Language Sciences Institute
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.
Campus
Vancouver
Affiliated UBC Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Murphy, Anne | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Asian history; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Religion; Literary or Artistic Work Analysis; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; cultural history; Early Modern Studies; Punjabi Studies; South Asian Studies |
| Ng, Raymond Tak-yan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Data mining and analysis, health informatics, text summarization, text mining |
| Norton, Bonny | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | education, ESL, international perspectives, literacy, teacher research |
| Odic, Darko | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cognitive development |
| Pulleyblank, Douglas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Linguistics; Phonology; Morphology; African languages; Yoruba |
| Rieger, Caroline | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Laughter in interaction, education for global citizenship, translation, language assessment, learning of a third language in a second language environment |
| Rosenblum, Daisy | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | multi-modal documentation and description of indigenous languages of North America, with an emphasis on methods, partnerships, and products that contribute to community-based language revitalization |
| Rullmann, Hotze | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Linguistics; Semantics |
| Schmidt, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Machine learning; Numerical Optimizaiton; Probabilistic Graphical Models; Causality |
| Simchen, Ori | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of law |
| Skoretz, Stacey | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Dysphagia; Swallowing disorders; Artifical Airways; Mechanical ventilation; Integration of multiple systems and biomarkers during swallowing; Swallowing following artificial airway use and/or non-invasive ventilation; Cross-species conceptual frameworks of feeding and swallowing rehabilitation; Dysphagia risk profile; Early identification of dysphagia; Biomechanical and biomarker analyses; Clinical practice pattern assessment; Clinical practice guideline development for those with artificial airways |
| Small, Jeff | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Other health sciences; communication; Dementia; strategies; memory training; hearing loss; Accessibility; Stigma |
| Stickles, Elise | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | English language; Mental Representation; grammar; Pragmatics; Semantics; Syntax; Imagery; Symbolism; Gestural, Verbal Communications; Public Communication; Data mining |
| Turin, Mark | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Anthropology; Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, etc.); Lexicography and Dictionaries; Language Contact and Linguistic Changes; Language Rights and Policies; Language Interactions; Political Culture, Society and Ideology; Bella Bella; Bhutan; First Nations; Heiltsuk; Indigeneity; Nepal; Sikkim; Tibet |
| Werker, Janet | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Bilingualism and Multilingualism; Critical Periods; Language Acquisition; Language Acquisition and Development; Language and Cognitive Processes; Multisensory Processing; Plasticity; Psycholinguistics; Psychology - Biological Aspects; speech perception; Speech and Language Development Disorders |
| Wernicke, Meike | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Specialized studies in education; Intercultural Education; Language Planning and Policy; Multi-/Plurilingualism; Second Language Education (French); teacher education |
| Woodward, Todd | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Cognitive neuropsychiatry and functional neuroimaging |
| Yoon, Dongwook | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Computer and information sciences; Computer Science and Statistics; design; Educational Technologies; Augmented reality; computer supported cooperative work (CSCW); Educational technology; Human-computer interaction (HCI); Interaction and interface design; Multimodal interaction; Speech, touch, multitouch, stylus, gesture, mixed-reality, 3d interaction; Virtual Reality |
| Yoon, Florence | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | heralds and the representation of the absent; anonymity and naming, particularly in Greek Tragedy; props and silent characters in Greek drama |
| Zappa, Sandra | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | academic discourse socialization of (international) English language learners in higher education, examining the literacy socialization trajectories and the role their individual networks of practice (INoPs, a concept I coined) in becoming aware of the host culture values and expectations; projects examining the intercultural competence development of foreign language teachers studying abroad; foreign language-learning through peer exchange programs; academic English coaching for university-level English language learners; collaboration between language and subject specialists; and student perceptions of academic English language development in CBI courses. |