Below are a selection of news items from the Linguistics department covering new publications, new hires, invited talks, new grants, and other successes. Most recent news is displayed at the top. For more information about a news item, click the title.
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Kathleen McCarthy and her collaborators at UCL SHaPS and QMUL Engineering are awarded an ESRC grant to build a new recording device that helps track early language acquisition in multilingual infants and adults 25 November 2024
New paper: PhD student Scott Kunkel publishes on intensifiers in French 20 November 2024
PhD student Sora Heng Yin presents at phonology conference 20 November 2024
Prof. Daniel Harbour gives two talks at grapholinguistics conference 20 November 2024
New paper: PhD student Célia Richy publishes on co-occurrence of features in French 8 November 2024
Prof. David Adger develops language for Amazon TV series 1 November 2024
BA Linguistics students receive careers workshop 31 October 2024
New paper: PhD student Caitlin Hogan publishes on trust and trade policy 30 October 2024
New Paper: Prof. Daniel Harbour on The Rosetta Stone 29 October 2024
One fifth of talks at Afroasiatic languages conference from QM speakers 28 October 2024
Kathleen McCarthy is awarded an ESRC to track early language and literacy development in New to English children 28 October 2024
New Paper: PhD student Logan Simpson on emerging writing systems 11 October 2024
PhD student Sora Heng Yin begins placement with Ogma Therapy 10 October 2024
SAVANT team give presentations at AMLaP 10 October 2024
QMOPAL52: New paper exploring ADHD and student narrative discourse 30 August 2024
Graduate awarded British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 7 August 2024
SAVANT project receives extension to ESRC grant 2 August 2024
Queen Mary MA student awarded Swiss Scholarship 1 August 2024
SAVANT project launches open-source lexicon repository 12 July 2024
PhD awarded to Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado 1 July 2024
PhD student Sora Yin gives talk at LAHP Research Day 1 July 2024
Queen Mary linguists give 'Pint of Science' talk on language and AI 13 June 2024
Watch: Prof. Hagit Borer gives a presentation on the Generative Word in the Reflections Lecture series 3 May 2024
Ten presentations and two awards for Queen Mary linguistics at BAAP 2024 18 April 2024
PhD awarded to Kerrilyn Jackson 6 March 2024
QM linguists present work at MIT for NELS 54 conference 2 February 2024
QM linguists (current and past) were busy this weekend in Boston, USA, giving presentations at the 54th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistics Society (NELS) 54 conference at MIT.
Prof. Cotter and RJ Hellyer present at AAA/CASCA in Toronto 22 November 2023
QMOPAL49: New paper in Queen Mary's Occasional Papers Advancing Linguistics 8 November 2023
In Loving Memory of Spela Gruden: A Dedicated Colleague and Friend, Remembered for Her Joyful Spirit and Enduring Contributions to the School of Languages, Linguistics, and Film 7 November 2023
PhD awarded to Jessica Zihuan Zhong 6 October 2023
Spearkers of A-bar Matters workshop confirmed 11 September 2023
New article from Dr Rhys J. Sandow on Lexical variation in Cornwall 1 September 2023
Linguistics Department No. 1 for Teaching in the NSS 1 September 2023
Pedro De Lima has been awarded a PhD for Research in Linguistics. 24 August 2023
Thesis title: Language Variation and Social Positioning in a Brazilian Terreiro.
Exciting fieldwork on Polynesian language Atara Imere 23 August 2023
QM Phoneticians at 20th ICPhS in Prague 17 August 2023
Professor Devyani Sharma awarded Fellow of the British Academy 21 July 2023
Funding awarded to the Generics Across Languages research project 11 July 2023
New article: "Between Nottin’ Ill Gite and Bleckfriars" by Dr Johanna Gerwin 4 May 2023
The Randolph Quirk Fellowship 2023 21 April 2023
We are delighted to be joined by the 2023 Fellow, Professor Michael Wagner (McGill University).
Farida Soliman’s paper available via Queen Mary’s OPALs 8 February 2023
Queen Mary has a new OPAL.
Hazel Pearson gives conference talk 26 October 2022
Kerrilyn Jackson publishes in conference proceedings 26 October 2022
Dave Kenneth Cayado gives poster presentation 11 October 2022
Dan Price awarded 2002 LAGB Outstanding UG Dissertation Prize 30 September 2022
Linguistics welcomes new staff! 30 September 2022
Songyan Du is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 30 September 2022
Matthew Hunt publishes article 15 September 2022
Former PhD student Matthew Hunt has just published a co-authored article in Journal of Sociolinguistics entitled 'Swear(ING) ain't play(ING): The interaction of taboo language and the sociolinguistic variable'
PhD student Dave Cayado presents at conference 13 September 2022
Devyani Sharma and Kathleen McCarthy are awarded a three-year ESRC grant 7 September 2022
Louis Strange is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 31 July 2022
Matthew Hunt is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 31 July 2022
Scott Lewis is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 31 July 2022
The SAVANT team organises the first SAVANT Summer School in Neurolinguistics 22 July 2022
Hagit Borer gives interview for Revista Linguistica 15 July 2022
Accent Bias project - Devyani Sharma attends launch of the Equality Act Review 7 July 2022
Festival of Communities 15 June 2022
QM Linguistics top-ranked in REF 2021 31 May 2022
Hazel Pearson gives invited talk 27 May 2022
Prof. Devyani Sharma is interviewed for BBC article on accent biases 10 May 2022
Francesca Ziegler and Elisha Wijesekera are awarded summer scholarship 4 May 2022
Hazel Pearson publishes book chapter 4 May 2022
Alice Stanton is awarded PhD scholarship 4 May 2022
GLOW45 held at QMUL 2 May 2022
Agnieszka Lyons publishes co-authored book 4 April 2022
Hazel Pearson publishes co-authored article 4 April 2022
PhD student Logan Simpson publishes article 28 March 2022
Victoria Taylor wins scholarship for Lavender Languages Institute 28 March 2022
MA students accepted on PhD programmes at MIT and NYU 28 March 2022
Sophie Holmes-Elliott publishes a new article 25 March 2022
New article published in the Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 1 March 2022
Interview with members of the SAVANT project on DBC News Daily 1 March 2022
David Hall in The New Yorker 8 February 2022
Louis Strange publishes article 4 February 2022
Linnaea Stockall is about to publish new co-authored article 26 January 2022
Luisa Marti gives invited talk 15 January 2022
Chiara Ardoino presents paper at conference 14 January 2022
PhD student Matthew Hunt has published an article 10 January 2022
Elvis Coimbra Gomes is awarded a PhD in Linguistics 31 December 2021
Elvis Coimbra Gomes has been awarded a PhD in Linguistics. Congratulations!
Thesis title:Language & Normativity in Sexuality and Gender-Related Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Netnographic-Informed Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study.
Alex Panicacci publishes a book 6 December 2021
GLOW45 conference at QMUL next April 11 November 2021
A paper by Devyani Sharma features in the 50th anniversary collection of Language in Society 11 November 2021
Coppe van Urk and Zhouyi Sun present paper at conference 30 October 2021
Hazel Pearson gives invited talk 30 October 2021
New "Exploring the Nonbinary" reading group 29 October 2021
Kathleen McCarthy presented at the Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 26 October 2021
Sarah Kirk-Browne publishes her first article 17 October 2021
Kathleen McCarthy is promoted to Senior Lecturer in Linguistics 1 October 2021
Adam Chong is promoted to Senior Lecturer in Linguistics 1 October 2021
Colleen Cotter is promoted to Professor in Media Linguistics 1 October 2021
Kathleen McCarthy wins award 30 June 2021
Successful viva voce: Stamatina Katsiveli 28 June 2021
Hagit Borer talked to Oxford University Linguistics Society 1 June 2021
Undergraduate student gets internship at ECOLANG 17 May 2021
Hagit Borer giving a talk at ABRALIN 10 May 2021
Our very own Hagit Borer is giving a talk at the Associação Brasileira de Linguística (ABRALIN) on Wednesday 15 May 2021 at 6pm (UK time). Check it out here:
https://aovivo.abralin.org/lives/grammar-architecture-2/
Louis Strange publishes first article 26 April 2021
Linnaea Stockall receives ESRC grant 24 September 2020
Our very own Linnaea Stockal received an ESRC grant for her Systematicity and Variation in Word Structure Processing Across Languages: a Neuro-Typology approach (SAVANT). The project brings together a global team of rearchers to explore how speakers detect, recognise and interpret constituent pieces of complex words. For more information consult this webpage.
UG student wins LAGB prize 15 September 2020
Elvis Coimbra-Gomes publishes article 8 September 2020
Stamatina Katsiveli publishes article 2 September 2020
Devyani Sharma on Radio 4 31 August 2020
Linnaea Stockall promoted 31 August 2020