The Langauge Sciences Institute aims to connect scholars, teachers, and researchers working in all areas of the language sciences, to create collaborations that produce and support innovative research. Members span fields, disciplines, faculties, and institutions. Projects funded by Language Sciences have explored promoting multilingual literacy for young Canadians through online storybooks, the effects of vibrating devices on speech intelligibility, how opera training may sculpt our brains, how language might affect patient well-being, and much more. The institute strives to communicate its members’ work to many audiences: researchers, students, institutions, communities, and the general public.
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Fels, S Sidney | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Human Computer Interaction; biomechanical modeling of human anatomy; Machine Learning; new interfaces for musical expression; speech synthesis; human computer interaction, biomechanical modeling of human anatomy, machine learning, new interfaces for musical expression, speech synthesis |
| Field, Thalia | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | stroke; Clinical trials; cerebral venous thrombosis; outcomes; cognition; Machine Learning; stroke, clinical trials, cerebral venous thrombosis, outcomes, cognition, machine learning |
| Giaschi, Deborah | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | amblyopia; reading; dyslexia; motion perception; binocular vision; visual development; amblyopia, reading, dyslexia, motion perception, binocular vision, visual development |
| Gick, Bryan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | phonetics, speech science, speech motor control, speech perception, multimodal perception, tactile perception, ultrasound imaging of speech, sounds of the world’s languages, Physical mechanisms of speech production, speech research |
| Griffin, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Greek philosophy, Ancient philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Proclus, Neoplatonism, Ancient logic |
| Hall, Kathleen | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Phonology; Phonetics; Laboratory Phonology; Sign Languages; Phonology, Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, Sign Languages |
| Hall, David Geoffrey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Lexical and conceptual development, semantic development, language acquisition |
| Hamlin, Kiley | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cognitive development; Moral Judgement and Duty or Obligation Morals; Infant / Child Development; Foundations of Religious, Mystical, Mythical and Moral Thoughts; Infant moral cognition; infant social cognition; Cognitive Development, Moral Judgement and Duty or Obligation Morals, Infant / Child Development, Foundations of Religious, Mystical, Mythical and Moral Thoughts, Infant moral cognition, Infant social cognition |
| Hansson, Gunnar | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | theoretical phonology; morphology-phonology interface; phonological typology; historical linguistics (language change); locality relations; Icelandic; theoretical phonology, morphology-phonology interface, phonological typology, historical linguistics (language change), locality relations, Icelandic |
| Herdman, Anthony | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neuroimaging Methods (EEG/MEG); Central auditory processing; Auditory and visual perecptions related to reading acquisition (1st and 2nd languages); Brain computer interface; Auditory System, Visual System, Audiovisual, Visual, Audio and Written Communications, Electrophysiology, Language and Cognitive Processes, Neuroimaging Methods (EEG/MEG), Central auditory processing, Auditory and visual perecptions related to reading acquisition (1st and 2nd languages), Brain computer interface |
| Hermiston, Nancy Jane | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | opera, voice, theatre, interdisciplinary work with a diversity of fields and opera; Opera training and its effect on sculpting the brain - Wall Opera Project, Hermiston/L/Boyd/J Werker; opera, voice, theatre, interdisciplinary work with a diversity of fields and opera, Opera training and its effect on sculpting the brain - Wall Opera Project, Hermiston/L/Boyd/J Werker |
| Howe, Tami | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Acquired language disorders, aphasia |
| Hudson Kam, Carla | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Language development, second language acquisition, critical periods for learning, input and language learning, language learning and language change, Psychology, First and second language acquisition, gesture and language learning, language contact and language change |
| Huot, Suzanne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | asylum seekers; bilingualism; community-engaged research; critical theory; francophone minority communities; francophones; french; Gender; immigration; intersectionality; Migration Studies; Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges; occupational science; Qualitative research; refugees; social inclusion; social integration; Platform economy; Asylum seekers, Bilingualism, Community-engaged research, Critical theory, Francophone minority communities, Francophones, French, Gender, Immigration, Intersectionality, Migration studies, Migrations, Populations, Cultural Exchanges, Occupational science, Qualitative research, Refugees, Social inclusion, Social integration, Platform economy |
| Jenstad, Lorienne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | hearing aids; Aging; audiology; hearing health; amplification; hearing aids, aging, audiology, hearing health, amplification |
| Kobor, Michael | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Chromatin Biology; Epigenetics; molecular biology; Social Epigenetics; Chromatin Biology, Epigenetics, Molecular Biology, Social Epigenetics |
| Kubota, Ryuko | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | critical applied linguistics; culture and language; Language Rights and Policies; language education; language ideologies; multicultural education; race and language teaching; Critical applied linguistics, Culture and language, Language Rights and Policies, Language education, Language ideologies, Multicultural education, Race and language teaching |
| Li, Guofang | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | longitudinal studies of immigrant children |
| MacLean, Karon | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Information Systems; design of user interfaces; haptic interfaces; human-computer interaction; human-robot interaction; Information Systems, Design of user interfaces, Haptic interfaces, Human-computer interaction, Human-robot interaction |
| Malakaj, Ervin | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | German studies; German Film Studies; German Media Studies; German Media History; Queer Theory and Queer Studies; Feminist and Queer Film Historiography; Critical Pedagogy; German Studies, German Film Studies, German Media Studies, German Media History, Queer Theory and Queer Studies, Feminist and Queer Film Historiography, Critical Pedagogy |
| Marinova-Todd, Stefka | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | bilingualism, second language acquisition, language development, literacy, ESL children, children at risk of language difficulties, language disorders in bilingual children and adults, Second language acquisition; language development and language learning difficulties of bilingual children |
| Matthewson, Lisa | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Semantics; Austronesian languages; Cross-linguistic variation and universals; Salish languages; Semantic fieldwork; Tsimshianic languages; Semantics, Austronesian languages, Cross-linguistic variation and universals, Salish languages, Semantic fieldwork, Tsimshianic languages |
| McGrenere, Joanna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | computer science; computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); human-computer interaction; interactive technologies for older users and people with cognitive disorders; personalized user interfaces; universal usability; Computer science, Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), Human-computer interaction, Interactive technologies for older users and people with cognitive disorders, Personalized user interfaces, Universal usability |
| Moore, Patrick | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Anthropological linguistics, languages of North America, sub-Arctic ethnography, ethno-history, gender, First Nations Languages, Literacy and Orality, Oral Traditions, Dene (Athbaskan Languages and Cultures), Codeswitching, Gender, Indigenous Activism, and the Anthropology of Media |
| Muehlmann, Shaylih | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Environmental politics, linguistic anthropology, drug trafficking, indigeneity, water scarcity, the anthropology of the awkward, US-Mexico borderlands, Mexico |