Zara Khalaji Successfully Defends MA Thesis on Learning Morpho-phonological Alternations
We are pleased to announce that Zara Khalaji has successfully defended her MA thesis in the Department of Linguistics. Her thesis, titled “Learning Morpho-phonological Alternations like French Liaison: An Artificial Language Learning Experiment”, investigates how adult learners acquire complex morpho-phonological patterns using an artificial language learning paradigm. Zara’s research explores the challenges posed by interface […]
Labs of Ling event 2024
A big thank you to everyone who took part in the 2024 Labs of Ling event last week! It was a fantastic opportunity for the department’s research groups to highlight their work and for students to explore ways to get involved. Special thanks to UBC Speech and Linguistics Student Association (SALSA) for organizing! For more […]
ISRL projects featured by Acoustical Society of America
We’re excited to share that two upcoming conference presentations from our Integrated Speech Research Lab (ISRL) have been highlighted in the “Lay Language Paper” section of the Acoustical Society of America’s website for the 187th Meeting. Check them out below: 1. Listen to the Music: We Rely on Musical Genre to Determine Singers’ Accents Authors: […]
UBC Linguistics at Sinn und Bedeutung 29, Italy
Happy to share that UBC Linguistics is well-represented at Sinn und Bedeutung 29, happening right now at the Consorzio Universitario Mediterraneo Orientale in Noto, Italy. Presentations with UBC-affiliated authors include: • Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio & Ryan Bochnak: Conjectural questions in Ktunaxa as canonical questions • Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio: Epistemic temporal interactions and judge […]
Mitchi and Starr selected as Public Scholar 2023/2024
The UBC Public Scholars Initiative (PSI) supports “UBC doctoral students whose research extended beyond the academy, and beyond traditional disciplinary approaches, to have a tangible impact for the public good through collaborative, action-oriented, and/or creative forms of scholarship in their dissertation work.” We are especially proud to say that *two* of this year’s PSI cohort […]
Stanley Nam wins best student presentation award at ICKL 23
Happy to share that our PhD student Stanley Nam has won a “best student presentation” award at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of The International Circle of Korean Linguistics (ICKL 23; see https://sites.google.com/view/ickl2023/home), for his paper “Unsupervised learning of sub-lexica in Korean.” Congratulations, Stanley!
Raiane Salles’ successful PhD defense
Congratulations to the new Dr. Raiane Salles, for a successful PhD defense today! The thesis is entitled “Functional categorization parameters: Argumenthood with functional heads other than D in Carioca Brazilian Portuguese and Pirahã.” Dr. Salles was supervised by Dr. Lisa Matthewson, with committee members Dr. Hotze Rullmann and Dr. Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra). Also […]
Exciting new publications from the ISRL
The Integrated Speech Research Lab (ISRL), UBC is proud to share some exciting new publications in flagship journals, including Nature’s Scientific Reports. See below to learn more. Shamei, A., Sóskuthy, M., Stavness, I. et al. Postural adaptation to microgravity underlies fine motor impairment in astronauts’ speech. Sci Rep 13, 8231 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34854-w. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34854-w de Boer, […]
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 […]