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Time travelling to the mother tongue

19 Jul 2016

T
he sounds of languages that died thousands of years ago have been brought to life again through technology that uses statistics in a revolutionary...

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Cambridge app maps decline in regional diversity of English dialects

26 May 2016

Regional diversity in dialect words and pronunciations could be diminishing as much of England falls more in line with how English is spoken in...

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Conversations

Opinion: Speaking dialects trains the brain as well as bilingualism does

23 May 2016

Napoleon Katsos (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) discusses why speakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with...

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Talking

Ageing affects test-taking, not language, study shows

12 May 2016

The ability to understand language could be much better preserved into old age than previously thought, according to researchers from the University...

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Conversations by Steve McClanahan via Flickr

Speakers of two dialects may share cognitive advantage with speakers of two languages

27 Apr 2016

The ability of children to speak any two dialects – two closely related varieties of the same language – may confer the same cognitive advantages as...

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Bilingual street name sign in Bangor, North Wales

Opinion: There are also drawbacks to being bilingual

26 Apr 2016

Tomas Folke (Department of Psychology) and Julia Ouzia (Anglia Ruskin University) discuss the cognitive disadvantages that may be associated with...

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Easy as Alep, Bet, Gimel? Cambridge research explores social context of ancient writing

05 Apr 2016

A new University of Cambridge research project is set to shed light on the history of writing in the ancient world, and explore the longlasting...

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Atypical welcome

Cambridge to explore benefits of multilingualism with new AHRC research project

22 Mar 2016

The University of Cambridge is to launch a major new research project to study the benefits of multilingualism to individuals and society, and...

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World first as 3,000-year-old Chinese oracle bones go 3D

21 Mar 2016

A 3000-year-old ox bone - inscribed with the earliest-known example of Chinese writing - has become the world's first 'oracle bone' to be scanned and...

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CCCP Poster 1963

New undergraduate courses for 2017

16 Mar 2016

The University has launched three new undergraduate courses for 2017 entry - Single Honours Archaeology and two Joint Honours programmes: History...

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Crossword

AI crossword-solving application could make machines better at understanding language

07 Mar 2016

A web-based machine language system solves crossword puzzles far better than commercially-available products, and may help machines better understand...

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Photo of a white wolf of Canada, taken Gevaudan wolf park in Lozère

Wolf species have ‘howling dialects’

08 Feb 2016

The largest quantitative study of howling, and first to use machine learning, defines different howl types and finds that wolves use these types more...

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