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Eduard Meijers
Jewish Professor Eduard Meijers (1880-1954), along with 29 other Jewish members of staff, was dismissed by the Nazis in November 1940.
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Conference workshops
Our call for workshop proposals was met enthousiastically by various people, and we are happy to announce that the following four workshops were unanimously selected by the organising committee.
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What makes politicians work harder? The role of electoral advantage
This study investigates how the tenure of security (proxied by both inter- and intra-party electoral advantage) affects the engagement and political performance of members of parliament.
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Applied Linguistics
Applying linguistics research to solve practical language-related problems in society.
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Research
Research at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) focuses on linguistic variation and diversity. In order to create more awareness and scientific understanding of this topic, research activities are clustered around six (overlapping) umbrella programmes. Many of our researchers are active…
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Computational Linguistics
In this theme you will be supplied with a firm background in the core of current computational linguistics and a solid comprehension of its neighboring fields.
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Applied Linguistics
The goal of the field of Applied Linguistics is to apply the findings and the techniques from research in linguistics to solve practical language-related problems in society.
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Presentation formats
Please find below information regarding oral and poster presentations.
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Chao Du
Science
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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Thomas Bäck
Science
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Young Hae Choi
Science
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Sociolinguistic Features in Vedic Sanskrit: Women’s Speech in Seduction and Curse Charms of the Atharvaveda
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Phonetic experiments on the word and sentence prosody of Betawi Malay and Toba Batak
In this study Lilie Roosman describes the effects of prominence and boundary marking on the temporal and melodic structures of two regional languages of Indonesia, viz. Toba Batak, a stress language, and her native language Betawi Malay, a non-stress language.
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Flexibilisation, globalisation and technological change: consequences for labour markets and social security.
This research project is funded by a subsidy from Instituut Gak.
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Speech Surrogacy on the African Talking Drums: exploring the Yoruba Drum Language
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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Is dismissal permitted following social media post?
In an appeal case, an employee of a care organisation in Nijmegen who was shown the door because of her criticism about the coronavirus voiced on LinkedIn, has had her dismissal reviewed. The court in Arnhem ruled that the employee had crossed a line and that her employer was entitled to dismiss her…
- The Common European Framework
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From Gesture to Language
Like any language, the natural sign languages (henceforth: SLs) of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that SLs make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…
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A bird's eye view
The oldest university in the Netherlands was founded on 8 February 1575 in the Pieterskerk in Leiden. This was at the time of the Eighty Years’ War with the uprising of the northern provinces against domination by the Spanish.
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The Secular Outlook
The Secular Outlook describes what moral and political secularism means. It paints the image of a world view in which state and religion are kept well separated.
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Volume 1 (2018)
Issue 1
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Social Anxiety and Normal Development
Why does social anxiety increase in adolescence and how does it grow out of control in some adolescents?
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‘’More voices and more ears” – six new members join the Young Academy Leiden
Six new members joined the Young Academy Leiden (YAL) yesterday. They were officially inaugurated by Leiden University’s rector, Hester Bijl.
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Interactional sociolinguistics
How do social and political developments influence the process of meaning-making in different parts of the world? Why is a particular discourse interpreted in numerous ways depending on the context it is produced and propagated? And how are culture, politics, history, and language intertwined?
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Verbal art of the Fon (Benin)
This publication aims at the analysis of the performance of a corpus of Fongbe stories that I collected in three villages in the south of Benin in 1976 and 1977. The corpus consists of 37 stories (57.000 words). The stories aim at children’s education.
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A Grammar of Mandarin
A fascinating description of a global language, A Grammar of Mandarin by Jeroen Wiedenhof combines broad perspectives with illuminating depth.
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On the Aesthetic Regime of Kurdish Cinema: The Making of Kurdishness
Bahar Şimşek defended her thesis on 4 May 2021.
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Collaboration and contestation in words: Dialogues and disputes in African social realities
In African societies today, growing inequality and continued exclusion due to ethnicity, gender, religion, disability or sexual orientation give rise to both contestation and cooperation for social change. How does the written or spoken word lead to collaboration and contestation in areas of social…
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Albabtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture
The Albabtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture organises public and scholarly events to promote the rich Arabic culture and to celebrate the long Leiden tradition of studying it in all its diverse expressions.
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Stepwise latent class analysis
The main methodological aspects of the use of stepwise LCA estimators under different circumstances.
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Stop! Hey, what's that sound? the representation and realization of Danish stops
On the 11th of January, Rasmus Puggaard-Rode successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Rasmus on this achievement!
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Strategies of silence in an age of transparency: Navigating HIV and visibility in Aceh, Indonesia
Article by Annemarie Samuels in History and Anthropology
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Traces of Contact in the Lexicon
This volume investigates how loanwords can prove past contact events, taking into consideration ten different regions located in the Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and New Guinea.
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Ben Telders
Benjamin Marius Telders, professor of international law, died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen on 6 April 1945. He was an example of civil courage before and during the occupation. He spoke up against inequity and injustice.
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About
Descriptive linguistics at LUCL covers documentation and descriptive analysis of lesser-studied languages as well as typological and historical comparison.
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Typological tendencies in verse and their cognitive grounding
On May 3rd, Varun de Castro Arrazola succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Varun on this great result.
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[a]social creatures lab
The [a]social creatures lab focusses on understanding social interaction with and between artificial creatures.
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Documentation and analysis of !Ora and !Ui languages
This project aims at describing the Khoisan languages !Ora (Korana/Griqua) and !Ui of South Africa.
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Submissions
Psychoeducational Assessment, Intervention and Rehabilitation (PAIR) publishes high quality articles on theoretical and empirical research regarding psychological and psychoeducational assessment, intervention, and rehabilitation in all areas related to cognitive and socio-emotional development.
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About the programme
The programme of the master specialisation Learning Problems and Impairments studies common learning problems such as dyslexia, hyperlexia and dyscalculia, as well as learning disabilities caused by AHDH, ADD or speech and language disorders. Much attention is also devoted to the relation between brain…
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eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies
The Center studies the social, legal and normative impact of emerging digital technologies.
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Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding
Conference
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LED3 Lecture: Harnessing the Chemistry of Natural Product Biosynthesis
Lecture
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LED3 Lecture: Natural Product Antibiotics: Past, Present, Future
Lecture
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The neurocognitive correlates of pausing in L2 speaking and writing
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Lunch Series '23/'24
- Dutch Missionaries and Deaf Education in Africa between 1960-1990