How about learning some Swahili?
The Linguistics Department is offering a Swahili language course in Winter 2020 Term 2. The course code is ASTU 204T. The course is an introduction to the essentials of Swahili sound systems, vocabulary, expressions, grammar and cultural life. There will be a focus on listening, reading, speaking and writing. There are no prerequisites for this […]
Graduating students nominated for leadership awards
The Faculty of Arts recognizes a number of graduating students every year for their community leadership. This year, quite a few linguistics and speech sciences students were nominated for leadership awards, including: Angelina Lloy (not pictured) Ariana Hernandez Ashley Chand Christina Sen Felicia Tong Gavina Sian Ian Carpick Juliana Lee Lisa Nguyen Paris Gappmayr (photo […]
Coronavirus phonetics cookbook
As a way to boost morale during isolation, the LING 314 (Instrumental Phonetics) class had an online potluck party, but, as they couldn’t actually share food, they shared recipes. The result was a coronavirus cookbook available to all.
West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
UBC is hosting the annual West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics in March, and the program is now available.
Undergrad Paris Gappmayr is a finalist in a thesis competition
Paris Gappmayr, linguistics undergrad extraordinaire, has advanced to the Top 10 Finals of the Undergraduate 3 Minute Thesis Competition. This is a new competition funded by the PURE award that falls under UBC’s Strategic Plan. Congratulations, Paris! You can watch her successful presentation on YouTube. Better still, you can and should attend the final round […]
Galia Freiwirth wins Dharmaratne Award
Galia Freiwirth has been awarded the inaugural Edna Dharmaratne Award in Linguistics. The award recognizes students who embody a spirit of volunteerism and service. Galia is a Speech Sciences major in her fourth year. Here’s what curriculum review manager Wendy Trigg wrote about her: For many years, she has been an active participant in volunteer programs in […]
Congratulations 2019 Graduates!
We had excellent representation from the Department of Linguistics at graduation on Friday, 24 May! [kʰn̩ɡɹæts] to all of our graduates, including those majoring in Cognitive Systems, Linguistics, and Speech Sciences. We were especially delighted to have the newly minted Dr. Zoe Wai-Man Lam as the student speaker for the ceremony. Also, thanks go to […]
Re-cap: Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference
The 2019 Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (LSURC) was a resounding success! We offer a big THANK YOU to the organizers, led by conference co-chairs Ashley Chand & Paris Gappmayr; to the presenters and their mentors; to the judges; and to the audience members. Special congratulations go to the winners of the Best Oral and Poster Presentation […]