Event Category Archives: Featured Events

Colloquium – Anna Mai (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics)

Anna Mai (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) will present a virtual colloquium on November 30th 9-10:30am, 2023. Title: Phonological structure in the neural response to speech Abstract: Spoken language comprehension requires abstraction of linguistic information from speech, but the interaction between auditory and linguistic processing of speech remains poorly understood. In this talk, I will […]

Research Seminar – Molly Babel, Line Lloy, Khushi Patil, and Khia Johnson

Molly Babel, Line Lloy, Khushi Patil and Khia Johnson will give a research seminar. Title: Language-general versus language-specific processes in bilingual voice learning Abstract: Language experience confers a benefit to voice learning, a concept described in the literature as the language familiarity effect (LFE). A divide in the literature is whether and how generative language […]

Master of Data Science Admissions Q&A

Have admissions questions about the UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) in Computational Linguistics program? On December 5, 2023, join Miikka Silfverberg, Assistant Professor, MDS Computational Linguistics who will be on a panel with Tiffany Timbers, Co-Director and Assistant Professor of Teaching, MDS Vancouver and Jeff Andrews, Principal Co-Director and Associate Professor, MDS Okanagan, for […]

QP presentations

QP presentations will be held on December 8th 3:30-5:00pm, 2023. Details will be posted closer to the date.

MDS Computational Linguistics Program Director Q&A

Still have questions about the UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) Computational Linguistics program? Join Garrett Nicolai, Director and Assistant Professor of Teaching, MDS Computational Linguistics, for a live virtual Question and Answer session on January 10, 2024 from 10:30am to 11:30am PT. This is your opportunity to ask any last-minute questions you may have […]

Research Seminar – Joash Gambarage

Joash Gambarage will give a research seminar. This talk will happen online. Please fill out the RSVP form for Zoom information. Title: Selection and Projection of Tense and Aspect in Bantu: data from Swahili and Nata Abstract: This talk provides a syntactic analysis of Tense and Aspect of two Eastern Bantu languages, Swahili and Nata. […]

Research Seminar – Darko Odic (UBC Psychology)

Dr. Darko Ordic (UBC Psychology) will give an in-person research seminar 3:30-4:30pm, January 26th, 2024. The title and abstract for the talk can be found below.   Title: How much language is in thought? Abstract: In this talk, I present recent work from my lab arguing that language acts as instructions for directing – but […]

Colloquium – Jennifer Hay (University of Canterbury)

Jennifer Hay (University of Canterbury) will present a virtual colloquium on February 16th 3:30-5:00pm, 2024. Please fill out the RSVP form for Zoom information. Title: What do non-Māori speakers in New Zealand know about the Māori language? Abstract: Most New Zealanders do not speak or understand the Māori language, yet are nonetheless exposed to the […]

Research Seminar – Katie Sardinha

Dr. Katie Sardinha will give an in-person research seminar 3:30-4:30pm, March 1st, 2024. The title and abstract for the talk can be found below. Title: Using an inductive learning approach to train speaker-linguists in Kwak’wala grammar Abstract: In this talk, I’ll discuss how we are using an inductive learning paradigm to teach Kwak’wala sentence structure. […]

Colloquium – Brian Dillon (UMass Amherst)

Dr. Brian Dillon (UMass Amherst) will present a virtual colloquium on March 8th 3:30-5:00pm, 2024. Please fill out the RSVP form for Zoom information. Title: Evaluating expectation-based comprehension with the Syntactic Ambiguity Processing benchmark Abstract: Prediction has been proposed as an overarching principle that explains human information processing in language and beyond. In this talk, […]