Events archive

Adventures in Negative Questions: Syntax, Prosody and Acquisition

Thursday 3 April 2025

n this talk I will present recent and ongoing work from the QuBisM project (Questions, Bias and Multimodality: Negotiating Meaning in Interaction) on the acquisition of negative questions by British English children, focusing particularly on key data as in (1-2).

Le Page Lecture 2025: Decision-making by speakers of English as a second language: Insights from the criminal justice system

Wednesday 2 April 2025

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York welcomes you to join us for the Annual Le Page lecture.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Mis padres y mis hijos

Thursday 27 March 2025

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

Con(s)t(r)aining heterogeneous plurals: towards a comprehensive analysis of associative and similative plurals

Thursday 27 March 2025

Heterogeneous plurality is an umbrella term for plurals that don't "add up" tokens of the same type (these are additive or homogeneous plurals), but instead combine with a nominal stem ‘X' and produce a plural set whose members are not all tokens of 'X'.

Serate Italiane Talk ‘Costruire in immagini: archetipi biblici e la quotidianità del lavoro nel medioevo’

Thursday 20 March 2025

Talk on “Il tema del lavoro nel medioevo: la rappresentazione degli episodi biblici della costruzione dell'Arca di Noè e della Torre di Babele”

Machine Translation Post-Editing: Enhancing Efficiency and Automating Repetitive Tasks

Thursday 20 March 2025

Technology and productivity play an increasingly fundamental role in the localisation industry, which has responded to clients’ requests for ever-larger volumes to be translated at a rapid pace by integrating artificial intelligence into the translation workflow.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Microcuentos

Thursday 27 February 2025

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish-speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

Prominence Perception: The Role of Signal, Linguistic Experience and Age

Thursday 20 February 2025

This talk reviews recent debates in prominence research and presents empirical studies examining the roles of acoustic signals, linguistic experience, and age in prominence perception.

Careers in Speech and Language Therapy

Thursday 6 February 2025

On Thursday 6th February 2025 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host a careers event for students interested in pursuing a career in Speech and Language Therapy. The event will feature three invited LLS alumni speakers, all of whom were graduates from the past 10 years, who will return to York to talk with current students about this rewarding line of work.

Careers in Translation and Language Technology

Wednesday 5 February 2025

On Wednesday 5th February 2025 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host the event ‘Careers in Translation and Language Technology’. This event aims at providing students with information about different career paths in the language services industry, and will also include a presentation of our MA degree programme in Interpreting, Translation and Applied Technologies.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Yo, Claudio

Thursday 30 January 2025

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: Anatomía de un cuento

Thursday 12 December 2024

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

"The Old Man Knows the Exceptions...": Vietnamese & Japanese L2 Learners on the English Left Periphery

Thursday 12 December 2024

In this talk, I’ll present the results from a project carried out in 2019-2021, which is concerned with L2 learners’ sensitivity to exceptions to the general rules of (short) wh-movement and complementation in English (Chomsky 1957, et seq.).

Film Screening: Carne Trémula

Tuesday 10 December 2024

Carmen Alvarez-Mayo (Lecturer in Spanish) invites you to this film screening of the film “Carne Trémula”.

The envelope of variation as a formal diagnostic

Thursday 5 December 2024

A key early stage of a variationist study is to identify the envelope of variation: for the variable under study, in which linguistic contexts do we see variation, and in which contexts does one of the variants simply occur categorically?

Serate Italiane Talk: Nel nome della Rosa di Umberto Eco: viaggio tra Medioevo e contemporaneità

Wednesday 4 December 2024

Talk on “Il Medioevo e il capolavoro di Umberto Eco, Il nome della rosa”

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: El regreso

Thursday 28 November 2024

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

Alternative assessment in linguistics: Combining teaching and research

Thursday 28 November 2024

In recent years, a growing body of work in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning has turned its attention to “alternative assessment”: varieties of coursework that reject many assumptions inherent in the traditional exam or essay.

A voice for Ukraine

Thursday 21 November 2024

Please come and hear a personal account of the demanding job of a European Parliament interpreter at the difficult time when her country is at war.

Implicit comparison and the typology of superlatives

Thursday 7 November 2024

Natural languages adopt at least four distinct morpho-syntactic strategies in the expression of superlative meaning (see also Bobaljik 2012; Gorshenin 2012; Coppock 2016), including (i) a dedicated morpheme, (ii) a comparative paraphrase, (iii) the use of an intensifier, and (iv) the use of the Positive form.

Multiple grammars: Systemic variation across monolingual and bilingual systems

Monday 4 November 2024

With the advent of a better understanding of grammatical architecture as well as the development of articulated models of language structure, it has become apparent that the same surface phenomenon may have different underlying representations.

The role of dynamic schemas in online processing: implications for language attrition

Thursday 31 October 2024

The most powerful influence exerted on linguistic structures during processing is their current internal context.

LLS Colloquium: Acquiring sociophonetic variation in a context of minority language bilingualism

Thursday 17 October 2024

In this talk I discuss speech production in a context of language endangerment, revitalisation, and bilingualism.

York Conference on Conversation Analysis

Friday 12 July 2024

On the 12th July 2024, a group of PGR students from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science and the Department of Sociology are hosting the inaugural York Conference on Conversation Analysis (YorCCA).

CPD course on Conversation Analysis in June 2024

Monday 17 June 2024

The Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication (CASLC), an interdisciplinary centre led by the department of Language and Linguistic Science and the department of Sociology, will be leading two CPD courses this year from their suite of Conversation Analysis courses for professionals and researchers.

Phonetics/Phonology Unconference on Pedagogy (Phon-UP)

Monday 10 June 2024

Our department is pleased to host the second Phonetics/Phonology Unconference on Pedagogy (Phon-UP) on June 10th.

Mind Your Language: A Festival of Ideas panel by five of our doctoral researchers

Sunday 9 June 2024

PhD students Ben Gibb-Reid, Victoria Noble, Rosario Neyra, Heather Turner and Jamie Adams will be part of a panel discussion at the Festival of Ideas called “Mind your Language”.

Lost in the Middle: Changing native languages at the York Festival of Ideas 2024

Saturday 8 June 2024

Our native language or ‘mother tongue’ can change during our adult lives when we move to a different region or country long-term. Known as ‘native language attrition’ this can affect our identity and sense of ourselves.

Discover the amazing power of language(s) (with Kamishibai and origami) at the York Festival of Ideas 2024

Saturday 8 June 2024

Explore the ways languages are used in a fun interactive Kamishibai storytelling session.

Serate Italiane Talk: L'opera lirica quale strumento di diffusione delle idee risorgimentali nel popolo

Wednesday 5 June 2024

On Wednesday 5 June 2024, the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host a talk on Opera and Risorgimento italiano presented by the Tenor Matteo Pavlica (Teatro Regio, Turin, Italy).

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: El axólotl

Thursday 30 May 2024

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science.

German film screening: Kurz und schmerzlos (Fatih Akin 1998)

Wednesday 1 May 2024

The screening of Fatih Akin's Kurz und schmerzlos (Germany 1998) is a student project as part of the module “Contemporary German Speaking Film” (Dept of Language and Linguistic Science)

Celebration of Japanese Elementary course - Nihongo Narratives: Tales from Our Japanese Language Adventure

Monday 29 April 2024

The LfA Japanese Elementary Course 23-24 is drawing to a close after months of diligent study that commenced in October. To celebrate their accomplishments, the students will present a brief summary of their achievements.

Intercultural peer-assisted learning (IPAL) afternoon sessions - The Languages Café

Thursday 25 April 2024

The Languages Café drop in sessions -- only 3 more sessions left this semester

Serate Italiane Talk: Torino e la FIAT: come un’azienda è riuscita a ridisegnare l’Italia

Tuesday 23 April 2024

Talk on Torino and the history of FIAT

Talk: “Multilingual Communication: From the Nuremberg Trials to the Age of AI”

Tuesday 16 April 2024

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York is delighted to welcome Alain Mielle, Head of Innovation at the Council of Europe, for a series of three talks entitled “Multilingual Communication: From the Nuremberg Trials to the Age of AI”.

Interpretation and processing of the Japanese reflexive zibun by native Japanese and Chinese-speaking learners

Thursday 14 March 2024

On 14 March, 2024, Makiko Hirakawa (Chuo University) will present research on "Interpretation and processing of the Japanese reflexive zibun by native Japanese and Chinese-speaking learners". The talk will be followed by a light drinks reception and dinner with the speaker.

International Women's Day Film Screening and Q&A: Surviving Translation

Thursday 7 March 2024

On Thursday 7th March, we will show a film screening of Surviving Translation, co-created and co-produced by Dr Charlotte Bosseaux (University of Edinburgh). A Q&A will follow the screening. This is a special colloquium event to mark International Women's Day.

Why do North Americans say ‘gotten’? Evidence from Canadian dialects

Thursday 22 February 2024

On 22 February, 2024, Sali Tagliamonte (University of Toronto) will present research on "Why do North Americans say ‘gotten’? Evidence from Canadian dialects". The talk will be followed by a light drinks reception and dinner with the speaker. To RSVP for the dinner, please, complete this google form. All are welcome!

On the hunt for obsolescing grammatical dialect features

Thursday 15 February 2024

On Thursday 15th February, Laura Rupp (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will present research on "On the hunt for obsolescing grammatical dialect features".

Careers and Postgraduate Studies in Translation and Interpreting

Friday 9 February 2024

On Friday 9th February 2024 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host the event ‘Careers and PG Studies in Translation and Interpreting’.

LLS Alumni Event 2024

Thursday 8 February 2024

On Thursday 8th February 2024 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host its annual Alumni Event ‘What can you do with a degree in Language and Linguistics?’. 

Interpreting and translation in the language classroom - friends or foes?

Tuesday 19 December 2023

This interactive workshop will explore different approaches to using translation and interpreting in the language classroom and will provide a forum to discuss the pedagogical value of interpreting and translation for language learning and teaching.

Serate Italiane Talk: Insegnare metodologia musicale in Italia

Thursday 14 December 2023

Talk on methodology in music education in Italy, part of the Serate Italiane series

Syntactic change in the history of Scots – Contact effects or independent developments? Or: Can we blame it all on the English?

Thursday 7 December 2023

On Thursday 7th December, Lisa Gotthard (University of Edinburgh) will present research on "Syntactic change in the history of Scots".

Serate Italiane Talk: Profondo Gotico

Thursday 30 November 2023

On Thursday 30th November 2023, the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host a talk on Italian cinema presented by Dr Giulio L.Giusti, Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages & European Cinema (Sheffield Hallam University).

Tertulia de Literatura y Cine: La entrega

Thursday 30 November 2023

This event is organised by the ‘Tertulia de Literatura y Cine’ series run by María Muradás-Taylor (Lecturer in Spanish) at the Department of Language and Linguistic Science. During the Tertulia, participants take part in a guided discussion in Spanish about social, historical and political aspects of the Spanish speaking world through literature and films, with the occasional guest speaker.

LLS Colloquium: What can cross-situational statistical learning tell us about bilingual development and second language acquisition?

Thursday 30 November 2023

On Thursday 30th November 2023, Patrick Rebuschat (Lancaster/Tübingen) will be presenting on cross-situational statistical learning in bilingual development and second language acquisition.

Careers event for languages: Teach First Employability Workshop

Wednesday 22 November 2023

On Wednesday 22nd November 2023, the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will host an employability workshop with Teach First.

High and Low Arguments in Northern and Pontic Greek

Wednesday 8 November 2023

On Wednesday 8th November, Christina Sevdali (Ulster University) will present research on "High and Low Arguments in Northern and Pontic Greek".