Past Events

• March 3 — The department, in collaboration with UBC, invited Jeremy Calder from the University of Colorado Boulder to speak at the LinguisticsNOW Colloquium on "What researching understudied populations can illuminate about social meaning."

• March 8 — Yifang Yuan successfully defended her PhD proposal on "Asking questions in context: An elicitation study of questions in Mandarin Chinese conversation."

• March 9 — PhD students Dasha Gluhareva and Sylvia Cho competed at the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Dasha won first place on her thesis, "Dynamic Self–and Other–Assessment of Second Language Speech"!

• March 18-21 — Prof. Suzanne K. Hilgendorf and PhD candidate Tasnim Abedalqader presented their papers at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) conference held in Portland, Oregon. Prof. Hilgendorf's paper was on "Transnational Media and the Spread of English".

• March 24 — Grad student Helen Zhang defended her MA thesis on "Creating an Online Hul’q’umi’num’ Dictionary for Teachers and Learners."

• March 30 — The department invited Nathan Sanders from the University of Toronto to speak at the Linguistics Colloquium on "Teaching linguistics with equity, diversity, and inclusion." The event was followed by a workshop on educational games in linguistics teaching. Here's a recap of the lecture, written by PhD student Danica Reid.

• April 13 — Seven students from the undergraduate and graduate programs presented at the Spring 2023 Student Poster Session. Find the full list of student presenters and their presentations here.

• April 21 — Ashley Farris-Trimble spoke at UVic’s Linguistics Circle Colloquium series on "What you don't know doesn't hurt you: The acquisition of phonological opacity."

Publications

• Jack Grieve, an MA Linguistics alumnus, has published a book through Cambridge University Press titled The Language of Fake News. Purchase a print copy or download the full PDF version for free.

• Post-doctoral fellow Andrew Cheng published an article on The Conversation, titled “‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and other Oscars 2023 films show a trend towards linguistic realism in Hollywood.” Read here.

Congratulations

• Post-doctoral fellow Andrew Cheng has accepted an offer from the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics! He will begin his new role in the Fall 2023 semester.