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Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York #linguistics
University of York
Joined October 2013
Dr George Bailey (@grbails) spoke to an audience of over 850 people, mostly English Language A-level students, last week at the English and Media Centre conference, showing how AI and machine learning can reveal patterns of dialect change in the North of England.
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How do speakers balance making sense with saying something new? Join us on 4 Dec for a colloquium with Prof Hannah Rohde. She will discuss the psycholinguistics of discourse and how we manage expectations in communication. 15:00 in CL/A/057 Abstract: https://t.co/PnDX3sTAJm
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Next week's LLS Colloquium features Dr. Danielle Turton (Lancaster University) on "Rhotic variation in Lancashire." The study focuses on /r/ loss in the Blackburn dialect. Details: Wed 20 Nov, 15:00, CL/A/057. Read the abstract: https://t.co/0TSyhBNeVA
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Our next LLS Colloquium talk is on 13 November at 16:00 in CL/A/057. Dr. E Jamieson (University of York) will present: "Drivers of morphosyntactic obsolescence: Communities of place vs communities of practice in the Shetland Islands". Read the abstract: https://t.co/3FhMv5HTZy
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New research by Serge Sagna, Virve-Anneli Vihman, and Dunstan Brown finds children learning Eegimaa (Senegal) acquire its complex noun system with high accuracy from just 2 years old. Read the paper:
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In this paper, we examine young children’s acquisition of the prefixal noun class system of Eegimaa, a Jóola language spoken in Senegal (Atlantic family, Niger-...
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Congratulations to Eloísa Monteoliva-García, Lauren Harrington, James Tompkinson & Jessica Wormald on securing new funding to support workshops with police forces on transcription & interpreting in law enforcement. Read more:
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New funding will continue vital knowledge exchange between academics and police forces on transcription and interpreting in the justice system.
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Prof Monika Schmid from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science joined the Aging Less podcast to discuss how multilingualism builds cognitive reserve and can delay cognitive decline. Listen here:
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Professor Schmid joins the 'Aging Less' podcast to explore how learning languages can promote lifelong brain health and delay cognitive decline.
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We're pleased to announce our next departmental colloquium. Dr. Coppe van Urk will present "The cycle in a syllable: Phases and impenetrability in Dinka morphology". Join us on 6 November at 16:00 in CL/A/057. Read the abstract: https://t.co/LJqXcXYliV
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Congratulations to our Dr Lauren Harrington on being awarded a prestigious ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship! The fellowship will support her important work in forensic transcription and the creation of a new international network. Read more:
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The prestigious one-year fellowship will support new research into forensic transcription and help establish an international knowledge-sharing network.
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Prof. Giuseppe Longobardi (@UoYLangLing) and Dr. Dimitar Kazakov (UoY Computer Science) are co-chairing the major #EVOLANG XVI conference! Call for Papers is open for the 2026 event. Deadline: 26 October 2025. Details: https://t.co/beh9KNctsv
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Two University of York academics are leading the organisation of the EVOLANG XVI conference in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
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An upcoming LLS Colloquium features Dr. Jawad Hassan Zadeh discussing Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO). 📅 Thursday 30 October 2025 📍 Church Lane Building, University of York https://t.co/s3D2IFfr2f
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This presentation will focus on 3 main areas in the use of Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO)
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Join us for a talk by Rik van Gijn (Leiden University) on the languages of the Upper Amazon. Hosted by the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, this event is part of the Philological Society's autumn meeting. 📍 Kings Manor, Huntingdon Room K/122 🗓️ Fri 14 Nov at 16:15
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Our forensic speech scientists Dr James Tompkinson & Lauren Harrington recently provided expert evidence to a House of Lords inquiry on the use of police transcripts in the criminal justice system. Their research is helping to inform UK policy. https://t.co/D470tT1942
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Academics provided evidence to the parliamentary inquiry on the production of transcripts in the criminal justice system.
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Dr Catherine Laing spoke with Michael Rosen on BBC Radio 4's "Word of Mouth" about her research on iconicity, onomatopoeia, and why babies use words like 'meow' and 'woof' so early in their language development. https://t.co/jZxBE8BLzQ
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Michael Rosen and Dr Catherine Laing discuss words that sound like their meanings.
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New research from Dr Imke Driemel and colleagues in Semantics & Pragmatics investigates determiner phrase (DP) conjunction in child Georgian and Hungarian. Is the structure always complex? Find out here:
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New research from Prof. Richard Ogden, Dr. Marina N. Cantarutti (@UniOfYork ), & Dr. Jürgen Trouvain (@Saar_Uni) investigates the phonetic structure of laughter in conversation. https://t.co/GiUJLxLhUE
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Our postgraduate student Elliot shares why they chose to study an MA and PhD in Linguistics at York, and why York is a great place to study linguistics in general. Explore our postgraduate degrees: https://t.co/AX92UWi8er
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We are pleased to hear that our department is ranked 4th in the UK for French, 5th in the UK for linguistics and 6th in the UK for Iberian languages in the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2026). https://t.co/KUnnESh3Hu
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Our department reps and community coordinators bring you the latest news and events on Instagram. Stay up to date: https://t.co/u7hMuMCNxh
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Congratulations to our final-year student Ariana Dubov for receiving a commendation in the Spanish section of the University of Warwick Undergraduate Translation Prize 2025. https://t.co/t4dtcC5On2
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