Mitchi Kamigaki-Baron

PhD Student

Department of Linguistics

Faculty of Arts

Research Themes: 

Evolving Language in an Information Economy, Language, Sustainability and Transnationalism, The Communicating Mind and Body

Michelle (Mitchi) Kamigaki-Baron is a PhD student in the department of Linguistics at UBC. She focuses on topics such as phonetics, speech production and perception, language continua, bilingualism and bidialectalism. She works primarily with the Secwepemc community in BC with speakers of the Secwepemctsín language and with members of her own community in Hawai’i with speakers of Pidgin and Hawaiian.