Next week's LLS Colloquium features Dr. Danielle Turton (Lancaster University) on "Rhotic variation in Lancashire." The study focuses on /r/ loss in the Blackburn dialect.

Details: Wed 20 Nov, 15:00, CL/A/057.

Read the abstract: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

Our next LLS Colloquium talk is on 13 November at 16:00 in CL/A/057.

Dr. E Jamieson (University of York) will present: "Drivers of morphosyntactic obsolescence: Communities of place vs communities of practice in the Shetland Islands".

Read the abstract: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

We're pleased to announce our next departmental colloquium.

Dr. Coppe van Urk will present "The cycle in a syllable: Phases and impenetrability in Dinka morphology".

Join us on 6 November at 16:00 in CL/A/057.

Read the abstract: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

Join us for a talk by Rik van Gijn (Leiden University) on the languages of the Upper Amazon. Hosted by the Department of Language and Linguistic Science, this event is part of the Philological Society's autumn meeting.

📍 Kings Manor, Huntingdon Room K/122

🗓️ Friday 14 November at 16:15

New research from Dr Imke Driemel and colleagues in Semantics & Pragmatics investigates determiner phrase (DP) conjunction in child Georgian and Hungarian.

Is the structure always complex? Find out here: doi.org/10.3765/sp.1...

New research from Prof. Richard Ogden @richardogden.bsky.social, Dr. Marina N. Cantarutti @marinanc.bsky.social, & Dr. Jürgen Trouvain investigates the phonetic structure of laughter in conversation.

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

We are pleased to hear that our department is ranked 4th in the UK for French, 5th in the UK for linguistics and 6th in the UK for Iberian languages in the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2026).
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Congratulations to our final-year student Ariana Dubov for receiving a commendation in the Spanish section of the University of Warwick Undergraduate Translation Prize 2025.
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Our exciting LLS Alumni Event 2025 will be held on May 15th at 4pm in BS/104 (Treehouse)

Come and hear about the many different career paths that are open to language and linguistics graduates through the experience of three of our graduates.

Register your interest:
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We are pleased to have been ranked 9th in the UK and 99th in the world for Linguistics in the QS World University Rankings.
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Our department together with the UoY CPD team will be hosting two courses led by Prof Bart Defrancq (Ghent University):
- AI and CAI Tools for Interpreters - March 24 and 25
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- AI and CAI Tools for Interpreter Trainers - March 27 and 28
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We are delighted to announce our Le Page Lecture 2025:
Dr. Aneta Pavlenko
"Decision-making by speakers of English as a second language: Insights from the criminal justice system"
Wednesday 2 April 2025, 4.00PM to 5:00pm
Abstract and registration:
www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

Join us next Thursday for the next Tertulia de Literatura y Cine! This month we will discuss some Microcuentos from several Latin American authors.
Learn more about this and upcoming Tertulias:
www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

We regularly run the Serate Italiane, a series of talks on Italian culture, language and society.
Our next SI talk will be:
‘Costruire in immagini: archetipi biblici e la quotidianità del lavoro nel medioevo’
Dr Michele Luigi Vescovi (U of Lincoln)
March 20th, 6 pm
www.york.ac.uk/language/new...

We have an exciting schedule of talks during this semester in our colloquium series.
Upcoming talk:
Dr. Hae-Sung Jeon (University of Central Lancashire):
"Prominence Perception: The Role of Signal, Linguistic Experience and Age"
Thursday 20 February 2025, 3.00PM
www.york.ac.uk/language/new...