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June 2, 2023First Cohort Graduates from UBCO’s Bachelor of Nsyilxcn Language Fluency Program
UBC Okanagan’s Bachelor of Nsyilxcn Language Fluency program, which launched in 2021, will watch its first cohort of students graduate this summer having completed the brand-new degree program.
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June 2, 2023A Kinetic Analysis of Visual Prosody: Head Movements in Habitual and Loud Speech - Q&A with Dr. Doris Mücke, Lena Pagel, Dr. Simon Roessig and Dr. Márton Sóskuthy
Prosodic prominence manifests itself in intonation, timing and magnitude of supra-laryngeal articulation, as well as speech-accompanying gestures. The interplay of prosody and gesture has been described as ‘visual prosody’ and is known to play an important role in communication.
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June 1, 2023Member Spotlight: Dr. Giuseppe Carenini
Dr. Giuseppe Carenini is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia.
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May 5, 2023Call for Applicants: Language Sciences Co-Director
Applications are invited to fill the position of Co-Director of the Language Sciences Global Research Excellence Institute, at UBC Vancouver.
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May 5, 2023Reduction of Vowel Space in Alzheimer's Disease - Q&A with Arian Shamei
Reduced vowel space area (VSA) is a known effect of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease (PD).
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March 28, 2023Sign Language Phonetic Annotator and Analyzer: changing how sign languages are transcribed
A new software being developed is allowing researchers to give detailed, phonetic transcriptions of signs used in sign languages, such as American Sign Language (ASL), one of the sign languages used in Canada.
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March 28, 2023"You betcha I'm a 'Merican" The rise of 'YOU BET' as a pragmatic marker - Q&A with Dr. Laurel Brinton and Tomoharu Hirota
In the study titled, 'You betcha I'm a 'Merican" the rise of YOU BET as a pragmatic marker', researchers Dr.
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March 5, 2023LSURC 2023: Connecting undergrads from all backgrounds through language research
Students have countless opportunities available to explore language and communication throughout their undergraduate careers, though gaining valuable research experience in those fields is an opportunity many undergraduate students feel isn’t readily available to them.
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March 2, 2023UBC scholar, Ife Adebara, helping AI overcome its language barrier
People around the world have been impressed with ChatGPT, a new chatbot developed by OpenAI that uses natural language processing (NLP) to seemingly answer any question.