Events archive

LLS Colloquium: Phonological and syntactic approaches to tense omission in child English

Wednesday 17 May 2023

On Wednesday 17th May 2023, Robyn Orfitelli (University of Sheffield) will be presenting on "phonological and syntactic approaches to tense omission in child English".

LLS Colloquium: Implicit learning in production: Productive generalization of new L2 knowledge in the absence of awareness

Wednesday 10 May 2023

On Wednesday 10th May 2023, Giulia Bovolenta (University of York) will be presenting on "productive generalization of new L2 knowledge in the absence of awareness".

LLS Colloquium: Prosody in two varieties of Levantine Arabic: stress and focus

Wednesday 3 May 2023

On Wednesday 3rd May 2023, Niamh Kelly (Newcastle University) will be presenting on "Prosody in two varieties of Levantine Arabic: stress and focus".

LLS Alumni Event 2023

Friday 28 April 2023

On Friday 28 April 2023 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host its annual Alumni Event ‘What can you do with a degree in Language and Linguistics?’.

LLS Colloquium: Whose fault is faultless disagreement?

Wednesday 26 April 2023

On Wednesday 26th April 2023, Deniz Rudin (University of Southern California, USA) will be presenting on "Whose fault is faultless disagreement?".

LLS Colloquium: /aɪ/-raising, Stratal Phonology, and the life cycle

Wednesday 19 April 2023

On Wednesday 19th April 2023, Ricardo Bermudez-Otero (University of Manchester) will be presenting on "/aɪ/-raising, Stratal Phonology, and the life cycle".

Careers Event: Speech and Language Therapy

Monday 17 April 2023

On 17th April 2023 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will run a Careers Event for students interested in Speech and Language Therapy.

Exploring Professional Balance Workshop & Writing Session

Friday 31 March 2023

On Friday 31st March 2023, as part of the Early Career Forum in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, we will host the workshop 'Everything, Everywhere and All at Once? Exploring Professional Balance', led by Steve Hutchinson from Hutchinson Training & Development.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Pasión

Thursday 30 March 2023

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

LLS Colloquium: Syncretism-defectiveness interactions as evidence about inflectional architecture

Wednesday 15 March 2023

On Wednesday 15th March 2023, Andrea Sims (Ohio State University) will be presenting on "Syncretism-defectiveness interactions as evidence about inflectional architecture".

LLS Colloquium: Interpretation and processing of anaphors in second language

Wednesday 1 March 2023

On Wednesday 1st March 2023, Makiko Hirakawa (Chuo University, Japan) will be presenting on "interpretation and processing of anaphors in second language".

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Carmen y Lola

Thursday 23 February 2023

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science.

LLS Colloquium: Computational Language Trees: Do They Really Work?

Wednesday 15 February 2023

On Wednesday 15th February 2023, Paul Heggarty (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History) will be presenting on "Computational Language Trees".

Career event for languages: AlphaSights

Thursday 9 February 2023

On Thursday 9th February 2023 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host an employability workshop with AlphaSights.

LLS Colloquium: Same phonetics, different phonology: Rhotics in three Arabic dialects

Monday 30 January 2023

On Monday 30th January 2023, Islam Youssef (University of South-Eastern Norway) will be presenting on "rhotics in three Arabic dialects".

Talk: I-semantics

Monday 30 January 2023

On Monday 30th Jan 2023 Chris Tancredi (Keio University) will be presenting on “I-semantics”.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: El espía

Thursday 26 January 2023

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

LLS Colloquium: Wait what?! An emerging change in spoken English (with evidence from York 1997-2018)

Thursday 1 December 2022

On Thursday 1st December 2022, Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto) will be presenting on "An emerging change in spoken English (with evidence from York 1997-2018)".

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: El ovni, la playa y los muertos

Thursday 24 November 2022

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

Spanish Talk: ‘In conversation with Carlos Cervantes Azcona’ - Cómo inicié mi negocio de importación con China (y cómo aprendí de nuestras diferencias culturales)

Wednesday 23 November 2022

On Wednesday 23rd November 2022, Carlos Cervantes Azcona will be presenting ‘Cómo inicié mi negocio de importación con China (y cómo aprendí de nuestras diferencias culturales)’ his experience in setting up his import business with China.

LLS Colloquium: The emergence of a multiethnolect: Language shift, dialect formation and Black culture in London

Wednesday 23 November 2022

On Wednesday 23 November 2022, Paul Kerswill (University of York) will be presenting on "language shift, dialect formation and Black culture in London".

LLS Colloquium: Let's spell it out! - Cross-linguistic perceptual differences between written and spoken hate speech

Wednesday 16 November 2022

On Wednesday 16th November 2022, Oliver Niebuhr (University of Southern Denmark) will be presenting on "Cross-linguistic perceptual differences between written and spoken hate speech".

LLS Colloquium: Multicultural Toronto English: variation, change and ideologies

Wednesday 9 November 2022

On Wednesday 9th November 2022, Derek Denis (University of Toronto) will be presenting on "variation, change and ideologies in multicultural Toronto English".

Career event for languages: Teach First Employability Workshop

Tuesday 8 November 2022

On Tuesday 8th November 2022, the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host an employability workshop with Teach First.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Charla con Carolina Baltan Salazar

Thursday 27 October 2022

This month,Tertulia has the honour of having Carolina Baltan Salazar talking about the Truth Commission in Colombia. She will be having an informal conversation about the peace accord signed in Colombia in 2016 between the Colombian Government and FARC, the creation of the Truth Commission and the construction of a historical memory in Colombia.

SANTI: British/Colombian Short Film Screening and Post-Screening Discussion

Wednesday 26 October 2022

On Wednesday 26th October 2022, the Department will screen the British/Colombian 10-minute British Film Institute (BFI)-selected short film, SANTI, followed by a discussion with its Writer/Director Harry Richards.

Placement Year Insight for English and LLS

Wednesday 26 October 2022

Are you interested in a Placement Year? Would you like to find out more about what it might be like? Come along to our friendly question and answer session on Wednesday October 26th 2022, 1-2pm in the Bowland Auditorium (Berrick Saul Building).

LLS Colloquium: Phylogenetic syntax and long-range comparison

Wednesday 19 October 2022

On Wednesday 12th October 2022, Giuseppe Longobardi (York) will be presenting on "Phylogenetic syntax and long-range comparison".

LLS Colloquium: A theory of linguistic individuality for forensic linguistics

Wednesday 12 October 2022

On Wednesday 12th October 2022, Andrea Nini (Manchester) will be presenting on "A theory of linguistic individuality for forensic linguistics".

LSPHE 2022 (Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education) Conference

Friday 9 September 2022

The seventh edition of the LSPHE (Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education) conference will be hosted by the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York.

AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing) 2022

Wednesday 7 September 2022

The 2022 edition of the AMLaP (Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing) conference is being hosted by the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. The event will take place between 7-9th Sept 2022.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: La casa de Adela

Thursday 30 June 2022

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

Language Teaching Forum - Workshop: What linguacultures are we teaching? Linguaculture, transnationality, and power

Tuesday 28 June 2022

On Tuesday, 28 June 2022 Karen Risager (Roskilde University, Denmark) will lead an interactive workshop on “What linguacultures are we teaching? Linguaculture, transnationality and power.”

ACTL (Advanced Core Training in Linguistics) Summer School 2022

Monday 27 June 2022

The 2022 edition of the ACTL (Advanced Core Training in Linguistics) Summer School is being hosted by the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York.

CPD Japanese Language: 「聞き書き」を振り返って ‘Reflection on interview & summarising verbatim accounts’

Saturday 25 June 2022

This seminar is the third and final part of the project/event series titled ‘Reflection of self in dialogue’ for Japanese teachers developed and organised by LFA Japanese coordinators, Megumi Bailey and Yumi Nixon (Dept. Language and Linguistic Science) and Nayuta Brand (Japanese freelance teacher in Switzerland).

Building Linguistic Systems Conference 2022

Tuesday 14 June 2022

On 14-16th June 2022, the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will be hosting the Building Linguistic Systems Conference to celebrate the retirement of Prof. Marilyn Vihman

Language Teaching Forum - Workshop: Embodied Interculturality in the Language Class

Tuesday 24 May 2022

On Tuesday, 24 May 2022 Donata Puntil (King’s College, London) will lead an interactive workshop on “Embodied Interculturality in the Language Classroom.”

LLS Colloquium: On Vehicle Change and Ellipsis Identity

Wednesday 18 May 2022

On Wednesday 18th May 2022, Klaus Abels (UCL) will be presenting on "vehicle change and ellipsis identity".

LLS Colloquium: Understanding individual-level performance in forensic voice comparison

Wednesday 11 May 2022

On Wednesday 11th May 2022, Justin Lo (UCL) will be presenting on "individual-level performance in forensic voice comparison".

LLS Colloquium: Modelling language using statistical physics

Wednesday 4 May 2022

On Wednesday 4th May 2022, James Burridge (University of Portsmouth) will be presenting work that brings together statistical physics with linguistics.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: El Ojo

Thursday 28 April 2022

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science.

LLS Colloquium: Teacher identities: A study in the construction of the EFL Teacher-self in Greece

Wednesday 27 April 2022

On Wednesday 27th April 2022, Maria-Araxi Sachpazian and Vicky Papachristou (CITY College, University of York Europe Campus) will be presenting their joint work on EFL teacher identities in Greece.

LLS Colloquium: Towards a model of linguistic malleability across the lifespan: exploring the realisation of FACE and GOAT in panel data

Wednesday 20 April 2022

On Wednesday 20th April 2022, James Grama, Isabelle Buchstaller, Mirjam E. Eiswirth and Lea Bauernfeind (University of Duisburg-Essen) will be presenting on "A model of linguistic malleability across the lifespan", looking at the realisation of FACE and GOAT in panel data.

Talk in French: “Les contes, ça compte !”

Wednesday 13 April 2022

On Wednesday 13 April 2022, Lisa Baissade (professional storyteller since 1998) will be presenting on “Les contes, ça compte !”.

BAAP (British Association of Academic Phoneticians) Colloquium

Monday 4 April 2022

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.

CPD Japanese Language: 対話型美術鑑賞- ‘Interactive art appreciation through dialogue’ for Japanese teachers

Saturday 26 March 2022

This seminar is part of the project/event series titled ‘Reflection of self in dialogue’ for Japanese teachers developed and organised by LFA Japanese Team’s coordinators 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.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Naturaleza muerta

Thursday 24 March 2022

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

LLS Colloquium: A Cross-cultural approach to Infant-Directed Speech

Wednesday 16 March 2022

On Wednesday 16th March 2022, Katie Slocombe (Department of Psychology, University of York) will be presenting on infant-directed speech produced by mothers in the UK and Uganda.

LLS Alumni Event 2022

Thursday 10 March 2022

On Thursday 10 March 2022 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host its annual Alumni Event ‘What can you do with a degree in Language and Linguistics?’

LLS Colloquium: Two short talks from Ben Gibb-Reid and Mohammad Bani Younes

Wednesday 9 March 2022

On Wednesday 9th March 2022, Ben Gibb-Reid (University of York) and Mohammad Bani Younes (Al Al-Bayt University, Jordan) will each present a talk on their current research.