Linguistics

This class comprises research and experimental development in linguistics.

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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 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 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 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 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…

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Babel, Molly

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

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

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Hall, Kathleen

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Phonology; Phonetics; Laboratory Phonology; Sign Languages; Phonology, Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology, Sign Languages

Hansson, Gunnar

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

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

Huemoeller, Katharine

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

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Ancient law (in theory and in practice); Documentary texts; gender and sexuality; Non-urban life in antiquity; Roman social history; Slavery (ancient and comparative); 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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King, Ross

Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

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

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Marshall, Toph

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

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Literary or Artistic Works Analysis; Performance and Theatrical Productions; Literary or Artistic Works Analysis, Performance and Theatrical Productions

Matthewson, Lisa

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

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

Milstein, Sara

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

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

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; 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

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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Pulleyblank, Douglas

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Phonology; Morphology; African languages; Yoruba; Phonology, Morphology, African languages, Yoruba

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Rullmann, Hotze

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Semantics; Semantics

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Salamon, Anne

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

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Literatures in French outside Quebec; French language; Historical linguistics, diachronics, and dialectology; Romance Philology; Medieval French Litterature; Manuscript studies; History of the French language; Critical editing of medieval texts

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Tessier, Anne-Michelle

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics); Constraint-based grammars; Phonological acquisition; L2 production and perception in childhood; Lexical avoidance; Phonological theories; Shitgibbons

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Anne Bertrand

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

The grammar of scalarity in Ktunaxa
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Kaili Vesik

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Perception of vowel quantity in sung Estonian
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Laura Brass

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Immigrant women language teachers’ identities
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Starr Sandoval

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Expressive meaning in Ktunaxa
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Veronika Larsen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Studying language surrounding eating disorder treatment resources for recovery

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Roger Yu-Hsiang Lo

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

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

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Inclusive by Design: Natural Language Technology for Africa
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Michelle Kamigaki-Baron

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Investigating the psycholinguistic connections between Pidgin and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
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Firth MacKenzie McEachern

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Language and Literacy Education (PhD)

Home/community languages ("mother tongues") in Southeast Asian education systems

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Khia Johnson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Investigating how Cantonese-English bilinguals produce and perceive speech sounds
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Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Modality in San Pablo Güilá Zapotec
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Michael Schwan

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

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

Student

Master of Arts in Linguistics (MA)

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

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Linguistique

French Description

Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en linguistique.