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May 2019

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LLED Graduate Student Conference
 
 
 
 
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Call for Symposium Proposals: AILA World Congress of Applied Linguistics
 
Dinner and screening of Sgaawaay K'uuna - Edge of the Knife
 
 
 
 
 
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Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Research Day
 
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Language Science Talks: From text analytics to predictive analytics enhanced by language sciences
 
 
Annual Conference on African Linguistics
 
 
 
 
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Language Science Talks: Storybook Mexico: Best practices to promote children's literacies in Indigenous languages​
 
 
 
 

Upcoming Events

Language Science Talks: From text analytics to predictive analytics enhanced by language sciences

May 21, 2019
TBC
Vancouver, BC
Canada

RSVP HERE. Data Science Institute Director and UBC Computer Science Professor Raymond Ng will present this talk. In the first half of this talk, he will give a short overview of some of the research he has done on analyzing various types of text data. This would include sentiment analysis and...
Annual Conference on African Linguistics

Annual Conference on African Linguistics

May 23, 2019 to May 25, 2019
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Language Science Talks: Storybook Mexico: Best practices to promote children's literacies in Indigenous languages​

May 29, 2019
TBC
Vancouver, BC
Canada

This talk will discuss ideas to promote children´s literacies in the indigenous languages in Mexico. In Mexico, all indigenous languages are minority languages, some of which have several linguistic variants that are in different situations and degrees of vitality and endangerment. Today, these...

Listening to the Land: A Community Engaged Sound Installation

June 1, 2019 to June 6, 2019
UBC
Vancouver, BC
Canada

This exhibition features a series of Indigenous language and storytelling sound installations focused on local and regional Indigenous languages produced at the Community Engaged Documentation and Research Space (CEDR), new UBC infrastructure currently being developed by Dr. David Gaertner and Dr...

Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences

June 1, 2019 to June 7, 2019
UBC
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Congress: Metaphor and Meaning-Making in Indigenous Research Methodology

June 2, 2019
First Nations House of Learning, Sty-wet-tan Hall
1985 West Mall
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Photo credit: Hover Collective

Congress: Valuing Partial Language Competencies in Language Education

June 3, 2019
AMS Nest - NEST 2314
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Credit: Hover Collective

Congress: Truth and Reconciliation, Indigenous Language Revitalization, and Applied Linguistics: a Critical Dialogue

June 5, 2019
UBC Life Building - LIFE 2201
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Photo credit: Hover Collective

Congress: Assessing Language Performance: A showcase of established and innovative tools to assess different language skills across languages

June 5, 2019
AMS Nest - NEST 2314
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Credit: Hover Collective

Language Science Talks: How prenatal experience shapes speech perception​

June 19, 2019
TBC
Vancouver, BC
Canada

Language Sciences affiliate member and CNRS senior research scientist at the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception Dr. Judit Gervain will present this Language Science Talks event. Abstract extract: The talk will examine the hypothesis that this prenatal experience with speech prosody might...
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