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January 22, 2020What if you could hear new music by Satchmo? Language Sciences members are working to understand how people speak
What if you could hear new music by Louis Armstrong? Language Sciences members in the Brain2Speech group are working together to understand how people speak.
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December 18, 2019Addressing a critical shortage of teachers for D/deaf and hard of hearing students in BC
British Columbia needs qualified teachers of students who are deaf and hard of hearing, and a University of British Columbia program can help. Professor Janet Jamieson, a Language Sciences member and co-director of the Program in Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing at UBC, explains how D…
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December 2, 2019Study prompted by Commander Hadfield comment finds gravity affects astronauts’ speech
“Right after I landed, I could feel the weight of my lips and tongue and had to change how I was talking. I didn't realize I had learned to talk with a weightless tongue." Science has studied the effects of lower gravity on the body, but this comment by Commander Chris Hadfield at a press…
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October 7, 2019UBC launches professional computational linguistics degree to meet industry demand
Photo credit: Vanessa Ho
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October 2, 2019Computers can work out your bus journey – and predict dementia
Computers can map your route to work, automatically turn speech into written text - and predict very early stages of dementia with more than 80 per cent accuracy. Language Sciences members Giuseppe Carenini, professor of Computer Science, Hyeju Jang, Computer Science postdoctoral fellow, and…
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September 26, 2019Language Sciences’ statement on the climate strike
On Friday 27th September, a global climate strike will be held to highlight the climate crisis. UBC students have planned an event from 11am to 12pm at the AMS Student Nest. After the UBC event, there are plans for people on campus to travel by bus and bike convoys to Vancouver City Hall, where…
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August 30, 2019Language Sciences congratulates our award-winning members!
The Language Sciences Initiative would like to congratulate our members who have won a number of awards in recent months. Department of Psychology senior instructor Steven Barnes won a 3M National Teaching Fellow award. According to the sponsors, the Fellowship recognizes university and…
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June 27, 2019Learn about the history of B.C.’s Indigenous languages this month with the Xwi7xwa Library
June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada, and 2019 is the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages. British Columbia’s Indigenous languages make up more than 50% of the approximately 61 languages indigenous to Canada, according to the First Peoples’ Cultural…
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