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

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

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.

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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.

TABU dag

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!

Upcoming Events

  • April 16, 2024 - April 18, 2024
    EMLAR XX

    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!

  • June 17, 2024 - June 28, 2024
    LOT Summer School 2024

    The LOT Summer School 2024 will be hosted by Leiden University.

  • January 13, 2025 - January 24, 2025
    LOT Winter School 2025

    The LOT Winter School 2024 will be organised by LOT in collaboration with the Radboud University (Nijmegen).

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