In this collaborative project between the University of Amsterdam and educational technology provider Prowise Learn, we will create a digital learning environment for Sign Language of the Netherlands (NGT) and make it available to more than 300.000 children in the Netherlands, contributing to increased familiarity with NGT in Dutch society. This will also create a unique opportunity to investigate how children learn a visual language like NGT. Our digital learning environment will yield extensive language acquisition data, which will allow us to address fundamental questions in sign language linguistics and its acquisition. Thus, the project is expected to have substantial scientific and societal impact.

Het Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), een interdisciplinair onderzoeksinstituut van de Faculteiten FGw en FNWI, is op zoek naar een gedreven en enthousiaste professional om ons team van het bedrijfsbureau te versterken. Ben jij klaar voor een uitdagende positie waarin je kunt floreren in een unieke, interfacultaire en internationale omgeving? Als je goed kunt samenwerken en een passie hebt voor dynamiek, dan is deze positie wellicht perfect voor jou!

Are you looking for a challenging position in a dynamic setting? The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the 'Open Competitie' Project Counting the Bees - A Data-Driven Investigation Into Early Modern British Thought, funded by NWO and led by principal investigator Arianna Betti at the Concepts in Motion lab. The ILLC is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research.