Linguistics@QMUL

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Our very own PhD student Elliot Bush has published a piece in The Conversation titled "Is a veggie burger still a burger? A linguist explains"
Read it here: https://t.co/nkyETrH7wX

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Do you #softblock (blocking and then immediately unblocking) QMUL Linguist Caitlin Hogan
@CaitlingHogan explores how it represents emerging norms of politeness on social media. Check out Caitlin's new article in Social Media + Society. https://t.co/248IC9IBcz

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🚨New Paper Alert!🚨

PhD student Scott Kunkel has recently published an article entitled Longitudinal change in the adjective intensifier system of Hexagonal French. The article considers both social and grammatical drivers of change. Well done Scott!

https://t.co/KGrUH3KVXe

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Our work on accent bias featured in a new report 👇

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The report includes the @accentbias project, work that has already encouraged companies to embrace accent diversity and reduce discrimination @QMULLinguistics

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🚨New Paper Alert!🚨

PhD student @celiarchy has recently published an article entitled Combinatorial Effects of Southern French Features on Perception. This is part of Célia’s unique research on coherence and co-occurrence in French!

https://t.co/ExRCWFSeu8

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🚨New Paper Alert!🚨

PhD student Logan Simpson has recently published an article entitled From icons to identities: Analysing visual cultural elements in emerging scripts.

https://t.co/JVTP4fhIhb

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Interesting findings on trust in trade policy, with our own @CaitlingHogan contributing, along with former staff member @sandow_linguist! Congratulations to all involved 💪

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New findings from our Citizens' Juries on #trade policy reveal a deficit of trust. Using discourse analysis, @CALresearchteam find that experts are trusted for their knowledge, while the government faces scepticism.
👉 https://t.co/LQL64c2aV1

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🚨 New publication in our Occasional Papers in Linguistics (QMOPAL) series!

🎓 Our BA student Isra Khan Afridi’s dissertation explores the impact of ADHD on narrative discourse amongst university students.

👀 Read here: https://t.co/d049i0IdLO

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We are excited to announce that our recent PhD graduate @DKCayado has been awarded a @BritishAcademy_ postdoctoral fellowship.

Congratulations Dave 🎉

https://t.co/nipZujlrk4

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🤔 Is RP really dying out?

📝 Our own Sophie Holmes-Elliott and her collaborator Erez Levon have published a paper investigating modern Received Pronunciation!

🔗 https://t.co/mFZbNL7TiZ

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🇰🇷For our second @LabPhon 19 presentation in Seoul, @MarcEBarnard presents his work with Scott Kunkel, Rémi Lamarque and Adam Chong using pupilometry to investigate cognitive load in accented speech processing! 👁️👁️

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🎉 Congratulations to our student Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado @DKCayado who has been awarded a PhD in Linguistics!

https://t.co/A4FpvTnx7j

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@nanwu1112 @QMUL Oh dear! We're a friendly bunch so welcome to the department! 😅

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🇰🇷 This past week, QM linguists have been presenting their work at the @LabPhon 19 conference at Hanyang University in Seoul!

First up, PhD student Sora Yin presents his work with Kathleen McCarthy and Adam Chong on gradient homophony avoidance in language learning! 👏

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We're excited for this event, where our own Prof Devyani Sharma will be speaking later today!

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And we’re off #EnglishGrammarDay

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🗞️ Read all about it!

📝 Our former postdoctoral researcher Johanna Gerwin has published a paper exploring Multicultural London English as discussed in English newspapers

🔗https://t.co/fgQVUbXfSR

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Only two weeks to go until the #EnglishGrammarDay on Friday 28 June 2024 . Book now and take your students. Scan the QR code or go to: https://t.co/h8PNoUsKtM

Brought to you by @EngliciousUCL, @britishlibrary
and @UniofOxford

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📢 We're excited to be holding our annual Jenny Cheshire Lecture today! We will be welcoming Prof Crispin Thurlow (Bern) who will giving a lecture entitled "Finding value in waste: Language, materiality, and the stuff of words"

🔗 For details and tickets: https://t.co/cPPvCGfmFo

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📣After a fantastic week of workshops, Prof. Veneeta Dayal is giving this year's Randolph Quirk Public Lecture, entitled "Optional Plural Marking in General Number Systems and the Effects of Animacy Restrictions"

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@LinguisVic @DavidAdger Excited to see you there!