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December 5, 2023
Call for Papers: CASCA 2024
The semi-centennial conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society/La Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie (CASCA) and the inaugural meeting will be held on May 15-18 at the Okanagan Campus of the University of British Columbia, located on unceded Syilx Nation Territory. Click here for the…
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December 5, 2023Call for Adjudicators: Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC 2024)
MURC is looking for adjudicators! Apply now!
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November 21, 2023Member Spotlight: Walter Sena
Walter Sena is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. His goal is to engage in research that utilizes content analysis of speech to help identify cognitive decline in elderly populations and thought disorders in vulnerable patients. Sena is also…
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November 2, 2023Timing of Perioral Muscle Suppression in Smiled Speech: Best Student Presentation Award at AWC
Congratulations to Yadong Liu, a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics and member of Language Sciences at UBC, for earning the Best Student Presentation Award at this year's Acoustics Week in Canada (AWC) in Montreal, Quebec, held from Oct 3 to Oct 6. This year’s AWC set the record for…
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November 2, 2023LLED Faculty Members Recognized As World's Top 2% Most-Cited Linguists
Congratulations to faculty members of Language & Literacy Education Dr. Ron Darvin, Dr. Ryuko Kubtoa, Dr. Patsy Duff, and Dr. Bonny Norton on being the world’s top 2% most-cited linguists and top 400 world linguists, according to Stanford’s List of the World’s…
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September 27, 2023UBC Computer Science researchers receive Outstanding Paper Award for advanced solution to abusive language detection
This article was developed by UBC Computer Science and has been re-posted by Language Sciences.
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September 18, 2023Call for Abstracts: AeroDigest 2023 Symposium
AeroDigest 2023 Symposium is coming up on October 14 - October 15, 2023, and we want your abstracts!
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September 10, 2023Sensorimotor Foundations of Speech Perception in Infancy: Q&A with Dr. Janet Werker & Dr. Henny Yeung
The perceptual system for speech is highly organized from early infancy. This organization bootstraps young human learners’ ability to acquire their native speech and language from speech input. In the study, 'Sensorimotor Foundations of Speech Perception in Infancy,' researchers reviewed…
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September 10, 2023Arts Perspectives on AI: Fearing (your own) Language in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Dr. David Gramling & Matthew Chan
Written by Dr. David Gramling (he/they), professor and head of the Department of Central, Eastern, and Northern European Studies, and Matthew Chan, third-year undergraduate student in Arts. Originally published by UBC Arts. Re-published by Language Sciences. You might fear that the language…
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August 8, 2023Learning the Character Inventories of Undeciphered Scripts Using Unsupervised Deep Clustering: Q&A with the Research Team
In the study, 'Learning the Character Inventories of Undeciphered Scripts Using Unsupervised Deep Clustering’, researchers Logan Born, PhD Student in Simon Fraser University's School of Computing Science, Dr. M. Willis Monroe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the…