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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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Dark blue background with a drawing in white outline of a hand holding a paper that says 'New Working Paper' with a paper aeroplane motif. Above this this author is named as John McLoughlin in white text with yellow highlight, and the paper title is in white text with an orange highlight: "WH-Voicing in Dublin English: Women Across Six Decades". A small Queen Mary logo is in the bottom right corner.

Dark blue background with a drawing in white outline of a hand holding a paper that says 'New Working Paper' with a paper aeroplane motif. Above this this author is named as John McLoughlin in white text with yellow highlight, and the paper title is in white text with an orange highlight: "WH-Voicing in Dublin English: Women Across Six Decades". A small Queen Mary logo is in the bottom right corner.

New Working Paper on QMOPALS!
Check out John McLoughlin's MA thesis titled "WH-Voicing in Dublin English: Women Across Six Decades"

06.02.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Dark blue background with a drawing in white outline of a hand holding a paper that says 'New Working Paper' with a paper aeroplane motif. Above this this author is named as Sydney Smith in white text with yellow highlight, and the paper title is in white text with an orange highlight: "How the Gender Binary is Reimposed on Gender NonConforming Identities in Are You The One?", then in white smaller font with no highlight "A Mediated Discourse Analysis of Identity Construction in Reality Television". A small Queen Mary logo is in the bottom right corner.

Dark blue background with a drawing in white outline of a hand holding a paper that says 'New Working Paper' with a paper aeroplane motif. Above this this author is named as Sydney Smith in white text with yellow highlight, and the paper title is in white text with an orange highlight: "How the Gender Binary is Reimposed on Gender NonConforming Identities in Are You The One?", then in white smaller font with no highlight "A Mediated Discourse Analysis of Identity Construction in Reality Television". A small Queen Mary logo is in the bottom right corner.

😱New Working Paper Out😱

Our former MA student Sydney Smith thesis is now available on QMOPALs: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

28.01.2026 20:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dark blue background with a drawing in white outline of a hand holding a paper that says 'New Working Paper' with a paper aeroplane motif. Above this this author is named as Jane Welton in white text with yellow highlight, and the paper title is in white text with an orange highlight: "Acquisition of Politeness Strategies", then in white smaller font with no highlight "A Longitudinal Case Study of a Child from One to Nine Years". A small Queen Mary logo is in the bottom right corner.

Dark blue background with a drawing in white outline of a hand holding a paper that says 'New Working Paper' with a paper aeroplane motif. Above this this author is named as Jane Welton in white text with yellow highlight, and the paper title is in white text with an orange highlight: "Acquisition of Politeness Strategies", then in white smaller font with no highlight "A Longitudinal Case Study of a Child from One to Nine Years". A small Queen Mary logo is in the bottom right corner.

πŸ€“New Working Paper is OutπŸ€“

One of our former MA students has published their thesis on Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics!
Check it out here: www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...

27.01.2026 15:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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✍️ Victoria-Elliot Bush - News Article Publication! Congratulations to Victoria-Elliot Bush's news article publication news! Victoria-Elliot authored a news article that was published on The Conversation which you can read here [ https://centrefordo...

Our PhD student Elliot recently did an interview with their funding body about their experience publishing a news article, how they did it and what their research project is about!

Check the interview out here: centrefordoctoralstudies.newsweaver.com/e7hahbkdg1/1...

12.01.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Dark blue background with white outline-style drawing of a hand holding a sign with a paper areoplane and the words "New Paper". In teal highlighted text, at the top of the picture is says "Caitlin Hogan" and underneath in red highlight it says the name of the paper: "K-Pop Fans’ Main and Priv Accounts: Impression Management, Searchability, and Imagined Surveillance on Twitter"

Dark blue background with white outline-style drawing of a hand holding a sign with a paper areoplane and the words "New Paper". In teal highlighted text, at the top of the picture is says "Caitlin Hogan" and underneath in red highlight it says the name of the paper: "K-Pop Fans’ Main and Priv Accounts: Impression Management, Searchability, and Imagined Surveillance on Twitter"

New paper by our PhD student Caitlin Hogan! Check it out in Language@Internet: doi.org/10.14434/li....

07.01.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Dark blue background, with a white outlined hand holding a card with a flying paper areoplane that says 'New paper' in white. The authors are listed in teal-highlighted white font, the name of the paper is in white font with a red highlight

πŸ€“New paper alertπŸ€“

From Marc Barnard, Scott Kunkel, Remi Lamarque and Adam Chong have published in the Journal of Language and Speech the paper "Listening Effort across Non-Native and Regional Accents: A Pupillometry Study".

Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/0023...

19.12.2025 10:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Dark blue background with white outlined hand holds a white outlined square saying "New Working Paper" with a paper aeroplane above. Yellow highlighted text reads author names: Cutler, Mitra, Barnard and MacKenzie. The title is organed highlight: 'Both (of) the variants show a couple (of) different patterns', and the subtitle is just white font: 'Social conditioning of "-of" Variation across multiple linguistic environments

Dark blue background with white outlined hand holds a white outlined square saying "New Working Paper" with a paper aeroplane above. Yellow highlighted text reads author names: Cutler, Mitra, Barnard and MacKenzie. The title is organed highlight: 'Both (of) the variants show a couple (of) different patterns', and the subtitle is just white font: 'Social conditioning of "-of" Variation across multiple linguistic environments

🚨New Working Paper from Dr Marc Barnard🚨

@marcbarnard.bsky.social has published with his co-authors a working paper entitled about 'of' variation. Check it out here: repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...

22.11.2025 00:05 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A blue background has a photo of a man standing next to a presentation slide has a bright blue border. In white text with a redhighlight reads "Verb First Order in Germanic: von der Gabelentz (1875) meets Construction Grammar

A blue background has a photo of a man standing next to a presentation slide has a bright blue border. In white text with a redhighlight reads "Verb First Order in Germanic: von der Gabelentz (1875) meets Construction Grammar

Today's Linglunch with Torsten Leuschner!

13.11.2025 15:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Is a veggie burger still a burger? A linguist explains The shape of a burger is reinforced in our mental linguistic definitions every time we see a burger but there isn’t a straight-forward definition.

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Our very own PhD student Elliot bush has published a piece for In Conversation titled: 'Is a Veggie Burger Still a Burger? A linguist Explains'
Read it here: theconversation.com/is-a-veggie-...

12.11.2025 11:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Randolph Quirk Fellow 2025 - Languages, Linguistics and FilmFacebookTwitter XInstagramYouTubeLinkedInTikTok

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 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 3 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 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

#Sociolinguists - check this great project out

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

Socio-syntax paper alert!

04.04.2025 05:54 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 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 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
MSc Ling &AI Instagram Version
MSc Ling &AI Instagram Version YouTube video by David Adger

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0