Babies may start learning language before they’re even born. Fascinating insights from Professor Antonella Sorace on bilingualism, code-switching, and why early exposure matters more than “one right method” for raising multilingual children. edin.ac/3RNbdHE
New episode of PPLS Perspectives! In this special episode Philosophers @thatwhichischolbi.bsky.social & Professor Michael Gill unpack the @parliament.scot assisted dying bill (17/03/26)—key arguments, evidence & what the debate means for society. Listen here: edin.ac/41zhatn
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Congratulations to Professor Antonella Sorace on being elected a Fellow of @acadsocsciences.bsky.social. Recognised for her contributions to linguistics and bilingualism research, and for championing multilingualism and language diversity in society. ppls.ed.ac.uk/linguistics-...
Congrats to Professor Antonella Sorace on receiving Sardinia’s Premio Sa Die! Honoured for her global research and advocacy for bilingualism and linguistic diversity—highlighting the importance of language, culture, and identity. Read more here: ppls.ed.ac.uk/sardinia-hon...
Foundation-funded research, led by Dr Aja Murray at @schoolofppls.bsky.social, highlights key experiences which increase the risk of mental health conditions in young people with ADHD. This could pave the way for tailored support services.
👉 Read more: bit.ly/4cETTxb
#ADHD #MedicalResearch
🗣️Join Giulia Mazzola's talk on the 28th of April at 2.10PM "Does semantics motivate syntactic micro-variation? Empirical evidence from causative embedding in Southern Calabrese (Italo-Romance)"! See also ppls.ed.ac.uk/linguistics-...
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🎉New article from me on the pronouns man/bro - open access as always! 📝
"Pronominal variation in interaction: the interactional function of man and bro"
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Here’s to the official release of The Language of Time, an #illustrated children’s #book by Benjamin Bose and me (full online copy: benbose.com/book)!
Big THANK YOU to Josiah King & the team at Houtwal for bringing it to life so beautifully by making plushes of “Bob the Black Hole” 🕳️😄
In his inaugural lecture, held at Edinburgh Futures Institute, Professor Simon Cox explores what research into brain and cognitive ageing has revealed — and what it has not.
📅 Wed 1 April
🕓 17:15pm
📍 Room 0.01, Edinburgh Futures Institute
🎟️ Free
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Congratulations to Professor of Developmental Linguistics, Antonella Sorace who was awarded the "Premio Sa Die" by the Assemblea Nazionale Sarda (ANS) this week.
Rewilding the Web will take place @schoolofppls.bsky.social on the 28/29th May!
With @philosodave.bsky.social, @anil.recoil.org + Jon Crowcroft, Elena Rovenskaya, Orit Halpern, @georgien.bsky.social, @r-emrys.bsky.social, @blaine.bsky.social + others
Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rewilding-...
Dr. Naomi Nota
Dr. Naomi Nota
With foreign language learning in decline, Anna Temkin – who is raising her son to speak his father’s native French – gets expert advice on how to foster bilingualism
New Fellow Prof Antonella Sorace is Prof of Developmental Linguistics at @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social! Her research focuses on the interrelations between linguistics, experimental psychology & cognitive science, including second language speakers. acss.org.uk/news/the-aca...
