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Linguistic PGR (virtual) poster conference 2021
This year’s linguistics PGR conference will be held online, through the combination of a specially-created OSF repository and an online...
Accent Bias in Britain: Why Accent Matters
A live talk followed by a Q and A session investigating accent bias in the workplace. Accent is one of...
Language and Nature in Southern Arabia
A series of online workshops organized by Janet C. E. Watson (Leeds) Kamela Russell (UC Berkeley) and Fabio Gasparini...
Discourse Semantics of Time and Children’s Transmedia Narratives
Register for the event at https://www.eventbrite.se/e/chiao-i-tseng-emilia-djonov-discourse-semantics-of-time-and-tickets-132782256303 and you’ll receive a link to attend the talk Dr Chiao-I Tseng, University of Bremen,...
Language research showcased at Be Curious
On the 15th of July, Be Curious LATES featured Draško Kašćelan (LCS) and Fiona Douglas (School of English), on the theme...
Spoken Language, Standards and Inequality in Schools
Dates: 2021-2023 Funding body: Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (£51,390) Primary investigator: Dr. Julia Snell (School of English) L@L satellite: Language...
Albert Valdman award for outstanding publication in 2020 awarded to Cecile De Cat
This double-length article reports on a multifaceted investigation of the environmental and cognitive predictors of proficiency in English as the...
Extinction Studies DTP
Thea Pitman, Diane Nelson and Janet Watson are on the supervisory team for the new Leverhulme-funded Extinction Studies Doctoral Training Programme (PL Graham Huggan)....
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