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UK's first museum of languages travels to Edinburgh
A series of pop-up exhibitions designed to inspire more people to learn languages is coming to Summerhall as part of the 2019 Edinburgh Multilingual Stories Festival (7-10 November)
PhD Linguistics graduate wins distinguished article prize
Laura Arnold has won an award from the Philological Society, the oldest learned society in Great Britain
Linguistics and English Language graduate wins prestigious dissertation prize
Rebecka Elm has won a national award recognising her dissertation as one of the best in the UK
Linguistics student captains University Challenge team
Emma Williams captains the University of Edinburgh team to victory in the first round of 2019/2020 University Challenge
Edinburgh summer shows: Memory, bilingualism and trickery
Psychology researchers and linguists will share their work at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Royal Society of Edinburgh events programme this August
Prestigious honours for linguistics professors
Caroline Heycock and Simon Kirby have been elected as Fellows of the British Academy, the UK's national body for humanities and social sciences
Professors elected members of Academia Europaea
Michela Massimi, Geoff Pullum and Simon Kirby have been elected as members of the Academia Europaea, the pan-European academy of humanities, letters and sciences
Innovation awards celebrate entrepreneurs
Students, staff and recent graduates have been recognised in the University’s innovation awards
Undergraduate student commended for linguistic research on boat-dwelling community
Man Yan Priscilla Lam has been awarded the Best Experimental Design Award at EUYSRA for her research project on the phonology of Tanka Cantonese
Centres spread word on bilingualism benefits
More people in the US are set to be supported and encouraged to speak more than one language thanks to the international expansion of an Edinburgh initiative