News
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January 12, 2016
Tuesday’s New Language Sciences Affiliates
Welcome to new Language Sciences affiliates May Bernhard (Audiology and Speech Sciences), Carla Hudson Kam (Linguistics), and Wendy Carr (Language and Literacy Education). We are very happy to have you all involved! If you’re interested in becoming an affiliate, please visit our About page.
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January 11, 2016
Monday’s New Language Sciences Affiliates
Welcome to four new Language Sciences affiliates: Bonny Norton and Anthony Paré from Language and Literacy Education; Janet Jamieson from Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education; and Urs Ribary from Pediatrics and Psychiatry. We’re very excited to have all of you involved!
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January 8, 2016
Friday’s New Affiliates
Welcome to new Language Sciences Affiliates Jiaying Zhao of Psychology, and Valter Ciocca and Paola Colozzo of Audiology and Speech Sciences! If you would like to become an affiliate of Language Sciences, please visit our About page.
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January 7, 2016
Thursday’s New Affiliates
Language Sciences welcomes Jeff Small and Anthony Herdman, from Audiology and Speech Sciences, and Michael Rochemont from Linguistics as new affiliates! If you would like to become an affiliate of Language Sciences, please visit our About page.
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January 7, 2016
Tandem Learning Exchange Registration Now Open
Registration for the Winter 2015 Term 2 of the tandem Learning Exchange is now open!
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January 7, 2016
Still more new affiliates!
Welcome to Darko Odic (Psychology), Caroline Rieger (Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies) and Qian Wang (Asian Studies). We’re very excited to have them as part of the Language Sciences initative!
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January 6, 2016
Welcome, new Language Sciences Affiliates!
Welcome to our new Language Sciences Affiliates: Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, Hotze Rullmann, Kathleen Currie Hall, Henry Davis, and Rose-Marie Déchaine, all from Linguistics. We are very happy to have you involved!
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January 6, 2016
More new affiliates
Language Sciences welcomes new affiliates Gunnar Hansson, Doug Pulleyblank, Martina Wiltschko, and Lisa Matthewson from Linguistics, and Stefka Marinova-Todd from the School of Audiology and Speech Sciences!
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January 5, 2016
Welcome to our first affiliate!
The Language Sciences Initiative would like to welcome its first affiliate: Dr. Molly Babel of the Linguistics Department. Dr. Babel’s research interests include phonetics, the links between speech perception and speech production, and sociolinguistics.
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January 5, 2016
New Course on Challenging Language Myths
January 2016 saw the launch of a new language-related course at UBC: English/Linguistics 140, ‘Challenging Language Myths’. This course aims to lead students into critical consideration of a broad range of commonly held beliefs about language and its relation to the brain and cognition, learning, society, change and evolution. Co-taught by Dr.