Member Spotlights
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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…
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November 21, 2023Member Spotlight: Walter Sena
Walter Sena is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. His goal is to engage in research that utilizes content analysis of speech to help identify cognitive decline in elderly populations and thought disorders in vulnerable patients. Sena is also…
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September 27, 2023UBC Computer Science researchers receive Outstanding Paper Award for advanced solution to abusive language detection
This article was developed by UBC Computer Science and has been re-posted by Language Sciences.