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Annual Symposium speaker profile: Geoffrey Khan

25 October 2021

Geoffrey Khan is Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. His research includes philological and linguistic studies of Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic. As part of his interest in Aramaic he has undertaken extensive fieldwork on the many endangered dialects of the...

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Annual Symposium speaker profile: Maria Teresa Guasti

13 October 2021

Maria Teresa Guasti is Professor of Linguistics at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB). She studies language acquisition in children including monolingual and bilingual, children with cochlear implants, and children with specific language impairments and dyslexia. Maria Teresa is currently working on two...

Celebrating interdisciplinary research at Cambridge

4 October 2021

Cambridge University video highlights importance of interdisciplinary research The video called ‘What impact will your next connection have?’ encourages researchers to get involved in the lively network of cross-School initiatives at the University. WATCH VIDEO HERE: What impact will your next connection have? Postgraduate...

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A Glossary of the Norman Language in the Channel Islands

16 September 2021

Professor Mari Jones ’s latest research leads to crowd-funding scheme to publish the first glossary of the Norman language in the Channel Islands to bring together all the languages – Guernésiais, Jèrriais and Sercquiais – in one place. When a collection of several hundred jumbled slips of paper were discovered in the...

About Language & AI: an interview with Linda Gerlach

15 September 2021

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an increasingly central aspect of language science research encompassing many areas from digital humanities and corpus linguistics, NLP applications like speech recognition and chat bots, to the use of machine learning to model human cognition. Cambridge University is a world-leading centre...

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About Language & AI: an interview with Christine de Kock

11 August 2021

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Language Sciences Incubator Fund projects announced August 2021

3 August 2021

We are delighted to announce that six more projects have been awarded seed funding through the Language Sciences Incubator Fund . Successful applicants from the latest call, which closed in June 2021, were announced on 3 August. The fund is an opportunity for researchers to work together across disciplines on a pilot...

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About Language & AI: an interview with Tamsin Blaxter

28 July 2021

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About Language & AI: an interview with Guy Emerson

27 July 2021

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Professor Ianthi Tsimpli elected to British Academy

23 July 2021

Many congratulations to Professor Ianthi Tsimpli on her election to the Fellowship of the British Academy. Professor Tsimpli , Professor of English and Applied Linguistics, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, is a former co-Director of Cambridge Language Sciences (CLS) and currently sits on the CLS Management Committee. She...

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