It made Pick of the Week as well! A listener said the episode is "a joyful celebration of the sound of words" and my partner's little girl presented it at Show and Tell. Career goals complete ✔️

Language and Linguistic Science @ UoY@uoylangling.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Dr Catherine Laing from the Department of Language and Linguistic Science spoke with Michael Rosen on BBC Radio 4's "Word of Mouth" about her research on iconicity, onomatopoeia, and why babies use words like 'meow' and 'woof' so early in their language development. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Our forensic speech scientists Dr James Tompkinson & Lauren Harrington recently provided expert evidence to a House of Lords inquiry on the use of police transcripts in the criminal justice system. Their research is helping to inform UK policy. Learn more: www.york.ac.uk/language-lin...

Happening now on Radio 4! 🤓

B&W Thornton of Stratford-upon-Avon@bwthornton.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#Radio Crash Bang Wallop: The Sound of Words Word of Mouth Thur 15:30 BBC Radio 4 @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social and Dr Catherine Laing discuss onomatopoeia and other words that sound like their meanings. Produced by Becky Ripley. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I've enjoyed the Child Language Symposium at the University of Reading. It was especially fun to present my work on the iconicity advantage for young children learning onomatopoeia as part of our Iconicity Symposium @suzanneaussems.bsky.social @cyberming.bsky.social @cathelaing.bsky.social

a lovely morning with @yorktoolkit.bsky.social - I always love being part of these events and so great to learn how my work is relevant to A level teaching. Thanks so much for having me!

The York English Language Toolkit@yorktoolkit.bsky.social · last yr.

We're off - first up is @cathelaing.bsky.social on size sound symbolism (or the lack of it?) in infant directed speech! #YorkCPD2025

The exact reason I deleted my account yesterday!

Joshua Raclaw@joshuaraclaw.com · last yr.

Well this is a very fine reason to scrub and delete your academic dot edu accounts

New paper available in Language & Speech 🤓 another look at phonological networks, this time analysing network graphs for a (I think) zoomed-in view of systematicity in early production 🐣 Systematicity Over the Course of Early Development: An Analysis of Phonological Networks doi.org/10.1177/0023...

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Awful news. University for public good?

Joe Saunders@joesaunders1.bsky.social · last yr.

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

Not that we in the library wish to encourage profanity, but if you want to get rid of these AI-search summaries (which are often absolute nonsense), just swear in your search terms. It really works.

PubTech Radar@pubtechr.bsky.social · last yr.

The launch of Google’s AI-powered search summaries has led to a 19% drop in click-through to academic reference services according to OUP product strategy director John Campbell: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-sear...

My latest article, "Vocal gestures in early multimodal communication: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek", is now available to read in First Language. There is a paywall, but I can share the electronic version with anyone who needs it. doi.org/10.1177/0142...

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Language and Linguistic Science @ UoY@uoylangling.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello, world! We are the department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York, UK. We are recognised for our research and teaching on languages and linguistics. We are excited to join Bluesky and share with you the latest news and events! More details: www.york.ac.uk/language/

Open-ended professorial position at University of Sheffield. We are seeking a Head of the School of English (any EGH discipline, including Language & Linguistics). Deadline 23rd Feb. Details here: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Head-of-.... Please share.

I bought my gifts last night! I usually hate buying Christmas presents but here is a way to make it really meaningful 🎄

University of York Library@uoylibrary.bsky.social · 2y ago

The first gifts are appearing under the Library Tree of Wishes! If you can support this please do, it’s a great thing we do every year. We get gift lists from local charities, you source the gift and wrap it and put it under the tree, we take them to the charities. 🧵 www.york.ac.uk/library/abou...

academics who boast about overworking are being bad role models and should stop overworking and barring that should shut thee fuck up about it in front of students. <-- general complaint not subtweet of anyone in particular, just pissed off about this today and always

How lovely to reconnect with colleagues from all over - very much looking forward to hearing what everyone has been up to! As for me: I'm currently running a project called SENFM, where we use ultrasound to scan babies' tongues, alongside daylong audio recordings taken across the first year.