Member Spotlights
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February 19, 2025On First and Last Words -- a conversation with author Michael Erard
When linguist and author Michael Erard stumbled upon some yellowing bones in the puckerbrush on his berry-picking excursion one day in 2022, it took him a moment to recognize and reconcile with the sight of death. Several weeks later, authorities divulged the identity of the dead person -- a…
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November 21, 2024LangSci Meets AI Series #3: Dr. Vered Shwartz on AI biases -- causes and solutions
*The article belongs to the monthly LangSci Meets AI series, where our members discuss their research on AI's development in their respective fields. Together, these conversations trace the contours of a landscape rapidly evolving, constantly rerouting our social fabrics. In this third feature, Dr…
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October 23, 2024LangSci Meets AI Series #2: Dr. Garrett Nicolai on the nuances in AI and LLM
Dr. Garrett Nicolai on common misunderstandings about AI, the biases they have, and his new project.
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October 8, 2024
Dr. Ron Darvin on Generative AI and Learning
1.Tell us about your research interest(s) and how they are related to AI.My primary research interest lies in understanding the impact of generative AI (GenAI) on the digital literacies of multilingual youth in Canada, particularly with regard to issues of equity and diversity. The phenomenal rise…
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October 8, 2024LangSci Meets AI Series #1: Dr. Ron Darvin on Generative AI and Learning
The LangSci Meets AI series features members' research on AI's development in their respective fields.
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June 5, 2024Indigenous History Month: Dr. Christopher Hammerly on his studies on Ojibwe
Dr. Christopher Hammerly's SSHRC-Insight-Grant-funded project on Ojibwe.
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May 31, 2024Starr Sandoval: Non-speaker-oriented expressives in Ktunaxa
Starr Sandoval, winner of the Best Talk Award at LangSci's Research Day, discusses her studies on non-speaker-oriented expressives in Ktunaxa.
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May 27, 2024Line Lloy: Acoustic Variation in a Gender Diverse Corpus
Line Lloy, winner of the Best Poster Award at our Research Day 24', discusses their research with us.
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May 23, 2024Mariana Pinzon-Caicedo: Unpacking Language Use Variations in Victims’ Testimonies in the Courtroom: Insights from a War Trial
Q&A with Mariana Pinzon-Caicedo, Honorary Mention of Language Sciences' Graduate & Postdoctoral Student Research Day 24'
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May 2, 2024On securing SSHRC Partnership Development Grant - A conversation with Dr Anusha Kassan
Language Sciences is thrilled for Dr Anusha Kassan and her team for receiving the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Development Grant (PDG). The grant will advance their research on Child Language Brokering (CLB) and shed light on nuances that were previously…