Scientific mission of LOT
The aim of LOT is to create a scientific community in which this research can be optimally pursued, and to educate the next generation of researchers with an open mind toward new disciplinary and interdisciplinary developments, theoretical and methodological alternatives, and possible applications.
LOT stimulates new initiatives and developments in research, and provides a national forum to further communication between the participating institutes with a view to short- and long-term collaboration.
LOT School Series
LOT was officially established in June 1994 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. The LOT school series soon acquired an international reputation as a result of inviting well-known linguists to teach at the schools.
The research by the LOT institutes covers all major areas of linguistics, and exploits a wide range of methodological tools and theoretical frameworks.
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LOT has a small publishing component: the LOT Dissertation Series. This is meant for PhD students who work at a LOT institute.
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MEDAL Summer School in Experimental Linguistics | 17-21 June 2024
After the great kick-off of the series of MEDAL Summer Schools in Tartu, we are already excited about the 2024 Summer School on Experimental Linguistics in Nijmegen! The MEDAL Summer School on Experimental Methods in Linguistics will be held from June 17 to 21, 2024, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Speech Technology: Charting New Futures | 3-7 June | Leeuwarden
Join this five-day journey designed for the innovators, the dreamers, and the hands-on learners. Dive into a dynamic curriculum that blends the arts, ethics, design and technology. Engage in stimulating discussions and thought-provoking lectures. Experience a unique convergence of human-centered design and futuring, opening new horizons in how we think about and interact with technology.
MPI Colloquium | prof. dr. Aoju Chen | 16 April
We are pleased to inform you about a formal MPI Colloquium by Prof. Dr. Aoju Chen, Professor of Language Development at Utrecht University. Title: From sound to structure; Infants’ perception of prosodic boundaries in speech
LOT 665 | Spreading the Word
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Elly Koutamanis.
Utrecht Syntax Interface Talk | Mike Putnam | Thursday 28 March 2024
We’d like to inform you that the next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday March 28 from 16:00 until 17:00 in our Syntax Interface Lectures team on MS Teams. We will host a talk by Mike Putnam (Penn State Univeristy) titled ‘The syntax of umlaut – a cursory overview of the diachronic (& synchronic) development of plural in German(ic).’
Registration is open | LOT Summer School 2024
LOT is pleased to announce that registration for the LOT Summer School 2024 is open. The LOT Summer School 2024 is organised by LOT in collaboration with the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) and will take place from 17 to 28 June, 2024.
Lingathon: First Hackathon for Linguistics! | 5-7 July
Hackathons are events in which programmers try to solve a coding problem in 24 hours. We are going to adapt this concept to linguistics by giving a group of junior linguists 3 days in which to solve a problem in some field of linguistics. Not a hackathon, but a Lingathon! The event will last for 3 days, from July 5th (Friday) to July 7th (Sunday), each day from 9:00 to 18:00, at Utrecht University. Lunch, coffee and snacks will be served every day.
LOT 664 | Caregiver-infant interactions and child vocabulary
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Anika van der Klis.
Registration opens 19 March | LOT Summer School 2024
LOT is pleased to announce that registration for the LOT Summer School 2024 opens on Tuesday 19 March, at 09:30 CET.
APLL16 | 1-3 July 2024
The 16th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on the 1-3 July 2024. Abstract submission is now open.
Reminder | EMLAR XX 2024 | 16-18 April
Do you want to gain experience working with Praat, R, Eye-tracking, JASP, Bayesian Statistics and many other research methods? Come visit us at EMLAR!
Reminder | LOT Ad-hoc Event Fund
Do you want to organise an event for RMA students and/or PhD researchers, and do you need financial help? LOT has launched a new fund to help realise such events: the LOT Ad-hoc Event Fund.
LOT 663 | A Usage-Based Account to Language Transfer
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Marie Barking.
LOT 662 | Shaping Participation
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Marie Rickert.
Reminder | Call for Abstracts | TABU 2024 | 13-14 June
Under the theme of this year’s conference ‘Transcending borders in linguistic research’, interdisciplinary work and research beyond traditional linguistic boundaries are especially welcome. Graduate students and (post-)doctoral researchers in particular are encouraged to present their work. Submission deadline: 15 March!