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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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!
IMPRS Conference 2024 | Registration is OPEN!
Registration for the IMPRS conference 2024 is open until April 15, 2024. On-site attendee slots are limited. Register for free here!
Vacature | Hoogleraar Taal & Communicatie
Kom het departement Talen, Literatuur en Communicatie versterken als hoogleraar Taal en Communicatie. In deze functie bestaat 50% van de taken uit het voorbereiden en geven van onderwijs en 50% uit onderzoeks- en leiderschapstaken.
Sixth #BreGroMMplus Lecture | Assimakis Tseronis | 15 March 2024, 1.00pm
The lecture series continues on Friday, 15 March 2024, 1.00pm with a talk by Prof. Assimakis Tseronis from Örebro University. He will present newest research results and ideas live and onsite in Groningen. The talk will be streamed online and participants are welcome to join us in Groningen for a live lecture or online via Zoom.
#BreGroMM+ is a continuation of the #BreGroMM series from previous years and offers online workshops for everyone interested in multimodality research. A particular aim is to introduce Research Master and PhD students from the Netherlands to the context of multimodality and the ongoing activities in this field. The Lecture series is a joint event sponsored by LOT and the Center for Language and Cognition, Groningen, in combination with the Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops on Multimodality (#BreGroMM). LOT will pay for their members’ travel costs.
LOT 661 | Personal experience narratives in three West African sign languages
The Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics is pleased to announce a new publication in the LOT Dissertation Series by Marta Morgado.
MPI Colloquium | Prof. dr. Aniruddh D. Patel | 19 March 2024
We are pleased to invite you to a formal MPI Colloquium by Prof. Aniruddh D. Patel, Professor of Psychology at Tufts University, Boston, US.
Title: The evolution of human musicality: a synthetic research program
Workshop | Prosodic features of language learners’ fluency | 1 July 2024
As a satellite workshop to the Speech Prosody conference held in July at Universiteit Leiden, Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius and Nivja de Jong are organizing a workshop on Prosodic features of language learners’ fluency. Deadline call for papers: 8 April 2024; Workshop date: 1 July 2024.