Dept. of Linguistics
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Dr. Amanda Cardoso
Lecturer
- Accents
- sociolinguistics
- phonetics
- dialects
- accent bias
- perception of accents
- vowel pronunciation
- English in British Columbia
- English in the United Kingdom
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Rose-Marie Déchaine
Associate Professor
- 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
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Henry Davis, PhD
Professor
- First Nations languages
- Salish languages
- language survival
- language education
- Wakashan languages
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Bryan Gick
Professor
- Phonetics
- speech science
- speech motor control
- speech perception
- multimodal perception
- tactile perception
- ultrasound imaging of speech
- sounds of the world's languages
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Joseph P. Stemberger
Professor
- Linguistics
- phonology
- morphology
- psycholinguistics
- slips of the tongue
- first language acquisition
- child language
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Lisa Matthewson, PhD
Professor
- Endangered languages
- semantics
- Salish languages
- Tsimshianic languages
- Austronesian languages
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Carla Hudson Kam, PhD
Professor
- Language development
- second language acquisition
- critical periods for learning
- input and language learning
- language learning and language change
- children's books
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Gunnar Hansson
Associate Professor
- Phonetics (speech sounds), phonology (sound patterns, sound systems), language change, linguistic relationships (language families), reconstruction of proto-languages, language contact, Scandinavian languages (esp. Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish), Athabaskan (Dene) languages, Saami (Lapp) languages, Russian
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Molly Babel, PhD
Associate Professor
- Speech
- language change
- accommodation
- voice
- language stereotypes
- sound change
- sociolinguistics
- phonetics
- speech styles
- dialects of English
- language variation
- speech intelligibility