Have you seen our workshop on Analysing Spoken Language? Why do young people say  innit ? (e.g.  It's only an hour from Edin...

Fish, chips 'n' lemon We probably say and more often than any other English word, but how often do we notice...

There are many ways we can communicate with each other.  During face-to-face conversation, we use more than words to commu...

Language has tails too! Tails are grammatical structures added to the end of a clause, like wilt ref (‘will the referee’ in the Bolto...

Date of Event 4 th  July 2012 Venue Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS Places Available 40 Cost £25 Description...

So coming first or last does make a difference then! Which, in your opinion, is more typical of spoken English: example (1...

no, not me, no way, no how! It’s well known that negation is more frequent in spoken language than in writing. This is hardly surp...

Will computers sound completely human-like in the future? Words like okay , alright and right pose a particular challenge ...

How do children initiate friendships? Research studies have shown that friendships are important to children and that they o...

The Shetland Islands provide an interesting site for studying dialect death What is happening to the Shetlan...