Languages and literature

This group comprises research and experimental development in languages and literature.
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Graduate Degree Programs in Languages and literature

Doctor of Philosophy in Asian Studies (PhD)

UBC's Asian Studies Department is the flagship Asian Studies department in Canada and is widely acknowledged as one of the finest in North America. The Department awards a PhD in Asian Studies to students working in a variety of regions and disciplines. The department boasts over 20 graduate...

Doctor of Philosophy in Classics (PhD)

Classicists study the languages, literature, material culture, and history of Ancient Greece and Rome. The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies offers a PhD Classics with the option of three streams: Classics (language-based program), Ancient History, or Classical...

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

The UBC English Graduate Program, one of the most vibrant and wide-ranging in Canada, has been awarding the M.A. degree since 1919. Students may earn the degree in each of two areas: English Literature and English Language. Indeed, the UBC English Department is one of the few departments in North...

Doctor of Philosophy in French (PhD)

The Graduate Program in French Studies offers a dynamic curriculum that focuses on a contextualized understanding of the languages, literatures, and cultures of France, Québec, and the Francophone world. Students may specialize in literature or linguistics, or propose a research program combining...

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD)

The Graduate Program in Germanic Studies at UBC integrates a large scope of thematic and theoretical research areas. Students are guided by faculty whose teaching and research cover a wide range of German literature, film, culture, and media. Course offerings feature approaches grounded in varied...

Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Studies (PhD)

The Graduate Program in Hispanic Studies offers a dynamic curriculum focusing on a contextualized knowledge of the languages, literatures, and cultures of Latin America, Spain, and other Spanish-speaking communities within the US and Canada.

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Doctoral students focus on critical and contemporary issues at the intersections of language and literacy learning and cultural and societal transformation. Students in our programs are teachers and other professional educators who engage in courses, conversations and research addressing a broad...

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguists are interested in questions such as the following: What are the structural properties of languages, at the level of sounds, words, sentences, and meaning? To what extent are the languages of the world similar or different? How is...

Master of Arts in Ancient Culture, Religion and Ethnicity (MA)

The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies offers a unique interdisciplinary Master's program that allows students to develop a customized program specializing in any topic within the scope of the ancient Mediterranean and Near East from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity...

Master of Arts in Asian Studies (MA)

UBC's Asian Studies Department is the flagship Asian Studies department in Canada and is widely acknowledged as one of the finest in North America. The Department awards a thesis-based MA in Asian Studies to students working in a variety of regions and disciplines. The department boasts over 20...

Master of Arts in Children's Literature (MA)

The University of British Columbia offers a Master of Arts in Children’s Literature (MACL), jointly offered by the Department of English Language and Literatures, the Creative Writing Program, the Department of Language and Literacy Education, and the School of Library, Archival & Information...

Master of Arts in Classics (MA)

Classicists study the languages, literature, material culture, and history of Ancient Greece and Rome. The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies offers a unique interdisciplinary Master's program that allows students to specialize in Ancient Greek and Latin language and...

Master of Arts in English (MA)

The UBC English Graduate Program, one of the most vibrant and wide-ranging in Canada, has been awarding the M.A. degree since 1919. Students may earn the degree in each of two areas: English Literature and English Language. Indeed, the UBC English Department is one of the few departments in North...

Master of Arts in French (MA)

The Graduate Program in French Studies offers a dynamic curriculum that focuses on a contextualized understanding of the languages, literatures, and cultures of France, Québec, and the Francophone world. Students may specialize in literature or linguistics, or propose a research program combining...

Master of Arts in Germanic Studies (MA)

The Graduate Program in Germanic Studies at UBC integrates a large scope of thematic and theoretical research areas. Students are guided by faculty whose teaching and research cover a wide range of German literature, film, culture, and media. Course offerings feature approaches grounded in varied...

Master of Arts in Hispanic Studies (MA)

The Graduate Program in Hispanic Studies offers a dynamic curriculum focusing on a contextualized knowledge of the languages, literatures, and cultures of Latin America, Spain, and other Spanish-speaking communities within the US and Canada.

Master of Arts in Linguistics (MA)

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguists are interested in questions such as the following: What are the structural properties of languages, at the level of sounds, words, sentences, and meaning? To what extent are the languages of the world similar or different? How is...

Master of Arts in Literacy Education (MA)

Our programs in Literacy Education engage teachers and other professional educators in the study of rich language and literacy practices from early childhood through adolescence and adulthood. Literacy studies have expanded dramatically in recent years and our internationally known Faculty draw on...

Master of Arts in Modern Languages Education (MA)

The Masters programs develop an awareness of current thought and practice in MLED education. The MA program has a research emphasis and includes a thesis. MLED graduate students gain experience and understanding in current issues in second language theory and practice, second language acquisition,...

Master of Data Science (MDS)

The UBC Master of Data Science (MDS) is a 10-month professional degree program. The MDS program was developed by the combined expertise of the UBC departments of Computer Science and Statistics to help meet a growing need for data scientists by producing skilled professionals who can turn data into...

Master of Data Science in Computational Linguistics (MDSCL)

Passionate about language and curious about data? UBC's Master of Data Science degree in Computational Linguistics is the credential to set you apart. Offered at the Vancouver campus this unique degree is tailored to those with a passion for language and data. Over 10 months, the program combines...

Master of Education in Literacy Education (MEd)

Our programs in Literacy Education engage teachers and other professional educators in the study of rich language and literacy practices from early childhood through adolescence and adulthood. Literacy studies have expanded dramatically in recent years and our internationally known Faculty draw on...

Master of Education in Modern Languages Education (MEd)

The MEd degree is designed as a practitioner's degree, for students who wish to acquire the knowledge, skills and experience necessary to work in a professional field. As a professional degree, the MEd is intended for students who wish, upon graduation, to assume positions of leadership in a...
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Languages and literature

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Abedinifard, Mostafa

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Literature and literary studies; modern Iran; Iranian/Persianate studies through fiction, drama, poetry, cinema, andnonfiction

Ahmed, Anwar

Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Languages and literature

Al-Kassim, Dina

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; English language; Gender, sexuality and education; Human rights, justice, and ethical issues; anti-colonial; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Artistic and Literary Theories; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; comparative literature: Arabic, English, French; feminist; Gender Relationship; Identity and Transnationality; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; postcolonial; psychoanalysis; queer theory; sexuality; Subjectivity

Ayan, Irem

Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

French language; Sociology of translation and interpreting; Gender and work exploitation; Emotional labour and work alienation; Fictional representations of translators and interpreters

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Babel, Molly

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistics; Phonetics; Recognition of Speech; Perception and Representation; Acoustics; Dialects; acoustics of speech production; phonetic variation; speech perception; spoken word recognition

Badir, Patricia

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

English language; Canadian Modernism; Early Modern Drama; Early Modern Literature and Religion; Medieval Drama; Shakespeare; Shakespeare in Canada

Bowers, Katherine

Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Literature and literary studies; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Arts and Literary Policies; Dostoevsky; genre; gothic fiction; imagined geography; literary culture; narrative; Russian culture; Russian literature; the novel

Burgess, Miranda

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

English language; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; British and Irish Romanticism; history of feeling (affect, emotion, sensation); history of literary form; history of media and mediation; poetics; riparian and oceanic studies

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Casas Aguilar, Anna

Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Contemporary literatures; Spanish Cultural Studies; Catalan Literature and Culture; Gender Studies; Masculinities; Feminisms; Self-writing; Hispanic Cinemas

Castonguay-Belanger, Joel

Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

French language; History of the book and print culture; Québec literature and culture; Science and literature; The Enlightenment and the French Revolution

Cavell, Richard Anthony

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

English language; Media and Society; Media Influence on Behavior; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); media studies; media theory

Corella Morales, Meghan

Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other languages and literature; Academic Discourse; Children and youth; Discourse Analysis; Language ideology; Sociolinguistics

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Dadugblor, Stephen

School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

English language; Rhetoric; Digital media/social media; democratic deliberation; decoloniality; writing studies; African Studies

Dollinger, Stefan

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

English language; Language Contact and Linguistic Changes; Linguistic Variation and Society; Lexicography and Dictionaries; Language Interactions; Language Rights and Policies; Bilingualism and Multilingualism

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Echard, Sian

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

English language; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Literary or Artistic Work Dissemination or Reception Contexts; Modes and strategies of dissemination; Poetry; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Anglo-Latin literature; Arthurian literature; History of the Book; John Gower; Manuscript studies; Medieval literature

Etxabe, Julen

Peter A. Allard School of Law

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Law and society; Literature and critical theory; History and philosophy of law and justice; Law and humanities; Legal Theory and Jurisprudence; Human Rights; Political Theory; Law and literature; Cultural Studies

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Frackman, Kyle

Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cinema studies; Media studies (except social media and digital media); Literature and literary studies; Cultural studies; queer studies; German studies; media studies; history of sexuality; sexuality; sexuality studies; East Germany; film; Gender Studies; history of science; literature; Media; Media Types (Radio, Television, Written Press, etc.); Scandinavia

Frank, Adam

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

American literatures; American literature and media, affect theory, modernism, science and technology studies

Frelick, Nancy

Department of English Language and Literatures, Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Renaissance literatures; Literature and critical theory

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Gaertner, David

Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Indigenous literatures; Media, visual and digital culture; Critical identity, ethnic and race studies; Indigenous Literature; Digital storytelling; Digital Humanities; Speculative fiction; Reconciliation; New Media; Indigenous Cyberspace

Gelinas-Lemaire, Vincent

Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

French language; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Comparative Literature; Creative Writing; French Literature (1945 to the present); Québec and French-Canadian Literature and Culture; Spatial Poetics; Visual Culture

Gladwin, Derek

Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other languages and literature; Cultural Studies; Digital & Media Literacy; Environmental & Energy Literacy; Environmental Humanities; Food Literacy; Literary Education; Sustainability Education; Writing & Rhetoric

Gunderson, Lee Paul

Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Languages and literature; reading-research; immigrant-achievement; home literacy environment

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Hall, Kathleen

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistics; Phonology; Phonetics; Laboratory Phonology

Hansson, Gunnar

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics); Cognitive sciences; theoretical phonology; morphology-phonology interface; phonological typology; historical linguistics (language change); locality relations; Icelandic

Ho, Janice

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

English language; twentieth- and twenty-first century British literature and culture; British and transnational modernisms; postcolonial and world Anglophone literatures; contemporary fiction; histories and theories of the novel; human rights studies; infrastructure studies

Hoffmann, Alexandra

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Literature and literary studies; Classical Persian Literature

Huberman, Isabella

Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Indigenous literatures; Environment, space and place; Quebec literatures; Indigenous Literature; Cinema of Quebec; Francophone Indigenous narrative arts; Environmental Humanities; Archives and cinema studies; Quebec-Indigenous studies; Decolonial and anticolonial theory; Research creation

Huemoeller, Katharine

Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Classical Greek and Ancient Rome history; Classical archaeology; Classical linguistics; Religion and religious studies; Ancient law (in theory and in practice); Documentary texts; gender and sexuality; Non-urban life in antiquity; Roman social history; Slavery (ancient and comparative)

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Iurascu, Ilinca

Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Comparative literatures; Theories of cultural studies; Media, visual and digital culture; German literature; Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; media theory; Media history; critical theory; film studies

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Jenson, Jennifer

Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Other languages and literature; Digital Cultures and Education; Digital Games; Game-based Learning; Gender; Online Learning; technology; Technology Implementation and integration

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Kim, Christine

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

English language; Asian North American literature and theory; Canadian Literature; Cultural Studies; Diaspora Studies

King, Ross

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Historical linguistics, diachronics, and dialectology; Korean philology; history of Korean literary culture; Korean historical linguistics; Korean dialectology; history of the Sinographic Cosmopolis

Kumpulainen, Kristiina

Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Languages and literature; Critical literacies/pedagogies; Digital Literacies; identity; Multiliteracy and multimodality; Place-based literacies; Storytelling/narrative inquiry

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Malakaj, Ervin

Department of Central, Eastern & Northern European Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Literature and literary studies; German studies; German Film Studies; German Media Studies; German Media History; Queer Theory and Queer Studies; Feminist and Queer Film Historiography; Critical Pedagogy

Maraj, Louis

School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Languages and literature; Philosophy; Rhetoric; Black Studies; digital media; Cultural Studies; media studies; Critical Pedagogies; Race and Racism

Marshall, Christopher Warren

Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Cinema studies; Classical Greek and Ancient Rome history; Classical archaeology; Classical linguistics; Film, television and digital media; Religion and religious studies; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Performance and Theatrical Productions

Matthewson, Lisa

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistics; Semantics; Austronesian languages; Cross-linguistic variation and universals; Salish languages; Semantic fieldwork; Tsimshianic languages

McGee, Alexis

School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Languages and literature; Black Feminist Theory; African American language, literacies, and rhetorics; Rhetorical theory and composition pedagogy; Rhetorical History; Composition History; Sociolinguistics; Sound (voice)

Milstein, Sara

Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Classical Greek and Ancient Rome history; Classical archaeology; Classical linguistics; Religion and religious studies; biblical and cuneiform law; Hebrew Bible and Near Eastern Studies; History of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses; literary history of the Bible; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Mesopotamian literature; Near Eastern scribal culture; Religious Contexts

Minard, Antone

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Moran, Patrick

Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

French language; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; History of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses; Popular Cultures Produced and Broadcasted by Media; Arthurian Romance; Cognitive Poetics; Comparative Medieval Literature; Genre Theory; Interactive Fiction; Material Philology; Medieval French Literature; Medieval Narrative Literature; Medievalism; Narrative Theory; Old French; Reader-Response Theory; Science Fiction and Fantasy

Morzycki, Marcin

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistics; adverbial modification; degree modifiers; expressive meaning; grammar of modification; knowledge of meaning; measure phrases; modification of quantifiers; nonrestrictive modification; semantic restrictions on modifier order; Semantics, syntax, and their interface

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Nicholson, Cecily

School of Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Languages and literature; Poetry

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Paltin, Judith

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

English language; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Artistic and Literary Theories; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Cultural Theory; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Literature and Mind; Literature and Music; Modernist Studies

Pritchard, Robert

School of Music, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Music composition; Linguistics; Electrical engineering, computer engineering, and information engineering; Composition; Interactive performance; Gesture tracking; Interdisciplinary performance; Hardware/software sensing

Pulleyblank, Douglas

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistics; Phonology; Morphology; African languages; Yoruba

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Rea, Christopher

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Chinese literatures; Asian history; Chinese literature; Cinema; Print culture; translation; Humor

Rogers, Theresa

Department of Language & Literacy Education, Faculty of Education

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Children's literatures; Other languages and literature; Children's and Adolescent Literature; Digital Literacies; Education; Educational Approaches; Literacy; Youth Studies

Rouse, Robert

Department of English Language and Literatures, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Medieval Literatures; Environment, space and place

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Student & Alumni Stories in Languages and literature

Michael Schwan

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Gitksan Neologism Formation: The Future of Gitksan With Roots in the Past

Laura Brass

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Immigrant women language teachers’ identities

Ife Adebara

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Inclusive by Design: Natural Language Technology for Africa

Veronika Larsen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Studying language surrounding eating disorder treatment resources for recovery

Dante Prado

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD)

Laughter amidst wars and crises in German modernism

Rachel Vivian Helmer

Student

Master of Arts in Germanic Studies (MA)

Racism and residential school participation in German-language Mennonite literature

Ajibola Fabusuyi

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD)

The subject of becoming in Black German autobiographical nonfiction and documentary film-making

Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li

Student

Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (MFA)

On Chinese philosophy and memory: exploring Chan Buddhism recollection, ritual, and narrative

Xaanja Free

Student

Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS)

Indigenous Canadian identity in children's literature --How can Indigenous voices reclaim identity when it has been formed by 'others' who have publicized and educated the world with derogatory stereotypes and rumours?

Leah Alfred-Olmedo

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

The Indigenous monstrous & the monstrous Indigenous

Stephen Oppong

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

21st century receptions of classical greek theatre in Africa.

Mirta Roncagalli

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Hispanic Studies (PhD)

Spanish essays on politics and ethics (20th and 21st century)

Fiana Kawane

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Toward lyric disunities: Late modern political ecologies of South Asian diasporic poetry, 1970s to 2000s

Sydney Lines

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Romancing the empire: Race, ethnicity, and nationalism in the writings of Winnifred Eaton and Laura Goodman Salverson

Jade LaFontaine

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Creating language resources for nłeʔkepmx youth

Starr Sandoval

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Expressive meaning in Ktunaxa

Michelle Kamigaki-Baron

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Investigating the psycholinguistic connections between Pidgin and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

Khia Johnson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Investigating how Cantonese-English bilinguals produce and perceive speech sounds

Hannah Green

Student

Master of Arts in Linguistics (MA)

Syntactic analysis of relative clauses and nominal modification in Secwepemctsín (Shuswap)

Kaili Vesik

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Perception of vowel quantity in sung Estonian

Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

From annotation to assessment: Tools for sign language phonetic and phonological research

Anne Bertrand

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

The grammar of scalarity in Ktunaxa
 
 
 
 
French Name
Langues et littérature
French Description
Ce groupe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en langues et littérature.
 
 

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