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Impact map showcases the University’s global research

11 January 2022

From the Arctic to Zambia, explore where Cambridge has an impact on the world through an interactive map of stories. The interactive map shows how research carried out by Cambridge and its partners is having a positive impact around the world. Stories on the impact of Language Sciences-related research include: Improving...

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Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2021: Language and Inclusion

7 December 2021

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 ‘...

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Annual Symposium speaker profile: William Marslen-Wilson

18 November 2021

William Marslen-Wilson is Honorary Professor of Language and Cognition at the Centre for Speech, Language, and the Brain , Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge. He has an international reputation in psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. His early research, as a graduate student...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Duncan Astle

16 November 2021

Duncan Astle is a Programme Leader at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge. He leads the 4D Research Group , home to around 15 Early Career Researchers working in developmental cognitive neuroscience. Their work draws upon education, cognition, neurophysiology and genetics with a particular...

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Annual Symposium speaker profile: Fridah Katushemererwe

15 November 2021

Fridah Katushemererwe is a Lecturer in Linguistics at Makerere University, Uganda. Her research interests include morphology, computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and natural language processing (NLP). She is currently working on the documentation and revitalisation of two endangered Ugandan languages: Runyankitara...

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Students who self-identify as multilingual perform better at GCSE

15 November 2021

Young people who consider themselves ‘multilingual’ tend to perform better across a wide range of subjects at school, regardless of whether they are actually fluent in another language, new research shows. If pupils were encouraged to see themselves as active and capable language learners, it could have a really positive...

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...

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