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 Dissertations Webshop
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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Project MIND | Multilingualism in daycare
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyMeasuring the effects of bilingual daycare
Project MIND wint de LOT Populariseringsprijs 2020 | Imme Lammertink AVT/Anéla-dissertatieprijs 2020
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyPrijzen voor onderzoek naar meertaligheid op de kinderopvang en taalontwikkelstoornissen
Klokhuis Science Award for research on Frisian-Dutch bilingualism
/in News, Outreach /by Janacy‘How do bilingual children in Friesland read?’ With this study, postdoctoral researcher Evelyn Bosma (UL/UU) and PhD student Naomi Nota (RU/MPI) won the fifth Klokhuis Science Award. In the coming year, the popular children’s program will make an episode about their research.
15 eeuwen Nederlandse taal
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyOnze Taal/ANV-taalboekenprijs 2020 – Door Nicoline van der Sijs
Taalverhalen | A website about the variation in the Dutch language in Belgium and the Netherlands
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyThe Dutch language as it is used in Belgium has always had some typically Belgian features, or, as many people would put it, ‘Flemish’ features in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, diminutives, plurals, word order etc. For many decades, these differences had been labeled as ‘incorrect’ – By Miet Ooms
Interactive Explanation | What Sociolinguistics Can Do For Text Prediction
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyAs scientists, we work with fascinating, rich datasets, the latest insights, state of the art technology. We work for years on a research project, to extract the most interesting pieces of knowledge, and then this results in … a few static pages – By Wessel Stoop
Tickling the Brain About the Brain
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyHow does your brain know when to talk? Can you forget your mother tongue? And why is swearing so #@$&!% great? These are typical questions that we all could be asking ourselves at some from time to time. At Donders Wonders we provide answers in simple language that everyone can understand – By Roeland Segeren
Write it up!
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyTeaching popular science to master’s students in Clinical linguistics – By Adrià Rofes
Winner LOT Popularization prize 2019 | Scholar@School
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyDuring the annual Dutch Linguistics Day 2020, the LOT Popularization prize of 2019 was awarded to two winners, the Department of Language and Literature of the KU Leuven and Liesbeth Koenen. Sarah D’Hertefelt on Scholar@School.
Winnaar LOT Populariseringsprijs 2019 | Liesbeth Koenen
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyTijdens de Grote Taaldag 2020 zijn Liesbeth Koenen en de Opleiding Taal- en Letterkunde van de KU Leuven uitgeroepen tot de winnaars van de 2019 LOT-populariseringsprijs voor Taalwetenschap. Liesbeth Koenen over ‘Wat je zegt, gaat vanzelf’.
Aanmoedigingsprijs | Etymologiekalender
/in News, Outreach /by JanacyTijdens de Grote Taal Dag 2020 werd naast de LOT-populariseringsprijs 2019 ook een aanmoedigingsprijs uitgereikt. Deze ging naar Laura Dees, Pascale Eskes, Lotte Meester, Gerard Spaans en Vera Zwennes ter aanmoediging van verdere bijdragen aan de popularisering van de taalwetenschap.