New publication: Vowel space reduction in Alzheimer’s Disease
Curious about how neurodegenerative diseases affect vowel space? Check out the newest publication from the ISRL lab. ABSTRACT: Reduced vowel space area (VSA) is a known effect of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD). Using large publicly available corpuses, two experiments were conducted comparing the vowel space of speakers with and without Alzheimer’s disease […]
Recent graduate Chelsea featured in UBC news article
Featured in the UBC news, Chelsea, our recent graduate, shares why they chose to study at UBC arts. Here’s more: https://www.arts.ubc.ca/news/3-domestic-students-share-why-they-chose-to-study-at-ubc-arts/ Thanks, Chelsea!
New issue of Semantic Fieldwork Methods published
A new issue (Vol. 4, Issue 2) of Semantic Fieldwork Methods, a journal by Lisa Matthewson and Burton Strang has been published. Semantic Fieldwork Methods, Vol. 4 Issue 2 Second half of a special issue on ‘Collecting semantic data: A sample of individual practices’ Check here for more: https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/storyboards/issue/current
UBC NACLO participant wins bronze in International Linguistics Olympiad
Kevin Yan, a high school student who participated in UBC NACLO in February 2022 has won a bronze medal in the International Linguistics Olympiad. Congratulations, Kevin on this great achievement! Also, thanks to Kaili Vesik and and Yadong Liu who took the lead as this year’s local organizers of the first round. To learn more […]
MDS-CL project featured in NASA article
We have big news! One of the 2021 MDS-CL cohort student capstone projects (completed in May-June 2022) was recently featured in an article by NASA! Check out the main story here: https://appliedsciences.nasa.gov/our-impact/story/university-students-use-reddit-help-nasa-find-landslides Image credit: NASA In case you are curious, the MDS-CL program is an intensive 10-month professional program, and the last course of […]
New publication
Another exciting paper: Matthewson, Lisa, Neda Todorovic and Michael Schwan 2022. Future time reference and viewpoint aspect: Evidence from Gitksan. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.6341 Congratulations to the research team! https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/6341/
“Nobody’s Perfect”: New paper out
New paper out by Bertrand, Aonuki, Chen, Davis, Gambarage, Griffin, Huijsmans, Matthewson, Reisinger, Rullmann, Salles, Schwan, Todorovic, Trotter & Vander Klok (2022). Nobody’s Perfect. Languages 2022, 7, 148. Impressive teamwork! Congratulations! https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020148 https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/7/2/148/pdf
Prof. Abdul-Mageed is the new Canada Research Chair
We are happy to share that our very own Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed (Computational Linguistics and Information Science) is the new Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. To learn more on this: https://research.ubc.ca/fifteen-ubc-researchers-announced-new-and-renewed-ubc-canada-research-chairs https://www.canada.ca/en/research-chairs/news/2022/06/government-of-canada-announces-119-new-and-renewed-canada-research-chairs.html
Holly Davies wins the Governor General’s Silver Medal in Arts
Holly Davies, (BA Honours in Speech Sciences), has won the Governor General’s Silver Medal in Arts! Huge congratulations, Holly!
Marianne Huijsmans will join U of Alberta
Great news! UBC linguistics PhD Student Marianne Huijsmans will be joining the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta as an Assistant Professor next year! Big congratulations, Marianne!