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February 2021

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Call for Papers: 18th Language and Literacy Researchers of Canada Virtual Pre-Conference
 
Call for papers: Special Issue of Semantic Fieldwork Methods
 
 
 
 
Department of Linguistics colloquium: Projection variability in English and Paraguayan Guaraní, Dr. Judith Tonhauser
 
Call Me Human Screening and Q&A
 
 
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HELP Winter 2021 Expo series
 
Call for papers: 37th annual Northwest Linguistics Conference
 
 
 
Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference 2021
 
Department of Linguistics research seminar: 'Discourse particles and the connection between conditionals and questions', Eva Csipak & Sarah Zobel
 
 
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Proposals for linguistic and anthropological research focused on Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest
 
 
CIAJ & Courthouse Libraries BC: Investigating the Indigenous Languages Act
 
Centre for India and South Asia Research: The Fifth Annual International Mother Language Day Celebration
 
UF Language and Brain Interest: Dr. Fernando Llanos Lucas, The effects of language experience, laboratory training, and peripheral nerve stimulation on lexical tone processing
 
 
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CTLT: Anti-Racist Teaching Series: Identifying and Responding to Harmful Phrases
 
‘Talking Genetics with Robinson Crusoe’, Dr. Dianne Newbury, intro by President Santa Ono
 
 
SASS: Colloquium with Dr. Andrea MacLeod, 'Assessing multilingual children: A collaborative approach towards local norms'
 
Language Science Talks: 'Faithfulness in natural language generation in an era of heightened ethical AI awareness: opportunities for MT', Dr. Mona Diab
 
IRSI: When the world is ending... Strategies and practices of care within indigenous futurist research and pedagogies
 
Public Humanities Hub: Reimagining Graduate Scholarship panel
 
UBC Tandem: Language, Thought and Intercultural Awareness, Dr. Brianne Orr-Álvarez
 
Department of Linguistics research seminar, Dr. Ryan Bochnak: 'Degreefulness is the result of functional inventory, not a parameter'
 
Call for Proposals: CIRCLE and SAGE Indigenous Graduate Student Conference
 
 
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New Empirical Contributions to Cantonese Linguistics and Language Processing
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Upcoming Events

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Wonder Kids talk: How do babies learn words?, Dr. Geoffrey Hall

March 20, 2021
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Bilingual Language Development in Canada

March 26, 2021
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UF Language and Brain Interest: Dr. Patricia Kuhl, Using MEG to understand brain mechanisms underlying language acquisition in infants

April 16, 2021
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Psychfest

April 30, 2021 to May 1, 2021
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37th Annual Northwest Linguistics Conference

May 14, 2021 to May 16, 2021
Online
Online, BC
Canada
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25th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in Languages of the Americas (WSCLA 25)

May 28, 2021 to May 30, 2021
Online
Online, BC
Canada
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Department of Linguistics: Move and Agree Forum 2021

May 31, 2021 to June 4, 2021
Online
Online, BC
Canada
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Language Science Talks: Dr. Edward Chang, Toward a speech neuroprosthetic (Rescheduled)

March 25, 2022
TBC
Vancouver, BC
Canada

RSVP This talk has been rescheduled from March 2020. Abstract: Speaking is a unique and defining human behavior. Over the past decade, we have focused on deciphering the basic neural code that underlies our ability to speak fluently. During speech production, vocal tract movement gestures for all...
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