The Langauge Sciences Institute aims to connect scholars, teachers, and researchers working in all areas of the language sciences, to create collaborations that produce and support innovative research. Members span fields, disciplines, faculties, and institutions. Projects funded by Language Sciences have explored promoting multilingual literacy for young Canadians through online storybooks, the effects of vibrating devices on speech intelligibility, how opera training may sculpt our brains, how language might affect patient well-being, and much more. The institute strives to communicate its members’ work to many audiences: researchers, students, institutions, communities, and the general public.
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Affiliated ÑÇÖÞÌìÌà Faculty & Postdocs
| Name | Role | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|
| Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Artificial intelligence (AI); Deep Learning; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Computational Linguistics; Social Media Mining; Arabic |
| Babel, Molly | 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 |
| Ballarin, Roberta | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Philosophical logic, nature and sources of necessity |
| Baron, Andrew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | cognitive development, infancy, childhood, adolescence, racism, race, stereotypes, cooperation, bias, innateness, science education, multiculturalism, gender, ethnicity, neuromarketing, attitudes, preferences, psychology |
| Bartha, Paul | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Philosophy of sciences and technologies; Environmental philosophy; philosophy of science; Philosophy of Probability; Confirmation; Decision Theory |
| Bedke, Matthew | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Philosophy; Philosophy, History and Comparative Studies; Foundations of Ethics; Social Organization and Political Systems; Ethics and Fundamental Issues of Law and Justice; epistemology; ethics; metaethics; philosophy of law; political philosophy |
| Birch, Susan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Social perspective taking, social learning, social cognition, imitation, nonverbal behavior, confidence, communication, decision-making, impression formation, child development My primary area of expertise is the study of children and adults’ social perspective taking abilities (i.e., their abilities to reason about other peoples’ mental states–their intentions, knowledge, and beliefs) and how their abilities to take another person’s perspective impacts how they form impressions of others, learn from others, communicate with others, and informs a range of socials. Of particular interest is a) how children make inferences about what is credible information to learn (e.g., how they decide whether someone is a credible source of information based on how confident that person seems) and b) how a widespread bias in perspective taking referred to as ‘the curse of knowledge bias’ (a difficulty reasoning about a more naive perspective as the result of being biased by one’s current knowledge) can impair communication (both written and in person) and decision-making across a range of fields (politics, law, education, economics, medicine, etc.)., Development of language, learning, and social understanding in infants and children |
| Black, Alexis | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Developmental psychology; Behavioural neuroscience of learning and memory |
| Bochnak, Ryan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Linguistics; Semantics; linguistic fieldwork |
| Bouchard, Marie-Eve | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Humanities and the arts; Sociolinguistics; Linguistic Anthropology; ethnography; language ideologies; Language and identity; migration; Language variation and change; Language contact; Creole languages |
| Bouchard-Cote, Alexandre | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | machine/statistical learning; mathematical side of the subject as well as in applications in linguistics and biology |
| Bowers, Katherine | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Literature and literary studies, n.e.c.; Arts, Literature and Subjectivity; Arts and Cultural Traditions; Arts and Technologies; Dostoevsky; Russian literature; genre; Digital Humanities; Computational text analysis; gothic fiction; imagined geography; literary culture; narrative; Russian culture; the novel; Environmental Humanities |
| Boyd, Lara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Neurosciences, biological and chemical aspects; Neurosciences, medical and physiological and health aspects; Physical therapy; Rehabilitation medicine; Learning; Learning and Memory; Motor System; Motor learning; Neurophysiology; Physiology; Plasticity / Neuronal Regeneration; stroke |
| Carenini, Giuseppe | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Natural language processing |
| Casas Aguilar, Anna | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Contemporary literatures; Spanish Cultural Studies; Catalan Literature and Culture; Gender Studies; Masculinities; Feminisms; Self-writing; Hispanic Cinemas |
| Ciocca, Valter | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Auditory System; Perception and Representation; Recognition of Speech; Speech and Language Development Disorders; Auditory grouping of speech and non-speech sounds, also known as "auditory scene analysis"; perception and production of normal and disordered speech |
| Colozzo, Paola | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Developmental language disorders; language and cognition; discourse, assessment and intervention for children with diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds |
| Dancygier, Barbara | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Linguistics, grammar |
| Darvin, Ron | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | ESL, TESOL, LOTE and sign language curriculum, pedagogy and didactics; identity and investment in language learning; critical applied linguistics; race, ethnicity, and social class; Digital Literacies; generative AI |
| Davis, Henry Thomas | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | First Nations languages |
| de Villiers, Jessica | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Linguistics |
| Dechaine, Rose-Marie | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Native American languages; Algonquian language family, Cree, Blackfoot, Ojibwe; French / English bilingualism policy; formal linguistics; generative grammar (Chomsky); West African languages (Niger-Congo, Yoruba, Igbo, Edo); Nigerian languages; literacy vs. oralcy; language planning re: French, Indigenous languages, Speech/gesture coordination, syntactic interface relations |
| Dollinger, Stefan | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | English language; Language Contact and Linguistic Changes; Linguistic Variation and Society; Lexicography and Dictionaries; Language Interactions; Language Rights and Policies; Bilingualism and Multilingualism |
| Early, Margaret | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Adolescent issues, English as a second Language, language education, literacy, teacher research |
| Enns, James | Faculty (G+PS eligible/member) | Behavioural neuroscience of reward and motivation; attention; action kinematics; social perception; perceptual development |