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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...

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...

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...

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...