News
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January 5, 2016
Welcome to our first affiliate!
The Language Sciences Initiative would like to welcome its first affiliate: Dr. Molly Babel of the Linguistics Department. Dr. Babel’s research interests include phonetics, the links between speech perception and speech production, and sociolinguistics.
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January 5, 2016
New Course on Challenging Language Myths
January 2016 saw the launch of a new language-related course at UBC: English/Linguistics 140, ‘Challenging Language Myths’. This course aims to lead students into critical consideration of a broad range of commonly held beliefs about language and its relation to the brain and cognition, learning, society, change and evolution. Co-taught by Dr.