The British Association of Academic Phoneticians (BAAP) Colloquium 2022 is being hosted by the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. The event will take place entirely online between 4-8th April 2022.

On Wednesday 19 January 2022, 6.30pm to 7.30pm (UK time), the French writer, artist and book illustrator Michel Talata will be presenting on the theme of ‘Parcours de vie d’un fils de Harki’.

On Friday 14th January 2022, Miguel Ángel Martínez Barradas, from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico (BUAP) will be presenting the talk "Fénix de México: Vida y obra de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz".

On Monday 13 December 2021 Irena Kuzborska (Dept. Education, York) will lead an interactive online workshop on ‘Theoretical dimensions of cultural variability and their applicability in language teaching’. The event is part of the Language Teaching Forum series.

This event is part of the project / event series「対話者」としての自分を振り返る ‘Reflection of self in dialogue’, developed and organised by the LFA Japanese Team’s Megumi Bailey and Yumi Nixon (Dept. Language and Linguistic Science) and Nayuta Brand (Japanese freelance teacher in Switzerland). The project has been awarded a grant from The Japan Foundation, London.

On Thursday 2 December 2021, Mónica López Baltodano (Nicaraguan human rights and environmental lawyer and Director of the human rights NGO Popol Na) will be presenting on 'Nicaragua hoy, desde la perspectiva de una ambientalista y defensora de Derechos Humanos’. The talk will be in Spanish and it will focus on Nicaragua’s environment and human rights issues.

On Wednesday 1st December 2021, Charlotte Moore (Concordia University) will be presenting on "Variable language, adaptable learners: evidence that language acquisition is robust to noise at two timescales". The talk focuses on how infants deal with wordform variability in early word learning.

On Friday 26th November 2021 Professor Sam Hellmuth (Dept. Language and Linguistic Science) will host an online research event organised in collaboration with PhilSoc, part of the PhilSoc ECR Round Table 2021-22 event series.

On Wednesday 24th November 2021, Bettelou Los (University of Edinburgh) will be presenting on "A data-driven exploration of stylistic variation in historical English", looking at stylistic developments in English historical texts using POS-tagged texts, building on work by Los & Lubbers.

On Wednesday 17th November 2021, Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh) will be presenting his research on the informativeness/complexity trade-off in the domain of Boolean connectives at the Language and Linguistic Science Colloquium.

On Wednesday 10th November 2021, Seán Roberts (Cardiff University) will be presenting his research on causal graphs and how they can be used to explain linguistic phenomena.

On Wednesday 3 November 2021, Solène Dia (MA in Politics - Conflict, Governance & Development, University of York) will be presenting on ‘Parcours de vie: travailler pour une ONG à Mayotte‘.

On Wednesday 2nd November 2021, Dr Araceli Toledo Olivar (PhD in Hispanic Literature and Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla - BUAP, Mexico) will be presenting on "Ay, qué bonito es volar": una mirada a la brujería mexicana".

On Wednesday 27th October 2021, Adam Chong (QMUL) will be presenting at the Language and Linguistic Science colloquium.

On Wednesday 20th October 2021, Christina Kim (University of Kent) will be presenting on linguistic and social drivers of structural convergence in dialogue.

On Wednesday 13th October 2021 we will hear two shorter talks on research taking place in the department.

On Tuesday 29 June 2021 at 10:00am Elisabeth Wielander (Aston University) will lead the interactive workshop on “How to integrate content and language learning in Higher Education”.

This event is part of the project / event series ‘How can teachers in Japanese language education help learners to develop their communication competence?’ initially developed and led by Megumi Bailey (Dept Language and Linguistic Science), now a full LFA Japanese Team joint-venture with the addition of Dr Yumi Nixon (Dept. Language and Linguistic Science) as a co-organiser. The project has been awarded a grant from the Japan Foundation, London.

On Wednesday 5 May 2021, Adrian Leemann (University of Bern) will be presenting on "What’s in a voice? Laymen estimations of age, weight, height, education, and geographical origin", which is joint work alongside Hannah Hedegard, Carina Steiner, Péter Jeszenszky and Dave Britain.

This event is part of the project / event series ‘How can teachers in Japanese language education help learners to develop their communication competence?’ developed and organised by Megumi Bailey (Associate Lecturer in Japanese, Dept. Language and Linguistic Science). The project has been awarded a grant from the Japan Foundation, London.

On Friday 12 March 2021 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host its annual Alumni Event ‘What can you do with a degree in Language and Linguistics?’.

On Wednesday 10 March 2021 Hannah Rohde (University of Edinburgh) will be presenting at the LLS Colloquium series, with a talk titled "If you don't have anything nice (or interesting!) to say, don't say anything at all".

The event A screening of Fatih Akin's Solino (2002) is a student project as part of the module “Contemporary German Speaking Film” (Dept. of Language and Linguistic Science). In the opening talk, students will contextualise the film, both from a historical perspective and where the film fits with the director’s other works, and there will be the opportunity to ask questions afterwards.

On Wednesday 3 March 2021 Monika Schmid (University of Essex) will be presenting at the LLS Colloquium series, with a talk titled "When is a bilingual an attriter? – Bilingualism as a two-way street".

This event is part of the project / event series ‘How can teachers in Japanese language education help learners to develop their communication competence?’ developed and organised by Megumi Bailey (Associate Lecturer in Japanese, Dept. Language and Linguistic Science).