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The Conversation published a piece by Mary O鈥橞rien, Gento Okawa and co-authors about the importance of focusing on what people are saying, not how they are saying it.
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鈥淲hat I love about linguistics is that language is such a human thing. And what linguistics does is instead of enforcing or prescribing rules for how people should speak, it describes and seeks to understand how languages evolve and develop and how they work.鈥� 鈥揝tudent of LING 220:
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News and events
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November 04, 2026
Ben Chung awarded CGRS-D scholarship to pursue Sm'algya瘫x language research
Congratulations to Ben Chung! He has been awarded a Canada Graduate Research Scholarship for Doctoral studies. -
November 04, 2026
Kathleen Anderson awarded CGRS-M to analyze Southern Michif verbal morphology
Congratulations to Kathleen Anderson! She has been awarded a Canada Graduate Research Scholarship – Master’s Program. -
November 04, 2026
Trevor Block to bridge gaps in research on acquisition of singular they using CGRS-D scholarship
Congratulations to Trevor Block! He has been awarded a Canada Graduate Research Scholarship for Doctoral studies. -
November 02, 2026
Fighting accent bias is everyone’s job, not just accented speakers’
The Conversation published a piece by Mary O’Brien, Gento Okawa and co-authors about the importance of focusing on what people are saying, not how they are saying it. -
October 30, 2026
The limits of model confidence: A talk by Sara Ng
How confident can we be about language model confidence? -
October 28, 2026
LinguisticsNOW 2026 to feature Kristin Van Engen
Presented jointly with UBC, the annual LinguisticsNOW Colloquium brings cutting edge research to the Pacific Northwest. -
October 27, 2026
X瘫aad Kíl translations of Raven storybooks take flight
“I wrote my books for my children, my great nieces and my great nephew, and for my granddaughter. As I endured racism throughout my schooling on Haida Gwaii, I wanted to give something to these children where they can feel proud of who they are.”
