550 search results for “anatolie language family” in the Staff website
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The dynamics of contact-induced change and language shift
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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The Dutch government wants to declare an asylum crisis, but what does that mean?
More people seeking asylum, overcrowded asylum accommodation and asylum procedures that take years because of a lack of capacity. The current government wants to declare an asylum crisis but what is that exactly and can they just do that?
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Youth Language Workshop after Cosmas Amenorvi’s PhD defense
Conference, Workshop
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Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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What influence did French really have on Dutch?
Just as some people today dislike English influences on the Dutch language, in early modern times people also criticised the Frenchification of Dutch. But to what extent did French actually leave its mark in our language? PhD student Brenda Assendelft made a surprising discovery. PhD defence 24 May.
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Sabine van der AsdonkSocial & Behavioural Sciences
s.van.der.asdonk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5438
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Moji AghajaniSocial & Behavioural Sciences
m.aghajani@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6030
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Nina KrupljaninSocial & Behavioural Sciences
n.krupljanin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rosanneke EmmenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
r.a.g.emmen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
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Personal experience narratives in three African sign languages
PhD defence
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King talks with students about sexual harassment
Of the women studying at university, 52% have experienced some form of sexual harassment. For male students, the figure is 19%.
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Egyptian Diaspora in Paris – Between the Language and Resistance
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Tonal reflexes of topic and focus in Heiban languages
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25
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Award for a method that can create even better algorithms
She develops algorithms that outperform leading optimization techniques and can be applied in many fields. For this work, Niki van Stein and her team have won the GECCO Humies Award. ‘With our method, we can create and refine algorithms for a wide range of applications—algorithms that are better than…
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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Colours and symbols to support dyslexic students
In the very first Korean class that teacher Eun-ju Kim taught, there were already students with dyslexia. With a background in special education and clinical developmental psychology, she developed a new method to help them, partly based on teaching methods from Dutch first language education.
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Research-Concert: Songs and Languages across hemispheres
Music concert
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
m.parafita.couto@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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How Cicero’s ruined reputation can be a lesson for politicians today
Roman philosopher and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero is still used as an intellectual example by politicians and speech writers today. But, he did not go unchallenged in his own day, as a statesman in particular. Classicist Leanne Jansen conducted research into how classical historians judged Cicero’s…
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New podcast on one of Europe's oldest Muslim communities
For over six centuries, the Tatars have been part of Poland’s social and cultural fabric. In this 8-episode series, released weekly, professor Maurits Berger and assistant professor Ewa Górska explore how this Muslim minority has maintained its identity across generations, how Islam is practiced in…
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Speech levels and Verbal Art in languages of Indonesia
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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Mirjam Oomens: ‘Healthcare professionals should be cautious about survival prognoses’
Mirjam Oomens was working on her PhD research on language in the consulting room when she was diagnosed with metastatic cancer. Four years later, she has made it her mission to encourage doctors and other healthcare professionals to make fewer statements about life expectancy. 'Such a conviction can…
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Una Europa project update: Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa (ELSEA)
In September, the Una Europa ELSEA project, Enhancing Scholarship in Eastern Africa, officially started. Now that the project has been running for a couple of months, it’s high time to check in and see how the project is going.
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Remco BreukerFaculty of Humanities
r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2921
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A History of East Baltic through Language Contact
PhD defence
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Computational approaches to diachronic language micro-variation
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Spiritual Corporeality: Towards Embodied Gnosis through a Dancing Language
PhD defence
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Claartje Levelt: ' Students sometimes ask questions I have to think hard about'
Claartje Levelt is professor of First Language Acquisition. She researches how babies and toddlers learn their mother tongue. Besides her work, she enjoys being involved with music.
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Speaking Korean contest: ‘Actually, I don't dare to do this at all’
In a well-filled Telders Auditorium, university learners of Korean competed with each other to see who speaks Korean the best.
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Fernanda Korovsky MouraFaculty of Humanities
f.korovsky.moura@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ou OuriligeFaculty of Humanities
o.ourilige@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125
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Rolf BremmerFaculty of Humanities
r.h.bremmer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Wim TiggesStudent and Educational Affairs (SEA)
w.tigges@sea.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ziheng ChengFaculty of Humanities
z.cheng@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272125
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Laura MiglioriFaculty of Humanities
l.migliori@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2058
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The ongoing standardization of Sidaama, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia: challenges and perspectives
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Public lecture: On the Diversity and the Formation of Creole Languages
Lecture
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Aone van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
a.van.engelenhoven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2072
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Sophia NautaFaculty of Humanities
s.m.nauta@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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Sjoerd LindenburgICLON
s.lindenburg@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8970
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Jessie SunFaculty of Humanities
j.sun.14@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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The use of language analyses in Dutch citizenship procedures from a legal and ethical perspective
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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From Afrikaans to Ukrainian: take a free language class with Una Europa
Course
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Infinite love in a finite life: why, according to philosopher Errol Boon, we promise each other ‘eternal’ love
In love, we like to use great words. We promise to love each other ‘forever’ and praise the beloved as nothing less than ‘the one’ . Meanwhile, we know very well that we don’t live eternally and that we may find our ‘true love’ one day on the opposite side of the divorce table. So why do we continue…
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From a rapper to an elegy: students of Italian make videos for a wide audience
A course that concludes with a video pitch, instead of a paper or examination: Italian Language and Culture students each recorded their own knowledge clip, speaking to a wide audience about Italian cultural expressions. We asked Goran Bouaziz, Cameron-May Bosch and Katja Timmer what they thought of…