1,331 search results for “language change” in the Public website
- Language and Culture Education: Dutch
- Language and Culture Education: French
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Liko Phonology and Grammar. A Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This thesis presents a detailed description of the phonology, the tone system and the grammar of Liko, a Bantu language spoken by about 70,000 people in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It provides numerous examples.
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Language Diversity in the World
This research profile area brings together descriptive, historical and theoretical linguistics, as well as psycho- and neurolinguistics.
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Traces of language contact: The Flores-Lembata languages in eastern Indonesia
On the 13th of November, Hanna Fricke successfully defended her doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Hanna on this achievement.
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rules: a comparative study into the computational mechanisms underlying language acquisition
In this project we study the properties of statistical- and rule-learning mechanisms in relation to the acquisition and evolution of language. We ask to what extent these mechanisms are unique to humans - or to human language - by comparing the acquisition of vocal structure in two species: humans (infants)…
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The phonological systems of the Mbam languages of Cameroon with a focus on vowels and vowel harmony
The languages of the Mbam-et-Inoubou District of the Centre Region of Cameroon have a unique position in Bantu linguistics. Being in between
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Paul Behrens
Science
p.a.behrens@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Martha Dellar
Science
m.e.dellar@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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The music of language: exploring grammar, prosody and rhythm perception in zebra finches and budgerigars
Promotor: C.J. ten Cate
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Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives'
The Special Issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics on ‘Language Ideologies: Old Questions, New Perspectives’ aims to offer diverse insights on language ideologies with a focus on methodological and theoretical questions.
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Quality assurance at the Academic Language Centre
The high standards set by the Academic Language Centre are attested by the following quality labels and memberships.
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Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms
Language Use, Usage Guides and Linguistic Norms will be of interest to scholars of language use in both the past and the present, as well as to anyone interested in the interplay between actual language use and prescriptive attitudes towards language.
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Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages
This dissertation provides an overview of the phonological developments of the Qinghai-Gansu languages, comparing them to the reconstructed ancestral language.
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Ying-ting Wang
Faculty of Humanities
y.wang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2520
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Claudio Di Felice
Faculty of Humanities
c.di.felice@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2187
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Ans de Rooij-van Broekhuizen
Faculty of Humanities
a.m.de.rooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2597
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Basic Qualification Language Proficiency English (BKE)
Leiden University has introduced the training program for the Basic Qualification in Education (BKO). This is mandatory and has been made available for (university) teachers and professors to obtain a BKO certificate, depending on the timing, scope, and duration of their employment.
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Language processing and the multilingual brain
This project looks at how the native language influences processing mechanisms of non-native language(s) as well has how it influences brain structure and functional connectivity.
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process. Deaf communities form…
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Language, Education and Identity in Africa
On the 16th of September, Bert van Pinxteren successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Bert on this achievement!
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Dutch Language, Culture and Society (MA)
In the master’s programme in Dutch Language, Culture and Society at Leiden University you will study the language and culture of the Netherlands from the Dutch Golden Age – the time of Rembrandt and Vondel – until today’s dynamic and muliticultural society.
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Relative pitch in music and language
Knowledge and culture subproject 1:
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process.
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Online Experience English Language and Culture
Study information, Online Experience
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Placing Changes
What does site patterning reveal about the social landscape dynamics across the historical divide?
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Language and the human past
At LUCL, researchers aim to contribute to a comprehensive and informed perspective on the human past.
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Language and the human past
At LUCL, researchers aim to contribute to a comprehensive and informed perspective on the human past.
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Word processing in languages using non-alphabetic scripts: The cases of Japanese and Chinese
This thesis investigates the processing of words written in Japanese kanji and Chinese hànzì, i.e. logographic scripts.
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TAFL Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language
From Sunday 23 June till Wednesday 3 July 2024, NVIC organizes a new edition of the TAFL course. This intensive, interactive course is developed for (future) teachers of Arabic. It addresses both the practical aspects of teaching Arabic as a foreign language as well as the underlying linguistic and…
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Languages as Lifelines: The Multilingual Coping Strategies of Refugees from the Early Modern Low Countries
From ca. 1540 to 1600, thousands fled the war-stricken Southern Low Countries to the British Isles, Germany, and the Northern Low Countries. Research on this displacement crisis, central to the formation of the Netherlands and Belgium, reflects 21st-century debates on migration and language: language…
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Gijsbert Rutten
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.rutten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2112
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Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: The Lesser Sunda Islands
What can languages spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands today tell us about the histories of its various population groups?
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Focusdata: Foreign Policy through Language and Sentiment
In this article Fisher, Klein & Codjo introduce the FOCUSdate Project and they show how the sentiment data provide unique abilities to analyze Russia's and Iran's reactions to US policies and events and NGO human rights campaigns.
- Teaching Chinese Language and Culture (MA)
- Language Teaching in Secondary Education (MA)
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Representation and processing of pitch variation in tonal languages
This project examines how speakers store and process regular pitch variation.
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Summer School in Languages and Linguistics
The Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics offers a varied program of specialised courses in Descriptive linguistics, in Chinese, Germanic, Indo-European, Indian, Iranian, Semitic languages and linguistics, as well as a number of introductory linguistic courses.
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The comparative biology of language learning
A theoretical project on the insights gained by human (including infant), nonhuman animal and computational studies on artificial grammar learning; identifying the critical questions for future research by developing novel experimental and computational approaches to address these issues.
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Language Foundation Programme Leiden - The Hague
Preparatory year Leiden
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Brenda Assendelft
Faculty of Humanities
b.m.e.assendelft@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Matthew Sung
Faculty of Humanities
h.w.m.sung@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125
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53rd Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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English language assessment for MA students
Are you planning to register for an English taught Master’s Degree Programme after your Bachelor’s programme? In order to assess what your current level of English is, you are invited to complete an Online Oxford Quick Placement Test.
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signers in the development of channel specific structures in sign languages of deaf communities
In this project, the hypothesis that language contact crucially impacts the development of spatial grammar and phonology is investigated.
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Language archive of insular South East Asia and West New Guinea (Laiseang)
The Laiseang archiving project ensures the preservation of unique records of languages in the region which have been gathered by more than two dozen linguists at, and in collaboration with Dutch universities over the last 40 years.
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A grammar of Kumzari : a mixed Perso-Arabian language of Oman
This book presents an in-depth grammatical description of Kumzari, a mixed language spoken in remote villages on the Musandam Peninsula in northern Oman.
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Informal constitutional change
On Thursday 9 november, Reijer Passchier defended his dissertation 'Informal constitutional change'. His supervisor is Professor Wim Voermans.
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Lecture: Climate Change & Health
Take a view on the slides of the presentation and read what the event of Climate Change & Health was about.
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Certificate Dutch as a Foreign Language
The CNaVT exam is the official, international exam of Dutch as a Foreign Language for all who learn Dutch all over the world. The Catholic University of Leuven organizes the exam. The Dutch Language Union has commissioned this collaboration.