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Read more at: Multicoloured and Melodious workshop brings endangered Mexican languages to Cambridge 
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Multicoloured and Melodious workshop brings endangered Mexican languages to Cambridge 

9 August 2023

Exploring connections between musical heritage, art, archaeology and the ethnolinguistics of the Americas was the focus of a recent workshop co-sponsored by the Language Sciences Impact Fund . The Multicoloured and Melodious Dimensions of the Americas workshop, co-sponsored by the Language Sciences Impact Fund and CRASSH...


Read more at: Annual Symposium speaker profile: Micol Spitale
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Annual Symposium speaker profile: Micol Spitale

2 August 2023

Micol Spitale is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cambridge Affective Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AFAR Lab). Her research focuses on different aspects of affective computing and human-robot interaction. Her postdoctoral research at Cambridge has been on developing a Socio-emotionally Adaptive Robotic (ARoEQ)...


Read more at: Language and AI: Guy Emerson on using AI with language data
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Language and AI: Guy Emerson on using AI with language data

2 August 2023

It's a funny time to be working on language and AI. A year ago, this might have seemed like a niche interest, but these days ‘large language model’ is practically a household term. I recently had the chance to speak about language and AI at an event run by the Centre for Science and Policy , and I thought I would write a...


Read more at: New global humanities website highlights the impact of Cambridge research into multilingualism
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New global humanities website highlights the impact of Cambridge research into multilingualism

10 July 2023

The new Cambridge Global Humanities: Multilingualism website is part of the Global Humanities initiative set up by the School of Arts and Humanities in 2020. The site offers information about research and events in languages, multilingualism and language contact at Cambridge. It also features related research projects on...


Read more at: Language Sciences workshop helps build partnerships with local clinicians for research impact
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Language Sciences workshop helps build partnerships with local clinicians for research impact

4 July 2023

A workshop organised by Cambridge Language Sciences (CLS) brought together language researchers and local clinicians for an afternoon of networking and knowledge exchange. The aim was to learn more about each other’s work and explore opportunities for collaboration as a route to research impact. The workshop was attended...


Read more at: Language Sciences Impact Fund projects announced May 2023
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Language Sciences Impact Fund projects announced May 2023

11 May 2023

We are delighted to announce that four projects have been awarded funding through the newly established Language Sciences Impact Fund . The Fund, which ran for the first time this year, supports impact-related activities in the language sciences. The aim is to increase engagement with non-academic partners such as health...


Read more at: Language Sciences Incubator Fund projects announced March 2023
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Language Sciences Incubator Fund projects announced March 2023

29 March 2023

We are delighted to announce that two new projects have been awarded seed funding through the Language Sciences Incubator Fund. The successful applicants from the latest call were announced on 29 March 2023. We would like to congratulate all concerned and thank the reviewers for giving their time to evaluate the proposals...


Read more at: Language researchers develop new method for measuring vowel sounds
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Language researchers develop new method for measuring vowel sounds

7 March 2023

In a paper selected for the front cover of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) James Burridge and Bert Vaux present a new method for the low dimensional measurement of vowels using machine perception . This method could eventually improve our ability to measure how the set of vowel sounds varies between...


Read more at: Cambridge Festival 2023
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Cambridge Festival 2023

13 February 2023

The interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival will take place from 17 March - 2 April 2023 with a mixture of on online, on-demand and in-person events covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge. The folllwing is a selection of language sciences-related events at this year's festival. For a full...


Read more at: Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2022
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Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2022

21 December 2022

What does language diversity mean for the past, present and future of humankind? This ‘moonshot’ question was the focus of this year’s Language Sciences Annual Symposium which took place at Cripps Court, Magdalene College on Thursday 24 November. The moonshots are ambitious questions of societal importance developed as...


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Cambridge Language Sciences is an Interdisciplinary Research Centre at the University of Cambridge. Our virtual network connects researchers from five schools across the university as well as other world-leading research institutions. Our aim is to strengthen research collaborations and knowledge transfer across disciplines in order to address large-scale multi-disciplinary research challenges relating to language research.

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