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Language touches every area of our lives: how we communicate with and through our devices; how children’s brains learn to speak and read; how misinformation spreads. Language sciences explores how.

The UBC Language Sciences Institute supports a large network of researchers working together across fields to advance our understanding of how language shapes our individual and collective human experience. 

We connect scholars, researchers, and teachers to create collaborations that result in ground-breaking research.

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  1. Quote from Dr. Monica Good: Reconnecting with my own Maya roots has profoundly shaped how I think about language revitalization. It is a way to recover ties with my ancestors who have passed and a responsibility to be the voice of my people—a principle I hope to honor in all of my work.
    November 19, 2025

    UBCO Spotlight: Q&A with Dr. Monica Good

    Dr. Monica Good is an Associate Professor of Teaching in Global Studies, Indigenous Knowledges, Languages and World Literatures, Spanish in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan. LangSci caught up with Dr. Good to learn more about her work on language revitalization and the…

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UBC Language Sciences

2240 - 5955 University Blvd.
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z1
Tel 604 822 7435
E-mail language.sciences@ubc.ca

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver are funded through the Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters program.

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