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!
Marianne Huijsmans receives the Community-University Engagement Support fund
Congratulations to Linguistics PhD student Marianne Huijsmans, who is one of six Faculty of Arts recipients of the Community-University Engagement Support fund, for a community project on “Reviewing, enriching, and sharing an ʔayʔaǰuθəm e-dictionary.” The community partner is Jacqueline Mathieu, of the Klahoose First Nation. The funding is paid directly to community partners, and is […]
CreteLing summer school has been officially announced
This year’s CreteLing summer school has been officially announced. It will be held from July 16 to July 29, 2022, at Rethymnon, Crete, Greece. For more on this: https://linguistics.philology.uoc.gr/cssl22/.
Professor Abdul-Mageed on CTV Morning Live
Professor Muhammad Abdul-Mageed shares his views with CTV Morning Live on the dangers of “oversharing” on social media (Feb. 03, 2022). Share this news without “oversharing!”
Khia Johnson successfully defends her dissertation
Khia Johnson successfully defended her dissertation “Crosslinguistic Similarity and Structured Variation in Cantonese-English Bilingual Speech Production” on Friday! Also, Khia has landed a very cool job as UX Researcher at Reality Labs Research, Audio, which is part of Facebook/Meta. Congratulations, Dr. Johnson!
Anne-Michelle’s podcast
Anne-Michelle’s 2018 shitgibbons paper, with Michael Becker (Umass Amherst), has led to an interview about total vowel harmony in obscene insults. In the episode of Nerdin’ About, Dr Anne-Michelle Tessier takes everyone on phonological foray into swear words. Content warning: Swearing. Lots. At any rate, if you are so inclined, you can listen here: https://nerdinabout.podbean.com/e/science-of-swearing
Rose-Marie Déchaine has been promoted to the rank of Professor
Rose-Marie Déchaine has been promoted to the rank of Professor effective July 1, 2021. Huge congratulations, Professor Déchaine!
Chelsea Jang wins the Edna Dharmaratne Award
Chelsea Jang has been honored with the Edna Dharmaratne Award in Linguistics (2021) in recognition of her volunteerism and service. Chelsea is a third-year Speech Sciences Major, with a Minor in Special Education, and also the current SALSA Undergrad Rep. Congrats Chelsea! The Dharmaratne Award is named after the linguistics department’s former head administrator, who […]