Dr George Bailey (@grbails.bsky.social) 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.

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: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

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: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

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: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

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: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

Can speaking a second language protect your brain as you age? 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: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

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: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

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: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

Prof. Giuseppe Longobardi (UoY Language & Linguistic Science) 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: evolang2026.org www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

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 www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

We're delighted that Professor Richard Ogden from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will be leading a workshop on phonetics at the 25th Conference on Discourse and Conversation Analysis, 25–27 March 2026. Deadline for submissions: 17 November 2025 www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/vera...

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 🗓️ Friday 14 November at 16:15

Congratulations to Paul Foulkes from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science on the award!

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. Learn more: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

Dr Catherine Laing from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science 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. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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: doi.org/10.3765/sp.1...

New research from Prof. Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social, Dr. Marina N. Cantarutti @marinanc.bsky.social, & Dr. Jürgen Trouvain investigates the phonetic structure of laughter in conversation. www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

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: york.ac.uk/language-linguistic-science/study/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6YL...

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). www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

Our department reps and community coordinators bring you the latest news and events on Instagram. Stay up to date: www.instagram.com/uoyllscommun...

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. www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

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Our exciting LLS Alumni Event 2025 will be held on May 15th at 4pm in BS/104 (Treehouse) Come and hear about the many different career paths that are open to language and linguistics graduates through the experience of three of our graduates. Register your interest: tiny.cc/LLSalumni

York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA) is organised by postgraduates in 👉 @uoylangling.bsky.social 👉 @uoy-sociology.bsky.social and affiliated with 👉 @uoycaslc.bsky.social A conference by postgrads, for postgrads 🧠💬

Today we were joined by Dr Silvia Terribile, who talked about her research on machine translation and PE effort. Looking forward to hearing more about how an algorithm could potentially optimise the most tedious tasks of the PE process. #MachineTranslation #PostEditing @uoylangling.bsky.social

Our popular CPD course on the Phonetics of Talk-in-Interaction will run again on June 16-18 (online). Join us to improve your auditory skills for transcription and analysis, learn about acoustics, and offer better visualisations as evidence in your work. Registration: www.york.ac.uk/business/cpd...

We are pleased to have been ranked 9th in the UK and 99th in the world for Linguistics in the QS World University Rankings. www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

We are hiring! @uoylangling.bsky.social Associate Lecturer in Chinese Interpreting and Translation (PT, fixed term). Apply by 03/04/2025. More info 👇 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/associ…

We are hiring! We are looking for an Associate Lecturer in Chinese Interpreting and Translation. The position is fixed-term for two years, and part-time. Details: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

Our department together with the UoY CPD team will be hosting two courses led by Prof Bart Defrancq (Ghent University): - AI and CAI Tools for Interpreters - March 24 and 25 www.york.ac.uk/business/cpd... - AI and CAI Tools for Interpreter Trainers - March 27 and 28 www.york.ac.uk/business/cpd...

Want to know how language has changed in London? Devyani Sharma's Generations of London English Project, run at @qmullinguistics.bsky.social with the University of York at generationsoflondonenglish.org @samhellmuth.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk #linguistics #london #langsky

We are delighted to announce our Le Page Lecture 2025: Dr. Aneta Pavlenko "Decision-making by speakers of English as a second language: Insights from the criminal justice system" Wednesday 2 April 2025, 4.00PM to 5:00pm Abstract and registration: www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

Join us next Thursday for the next Tertulia de Literatura y Cine! This month we will discuss some Microcuentos from several Latin American authors. Learn more about this and upcoming Tertulias: www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

We regularly run the Serate Italiane, a series of talks on Italian culture, language and society. Our next SI talk will be: ‘Costruire in immagini: archetipi biblici e la quotidianità del lavoro nel medioevo’ Dr Michele Luigi Vescovi (U of Lincoln) March 20th, 6 pm www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

We have an exciting schedule of talks during this semester in our colloquium series. Upcoming talk: Dr. Hae-Sung Jeon (University of Central Lancashire): "Prominence Perception: The Role of Signal, Linguistic Experience and Age" Thursday 20 February 2025, 3.00PM www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

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