588 search results for “cognitive linguistics” in the Student website
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Vivian Kraaij
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nadia GarnefskiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Chuang LiuFaculty of Humanities
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Harry StroomerFaculty of Humanities
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David ShakouriFaculty of Humanities
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Mayra NasFaculty of Humanities
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Ruoyu ShiFaculty of Humanities
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Aleksandra UttenweilerFaculty of Humanities
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Oussama Macnack
Faculty of Humanities
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Lisa van der MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Elena Solá Simón
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Hans Thuis
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Wesley Eikenaar
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Roos Bakker
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Wenqian Fan
Faculty of Humanities
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Michaël Peyrot appointed professor: 'We have a bright future ahead of us'
Michaël Peyrot has been appointed professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics with retroactive effect from 1 January. He is looking forward to passing on his love for the subject to a new generation of students.
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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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Ronny Boogaart, Henrike Jansen and Maarten van Leeuwen receive LOT popularisation award
Assistant professor Ronny Boogaart, associate professor Henrike Jansen and assistant professor Maarten van Leeuwen have received the popularisation award from the National Research School of Linguistics for their book Maar zo bedoelde ik het niet (That's not what I meant).
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
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Lieke WirkenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sylvia van Beugen
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Michiel van ElkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mariska KretFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Lukas KunzFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Chris VerhoevenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jonathan Benichov
Faculty of Science
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Henriët van MiddendorpFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Vici grants for seven researchers from Leiden University
From research on stellar winds to sign language: an impressive seven researchers from Leiden University will receive a prestigious Vici grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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LUCL to start working with Macroscope: ‘One place filled with datasets and tools’
Over the coming years, LUCL will be collaborating on the development of Macroscope, a new scientific infrastructure that maps social change at the population level. Professors Gijsbert Rutten, Stephan Raaijmakers and Carole Tiberius tell us more about the project.
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Stephan Raaijmakers: ‘Everyone within Humanities can contribute to the study of AI’
Stephan Raaijmakers has been Professor of Communicative AI since 1 May. Prior to this, he had held this position for five years as professor by special appointment. How has his approach to AI changed in that time?
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CSC Scholarship
PhD
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A Luwian song in Old Hittite and its relevance for the study of negation compounds
Lecture, CIEL Seminars
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Iliana SamaraFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sandra van DijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ana Cardozo de SouzaFaculty of Humanities
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Levina de Wolf
Faculty of Humanities
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Wiktor Pawlowski
Faculty of Humanities
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Joni OysermanFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Daniëlle van der Schaaf
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Whispering out loud
Whispp, a Leiden-based speech technology start-up, is developing an app to help people who stutter express themselves more freely. Among those working together with Joris Castermans and his team at Whispp, are researchers and students from the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL).
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Alumna Izra ter Weer: ‘Leiden had many more connections with the rest of the world than I thought’
Izra ter Weer's mother had studied English Language and Culture in Leiden and was always so enthusiastic about her studies that Izra decided to follow in her footsteps. After completing a Master's degree in Linguistics, she now works as a consultant at strategic consultancy firm Sprenkels and organises…
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‘Stemmen van Afrika’ wins popularisation prize: 'Language is more than grammar'
The Voices of Africa platform is ten years old and has just recently won the annual popularisation prize of the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics (LOT). High time for a chat with Jenneke van der Wal, Maarten Mous and Nina van der Vlugt about the importance of the platform and plans for the…
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Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Online curiosity explored: 'We are more likely to accept information uncritically if it answers a question'
What do people wonder about on social media? University lecturer Matthijs Westera is the recipient of an NWO grant to investigate what people are curious about online.