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Dr Elisabeth Norcliffe is currently a visiting researcher with the Surrey Morphology Group at the University of Surrey. She recently completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford. Previously, she was a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. She holds a Ph…

Professor Laura Wright is Professor of the History of the English Language at the University of Cambridge and a historical sociolinguist. Her research focuses on the history of Standard English and the London dialect, including mixed-language texts written in Anglo-Norman, Medieval Latin and Middle English, as well as 17th, 18th and 19th century Lo…

Norma Schifano is Assistant Professor of Italian and Comparative Romance Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, where she is also a Fellow of Churchill College. She is also a member of the Council of the Philological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.Norma’s research focuses on documenting and theorizing morphosyntactic chan…

Dr Ariel Goldstein is a computational cognitive neuroscientist at the Center of Human Inspired AI (CHIA) at University of Cambridge. His research investigates how human brains and artificial neural networks process language, particularly during natural activities such as listening to stories, conversations and lectures.By combining brain recordings…

Dr. Hannah Hobson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of York where she additionally directs the EMERALD (Emotions and Mental health Research in Autism and Language Disorders) lab. Prior to her work at the University of York, Hannah has lectured at the University of Greenwich and was a post-doctoral researcher at …

The Workshop on Computational Linguistic Methods for Language Technology: Writing, Reading, Interaction, Content Creation and Evaluation (WRICE) Workshop, organised by the University of Cambridge ALTA Institute and supported by Cambridge Language Sciences IRC, took place from the 12th to 13th of March, 2026.  The workshop was offered in a hybrid fo…

Professor Andrew Caines is a Research Professor in the Natural Language and Information Processing Group at the Department of Computer Science and Technology. He completed his PhD in Cambridge in 2010 and after 3 years with the European Bioinformatics Institute, he joined the University staff in October 2013 as a member of the Automated Language Te…

  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 co…

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…