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Dr Matt Davis and Prof. Paula Buttery join Prof. Brechtje Post as co-Directors of Cambridge Language Sciences (CLS) from June 2022. We are delighted to welcome Matt Davis and Paula Buttery to the CLS leadership team. They are taking over from Prof. Ann Copestake , who is stepping down as co-Director after five years in the...

Parents influence children’s attitudes to languages far more than their teachers or friends, research finds. This implies that efforts to reverse the national decline in language-learning need to target families as well as schools, researchers say. "Waning interest in these subjects is a public communication challenge; it’...

This year’s Cambridge Festival will take place from 31 March to 10 April. Here are a few Cambridge Language Sciences picks. You can browse the full programme and book events at Cambridge Festival 2022 . 5:00pm-6:00pm on Friday 1 April SPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY: THE LANGUAGE OF OPINIONS, EXPERTISE AND CREDIBILITY A talk by...

This year’s Language Sciences Annual Symposium took place on Tuesday 23 November. The event, now in its sixth year, is an annual meeting of minds, bringing together language scientists of all disciplines from the University of Cambridge and other global research institutions. The topic of this year’s Symposium was ‘...