480 search results for “indo-europese language” in the Student website
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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Fenna PoletiekFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Liza van den BoschFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marc BuijnstersFaculty of Humanities
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Anouschka van DijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tijmen PronkFaculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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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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Arnout KoornneefFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ben ArpsFaculty of Humanities
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Willemijn HeerenFaculty of Humanities
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Inocêncio Joao Raul ZandamelaFaculty of Humanities
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Paz Gonzalez GonzalezFaculty of Humanities
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I-Fan LinFaculty of Science
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Tian YangFaculty of Humanities
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood YenkimalekiFaculty of Humanities
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Suzan VerberneFaculty of Science
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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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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty 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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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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Yuchen LianFaculty of Science
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Tingting HuiFaculty 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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Human language inspired AI – and now we can use that AI to learn about language
Yuchen Lian defended her thesis on AI and language evolution at Leiden University.
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Joost GrootensFaculty of Humanities
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Paul van ElsFaculty of Humanities
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Marcello BonsangueFaculty of Science
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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How do people best learn a language? 'It's incredible what you do when you talk'
According to Nivja de Jong, second language acquisition is 'the most fascinating subject in linguistics'. As a recently appointed professor of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy, she studies the question of how best to teach people a new language.
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A Historical and Etymological Look at Co-Speech Gestures and Signs
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Language both connects and divides
Author and political scientist Mounir Samuel has spent recent years delving into the many ways that language can exclude people and bring them together.
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Kiana ShahrasbiFaculty of Science
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Yee Man NgFaculty of Science
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Tom KouwenhovenFaculty of Science
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Literacy development for Deaf/Hard-of-hearing children in the early years
Lecture, Sign Languages & Deaf People
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Alex ReunekerFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen van den BerghFaculty of Humanities
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Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
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Arie VerhagenFaculty of Humanities