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Evolution of language in 24 hour art installation
A Linguistics professor has teamed up with local artists to create a sound installation for Sanctuary 2017

Scottish Language Dictionaries appoints linguistics lecturer as Chief Executive
Dr Rhona Alcorn has been appointed Chief Executive of the Scottish Language Dictionaries

Artist in Residence exhibits at the Edinburgh Art Festival
Hanna Tuulikki is showing work at the Dovecot Studios as part of a group exhibition exploring women’s textile histories

Praising 'useless' languages at the Fringe Festival
Can we really classify languages as useful or useless? Antonella Sorace explores

PPLS Summer Graduations 2017

Students celebrating at PPLS Summer Graduation 2017
We celebrated the success of our PPLS graduates on Monday 3 July.

University of York names prize after School's Professor

The University of York has named a prize after Geoffrey K Pullum, our School’s Professor of General Linguistics.

Post-graduate student wins prestigious Linguistics prize
Jade Sandstedt, a PhD student in the Angus McIntosh Centre for Historical Linguistics, has been awarded the R. H. Robins student prize by the Philological Society of Great Britain

Join our Linguistics researchers for a pint of science!
Can language emerge out of nothing? How do we build synthetic voices for those who have lost theirs? And why is it so hard to teach robots to talk?

World English Language Day
Celebrating the linguistic and cultural diversity of the English language

AMC launching new lecture series
A new series of historical linguistics lectures hosted by the The Angus McIntosh Centre

PPLS Writing Centre now open to both 3rd- and 4th-year undergraduate students

Artist to join the Centre for Language Evolution

Researchers show their media talent

Scots@ed

LEL lecturer awarded Philip Leverhulme prize

Welcome new students
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