Linguistics

This class comprises research and experimental development in linguistics.
Parent Category
Sub-Categories
Classical linguistics
Computational linguistics
Discourse and pragmatics
Phonetics and speech sciences
Sociolinguistics
Historical linguistics, diachronics, and dialectology
Lexicography
Linguistic structures (including grammar, phonology, lexicon and semantics)
Lexicology (including onomastics)
Comparative linguistics
Linguistics, n.e.c.
 
 
 

Graduate Degree Programs in Linguistics

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 combines...
 

UBC Researchers conducting research in Linguistics

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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

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Hall, Kathleen

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistics; Psychology and cognitive sciences; Phonology; Phonetics; Laboratory Phonology; Sign Languages

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

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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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

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Marshall, Toph

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

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

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)

Linguistics; Phonology; Morphology; African languages; Yoruba

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Rullmann, Hotze

Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Linguistics; 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
 

Student & Alumni Stories in Linguistics

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

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

Michelle Kamigaki-Baron

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Investigating the psycholinguistic connections between Pidgin and ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

Veronika Larsen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)

Studying language surrounding eating disorder treatment resources for recovery

Starr Sandoval

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Expressive meaning in Ktunaxa

Ana Laura Arrieta Zamudio

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics (PhD)

Modality in San Pablo Güilá Zapotec

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)
 

Program Specializations in Linguistics

Classics

Linguistics
 
 
 
French Name
Linguistique
French Description
Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en linguistique.
 
 

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