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The official page of the Linguistics Department at Queen Mary University of London. Visit our website to find out more about the department! www.linguistics.sllf.qmul.ac.uk

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🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨

Matt Hunt Gardner has just published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics!

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/josl...

28.10.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Dark blue background with small QMUL logo in white. A white outlined graphics shows a hand holding a small sign that says "New paper" with a paper areoplane. The text reads: Matt Hunt Gardner (hightlighted in light blue); A Guide to Build (ING) Generalised Mixed Model Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 1, Social Factors (highlighted in red).

Dark blue background with small QMUL logo in white. A white outlined graphics shows a hand holding a small sign that says "New paper" with a paper areoplane. The text reads: Matt Hunt Gardner (hightlighted in light blue); A Guide to Build (ING) Generalised Mixed Model Trees in Canadian Maritime English: Part 1, Social Factors (highlighted in red).

πŸ“£New Paper alert!

Matt Hunt Gardner has just published "A Guide to Build (ING) Generalised Mixed Model Trees in Canadian Maritime English" in Language in Linguistics Compass!

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/lnc3...

10.10.2025 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨New Paper Alert!🚨

Our PhD student Caitlin Hogan has published, alongside her collaborators, a new paper on the discursive framing of trust.

πŸ“– Read it here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

01.10.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New podcast with our very own @davidadger.bsky.social #linguistics #gaelic #language

11.09.2025 06:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertations in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series. www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

07.08.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertations in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series.
www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

07.08.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you #softblock (blocking and then immediately unblocking) QMUL Linguist Caitlin Hogan @caitlinhogan.bsky.social explores how it represents emerging norms of politeness on social media. Check out Caitlin's new article in Social Media + Society. doi.org/10.1177/2056...

19.06.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very Excited to have the wonderful @wmartina.bsky.social visiting us at Queen Mary Linguistics this week as this year's Quirk Fellow. Come along to her talks if you are in London www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis... @qmullinguistics.bsky.social

18.05.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More info about our new MSc in Linguistics and AI with me waxing lyrical about it! #linguistics #ai

06.02.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

#Sociolinguists - check this great project out

10.03.2025 08:15 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Socio-syntax paper alert!

04.04.2025 05:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Photograph of London's East End with multicultural crowds in a market

Photograph of London's East End with multicultural crowds in a market

Want to know how language has changed in London? Devyani Sharma's Generations of London English Project, run at @qmullinguistics.bsky.social with the University of York at generationsoflondonenglish.org @samhellmuth.bsky.social @qmulhss.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk
#linguistics #london #langsky

24.02.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Our current Head of Department @davidadger.bsky.social on @bbcradio4.bsky.social discussing constructed languages with @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social. David also teaches a course where our students create their own languages here @qmul.ac.uk! Tune in to learn about uvulars, and evidentiality!

07.02.2025 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
MSc Ling &AI Instagram Version
YouTube video by David Adger MSc Ling &AI Instagram Version

Our current Head of Department tells all about @qmul.ac.uk's new MSc in Linguistics and AI. Applications open now.(www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...)

youtube.com/shorts/dpzWO...

06.02.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

We have a new MSc in Linguistics and AI starting next September at Queen Mary, aimed at giving relevant skills to people from non-STEM backgrounds who are keen to work in the tech sector, integrating humanities/social science #linguistics with #ai. www.qmul.ac.uk/postgraduate...

19.12.2024 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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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. Congratulations Scott!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

20.11.2024 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨New Paper Alert!🚨

PhD student CΓ©lia Richy has recently published an article entitled Combinatorial Effects of Southern French Features on Perception. This is part of CΓ©lia’s unique research on coherence and co-occurrence in French. Congratulation’s CΓ©lia!

repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...

08.11.2024 14:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl...

28.10.2024 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 New publication in our Occasional Papers in Linguistics (QMOPAL) series!

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

πŸ‘€ Read here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

30.08.2024 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ€” Is RP really dying out?

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

πŸ”— www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

12.07.2024 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸŽ‰ Congratulations to our student Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado who has been awarded a PhD in Linguistics!

www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

02.07.2024 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ—žοΈ Read all about it!

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

πŸ”— www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

13.06.2024 11:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ 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"

πŸ”— For details and tickets: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

31.05.2024 09:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Graphic gives article title "How long is long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla"

Graphic gives article title "How long is long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla"

🚨 New paper alert!

🧠 Our own Swarnendu and Linnaea, with their collaborator Dustin, present this MEG study of word length in Bangla

πŸ”— Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

19.04.2024 10:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Madlen giving her presentation

Madlen giving her presentation

πŸ₯³ Congratulations to Madlen Jones on the Cardiff Student Prize for her talk: β€œThe impact of interlocutor context on bilingual children’s productions of stop and lateral consonants”

28.03.2024 16:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Karen giving her presentation

Karen giving her presentation

πŸ₯³ Congratulations to Karen Rubner and Kathleen McCarthy on the EugΓ©nie Henderson Prize for their talk: β€œPhonetic characteristics of Judeo-English in North London”

28.03.2024 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
A group photo of all QM BAAP attendees

A group photo of all QM BAAP attendees

We wrapped up the final day of QM at #BAAP2024 with two ✨conference prizes✨!

28.03.2024 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Tom with his poster

Tom with his poster

Andy with his poster

Andy with his poster

A big day 2 also for QM poster presenters at #BAAP2024 πŸ–ΌοΈ We presented work on vowel changes in London πŸ’‚ and the Black Country ⛓️, well done to Andy, Kathleen, Devyani and Tom πŸ‘

28.03.2024 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Karen giving her presentation

Karen giving her presentation

Adam giving his presentation

Adam giving his presentation

Scott giving his presentation

Scott giving his presentation

Scott giving his presentation

Scott giving his presentation

A bumper day 2 for QM at #BAAP2024! πŸ“£ Talks on Singaporean child directed speech, Judeo-English in London, dialect acquisition, and pupilometry. Well done to Adam, Karen, Scott, Marc and RΓ©mi πŸ‘

28.03.2024 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Sophie with her poster.

Sophie with her poster.

πŸ–ΌοΈ Sophie Holmes-Elliott finished off the Day 1 Queen Mary representation at #BAAP2024 yesterday with her poster exploring the role of community variability in the incrementation of change!

28.03.2024 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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