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Developing a digital tool to identify active ingredients in mental health

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On Selfishness and Self Interest

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Redundancy in language – why we say more than we have to and why that’s a good thing

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Are you North or South Indian? The prejudice of common categories.

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Iconicity and language universals: UoE student wins ULAB essay competition

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Philosophy Isn’t Just Western Philosophy: A Buddhist Reflects

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A Theory of Relation Learning and Cross-domain Generalisation

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Taking language policy into their own hands: How Catalan speakers are changing their language from the ground up using Facebook groups

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Causal generalisations and zombies

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Celebrating bilingual artists in Edinburgh: The story behind the award-winning “Arts in Tongues” project

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Collective action: What makes people actively support protests?

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Is playing games just fun and games? A serious look at a seemingly trivial subject

27 November 202127 November 2021 Nadine Dietrich

Highlighting indigenous cultural heritage: UoE linguist co-edits volume of indigenous oral literature of the Mapuche

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