LOT – Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics

Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap

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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 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!

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!

Professor position

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

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

Colourful chairs

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.

Utrecht Syntax Interface Talk by Marjolein Talsma | Thursday February 29

We’d like to inform you that the next Syntax Interface Lecture will take place on Thursday February 29 from 16:00 until 17:00 in our Syntax Interface Lectures team on MS Teams/in Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, room 1.06. We will host a talk by Marjolein Talsma (University of Groningen) titled ‘A Split-Merge approach to argument structure’.

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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