Congrats 2018 Grads!
Congratulations to all the 2018 Linguistics and Speech Science graduates. Many of our students were nominated as Outstanding Student Leaders and celebrated in March, and graduation was in May. We were especially delighted to have Linguistics Major Kalim Kassam selected as the student representative and speaker at the ceremony! Congratulations to the graduates and all […]
LSURC Award Winners
The second annual Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (LSURC) was held January 19-20, 2018. Congratulations to all of the organizers and presenters, and especially to the winners of the presentation awards: Best Oral Presentation Award: Lydia Rhi: Perception Study of Strong and Weak Imperatives in English Dimitri Prica: “No” she said, nodding: Is there a multimodal advantage in […]
New Publication: WSCLA 21
The Working Papers in Linguistics is happy to announce our newest volume, containing papers presented at the 21st Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, in 2016. The papers can be found at https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/wscla-volumes/
Retirement: Edna Dharmaratne
We wish Edna all the best in her retirement — having had Edna as the backbone of our department for several decades, we’re not quite sure what we’ll do without her! See our Facebook page for more photos!
Sad news: Dr. Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
It is with heavy hearts that we share the sad news that our friend and colleague, Dr. Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, passed away on May 30th, 2017. As a teacher, researcher, writer, lab director, collaborator, administrator, supervisor, and mentor, he has deeply influenced all of our lives in many ways. Our department has lost a dear member […]
New book: Sqwéqwel’s Nelh Skelkekla7lhkálha: Tales of Our Elders
The latest book from the UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics is now available for purchase and download! https://lingpapers.sites.olt.ubc.ca/sqweqwels-nelh-skelkekla7lhkalha-tales-of-our-elders/ Sqwéqwel’s Nelh Skelkekla7lhkálha: Tales of Our Elders features 15 stories told by well-known Upper St’át’imcets speakers Bill Edwards, Martina LaRochelle and Sam Mitchell, as recorded in the 1970s by linguists Jan van Eijk and Aert Kuipers. The […]
Computational Linguistics at the Vancouver Summer Program
The UBC Vancouver Summer Program (VSP) is a four week academic program offered at the University of British Columbia, Canada for cohorts of international students to study at UBC. The program provides the opportunity for cooperating universities to organize groups of students to take two academic courses in various UBC Faculties while learning about Canadian […]
St’at’imcets Narratives volume by Carl Alexander
The UBC Occasional Papers in Linguistics is very pleased to announce the publication of Sqwéqwel’ Múta7 Sptakwlh, a volume of 18 narratives by Carl Alexander in St’át’imcets (Lillooet Salish), with accompanying English translation and interlinear gloss. The volume is now available for purchase and download: the .pdf and accompanying audio files may be downloaded without […]
CAREER PATHWAYS
Where can a degree in linguistics / speech science take you? Please click here for the interactive version! For more information about where a degree in linguistics can take you, we recommend looking at the resources at the Linguistic Society of America.