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We are delighted to announce that three new projects have been awarded seed funding through the Language Sciences Incubator Fund.The successful applicants from the latest call, which closed in January 2022, were announced on 23 March.We would like to congratulate all concerned, and to thank the reviewers for generously giving up their time to evalu…

This year’s Cambridge Festival will take place from 31 March to 10 April. Here are a few Cambridge Language Sciences picks.You can browse the full programme and book events at Cambridge Festival 2022.5:00pm-6:00pm on Friday 1 AprilSPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY: THE LANGUAGE OF OPINIONS, EXPERTISE AND CREDIBILITYA talk by Shauna Concannon, Research Associ…

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 student outcomes through speak…

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 ‘Language and Inclusion’. It was a …

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 at MIT, revealed the remarkab…

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 interest in understanding neur…

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, a group of languages spoken…

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 impact on their wider progre…

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 North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NEN…

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 major international research…

Cambridge University video highlights importance of interdisciplinary researchThe 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 students, early-career rese…

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 Priaulx Library – the work of t…

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 for language and AI resear…

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 for language and AI researc…

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 project, and can provide proof of…