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More was different: Urban connectivity in Iron Age and Roman southern Spain

In 1972 Nobel-prize winner P.W. Anderson published an article in which he opposed reductionism in scientific practice. In this article entitled “more is different” Anderson argued that large and complex aggregates of elementary particles are not merely a sum of its properties but show entirely new properties at each level of complexity. In other and more familiar words: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Continue reading →

Creating a database of French and Spanish as a second/foreign language: French Learner Language Oral Corpora / Spanish Learner Language Oral Corpora

The FLLOC (www.flloc.soton.ac.uk) and SPLLOC (www.splloc.soton.ac.uk) websites are the outcome of a series of research projects which promote research relating to the acquisition of French and Spanish as a second/foreign language in UK schools and universities. The two databases were collected to produce an overview of the development of the language system of instructed learners of French and Spanish in a range of domains, including vocabulary, syntax, morphology, and discourse. Continue reading →

Why Study Languages?

The ‘Why study Languages?' website was created in 2006 and is a dynamic and interactive website with resources to promote the study of language amongst school pupils. This site is aimed at pupils and students of languages from Year 7 to Sixth form. It also provides parents and careers advisers with information on language-related career options and teachers with resources to help make the case for languages in their schools. Continue reading →