Member Spotlights
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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…
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April 18, 2024Congratulations to Dr Christine Schreyer for winning the Killam Teaching Prize at UBC Okanagan
Language Sciences is delighted to celebrate Dr Christine Schreyer's latest win for the Killam Teaching Prize at UBC Okanagan! Dr Schreyer is well loved by her students for her enthusiasm and caring approach. Her renowned research also bridges different disciplines and engages various communities…
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March 27, 2024On data collection and standard languages – a conversation with Dr. Stefan Dollinger
A dialogue with Dr. Stefan Dollinger about his research on non-dominant varieties of languages, and how data-collection intersects with the work of a linguist.
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February 16, 2024Member Spotlight: Dr. Harini Rajagopal on antiracist pedagogy and her other studies
We are delighted to have a chat with Dr. Harini Rajagopal prior to her presentation at our next LangSci Talk on Thursday, 22 Feb, 2024.
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February 13, 2024A Conversation with Dr. Molly Babel on speech, attractiveness, and mother languages
We spoke with Dr. Molly Babel about her research on speech and attractiveness, as well as mother languages.
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January 16, 2024Relational Lexicology: A conversation with Christine Schreyer and Mark Turin on a special issue of the journal Dictionaries
In this story, Language Sciences is delighted to chat with Dr. Christine Schreyer and Dr. Mark Turin about their experience editing the latest special issue of Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. While the journal is dedicated to publish articles on all aspects of…