Anna Stacey wins the Edna Dharmaratne Award 2023
We are excited to announce that this year’s winner of the Edna Dharmaratne Award (https://linguistics.ubc.ca/undergraduate/funding/the-edna-dharmaratne-award-in-linguistics/) is Anna Stacey, a first-year MA student in Linguistics. The award is intended to recognize a student who not only has a good academic record but also has a commitment of volunteerism and service to others. Anna has excelled in […]
Professor Garrett featured in Ubyssey
Happy to see our very own Professor Garrett Nicolai sharing his insights about ChatGPT with Ubyssey! For more on this, see here: https://ubyssey.ca/science/chatgpt-has-entered-the-chat-bringing-ubc-challenges-and-opportunities/
New publications
Hot out of the press! Two new publications by Prof. Chris Hammerly! Check below for more. Citation: Hammerly, C. (2023) A set-based semantics for person, obviation, and animacy. Language, 99(1), 38-80. Link: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/article/884309 Blurb: This paper provides an analysis that ties together three closely linked systems in Ojibwe: person (which distinguishes types of conversational participants), obviation (which makes […]
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!
Ife Adebara and Prof Abdul-Mageed featured in UBC News
Our PhD student, Ife Adebara, along with Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, was featured in a UBC News article recently. Have a read if you are curious about NLP applications for low-resource languages. See here for more: https://news.ubc.ca/2023/02/21/ubc-scholar-helping-ai-overcome-its-language-barrier/ Congratulations, Ife and Muhammad!
New paper out
Here’s a new publication to start your new year! Why Plain Futurates are Different by Hotze Rullmann, Marianne Huijsmans, Lisa Matthewson, and Neda Todorović Linguistic Inquiry (2022) 54 (1): 197–208. https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00435 Here’s the direct link: https://direct.mit.edu/ling/article-abstract/54/1/197/102504/Why-Plain-Futurates-are-Different?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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
Prof. Henry Davis featured in Lang. Sci. story about PNWLL Press
Language Sciences recently developed a story about PNWLL Press featuring Henry Davis from UBC Linguistics. PNWLL Press is taking a radical approach to academic publishing process by co-publishing with Indigenous communities while maintaining high production and editorial standards for Indigenous language documentation. Read the full story here: https://languagesciences.ubc.ca/news-events/announcement-story/oct-5-2022-pacific-northwest-languages-and-literatures-press-breaks
Edna Dharmaratne Award goes to Nandita Pisharody Suresh
This year’s winner of the Edna Dharmaratne Award is Nandita Pisharody Suresh, a second-year major in Speech Sciences. The award committee was unanimously impressed with Nandita’s long-standing commitment to community, which includes volunteering to help with literacy skills both here in Vancouver and in her hometown of Gabarone, Botswana. Nandita has also been involved with […]