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November 2, 2022Local Student Wins Bronze at International Linguistics Olympiad
A local student has won a bronze medal at the highly competitive 2022 International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL), held on the Isle of Man in the United Kingdom, after competing in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad (NACLO), hosted by the UBC Department of Linguistics. Each year,…
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November 1, 2022Call for Applications: Co-Instructors for 2024W1 Living Language – Science and Society
Language Sciences is looking for two co-instructors to teach the course Living Language: Science and Society in September 2023. Cross-listed across six faculties, the Living Language course is a 400-level course, initially conceptualized as a transition-out course for advanced students from across…
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October 7, 2022Call for Applications: Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow seat on Language Sciences Institute Steering Committee
The Language Sciences Institute is welcoming applications from new and returning graduate student and postdoctoral fellows to join our Steering Committee. We are looking for two new members to join our steering committee for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2034 academic years. Opportunities …
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October 6, 2022Member Spotlight: Asma Afreen
Asma Afreen is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Language and Literacy Education. She is also a Global Storybooks team member and a NextGen Scholar in the Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World project (SSHRC Partnership Grant). What are your current research…
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October 5, 2022Pacific 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 languages. Dr…
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October 5, 2022Exposure 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 content (three conditions: 'math = boy' vs. 'neutral' vs. …
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August 25, 2022Adaptation to Socio-Linguistic Associations in Audio-Visual Speech: Q&A with Dr. Molly Babel
In the study, 'Adaptation to Social-Linguistic Associations in Audio-Visual Speech', the research team examined how listeners adapt to speech in noise from four speakers who are representative of selected accent-ethnicity associations in the local speech community: an Asian English-L1 speaker, a…
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August 25, 2022Member Spotlight: Dr. 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. Her operatic career has taken…
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August 25, 2022Language 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! Dr. Christine Schreyer is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, where she teaches a range of courses…
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August 3, 2022A 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. However, while this new technology boasts increased productivity and support for writers, it also…