949 search results for “old english language” in the Public website
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‘migrazione’ and ‘migracja’: Free teaching modules on migration in six languages
Social scientists from Leiden University have worked with an international team to create teaching modules on migration.
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Becoming Literate by Means of the internet
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Motivating and Motivation in Bilingual Education
What motivates learners in bilingual education to learn English and how can and do teaching practices contribute to that motivation?
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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‘Brain scanners are bringing about a revolution in neurolinguistics’
Brain scanners have radically changed neurolinguistics. They are increasing our understanding of how the brain processes language. Professor Niels Schiller has produced a standard work on this.
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Remnants of the Semitic case system in Old Aramaic
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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LinkedIn: profile and network (English)
Career and apply for jobs
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Splitting and clustering grammatical information
This project focuses on a striking parallelism between two macro-groups of languages: southern Italian dialects and the so-called split-ergative languages, like Basque, Georgian, Dyirbal, Hindi/Urdu.
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Painting Winter Landscapes with techniques of the Old Masters
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Adult language learners benefit more from education when first language and additional language are similar
Lecture
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Student for a Day Archaeology (in English)
Study information
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Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme wint EFNIL-scriptieprijs
Good news for Linguistics alumna Anne-Mieke Thieme, who has won the thesis prize awarded by the European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL). ‘I emailed my thesis supervisor right away.’
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Sasha Lubotsky
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Rik van Gijn
Faculty of Humanities
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The Acquisition of Personal Pronouns in Cochlear-Implanted Children
This dissertation examines whether a cochlear implant provides congenitally deaf born children with sufficient auditory input to acquire low salient and syntactically and semantically complex functional items such as personal pronouns compared to their hearing peers.
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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Hip fractures and daily functioning in old age
PhD defence
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Pickpocket compounds from Latin to Romance
This thesis discusses the development in Proto–Indo–European, Latin and Romance of a word–formation pattern which the most adequate terminology in use dubs ‘verbal government compounds with a governing first member’; I use the shorthand ‘pickpocket compounds’.
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First ever summer school in Africa for and by deaf academics
Academic studies or an academic career are a big challenge if you are deaf. Particularly in Africa, where many countries don’t even have secondary schools for the deaf. A team of Leiden academics has organised the first summer school for and by deaf academics on the African continent, in Ghana. We spoke…
- WOCAL Sign Language Workshop
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Join-in courses 2023-2024
Join-in courses are MA-courses in medieval topics given in set MA-programs of the six participant universities of the Research School. On request, such courses are accessible for MA-students from other (Dutch) universities. Course loads and number of credit points to be obtained are usually between…
- Language and the human past
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop
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Sara Polak
Faculty of Humanities
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Culture-Language Maintenance in a City of Many Tongues
Conference, Leiden2022
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The figure of Orestes in Greek literature
This project will study the cultural meaning of the mythological figure of Orestes within the ancient Greek imagination, as it emerges from various literary sources from the archaic and classical periods.
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Language production: expertise and modalities
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Events in language and cognition
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium series
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Safe anytime-valid inference: from theory to implementation in psychiatry research
Classical statistical methods, such as p-values, are difficult for researchers to apply correctly. They for example do not allow drawing conclusions from a study early, or for extending a study with extra research groups that want to make their data available later.
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Interactive scalable condensation of reverse engineered UML class diagrams for software comprehension
Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron, Co-Promotor: P. van der Putten
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Linguist Willem Adelaar receives royal decoration
Linguist Willem Adelaar was appointed to Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion on October 1st. On that very same day he celebrated his 43-year connection to Leiden University. Adelaar has an impressive track record in the field of indigenous, and often endangered, Amerindian languages.
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What is sign language fluency?
Conference
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Spanish-English contact in the Falkland Islands
Lecture
- International Mother Language Day 2024
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Language, Stories, and Understanding Others
Lecture
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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Drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde and dr Sjef Houppermans presented with high French honour
“Very French and very impressive.” Those are the words drs. Isabelle van de Calseyde used to describe the reception at the French embassy residence in The Hague on 2 June 2015. There, she and dr. Sjef Houppermans were presented with an distinction for their remarkable services to the French language…
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A Tale in Two Tongues: Storytelling in Filipino and English
Arts and culture, A Tale in Two Tongues: The added value of multilingualism
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From oscillations to language: behavioural and electroencephalographic studies on cross-language interactions
PhD defence
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Prehistoric language contact in Southern Africaː Khoisan traces in modern Bantu languages
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Language hierarchies: Individual and group perceptions of Subaltern languages in Mozambique
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Language use and language attitudes among Ukrainian refugees in the Netherlands
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Weneya´a – “quien habla con los cerros”
This study documents and translates the Saa (Zapotec) cultural heritage of the Bene’ Ya’a/En’ne I’ya peoples, the Zapotec inhabitants of the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca.
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Language maintenance and revitalization across the world
Conference
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LLRC Multilingualism in the Language Classroom Roundtable
Debate, Roundtable LLRC Event
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A ‘pygmy‘ language - myth or reality?
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series
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How do we control our languages?
Lecture, LACG Meetings
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Wh-island effects are similar in English and Spanish
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Why do multilingual children mix their languages?
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium 2023-2024