Onze openingstentoonstelling “Een schip vol woorden” is aankomende zaterdag nog te zien in The Black Archives. Komt dat zien.

Er staat weer een nieuwe Leiden Language Blog online! Paz González vertelt over het belang van taal voor identiteit en over hoe het taalonderwijs op middelbare scholen anders zou moeten. Lees de blog hier: leidenlanguageblog.nl/articles/taalk…

Who spoke what language in north-western sixth-century China? Michaël Peyrot has been awarded an ERC grant to research how Indians, Khotanese and Tocharians influenced each other and each other's languages. He tells us about his research on our website: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2023/0…

NIEUW | Fresco SAM-SIN directeur Taalmuseum bespreekt in de #UBLpodcast zeldzame #Sranantongo bronnen uit de Universiteit Leiden #BijzondereCollecties. Hoe ontwikkelde de taal zich? En wat zeggen de documenten over het gedeelde verleden van Suriname & Nederland? ➡️edu.nl/cvqjn

Using online translation machines, such as Google translate, might seem like an easy solution to overcome language barriers in medical settings. But researcher Dr Susana Valdez also points out the potential risks of doing this. Read about it here: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2023/0…

Today we had the second last dialectology workshop of the semester. We took a look together at the current researches in the NLs, Germany, France, Britain, Belgium, Finland and the US. #LeidenDialectology 📚🧠🗣LUCL Leiden Centre for Digital Humanities

Very excited to be the next speaker for the 📚🧠🗣LUCL “Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies Series” on 14 April! I'll try to present new reflections on native speakerism in language-ideological research based on interview data with multilinguals 😍 leidensociolinguistics.wordpress.com/abstracts-spri…

Congratulations to Toni Pedrós Caballero, who successfully defended a doctoral thesis on the 6th of April! 🎉

#Vacancy for a PhD candidate: 📚🧠🗣LUCL is looking for a junior researcher to conduct research grounded in anthropological linguistics, descriptive linguistics and/or psycholinguistics. Deadline: 30 April 👇🏿 universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2023…

📢Apply for one of three PhD positions at our research institute! Positions available in: ✔️Sociolinguistics/Linguistic Anthropology✔️Language, Culture and Cognition✔️Historical sociolinguistics rb.gy/2k95a Also available📢Postdoc position in Psycholinguistics

Join us on 9 May for a Leiden Translation Talk by Lucas Nunes Vieira on "Human-technology relations and the permeating presence of machine translation tools" #MT #AI #DigitalHumanities 📚🧠🗣LUCL Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities

‘Women are witches, men are studs.’ In the new Leiden Language Blog, Historical sociolinguistics lecturer Mo Gordon writes about whether language can ever be truly inclusive. Read it here: leidenlanguageblog.nl/articles/women… Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities LeidenGlobal

According to Nivja de Jong, #secondlanguage acquisition is 'the most fascinating subject in linguistics' 😍 As a recently appointed #professor she studies how best to teach people a new #language. Read more 👉  universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2023/0…

Wat vragen mensen zich af op #socialmedia?📲 Universitair docent Matthijs Westera ontvangt een NWO-beurs om te onderzoeken waarnaar mensen #online nieuwsgierig zijn🔍Lees meer:  universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2023/04…

History of the Arabic Script | Marijn van Putten (Marijn van Putten), Benjamin Suchard (Benjamin Suchard) & Ahmad Al-Jallad (Ohio State) will discuss new advances in the study of the #Arabic script, orthography and language using papyrological & epigraphic sources. 📚🧠🗣LUCL NINO Leiden

ChatGPT, translation machines and bots: for Carole Tiberius, they are a piece of cake 🤖 On 1 January, she was appointed professor of #computationallinguistics ➡️ Continue reading:  universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2023/0…

Vacancy: Faculty coordinator for the research theme of AI and the digital and non-digital society (0.3 FTE) staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcements/…

Early tongues in Europe offer new information about one of history’s greatest migratory treks. Michaël Peyrot is mapping out this migration. Read more about it here: ec.europa.eu/research-and-i…