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News 2021

Tweetin’ like you talk: Accent representation on social media

Posted on Thursday 25 November 2021

A resounding success for a talk in linguistics delivered to English Language A-level students

Poetry reading on Arabic culture and language

Posted on Thursday 18 November 2021

Poetry reading on Arabic culture and language

A new CPD workshop series for Japanese language teachers

Posted on Thursday 18 November 2021

New Japanese language education project with international invited speakers

New Department Community Coordinator

Posted on Thursday 11 November 2021

UG student appointed as new LLS DDC to help to foster a learning community and promote exciting opportunities and events

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Spanish literary and film circle at the University of York

Posted on Friday 29 October 2021

Our popular social events in Spanish Language are back on campus!

Stats Coffee Hour for students and staff

Posted on Friday 15 October 2021

Drop-in session for staff and students to discuss statistical/data elements of their research

Autumn Term Departmental Colloquium Series

Posted on Monday 27 September 2021

Our Colloquium Series in linguistics is back!

Revisiting ‘the crime of the century’ using forensic speech analysis

Posted on Friday 17 September 2021

Researcher in York provides linguistic expertise for documentary about kidnap/murder case

Podcast: The origins of English

Posted on Tuesday 3 August 2021

New podcast focusing on the history of medieval English

Talk: Veinte años trabajando en cooperación en América Latina

Posted on Tuesday 13 July 2021

Interactive online event in Spanish language on how to pursue a career on international development projects in Latin America

Linguistic paper in Conversation Analysis wins the 2021 Graduate Student Paper award

Posted on Thursday 8 July 2021

LLS PG student’s paper awarded with a prestigious international prize

Language Students Abroad (UoY)

Posted on Thursday 8 July 2021

A new blog for LLS students to share their experiences and useful tips in preparation for the Year Abroad

Humans and machines: novel methods for testing speaker recognition performance

Posted on Tuesday 6 July 2021

Cross departmental research project in York has been awarded an AHRC grant

Successful CPD workshop series for Japanese language teachers

Posted on Friday 25 June 2021

Workshop in Japanese language education in collaboration with the OJAE research and development team

Complete University Guide 2022

Posted on Friday 25 June 2021

Department of Language and Linguistic Science moves into the UK top 10.

YUSU Teaching Awards 2021

Posted on Friday 25 June 2021

Another success for the department at this year’s YUSU awards

Vice Chancellor's Teaching Awards 2021

Posted on Wednesday 23 June 2021

Triple success for the LLS department at this year’s awards for excellence in teaching

At the boundaries of syntactic prehistory

Posted on Tuesday 22 June 2021

New published article in the field of syntactic history of language

Student Volunteering Award 2021

Posted on Friday 18 June 2021

LLS student wins a second award for her volunteering role in the local community

MOOC 2021 - An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Accents, Attitudes and Identity

Posted on Thursday 17 June 2021

Launching the third edition of the department’s highly popular online learning course in sociolinguistics

You’ve changed your tune: intonational variation and change in Middlesbrough (and York)

Posted on Monday 7 June 2021

York Festival of Ideas webinar on intonation patterns and regional accents

Open lecture: The 3,000 year-old Mummy Nesyamun

Posted on Friday 28 May 2021

Online webinar on the synthesis of a vowel sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’ organised by the LLS Forensic group

Another double Laidlaw success for Language and Linguistic Science students

Posted on Thursday 27 May 2021

Once again LLS undergraduates secure a prestigious Laidlaw Scholarship

Origami: A single piece of paper opens infinite horizons

Posted on Wednesday 26 May 2021

The wonderful world of an ancient Japanese art form at York Festival of Ideas 2021

Research fellowship: ‘Interactions in Grammatical Systems: North-South Dialect Variation in England’

Posted on Monday 17 May 2021

Dr Claire Childs awarded an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship

Language acquisition in cross-linguistic context: how can we increase language coverage?

Posted on Wednesday 12 May 2021

LLS Research Fellow participating in a round table discussion on increasing coverage on first language acquisition research.

Enhancing comparability: modelling linguistic systems to advance typology

Posted on Wednesday 12 May 2021

Research project in York has been awarded a Leverhulme International Fellowship

York’s commitment to gender equality recognised with three new Athena Swan awards

Posted on Monday 10 May 2021

The University of York is celebrating the award of Athena Swan bronze awards for the first time to the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, the York Law School and York Management School.

Alumni Event 2021

Posted on Tuesday 27 April 2021

Language and Linguistic Science alumni participate in the LLS Alumni Event 2021

Conference: Morphological Theory and Typology

Posted on Thursday 22 April 2021

Prof. Dunstan Brown will be a keynote speaker at The 5th American International Morphology Meeting

Department Community Coordinator

Posted on Friday 26 March 2021

Student building LLS departmental community: the new role launched by UoY

QS World Rankings by subject 2021

Posted on Monday 8 March 2021

Linguistics at York maintains its place in the world top 100 and UK top 10, while Modern Languages is in the UK top 20.

More rule than exception

Posted on Monday 8 March 2021

New published article in the field of grammar/gene relations

Webinar: Can we save Cockney?

Posted on Friday 5 March 2021

Linguists explore the claim made in 2010 that Cockney would disappear within 30 years

Formal Syntax and Deep History

Posted on Thursday 18 February 2021

New published article in the field of syntactic history of languages

Sunny Nunny Storytime for the Young and Older

Posted on Thursday 11 February 2021

Storytelling on German folklore to inspire a new generation of language learners

CPD workshop series for Japanese language teachers

Posted on Friday 15 January 2021

New Japanese language education project in collaboration with the OJAE research and development team

York recognised as a University of Sanctuary

Posted on Thursday 14 January 2021

LFA Tutor plays a role in expanding access to refugee and asylum seekers in the local community

The return of the department colloquium series

Posted on Wednesday 6 January 2021

The department’s regular series of research talks returned towards the end of term with three invited speakers

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