LOT unites about 400 faculty members and 300 PhD and RMa students and provides a meeting point to further national and international communication for the benefit of linguistic research and education. Researchers from the participating institutes share knowledge, work together on theoretical and methodological matters, discuss their data and research in seminars and lecture series and in collaborations of various other kinds.
Below you will find recent news and announcements of events from the institutes participating in LOT and from LOT itself.
Summer School in Languages and Linguistics | July 22nd – August 2nd 2019
/in News /by JanacyThe Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics offers a varied program of specialised courses in fields such as Chinese, Germanic, Indo-European, Iranian, and Semitic languages and linguistics as well as a number of introductory linguistic courses.
Workshop on Infant-directed Speech in Early Language Acquisition| 8 April 2019
/in News /by JanacyOn Monday, 8 April (at 16:15), Mengru Han (Utrecht University) will defend her dissertation The role of prosodic input in word learning: A cross-linguistic investigation of Dutch and Mandarin Chinese infant-directed speech.
Conference on Multilingualism 2019 | 1st – 3rd September 2019
/in News /by JanacyThe next Conference on Multilingualism 2019 (COM2019) will be hosted by the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) at Leiden University (The Netherlands) from September 1st until September 3rd 2019.
5 April 2019 | Sociolinguistics Circle Utrecht
/in News /by JanacyThe Sociolinguistics Circle is a group of Dutch and Flemish sociolinguists whose main purpose is to organise an annual conference day.
ESSLLI 2020 | Call for Course and Workshop Proposals
/in News /by JanacyUnder the auspices of FoLLI the European Summer School in Logic,
Language, and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year in a
different European country. It takes place over two weeks in the
European Summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at both the
introductory and advanced levels, attracting around 400 participants
each year from all the world.
4 June 2019 | Symposium Social Inequality: effects on cognition and language in the first 1001 days
/in News /by JanacySocial inequality has a major impact on the chances children have in society. During this symposium, three internationally renowned speakers will talk about the influence of social inequality on the cognitive and linguistic development of children.
PhD Position (0.6 fte) in Linguistics
/in News /by JanacyThe Institute for German Studies at the University of Oldenburg is looking for a PhD student who will work on the acoustic realization of vowels in the research project “Acoustic indicators of language dominance in bilingual speakers of High and Low German in East Frisia” (funded by the German Research Foundation).
Deadline Extension for the ECA Summer School (15th of March)
/in News /by JanacyIf you are a PhD student or post-doc, please consider attending the summer school, which is the ideal complement to participation at ECA.
Two Assistant Professor Positions in Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University
/in News /by JanacyThe Department of Communication and Cognition in the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences is looking for enthusiastic colleagues for the position of Assistant Professor.
Utrecht Summer School| Neurocognitive Methods for Infant and Toddler Research
/in News /by JanacyBetween the 8th and 12th of July, 2019, the University of Utrecht organises the 3rd edition of the summer school on neurocognitive methods in infant and toddler research.
Toekomst van Frisistiek in Nederland | Symposium
/in News /by JanacyHet lijkt niet goed te gaan met de frisistiek in Nederland. Die constatering vormt de aanleiding tot het organiseren van een congres over de toekomst van de frisistiek.
Call for Registration | Anéla Juniorendag
/in News /by JanacyOn Friday, April 5 2019, Anéla and VIOT (the Dutch and Flemish associations for applied
linguistics and discourse studies) will organize their annual junior researcher day
(Juniorendag) at the Christelijke Hogeschool at Ede.
AILA 2020 | Call for Symposia Proposals
/in News /by JanacyAILA2020 will take place from August 9-14 in 2020 in Groningen, the Netherlands.
Help Wanted | Assistance by Secondary Educations Teachers
/in News /by JanacyFor his PhD research, Gijs Leenders is looking for teachers of secondary education in Dutch, English and German language.
Syntax Interface Lecture | Myrthe Bergstra
/in News /by JanacyThe upcoming Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday, March 7th of 2019. We will host a talk by Myrthe Bergstra (Utrecht University).