News
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April 12, 2016
Language Sciences Launch, April 12
On Tuesday, April 12, UBC Language Sciences held its launch event in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. Over 50 of our faculty and graduate student affiliates were welcomed by the LangSci steering committee, met our visionary donor, and engaged in lively discussion about this exciting new UBC…
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March 10, 2016
Canadian Language Museum Cree Exhibit at IKBLC
The Canadian Language Museum‘s exhibit “Cree: The People’s Language” is on display in the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre until March 22. Stop by and check it out!
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March 4, 2016
Research Commons March FIRETalk: Language Arts and Sciences
The UBC Library Research Commons and the Language Sciences Initiative are teaming up for the March FIREtalk, Language Arts and Sciences. At a FIREtalk (Facilitated Interdisciplinary Research Exchange) grad students from across UBC make short presentations and/or participate in…
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February 24, 2016
Postdoc Position at University of Toronto
Grad students: there’s a postdoctoral position available at the University of Toronto on a project looking at nonverbal cognitive predictors of bilingual language development. The PDF of this posting is attached.
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February 16, 2016
New Affiliates Update
In case you were wondering where our new affiliates updates went, well, we’ve said hello to so many that we couldn’t keep up! A full list of faculty affiliates is here, and of graduate affiliates here. If you’re interested in becoming a faculty or graduate student…
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February 2, 2016
Daryl Baldwin Lecture, Feb. 22, 11:30 am, First Nations House of Learning
Daryl Baldwin, Director of the Myaamia Center at Miami University (Ohio) will be giving a talk titled “toopeeliyankwi, kati myaamiaataweeyankwi: We Succeed At Speaking The Myaamia Language” on Monday, February 22 at 11:30 am in the Sty-Wet-Tan Hall of the First Nations House of…
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January 29, 2016
New Affiliates for a Friday!
Welcome to new affiliates Murray Hodgson, from Mechanical Engineering/Population and Public Health, and Rozanne Wilson from Audiology and Speech Sciences. We’re happy to have you both involved!
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January 26, 2016
New affiliates, and UBC-O is in the house!
Language Sciences welcomes its first faculty affiliate from UBC Okanagan: Christine Schreyer, from the Community, Culture and Global Studies department. Other new affiliates from UBC-V are faculty member Patrick Moore, from Anthropology, and graduate students Alexis Black …
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January 26, 2016
UBC Linguistics hosts budding language scientists at NACLO
The Linguistics department will be hosting an open round of the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad on Thursday, January 28. For more information, visit http://linguistics.ubc.ca/community/linguistics-olympiad/.
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January 22, 2016
Two more new affiliates
Language Sciences welcomes two new affiliates from Linguistics: faculty member Joe Stemberger, and graduate student Megan Keough. We’re glad to have you both involved!