829 search results for “frissen language” in the Public website
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Natasja DelbarFaculty of Humanities
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Benjamin SuchardFaculty of Humanities
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Hilde GunninkFaculty of Humanities
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Debora Campos WanderleyFaculty of Humanities
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A grammar of Hamar, a South Omotic language of Ethiopia
On the 10th of November, Sara Petrollino succesfully defended her PhD-thesis and graduated. LUCL congratulates Sara on this great result.
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Mayan languages in contact: Awakateko and K’iche’ in Guatemala
This project focuses on two Mayan languages in contact: Awakateko and K’iche’. With the aim to create a database to be accessible to researchers, students, and indigenous activists interested in Mayan languages, this project will train Mayan speakers on transcription, translation, and analysis of…
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Exploring new methods in comparing sign language corpora
Currently the focus of the project is the development of a tool that utilizes dimensionality reduction techniques in order to analyze and interpret the lexical and phonological variation between different sign languages. Additionally, the application of deep learning techniques for the extraction of…
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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Contact in the Prehistory of the Sakha (Yakuts): Linguistic and Genetic Perspectives
This study analyses the prehistory of a northeastern Siberian population, the Sakha, from both a molecular-genetic and a linguistic perspective.
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of Bantawa: Grammar, paradigm tables, glossary and texts of a Rai language of Eastern Nepal
This dissertation provides a comprehensive overview of the grammar of Bantawa, a Kiranti (Rai) language spoken in Eastern Nepal.
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Fenna PoletiekSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Historical and Linguistic Development of the Signing Community in Mozambique: The Emergence of local sign through contact, influence and linguistic
This PhD project investigates the historical and sociolinguistic factors that have influenced the emergence of local sign languages in Mozambique. It examines how these factors have shaped the Deaf signing community and contributed to the development of a national sign language that incorporates borrowings…
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Interpreting particles in dead and living languages: A construction grammar approach to the semantics of Dutch ergens and Ancient Greek pou
In this dissertation, the types of context Dutch speakers need to interpret the poly-interpretable word ergens ‘somewhere/anywhere’ are studied.
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Marc BuijnstersFaculty of Humanities
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Implications of legal recognition of UgSL on Communication and Instruction for Deaf learners in Primary school in Uganda
This PhD project investigates the impacts of recognition of sign languages on communication and instruction for deaf learners in primary schools in Uganda.
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Tijmen PronkFaculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Willemijn HeerenFaculty of Humanities
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Priscilla LamFaculty of Humanities
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Arnout KoornneefSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Inocêncio Joao Raul ZandamelaFaculty of Humanities
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Research
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A Grammar of Ghomara Berber
This dissertation provides a grammatical description of Ghomara Berber, a Berber language spoken in North-West Morocco by about 10.000 people. The grammar consists of a description of the phonology, the morphology and the syntax. In the appendices a number of texts and a wordlist are included. The data…
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Lisa ChengFaculty of Humanities
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Contact-induced change in Dolgan
This study explores the role of linguistic data in the reconstruction of Dolgan (pre)history by analyzing contact-induced changes and using them to infer information about the nature of the contact settings in which they occurred.
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Language loosens tongues
Language research generates a wealth of information about people: from our history and cultural differences to the way we learn. Leiden University shares its knowledge and passion for this topic via de MOOC on ‘Miracles of Human Languages’ and the web dossier on Language Diversity.
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Tian YangFaculty of Humanities
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Jan van DijkhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Mahmood YenkimalekiFaculty of Humanities
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Paz Gonzalez GonzalezFaculty of Humanities
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
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Calendar Academic Language Centre
Important dates in the Academic Language Centre calendar
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Self-directed learning with mobile technology in higher education
Language learners in higher education increasingly conduct out-of-class self-directed learning facilitated by mobile technology. This project aims to explore how university students use mobile technology for their self-directed language learning and investigate factors that influence their self-directed…
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Small quantities and the mass-only puzzle
This PhD project investigates the distribution and interpretation of quantity expressions in relation to the mass/count distinction cross-linguistically.
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Suzan VerberneFaculty of Science
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Understanding Questions
This project proposes an integrated and comparative study on the syntactic, semantic, prosodic and processing aspects of in-situ wh-questions, taking the Grammar-parser correspondence hypothesis (Phillips 1996, 2003) as a guiding principle.
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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New language museum for Leiden
Leiden is to have a new language museum in 2015, a public institute focusing on language in all its facets and where science and social developments come together for a broad public. It won't be in a building, but at different places in the city. Dynamic, contemporary, flexible and affordable. The details…
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Five languages in one poem
In the Bachelor Honours Class ‘The Noble Art and Tricky Business of Translation’, Honours students learn about the tricky business of translation. To gain hands-on experience, students had to translate a poem for the seminar on poetry. For some translators-to-be, one language was simply not enough.
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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SCALES project
How to strike a balance between the sometimes conflicting stakes of individual, public and private data-producers and data-processors?
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AI-MAPS
AI MAPS adopts a freedom and social well-being perspective and focuses on three themes to address key security challenges; Social disorder and public nuisances in neighbourhoods, High-impact crime, and Crowds and events.
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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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Worlds shaped by words: a cross-linguistic investigation into the neural mechanisms of lexico-syntactic feature production
On the 17th of December, Jin Wang successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Jin on this achievement!
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The Role of Lexico-Syntactic Features in Noun Phrase Production and Comprehension: Insights from Spanish and Chinese in Unilingual and Bilingual
The project investigates how bilingual speakers navigate lexico-syntactic features, including grammatical gender, classifier systems, and the linear order of adjectives and nouns, across Spanish and Chinese in both unilingual and bilingual contexts.