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Category: Linguistics

3 August 20223 August 2022 Nadine Dietrich

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

19 May 202219 May 2022 Nadine Dietrich

Iconicity and language universals: UoE student wins ULAB essay competition

8 April 202213 April 2022 Nadine Dietrich

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

14 March 202215 March 2022 Nadine Dietrich

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

27 November 202127 November 2021 Nadine Dietrich

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

3 November 20213 November 2021 Nadine Dietrich

Introducing linguistics into maths classrooms: Edinburgh Maths circles are joined by UoE linguists

29 September 202128 September 2021 Nadine Dietrich

Women, (fire) and dangerous ideas: Linguistics researchers debate phonetics and bilingualism at the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas

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6 April 20216 July 2021 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Babies language skills are more advanced than you think

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27 July 202027 July 2020 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Releasing a record about the evolution of language

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5 March 202016 December 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Book tips from our researchers

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17 February 202021 February 2020 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

PhD question time

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14 February 202029 October 2021 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

The highs and lows of living with Type 1 Diabetes

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7 February 202029 October 2021 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Multilingualism as a threat to native languages

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9 January 202020 December 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

Linguistics Olympiad for schools

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22 November 201922 November 2019 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences

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