For a conversation to be coherent, we expect more than just a sequence of arbitrary sentences — we expect the sentences to connect in predictable and sensible ways.

Rhoticity, the presence or absence of non-prevocalic /r/ in words like star or heart, is typically associated with the accents of Scotland, Ireland, and North America, but less frequently with England.

The Philological Society is holding one of its autumn meetings at the University of York, hosted by the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. This talk will be particularly relevant to those interested in typology or languages of the Amazon.

In this talk, I investigate morphosyntactic obsolescence across communities in the Shetland Islands.

This talk argues for a cross-modular theory of cyclicity rooted in phase theory (Chomsky 2001; Marvin 2002; Newell 2008 a.o.), in which the application of the syntactic, morphological, and phonological grammar is interleaved.

This month's Tertulia de Literatura y Cine ‘Literary and Film Club’ will feature a discussion, conducted entirely in Spanish, of the short story Bota blanca de tacón de aguja (2022) by Spanish writer and journalist Mercedes de Pablos.

This presentation will focus on 3 main areas in the use of Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin (LADO)

The Yorkshire Language Teaching Research & Scholarship (YLTRS) Network Symposium III will be hosted by the University of York on Thursday 11th September 2025

We are delighted to announce the 2025 edition of the ACTL (Advanced Core Training in Linguistics) Summer School will take place in York, from June 30 to July 4.

Online talk on the theme of “Gabriele D'Annunzio e l’orientalismo nell’arte e nella letteratura preraffaellita”

The N400 brain potential is usually large at unexpected words in a sentence.

Increasingly, governments around the world have introduced a range of special or alternative measures as a tool to facilitate vulnerable witnesses giving their ‘best evidence' (Hayes & Bunting, 2013).