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April 23, 2020Rethinking dictionaries as tools for Indigenous language reclamation
Members of the Splatsin Tsm7aksaltn dictionary team record fluent speaker, Emmeline Felix. Image credit: Aaron Leon. For half a year, Mark Turin told strangers in Nepal that he was a water well.
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April 17, 2020Why ‘speaking moistly’ needs to be taken seriously
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March 2, 2020How a child’s first language includes more than words
Author: Shannon Ward, University of British Columbia. This article is republished from
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February 25, 2020When a virus is the cause, racism is often the symptom
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February 21, 2020‘When languages fade, so does the world's rich tapestry of cultural diversity’ - Celebrating International Mother Language Day
When languages fade, so does the world's rich tapestry of cultural diversity. That’s according to the United Nations, which declared February 21st is International Mother Language Day in 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
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January 28, 2020Questioning the belief that English is a universal common language
Is English a universal language, proficiency in which guarantees a successful career? Or is this a language myth that needs to be set right?
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January 22, 2020What if you could hear new music by Satchmo? Language Sciences members are working to understand how people speak
What if you could hear new music by Louis Armstrong? Language Sciences members in the Brain2Speech group are working together to understand how people speak.
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December 18, 2019Addressing a critical shortage of teachers for D/deaf and hard of hearing students in BC
British Columbia needs qualified teachers of students who are deaf and hard of hearing, and a University of British Columbia program can help.
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December 2, 2019Study prompted by Commander Hadfield comment finds gravity affects astronauts’ speech
“Right after I landed, I could feel the weight of my lips and tongue and had to change how I was talking. I didn't realize I had learned to talk with a weightless tongue."
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October 7, 2019UBC launches professional computational linguistics degree to meet industry demand
Photo credit: Vanessa Ho