News
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October 6, 2022
Member Spotlight: Asma Afreen
Asma Afreen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education.
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October 5, 2022
Pacific Northwest Languages and Literatures Press breaks barriers for documentation of Indigenous Languages
Pacific Northwest Languages and Literatures (PNWLL) Press is taking a radical approach to the standard academic publishing process by co-publishing with Indigenous communities, while maintaining high production and editorial standards for the language documentation of Indigenous l
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October 5, 2022
Exposure to stereotype-relevant stories shapes children’s implicit gender stereotypes: Q&A with Dr. Andrew Baron and Dr. Antonya Gonzalez
In the study, 'Exposure to stereotype-relevant stories shapes children’s implicit gender stereotypes', researchers explored whether exposure to a brief story vignette intervention with either stereotypical, neutral, or counter-stereotypical con
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August 25, 2022
Adaptation to Socio-Linguistic Associations in Audio-Visual Speech: Q&A with Dr. Molly Babel
In the study,
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August 25, 2022
Member Spotlight: Nancy Hermiston
Nancy Hermiston is chair of the UBC School of Music’s Voice and Opera Divisions and also serves as University Marshal. In 2014, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for her achievements as an opera singer, stage director and educator.
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August 25, 2022
Language Sciences Welcomes Dr. Christine Schreyer as Interim Co-Director
The Language Sciences Institute is excited to announce that Dr. Christine Schreyer will be joining the institute as Interim Co-Director!
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August 3, 2022
A Future With AI Writing Companions: Changing The Landscape for Writers
Modern language models now have the capability to generate written text that approaches human-level writing, foreshadowing the eventual advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) writing companions.
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August 2, 2022
Is There a Correlation Between the Use of Representational Gestures and Self-Adaptors? Q&A with Dr. Elena Nicoladis
In the study, 'Is There a Correlation Between the Use of Representational Gestures and Self-Adaptors?' the research team tested the hypothesis that people who produce more representational gestures also produce more self-adaptors.
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July 27, 2022
Member Spotlight: Xing (Ezra) Yu
Language Sciences member, Xing (Ezra) Yu, is a Masters' Student in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC.
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July 7, 2022
Introducing Turjuman: A Public Tool For Neural Arabic Machine Translation
Recent progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming lives. In particular, advances in deep learning, a subfield of AI that loosely mimics information processing in the brain, has enabled innovations across a wide range of domains. One area where rapid progress is taking place is machine translation.