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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…

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…

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…

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 works on multilingualism, first …

This year’s Language Sciences Symposium for Early-Career Researchers took place on Thursday 24 June.The event, now in its fourth year, celebrates work by early-career researchers working in the field of language sciences.We were delighted to welcome keynote presenters from across the University: Ahmed Zaidi, Computer Science and Technology; Barbara…

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, University of Cambridge; Christelle Langley, University of Cambridge, and Victoria Leong, University of CambridgeIQ is often hailed as a crucial driver of success, particularly in fields such as science, innovation and technology. In fact, many people have an endless fascination with the IQ scores of famous people. But t…

Sarah Morgan is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Department of Computer Science and Technology, a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute.Her research applies data science approaches – including machine learning, network science and natural languag…

Professor Ianthi Tsimplitalks about the new MSt in English Language Assessment which will be delivered in partnership with the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge Language Sciences and Cambridge Assessment English.A new Master’s at ICE aims to train the next generation of language assessment specialists by connecting professionals working …