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Object shift in the Scandinavian languages: syntax, information structure, and intonation
This thesis discusses the constructions relevant to Object Shift from the intonational perspective, by presenting experimental data from all the Scandinavian languages.
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The work of abyss and time: towards an emancipatory poetics of the tropics and critical autoethnographic practices of research within media art
This doctoral project by artist and educator Luiz Zanotello engenders a postcolonial understanding of time, space and movement by means of artistic research methods. The project examines the contradictory effects of the abyssal line of thought within the tropics as a starting point.
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Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous
This book celebrates Maarten Mous, professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University.
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Our team
Researchers from five different discplines work together in this interdisciplinary initiative.
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The empathic mind in children and adolescents with Specific Language Impairments (SLI)
The ‘empathic mind’ in children with Specific Language Impairments (SLI); what can children with SLI understand of other people’s minds and emotions?
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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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Media & Interaction
Media & interaction is where artificial intelligence and machine learning meet philosophy, cognitive science, and the creative arts. Examples of research questions in this domain are: 'Can an algorithm be creative by human standards?', 'Can creative processes, such as composing music or writing poetry,…
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Dietsje Jolles
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Willem van der Does
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sander Nieuwenhuis
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ineke van der Ham
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bernhard Hommel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes
From Crisis to Critique
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Language that comforts: The power of communication in healthcare
For people who are seriously ill, an empathetic doctor can make a world of difference. Psychologist Janine Westendorp examined helpful and harmful communication in the consulting room. ‘It’s very important to stress that you are always there supporting the person, even if there’s no cure.’
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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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Willemijn Heeren
Faculty of Humanities
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M. Y. Priscilla Lam
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Benjamin Suchard
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
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Ben Arps
Faculty of Humanities
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Aleksandra Uttenweiler
Faculty of Humanities
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Natasja Delbar
Faculty of Humanities
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Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
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The Golden Mean of Languages; Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540-1620)
In The Golden Mean of Languages, Alisa van de Haar sheds new light on the debates regarding the form and status of the vernacular in the early modern Low Countries, where both Dutch and French were local tongues. The fascination with the history, grammar, spelling, and vocabulary of Dutch and French…
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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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Haunted Europe. Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media
Haunted Europe offers a comprehensive account of the British and Irish fascination with a Gothic vision of continental Europe, tracing its effect on British intellectual life from the birth of the Gothic novel, to the eve of Brexit, and the symbolic recalibration of the UK’s relationship to mainland…
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Building blocks of success
A research into for whom, when and why the Cool Little Kids intervention works.
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The Texture of the Lexicon
In this volume, Ray Jackendoff and Jenny Audring embark on a major reconceptualization of linguistic theory as seen through the lens of morphology. Their approach, Relational Morphology, extends the Parallel Architecture developed by Jackendoff in Foundations of Language (2002), Simpler Syntax (2005),…
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About the programme
Within the Linguistics specialisation, you can choose one of the suggested thematic routes. Depending on the theme of your choice, the programme prepares you for a career in various fields, such as speech technology, artificial intelligence, education, language documentation and language policy.
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New platform for research about heritage languages
HERLING (Research Lab for the Study of Heritage Languages of the Netherlands) is a new centre that aims to bridge the gap between scientific research and language communities.
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Speaking the same language: the introduction of the Anglo-American trust into the Dutch legal system
On 5 October, Katherine Filesia defended the thesis 'Speaking the same language: the introduction of the Anglo-American trust into the Dutch legal system'. The doctoral research was supervised by Pim Huijgen and Frans Sonneveldt.
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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Arend Quak
Faculty of Humanities
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
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Enrico Odelli
Faculty of Humanities
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I-Fan Lin
Science
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Liza van den Bosch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzan Verberne
Science
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Paul van Els
Faculty of Humanities
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Marc Buijnsters
Faculty of Humanities
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Victoria Nyst
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia Dunn
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiaqi Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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Tian Yang
Faculty of Humanities
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Gamechangers
Research into the development of privacy-friendly care games for children.
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Understanding emergence and growth of interests in daily life
How are interests embedded and experienced in daily life and to what extent can their origin and development be understood in terms of this contextualization?
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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.