1,233 search results for “language culturele and worldviews” in the Public website
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Carmen KleinherenbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Nancy KulaFaculty of Humanities
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Natasja DelbarFaculty of Humanities
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
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Hilde GunninkFaculty of Humanities
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Debora Campos WanderleyFaculty of Humanities
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Jenny Doetjes appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation
Dr Jenny Doetjes was appointed Professor of Semantics and Language Variation in February. During her professorship Dr. Doetjes wishes to focus on charting linguistic patterns between languages that, at first glance, seem to have little to do with each other.
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A grammar of Hamar, a South Omotic language of Ethiopia
On the 10th of November, Sara Petrollino succesfully defended her PhD-thesis and graduated. LUCL congratulates Sara on this great result.
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Mayan languages in contact: Awakateko and K’iche’ in Guatemala
This project focuses on two Mayan languages in contact: Awakateko and K’iche’. With the aim to create a database to be accessible to researchers, students, and indigenous activists interested in Mayan languages, this project will train Mayan speakers on transcription, translation, and analysis of…
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Technology and the State: Enlightenment Language Machines, Then and Now
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Exploring new methods in comparing sign language corpora
Currently the focus of the project is the development of a tool that utilizes dimensionality reduction techniques in order to analyze and interpret the lexical and phonological variation between different sign languages. Additionally, the application of deep learning techniques for the extraction of…
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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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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Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Contact in the Prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives
This study analyses the prehistory of a northeastern Siberian population, the Sakha, from both a molecular-genetic and a linguistic perspective.
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of Bantawa: Grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal
This dissertation provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar of Bantawa, a Kiranti (Rai) language spoken in Eastern Nepal.
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The Anti-Politics of UNESCO World Heritage
We deeply cherish our natural and cultural World Heritage, so it seems; when historical monuments and sites are destroyed by war or natural disaster, we are mourning collectively. But what if this World Heritage status is not just a preservation label, but a smokescreen for social and political conflicts…
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Speakers store abstract information, irrespective of their language
The human brain stores not only individual words, but also all kinds of abstract information about these words. Research by Leiden linguists has shown that speakers have ready access to this information.
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Fenna PoletiekSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Zachtjes schudden aan de boom
An examination of rationales and core practices of first-grade Worldview/Religious Education teachers focused on their students' philosophical identity development
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First grammar of Hamar reveals unique language system
Linguist Sara Petrollino has written the first detailed grammar of Hamar, a language spoken in south-west Ethiopia that has some unique characteristics. PhD defence 10 November.
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About
This research cluster explores processes of cultural creation, reception and transformation within a wide range of societal contexts from the early Middle Ages until c. 1800.
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Interpreting particles in dead and living languages: A construction grammar approach to the semantics of Dutch ergens and Ancient Greek pou
In this dissertation, the types of context Dutch speakers need to interpret the poly-interpretable word ergens ‘somewhere/anywhere’ are studied.
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Marc BuijnstersFaculty of Humanities
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Tijmen PronkFaculty 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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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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China, Protest and Asia’s Struggle against Autocracy
Lecture
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Willemijn HeerenFaculty of Humanities
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Priscilla LamFaculty of Humanities
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Arnout KoornneefSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Inocêncio Joao Raul ZandamelaFaculty of Humanities
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The 33rd Annual Conference of the International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics (IAFPA)
Conference
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A Grammar of Ghomara Berber
This dissertation provides a grammatical description of Ghomara Berber, a Berber language spoken in North-West Morocco by about 10.000 people. The grammar consists of a description of the phonology, the morphology and the syntax. In the appendices a number of texts and a wordlist are included. The data…
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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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LUCIP Colloquium "Humans as Heaven: Innaecheon 人乃天, and the Resilient Spirit of Korean Democracy and the Korean Wave"
Lecture
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Morphological Encoding in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Chinese Disyllabic Compound Words
PhD defence
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Contact-induced change in Dolgan
This study explores the role of linguistic data in the reconstruction of Dolgan (pre)history by analyzing contact-induced changes and using them to infer information about the nature of the contact settings in which they occurred.
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Death and Display
Kuba funerary art from the Congo River Basin
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Global Music: recasting and Rethinking the Popular as Global
Vertrekkend vanuit een communicatief perspectief en concentrerend op mediatiseringsprocessen, formuleert deze dissertatie een alternatief voor het probleem van equivociteit binnen de studie naar populaire muziek.
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Onze vroegste voorouders
De menselijke geschiedenis strekt zich ver uit vóór de tijd waarin de mensen opschreven wat er zoal gebeurde.
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Inclusiveness and Diversity at LIACS
Research on Inclusiveness and Diversity at the Faculty of Science at Leiden University
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Language loosens tongues
Language research generates a wealth of information about people: from our history and cultural differences to the way we learn. Leiden University shares its knowledge and passion for this topic via de MOOC on ‘Miracles of Human Languages’ and the web dossier on Language Diversity.
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Tian YangFaculty of Humanities
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood YenkimalekiFaculty of Humanities