835 search results for “boer language” in the Public website
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Janneke GeursenICLON
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Marion ElenbaasFaculty of Humanities
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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?
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Language as a weapon: alumna Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for the government commissioner on sexual violence
It is one of the most talked-about subjects right now: how do we eradicate sexual harassment and violence? Alumnus Femke Eisma is the spokesperson for Mariëtte Hamer, the government commissioner tasked with tackling this persistent social problem. Eisma studied the Dutch language at Leiden. How is her…
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The syntax of verbal pseudo-coordination in English and Afrikaans
This dissertation provides a systematic description of English and Afrikaans verbal pseudo-coordination and a formal analysis couched in the Minimalist program.
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From pixels to patterns: AI-driven image analysis in multiple domains
This thesis investigates the application of deep learning techniques in image analysis across various domains, focusing on four main themes: feature extraction, classification, segmentation, and integration, demonstrating the transformative potential of these technologies.
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Executive deficits in relation to early reading and math development
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Florence FabbricottiFaculty of Humanities
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Mariëtte Groeneveld
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeeyoung SeoFaculty of Humanities
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Natalia Gofman
Faculty of Humanities
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Rosa VersluisFaculty of Humanities
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Zhibo Mu
Faculty of Humanities
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Nanouk Sabel
Faculty of Humanities
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Annabel MeesterFaculty of Humanities
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Lucja Czort
Faculty of Humanities
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Floris Meertens
Faculty of Humanities
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Kumiko Hirata
Faculty of Humanities
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Phonetics Lab
Experimental research
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Crit CremersFaculty of Humanities
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Claire SmuldersICLON
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Professional Users’ Perspectives on Metaphors in Machine Translation
This PhD project investigates how literary translators and journalists react and respond to machine-translated metaphors and what the repercussions for professional practice are.
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Invisible Agents Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Nadine Akkerman's book Invisible Agents is the very first study to analyse the role of early modern women spies. The book foregrounds the agency of early-modern women, offering a corrective to the gender bias implicit in modern historiography.
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Becoming Literate by Means of the internet
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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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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.
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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54th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Importing goods from sustainable countries could lower EU’s environmental footprint
A recent study in Ecological Economics, led by Leiden environmental scientist Bertram de Boer, states that the European Union could lower its environmental footprint by carefully selecting the countries from which it imports goods. The publication was picked up by Science for Environment Policy, a news…
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Female Spies or 'she-Intelligencers': Towards a Gendered History of Seventeenth-Century Espionage
By analysing neglected (continental) spy centres and integrating these groups of female intelligencers into the traditional, male-orientated historical narratives, this project will proceed towards a gendered history of early modern espionage.
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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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Meaning making and information integrity in the age of AI
How is generative AI changing the way we learn, communicate, and make sense of the world today? As AI tools become part of everyday life, they don’t just produce text but shape meaning, influence trust, and impact how we find and share information. This project explores how people use, experience and…
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Dutch people should stop ‘politely’ switching to English
Endangered languages can survive if they are taught properly to new speakers, such as people with a migrant background. This is what Professor by Special Appointment Felix Ameka will say in his inaugural lecture on 30 September. Dutch people can do their bit by being less ‘polite’ to people whose mother…
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In the Making - public sessions on research in the arts
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University and Art Institute West Den Haag are pleased to announce their close collaboration in the second season of the public series In the Making. This series, dedicated to the practice of research in the arts, will consist of seven public…
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Chara
The Green algae Chara as model system for intra and inter cellular transport processes.
- Dutch Module 7
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- Dutch Module 4A
- Intensive Dutch Module 4 course
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- Intensive Course Dutch Module 1
- Intensive Dutch 5 course