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Language Sciences Incubator Fund opens 20 November 2023

31 October 2023

Cambridge Language Sciences are offering seed funding of up to £5,000 to support interdisciplinary research in the language sciences through the Language Sciences Incubator Fund . The next call will open on 20 November 2023. The Language Sciences Incubator Fund is an opportunity to: Develop new ideas and collaborations Run...

Henriette Hendriks and school students take part in the Brainiverse Challenge: ‘Can this model withstand a simulated earthquake?’

Impact events on the science of learning engage policymakers and school children in Singapore

30 October 2023

A series of impact events on the science of learning were hosted by the NTU-Cambridge Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individualised Cognition (CLIC) in Singapore this summer. The events, attended by over 1,500 people, including school children, teachers, and government agencies, were an opportunity to share CLIC’s latest...

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Research collaboration with Chuo University uses artificial languages to better understand second language learning

11 October 2023

A new research project involving Cambridge Language Sciences (CLS) members and colleagues at Chuo and Utsunomiya Universities in Japan, is using artificial languages to shed light on learnability issues in second language acquisition. The focus of the research is on first-language speakers of Chinese, English, and Japanese...

Delegates networking at Language Sciences Symposium for Early Career Researchers 2023

Early-career researchers fine-tune their networking skills at the Language Sciences Symposium for Early-Career Researchers 2023

10 October 2023

Cambridge Language Sciences welcomed early-career researchers from across the University to an afternoon of networking skills training hosted by comedian and public-engagement consultant Dr Steve Cross . The event took place at Newnham College on 4 October. It was attended by post-doctoral researchers, PhD students and...

Cambridge Language Sciences supports Gibraltar Literature Symposium on endangered Llanito language

4 October 2023

The Gibraltar Literature Symposium on ‘Llanito, culture and writing’ brought together Gibraltarian writers and international academics to consider Gibraltar’s endangered Llanito language and what it means for Gibraltarian identity. The event was organised in collaboration with Gibraltar’s Ministry for Culture, and co-...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Oliver Lemon

21 September 2023

Oliver Lemon is Professor of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, where he is also Director of the Interaction Lab, and Academic Co-Lead of the National Robotarium . He also co-founded the Conversational AI spin-out company Alana AI . His research involves Artificial Intelligence techniques related to...

Annual Symposium speaker profile: Rosemary Varley

22 August 2023

Rosemary Varley is Professor of Acquired Language Disorders at University College London (UCL). Her research focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of speech and language, in particular language disorders in post-stroke aphasia and dementia, and the role of language in non-verbal cognition. Her work uses a range of methods...

Christopher Garcia shows Mexican indigenous instruments to attendees of the workshop

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...

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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)...

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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...

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