Language touches every area of our lives. Language sciences explores how.
The UBC Language Sciences Institute aims to shape the future of this interdisciplinary field and advance our understanding of how language shapes our individual and collective human experience.
We connect scholars, researchers, and teachers to create collaborations that result in ground-breaking research.
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LangSci recently sat down with our hardworking Postdoctoral Fellow Representative, Dr. Xin Sun (Psychology), whose contributions have helped bring to life multiple events for our graduate and postdoctoral members. Xin has played a central role in developing the themes and planning our annual…
How do language technologies like ChatGPT, Siri, and Google Translate shape our everyday lives—and what do they miss? In this engaging book, LangSci member Dr. Vered Shwartz (Assistant Professor, UBC Computer Science) explores the hidden costs and surprising consequences of relying on AI to…
When linguist and author Michael Erard stumbled upon some yellowing bones in the puckerbrush on his berry-picking excursion one day in 2022, it took him a moment to recognize and reconcile with the sight of death. Several weeks later, authorities divulged the identity of the dead person -- a…
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