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We sat down with David Willis, currently the Jesus Professor of Celtic at the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford to talk about the Parsed Historical Corpus of the Welsh Language (PARSHCWL), a project that started with a gap in the digital humanities landscape and has since grown into an international research coll…

A decade following the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching conference, scholars working on language mixing have gathered in Cambridge for the promotion of the volume Current insights into code-switching, recently published by Language Science Press. The editing authors of the book, Dr. Draško Kašćelan (University of Essex), Dr. María d…

Dr Lidea Shahidi is a postdoctoral research associate in the Deep Hearing Lab, part of the Cambridge Hearing Group at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. An engineer by training who finished her PhD in 2022 at Duke University, she now focuses her research on improving speech perception outcomes for individuals with cochlear implants. A cochl…

On Thursday 21st of May, the Computer Laboratory and the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge jointly hosted The Human in the Loop: Human–AI Collaboration in Language Assessment, a symposium bringing together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to examine the evolving role of AI in language assessment and what it means t…

When Two Heads Are Better Than One: How a CLS-funded Dataset Is Teaching AI to Help Us ThinkWe sat down with Professor Andreas Vlachos from the Department of Computer Science and Technology to talk about DeliData: a project that started with a gap in the psychology literature and has since reshaped how scientists think about group reasoning, delibe…

Report from the conference Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Third Wave Approaches and Beyond by Sólveig Hilmarsdóttir and Dalia Pratali Maffei.The so-called Third Wave approach to sociolinguistic variation has received notable attention in the sociolinguistic study of modern languages. The approach is usually associated with …

Cambrigdge Language Sciences is pleased to announce the launch of an Industry Supporters’ Club for the language sciences to strengthen collaboration with external partners and create new opportunities for engagement, knowledge exchange, and real-world impact.  Partner organisations will be able to connect directly with the language sciences communi…

The workshop on the “Role of Representation in Computational Phonology,” held at King’s College and supported by Cambridge Language Sciences Incubator Fund, concluded with notable success. It exceeded its initial objectives by fostering intensive dialogue between traditionally distinct research areas. By bringing together specialists from across th…

We are pleased to announce that three workshops have been awarded funding in the latest round of the Workshop Fund. More details will be available on the Language Sciences website closer to the workshop dates.The following workshops are funded through our AI-deas project, run in collaboration with AI@Cam, “Improving language equity and inclusion th…

We are delighted to announce that nine new projects have been awarded seed funding in the latest Incubator Fund round (running Nov 2025 - Feb 2026). Posters on the funded research will be presented at future Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium events. We also hope to feature more information about these projects on the Language Sciences website i…

Explore Language Sciences at the Cambridge Festival!16 March – 2 April 2026Join us at the Cambridge Festival for a fascinating lineup of events exploring the many dimensions of Language Sciences. Discover cutting-edge research, from how bilingual brains process language, to the paradox of speech, and how identity drives language change.You can brow…

Report from the symposium “Critical Frontiers in Hate Speech and AI Research"By Petre Breazu and Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge)Why is hate speech so widespread on social media, yet so rarely flagged or removed by platform moderation systems? This question framed the one-day symposium Critical Frontiers in Hate Speech and AI Research, hel…

Language Sciences Workshop Fund, 27 November 2025The Language Sciences Workshop Fund offers funding for the organisation and delivery of interdisciplinary workshops on any relevant topic to researchers in language sciences. However, this round, which is funded by our AI@Cam project“Improving Language Equity and Inclusion through AI”, is restricted …

Language Sciences Incubator Fund, 27 November 2025Cambridge Language Sciences invites applications for the Language Sciences Incubator Fund, offering seed funding of up to £5,000 per project to support interdisciplinary research in the language sciences.Applications are now closed.We have the following funding opportunities available:1. Interdiscip…

Matt Lambon Ralph is the Professor of Cognitive Brain Sciences. He is also the Unit Director of MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge. You can read his detailed biography and publications here. His research interests include semantic cognition and its disorders, aphasia, recovery, rehabilitation and neuroplasticity. T…