LOT – Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap

400 faculty members

300 PhD & RMa students

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.

News & Announcements

LOT 648 | Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation

The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Konstantinos Kogkalidis.

Invitation | First LOT Postdoc Community Event

We are excited to announce the first LOT Postdoc Community Event that will take place in the afternoon of October 5th in Amsterdam. As organization committee we feel that a postdoc community provides a unique opportunity to learn from each other and leads to novel collaborations and new research ideas via networking. Therefore, and to get to know each other, we would like to establish a LOT Postdoc Community and organize a kick-off meeting.

LOT 644 | Two languages in daycare

The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Darlene Keydeniers.

Leren van tweede taal lukt ons uiteindelijk allemaal

Voor het leren van een tweede taal bestaat geen kritieke leeftijdsgrens, blijkt uit hersenonderzoek van Nienke Meulman. “Er gaat niet ineens iets op slot, waardoor je er niet meer bij kunt.”

Inschrijving geopend | TOK-dag | 10 november 2023

De TOK-dag (Taalontwikkeling Kinderen in Nederland en Vlaanderen) heeft als doel iedereen bij elkaar te brengen die bezig is met kindertaalontwikkeling in de breedste zin van het woord, om ideeën en ervaringen uit te wisselen, inspiratie op te doen, en elkaar weer te zien.

Wetenschapscommunicatie

De TaalWetenschapsCommunicatie-Dag | 22 september

Ben jij een taalwetenschapper die zich graag bezighoudt met wetenschapscommunicatie? Of zou je dat graag willen doen? Dan nodigen we je uit voor de eerste TaalWetenschapsCommunicatie-Dag op 22 september 202

PhD position

PhD Position | Inclusive Automatic Speech Recognition | ACLC

Are you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? The Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC) currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the UvA-wide project Language Sciences for Social Good, led by principal investigators Floris Roelofsen, Paul Boersma and Antal van den Bosch.

Anne Cutler International Visiting Fellowship 2023 | Western Sydney University

To celebrate Anne Cutler’s scholarship, research legacy and verve in an enduring way, Western Sydney University has established this International Visiting Fellowship, open to eminent researchers in the following disciplines – Linguistics, Speech Science, Developmental Psychology, Experimental Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Computational Linguistics, Speech/Communication Engineering, to spend time at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development. The fellowship will give an international visitor the opportunity to develop and conduct collaborative projects with researchers in the Institute and Australia for a period of 2 – 3 months.

LOT 643 | Verfransing onder de loep

The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Brenda Assendelft.

LOT 642 | As sound as ultrasound

The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Etske Ooijevaar.

LOT Summer School 2023

LOT Summer School 2023 | Registration closes 29 May 2023

Registration is possible until 29 May 23:59 CEST.

Utrecht Syntax Interface Talk | Marijke de Belder | 25 May 2023

We’d like to inform you that the next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday May 25 from 16:00 until 17:00, onsite in the A.W de Grootkamer (Trans room 0.19), and in our Syntax Interface Lectures team on MS Teams. We will host a talk by Marijke de Belder (Utrecht University).

Taal en Tongval symposium 2023 | Laboratory Sociolinguistics

The annual Taal-en-Tongval symposium will take place in the Royal Academy for Dutch Language and Literature (KANTL) in Ghent on Friday November 24th, 2023. The conference theme is Laboratory sociolinguistics and explores answers to theoretical and methodological challenges in research on language variation and change.

LiME-lecture with Anne-Sophie Ghyselen

LiME (Linguistics @ Meertens) is happy to announce a new installment of the LiME Lecture Series with ​​​Anne-Sophie Ghyselen on Monday 22 May 2023.

Winnaars LOT-Grotevragenprijs

De winnaars van de LOT-Grotevragenprijs zijn bekend!

Upcoming Events

  • July 21, 2025 - August 1, 2025
    Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics 2025

    The Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics offers a varied program of specialised courses in Descriptive linguistics, in Chinese, Germanic, Indo-European, Indian, Iranian, Semitic languages and linguistics, as well as a number of introductory linguistic courses.

  • January 12, 2026 - January 23, 2026
    LOT Winter School 2026

    The LOT Winter School 2026 is co-organised with the VU and will take place from 12 to 23 January 2026.

  • June 15, 2026 - June 26, 2026
    LOT Summer School 2026

    The LOT Summer School 2026 is co-organised by the CLCG and will take place at the University of Groningen, from 15 to 26 June 2026.

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