• 2008 Culture and cognition of Palaeolithic hominins News - 11 February 2008

  The Palaeolithic period extends from the earliest stone tools (and in Europe, earliest occupation) to the beginning of the current warm period.

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  Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade Professor emeritus English Sociohistorical Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nancy Kula Professor African Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

• Walikan Malangan: Structure and development of a Javanese reversed language Research output

  On the 24th of October, Nurenzia Yannuar successfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Nurenzia on this achievement.

• A grammar of Ik (Icetod) Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language Research output

  This study offers a comprehensive but balanced grammatical analysis of Ik (Icetod), Northeast Uganda’s last thriving Kuliak language.

• On the nature of preverbal Focus in Greek. A theoretical and experimental approach Research output

  This thesis aims at contributing to our understanding of the semantic and prosodic properties of object foci in Greek, employing theoretical and experimental tools.

• A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana Research output

  On the 26th of September, Cosmas Rai Amenorvi successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Cosmas on this achievement!

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  Arend Quak Professor emeritus of Germanic and Historical Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  I-Fan Lin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

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  Liza van den Bosch Assistant professor

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Manfred Horstmanshoff Professor Emeritus History of medicine

  Faculty of Humanities

• Stress and trauma-related disorders Clinical Psychology

  Our mission is to advance the understanding of mental health of individuals with a history of stress and/or trauma through rigorous interdisciplinary research, integrating insights from clinical psychology, neurobiology, and social sciences. We are committed to translating our findings into innovative…

• Choice-related stress and uncertainty Research project

  What are the behavioral, cognitive, and motivational consequences of decision reversibility?

• A Telling Story Research project

  Unravelling Mindreading Skills through Storytelling and Narratives

• Conference announcement: 12 and 13 September 2025 European Network on Psychoeducational Assessment, Intervention and Rehabilitation

• An Update and Expansion of a Meta-Analysis on Shared Book Reading Research project

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• Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum Event - 30 January 2026

  Conference

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  Julia Folz Guest

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

• Traces of language contact in Niya Prakrit: Bactrian and other foreign elements Research output

  On the 6th of November, Niels Schoubben successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Niels on this achievement!

• psychosocial development of children with and without Developmental Language Disorder Research output

  Dissertation

• Events in language and cognition Event - 24 February 2023

  Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series

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  Alwin Kloekhorst Professor Anatolian Linguistics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Janet Connor Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jesse Wichers Schreur Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stefan Norbruis Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Deborah Oyuu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• A Grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan Language of Sudan Research output

  This thesis investigates the grammar of Gaahmg, a Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic language spoken in the Blue Nile Province of North Sudan. The comprehensive description provides an analysis of the phonology, morphology, and syntax. Ten texts of various genre are given to help illustrated the grammar…

• Language contact: bridging the gap between individual interactions and areal patterns Research output

  A new publication that brings together perspectives on language contact phenomena across temporal and spatial dimensions.

• Melody in speech Research project

  All languages use melody in speech, primarily via rises and falls of the pitch of voice. Such pitch variation is pervasive, offering a wide spectrum of nuance to sentences – an additional layer of meaning. For example, saying “yes” with a rising pitch implies a question (rather than an affirmation).…

• The work of abyss and time: towards an emancipatory poetics of the tropics and critical autoethnographic practices of research within media art Research project

  This doctoral project by artist and educator Luiz Zanotello engenders a postcolonial understanding of time, space and movement by means of artistic research methods. The project examines the contradictory effects of the abyssal line of thought within the tropics as a starting point.

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  I-Hsien Lin Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Debora Campos Wanderley Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Adrien Dadone Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

• Career Prospects Psychology (BSc)

  A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.

• Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities in the formative years of the modern Middle East (1920-1950) Research project

  This project aims to revisit the ways in which religious minorities in the Middle East participated in, contributed to, and opposed the Arab nationalism of the post-war years, when the British and French ruled the region via the Mandates. Research question: How did religious minorities in the Middle…

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  Naomi Truan Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Our team Social Resilience and Security

  Researchers from five different discplines work together in this interdisciplinary initiative.

• Falling Short of Expectations: Evaluative Languages in Scholarly Book Reviews, 1900-2000 Research project

  What evaluative languages (errors, mistakes, vices, etc.) did book reviewers employ? To what extent and on what occasions did they invoke early modern vices? And to what extent did this differ across fields or change over the course of the century?

• Pride and Prejudice: Moral Languages in Scholarly Codes of Conduct, 1900-2000 Research project

  If idioms employed in codes of conduct could be as idiosyncratic as examples suggest, then to what extent did early modern language of vice, too, persist in this genre?

• signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities HANDS!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies

  In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.

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  Nivja de Jong Professor Second language Acquisition and Pedagogy

  Faculty of Humanities

• Programme structure Clinical Neuropsychology (MSc)

  The master's specialisation Clinical Neuropsychology consists of three main parts: the mandatory and elective courses, a thesis and an internship.