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Arts in Tongues project picks up award
A project aiming to inspire local Edinburgh communities to connect with languages has won the Collaboration Award at the recent Creative Edinburgh Awards.
Festival aims to up Gaelic’s profile in Capital
Experts whose research highlights the benefits of speaking more than one language are to launch Edinburgh’s annual Gaelic Festival.
Primary school pupils learn about language evolution and how the brain works at Midlothian Science Festival 2021
Hundreds of primary school pupils will learn about language evolution and how the brain processes information from the environment with our senses at Midlothian Science Festival Programme for Schools
Visionary research celebrated with Fellowships
Six Edinburgh academics have been announced as recipients of a government fellowship to propel research tackling global challenges and to bring innovative ideas to market
Seminars spotlight subjects’ shared language
Secondary pupils are being invited to explore the similarities between language learning and mathematical problem solving in seminars involving Edinburgh experts.
Linguists debate bilingualism and the limits of speech at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas
Linguistics researchers Professor Antonella Sorace and Dr Rebekka Puderbaugh are taking the stage at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Linguistics professor awarded €2.5M of EU funding
Professor Alice Turk has been awarded a prestigious European funding award to advance the work of world-leading researchers.
Infants’ language more advanced than first words
Babies can recognise combinations of words even before they have uttered their first word, a study suggests, challenging ideas of how children learn language.
Edinburgh’s Bilingualism Matters centre highly successful in changing international debate on multilingualism
Multilingualism research centre reports successes in highlighting the benefits of speaking more than one language
Linguistics Professor and Director of Bilingualism Matters elected as Fellow of the British Academy
Linguistics Professor Antonella Sorace joins the 2020 cohort of elected Fellows of the distinguished British Academy