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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 7d

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨

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

📖 Read it here: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...

Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · 27d

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

David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · 27d

New podcast! @dannybate.bsky.social and I chat about Scottish Gaelic, mediaeval sea kingdoms, the spread and retreat of Gaelic in Scotland, influence from Pictish, sounds borrowed from Old Norse, and much more 🐦🐦 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... or wherever you get your podcasts :)

Scottish Gaelic and David Adger

Podcast Episode · A Language I Love Is... · 10/09/2025 · 1h 1m

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Aug 7

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...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Aug 7

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...

Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · May 18

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

Randolph Quirk Fellow 2025 - Languages, Linguistics and FilmFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok

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David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · Feb 6

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

Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Feb 6

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...

MSc Ling &AI Instagram Version

YouTube video by David Adger

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Elisabeth Barakos @ellabarakos.bsky.social · Mar 10

#Sociolinguists - check this great project out

Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Feb 24

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

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

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Apr 4

Socio-syntax paper alert!

David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · Apr 4

New paper on (morpho-)syntactic acceptability judgments and sociolinguistic context, with the rest of our lovely SCOSYA team! #linguistics @qmullinguistics.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core

‘When intuitions (don't) fail’: combining syntax and sociolinguistics in the analysis of Scots - Volume 29 Issue 1

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Feb 24

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

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Feb 7

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!

David Adger @davidadger.bsky.social · Feb 6

Am on @bbcradio4.bsky.social's Word of Mouth today discussing the linguistics of constructed languages with
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social. Tune in at 3.30 (or I guess on iplayer) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #linguistics #conlangs

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Creating Languages for Film and Television with Professor David Adger

Michael Rosen asks a linguist how he invents new languages for TV series and films.

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Feb 6

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...

MSc Ling &AI Instagram Version

YouTube video by David Adger

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Dec 19

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...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Nov 20

🚨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!

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Nov 8

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨

PhD student Célia Richy 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. Congratulation’s Célia!

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

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Oct 28

🚨New Paper Alert!🚨

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

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Aug 30

🚨 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: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Jul 12

🤔 Is RP really dying out?

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

🔗 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Jul 2

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

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

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Jun 13

🗞️ Read all about it!

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

🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · May 31

📢 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: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Apr 19

🚨 New paper alert!

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

🔗 Read here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Mar 28

🥳 Congratulations to Madlen Jones on the Cardiff Student Prize for her talk: “The impact of interlocutor context on bilingual children’s productions of stop and lateral consonants”

Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Mar 28

🥳 Congratulations to Karen Rubner and Kathleen McCarthy on the Eugénie Henderson Prize for their talk: “Phonetic characteristics of Judeo-English in North London”

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Linguistics @ QMUL @qmullinguistics.bsky.social · Mar 28

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

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