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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Rich, fragile, and vibrant, the Atikamekw language is making a strong comeback in Quebec aided in part by the collaborative conservation efforts of the Council of the Atikametw Nation, community Elders, and researchers at Carleton University. Photo Credit: Nunzio Guerrera on... More
Friday, March 3, 2023
Adjunct research professor Dr. Peter Wilson (ALDS PhD 2021) is currently in Port Hardy, B.-C. and plans to be there until the end of March. He is working in four areas: digitizing legacy materials, developing K-5 Kwak̕wala curriculum for a bilingual program in Campbell River, assisting the Gwa̱sa̱la-‘Nakwaxda’x̱w Treaty department (Port... More
Monday, June 13, 2022
Congratulations to Linguistics professor Lev Blumenfeld on the publication of two articles on the phonology Nauruan in the journal Oceanic Linguistics. Image Source: Adapted from Oceania_ISO_3166-1.svg: User:Tintazul; Derivative work: Cruickshanks, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia... More
Monday, April 18, 2022
Congratulations to Prof. Erik Anonby for receiving the Marston LaFrance Fellowship, FASS’s senior research achievement award. Anonby will use the time awarded by the fellowship to move scholarship and public discourses forward through the completion of a first benchmark map of the languages of Iran. “For all Iranians, this map provides an... More
Friday, March 18, 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Christie Brien on receiving one of this year’s Contract Instructor Teaching Awards. This award recognizes teaching excellence by contract instructors. Christie teaches courses in phonetics, phonology, and linguistics here in SLaLS. Click here to learn more about Christie and about this... More
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers has put together a video series called Languages Build. In the fourth installment, they interview Tamara Sorenson Duncan about second language learning in students with exceptionalities. If you're interested in learning more, you can watch the 5 minute video... More
Thursday, November 11, 2021
Congratulations to the Algonquian Linguistic Atlas project team on the recent release of a suite of conversation apps to support the teaching and learning of Algonquian languages: Dr. Marie Odile Junker (Project Director) Claire Owen (Assistant Project Director) Delasie Torkornoo (Technical Director) Officially launched October 14th at the 53rd... More
Thursday, May 6, 2021
We note with great sadness, the passing of Janice Yalden, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Carleton, founding Director of Carleton's Centre for Applied Language Studies, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts during the 80's and 90's. Professor Yalden spent many years at Carleton as a researcher, teacher, and... More
Monday, April 12, 2021
Emma Bornheimer recently presented her undergraduate thesis work about netspeak use and autism at the American Association for Applied Linguistics virtual conference. This work examines netspeak, specifically on reddit, and found that self-identified autistic individuals, when compared to Reddit users generally, exhibited a similar variety of... More
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
New research from Tamara Sorenson Duncan and her collaborators at Dalhousie University considers the skills children with ASD use to understand what they read. Using a statistical method to summarize existing research, they found that the reading comprehension of children with ASD was related to a similar extent to both their ability to read... More
Monday, February 1, 2021
This recently published study investigates the relation between children's understanding of canonical and non-canonical sentences (presented in the spoken domain) and their general reading comprehension. These results demonstrate that, at least in the 5th grade, English-speaking children use their understanding of canonical sentences to... More
We are looking for families (who live in Canada) to participate in our study about how children learn language. This study involves telling stories to go with a set of pictures. One thing we are interested in is the way siblings talk to each other, so families need to have at least two children... More
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