1,065 search results for “first language acquisition” in the Public website
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Leiden professor of Turkish languages returns Turkish medal
Erik-Jan Zürcher, professor of Turkish languages and cultures, returns his Turkish medal to protest against the repressive regime of Erdogan's government.
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Research
The LLRC has collaborated on developing the communicative tasks for the Leiden Learner Corpus (LLC).
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Struggle Within: “Moral Crisis” on the Ottoman Homefront During the First World War
Cigdem Oguz defended her thesis on 13 June 2018
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Controversies: Reception of Graeco-Roman Antiquity in the Twenty-First Century
Modern receptions of Graeco-Roman Antiquity are important ideological markers of the ways we envisage our own twenty-first-century societies. An urgent topic of study is: what kinds of narratives – sometimes controversial – about Antiquity do people create for themselves at this moment in time, and…
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Optimisation of first clinical studies in special populations: towards semi-physiological pharmacokinetic models
Promotor: M. Danhof, Co-promotores: J. Freijer, A. Yassen
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First session of ‘EU Talks ?!’ discusses the rule of law in the EU
On 16 May 2024, the student-based initiative ‘EU Talks?!’ had the pleasure to organize its first session under the following title: ‘Rule of Law in the EU: Beyond Poland and Hungary’.
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A Grammar of Makonde (Chiminna, Tanzania)
This dissertation provides a description of Makonde, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania.
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Arabic and its alternatives: Religious minorities in the formative years of the modern Middle East (1920-1950)
This project aims to revisit the ways in which religious minorities in the Middle East participated in, contributed to, and opposed the Arab nationalism of the post-war years, when the British and French ruled the region via the Mandates. Research question: How did religious minorities in the Middle…
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Guus Kroonen
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.kroonen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1768
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Alwin Kloekhorst
Faculty of Humanities
a.kloekhorst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7977
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
e.a.op.de.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4381
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Bridging the unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public
This project seeks to close the gap between the three main players in the field of prescriptivism: the linguists themselves, the prescriptivists (as writers of usage guides) and those who depend upon such manuals.
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An Update and Expansion of a Meta-Analysis on Shared Book Reading
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Greek-Dutch dictionary project
Lexicographical description of Greek; production of Greek-Dutch dictionary
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From the First Galaxies to the Peak of the Star Formation History
How did galaxies form? How did galaxies evolve?
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New term dates for the Dutch language course
Important note: upon careful consideration, we have decided to resume our Dutch language courses.
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First comparative textbook on East African Community law and EU law by Leiden University
Published by Brill Nijhoff and written by leading experts including national judges, academics and practitioners East African Community Law is the first comparative as well as open access textbook on EAC law. The book provides a key resource for the research, teaching, and practice of EAC law. It also…
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Tonal Bilingualism: The Case of Two Closely Related Chinese Dialects
Tonal bilinguals of two closely related Chinese dialects are amazing people. They handle two tonal systems in their mind; their two vocabularies are from closely related dialects, and they write translation equivalents with common Chinese characters. Their unique language situation makes their mind…
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Services
The NVIC offers a wide range of services for scholars and students, which are available to the staff members, research fellows and students of the participating institutions at reduced cost.
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'Turkey. A Modern History' now in nine languages
The book on Turkey. A Modern History written by Professor Erik-Jan Zürcher, Professor of Turkish Studies, is now available in nine different languages. Arabic and Polish versions have now been published.
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Organisation
Leiden University-European Center for Chinese Medicine
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Education
LIAS faculty teach and carry out thesis supervision in many programs.
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(Extra)Ordinary letters: A view from below on seventeenth-century Dutch
In this dissertation, a corpus of 595 seventeenth-century letters (mainly private ones) written between 1664 and 1672 is examined from a sociolinguistic perspective.
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Towards Philosophy, Søren Kierkegaard's place in Martin Heidegger's first Freiburg period lecture courses (1919-1923)
This thesis investigates Søren Kierkegaard’s place in Martin Heidegger’s first Freiburg period lecture courses.
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The Phonology of Proto-Central Chadic
This study looks at the diverse phonological systems found within Central Chadic, and reconstructs the phonological system of their ancestor language.
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Development of a academic monitoring system for students with learning problems in secondary school
Students with learning problems experience difficulties in reading, writing, and content-area learning into and throughout their secondary-school years
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Chinese Final Particles and the Syntax of the Periphery
In this research, for the first time a detailed description as well as systematic and comparative analysis of the final particle system in Chinese are provided.
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Modification and Reference in the Chinese Nominal
This study proposes a theory for the encoding of specificity and definiteness in the Chinese nominal based on Cantonese, Mandarin and Wenzhou data.
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Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome
This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).
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Making the most of the first time a medicine is administered to humans
Collecting as much information as possible about administering a new medicine to people can save a lot of money.
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Anderson - The Egyptian Labor Corps: Race, Space, and Place in the First World War
This book talk will be hosted on Thursday, 27 June 2024 at 6:00 pm.
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India’s First Diplomat: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism
V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early twentieth century. Despite being hailed as the ‘very voice of international conscience’, he is now a largely forgotten figure.
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‘Man's empathy comes from language and stories’
Man is nature's mind-reading champion: we are better able than any other living beings to empathise with others. This comes in part from our story-telling culture, according to Max van Duijn. PhD defence 20 April.
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Autumn School in Medieval Languages and Culture 2021
In close collaboration with the Center for Medieval Studies (Fordham), Centre for Medieval literature (Odense and York) and Centre for Medieval Studies (York), the University of Ghent organizes an Autumn School for PhD- and MA-students in Medieval Studies (18-22 October 2021). It will be organized in…
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ParaNMR Facility
The Paramagnetic NMR Facility Leiden has been established to provide support to researchers who want to apply paramagnetic NMR spectroscopy to biomolecules. Support is offered in the design and synthesis of paramagnetic probes, either for general application (such as lanthanide tags and spin labels)…
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Library
Our library contains around 23,000 books, journals and historical documents under the care of a specialized librarian.
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Stephan Raaijmakers: 'Humans and systems have to learn to understand each other better'
You can ask virtual assistant Siri about the weather, but you can’t have a real conversation with it yet. You can’t refer to anything that’s been said before, or ask the system why it says what it says. Stephan Raaijmakers, Professor by Special Appointment from TNO, hopes to change this.
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Career prospects
A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.
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Kinetics for drug discovery – The first step towards an improved drug discovery paradigm
Supervisor: Indira Nederpelt
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The First Horse Herders and the Impact of Early Bronze Age Steppe Expansions into Asia
The article investigates the origins of Indo-European languages in Asia by 65 coupling ancient genomics to archaeology and linguistics.
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Conceptualising and developing the practice of CLIL teachers
How do teachers conceptualise, develop and implement an effective CLIL practice?
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Die biblisch-hebräische Partikel נָא im Lichte der antiken Bibelübersetzungen. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer vermuteten Höflichkeitsfunktion
My research addresses the function of the much-debated particle -nā in Biblical Hebrew, often translated with “please”, from the point of view of the most important ancient Bible translations (Greek, Syriac, Latin). It combines textual criticism, translation technique, discourse pragmatics, and the…
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Knowledge development of secondary school L1 teachers on concept-context rich education in an action-research setting
This thesis reports on a study that examined the development of L1 teachers’ practical knowledge when they researched and implemented concept-context rich education in an action-research setting.
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Reading Arabic: legibility studies for the Arabic script
What is the cost of visual complexity? This dissertation sets out to determine the effect of the complexity of word formation on the legibility of Arabic and the role that vocalization plays in reading.
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Mutual intelligibility of Chinese dialects: an experimental approach
This study examines the mutual intelligibility between all 225 pairs of 15 Chinese dialects, in two main branches, i.e., six Mandarin dialects and nine non-Mandarin (Southern) dialects.
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The Syntax of Object Marking in Sambaa: A comparative Bantu perspective
This thesis investigates the syntax of object marking in Sambaa and the Bantu languages in general, with particular focus on Swahili and Haya, as points of comparison.
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Innovation in tradition
This dissertation explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov 1607).
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Project 1: CSPPR
One of the current research projects funded by the profile area Political Legitimacy is the Center for the Study of Political Parties and Representation.
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Business & Law Research Network
Welcome to the Business & Law Research Network!
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