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Monday, July 8, 2019
Language and Landscape (Fall 2019) Cross-listed as: LING 4009 A ALDS 4906 A This course introduces concepts and theories in the areas of applied linguistics, physical geography, cartography, anthropology, and Indigenous Studies. The focus of this course is to examine how landscape, and activities which take place upon that landscape, are encoded... More
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Siddiqi on his appointment to the position of Co-Editor of the Canadian Journal of... More
Early congratulations to Linguistics professor Daniel Siddiqi on the release of The Routledge Handbook of North American Languages, “…a one-stop reference for linguists on those topics that come up the most frequently in the study of the languages of North America (including Mexico).” Dan is Lead Editor of this new publication which also... More
Thursday, June 27, 2019
SLaLS now offers a Practicum in Speech and Language Pathology (LING 4604) to students in the new BA Honours in Linguistics with a concentration in Psycholinguistics and Communication Disorders or the new BSc Honours in Linguistics with a concentration in Psycholinguistics and Communication Disorders. About the Course LING 4604: Practicum in Speech... More
Tuesday, June 25, 2019
The research team of Kahente Horn-Miller (Indigenous Studies), Fraser Taylor (Geography and Environmental Studies) and Rebekah Ingram (SLaLS), have been awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant for Preserving and Growing Kanyenkehaka Spatial Linguistic Capacity through the Atlas of Haudenosaunee Space, based upon Rebekah's dissertation work on Kanyen'keha... More
Dr. Marie-Odile Junker has accepted a one-year Visiting Scholarship in the Digital Technologies Research Centre (DTRC) of the National Research Council of Canada. She will keep developing tools for Indigenous languages, especially educational software and databases. More info: Algonquian Linguistic Atlas Algonquian Dictionaries... More
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Professor Marie-Odile Junker and her research team are pleased to announce the launch of a new version of their East Cree and Innu online language lessons, which were first developed starting in 2006. In 2018-19, due to software obsolescence, the entire platform was redesigned and redeveloped thanks to a grant from the National Research... More
Thursday, May 2, 2019
Allyson Balaz, an undergraduate student majoring in Cognitive Science with a specialization in Language and Linguistics, presented her senior thesis research project titled Proposition removal from the Common Ground via the surprise/redundancy intonation contour at GLEEFUL 2019 (Great Lakes Expo for Experimental and Formal Undergraduate... More
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Congratulations to Kat Klassen, an MA student in ALDS, on winning one of this year's Outstanding Teaching Assistant Awards (2018-2019) for her work with students in Dr. Ai Taniguchi's LING 2005 (Linguistic Analysis) course. Presented by the EDC, this award celebrates the contributions and support Teaching Assistants provide to undergraduate... More
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Language Mapping (Fall 2019) Cross-listed as: LING 4009 B ALDS 4906 B ALDS 5905 L GEOG 5803 F Language is something we do, rather than something tangible. So how can you map it? LING 4009 B / ALDS 4906/5905 offers a theoretical and practical approach to language mapping. We’ll begin with an introduction to... More
Monday, February 4, 2019
SLaLS is pleased to announce the official launch of several new undergraduate programs in Linguistics. In addition to the Bachelors of Arts in Linguistics, Carleton now offers two new degrees: Bachelors of Science in Linguistics (with a Psychology focus) Bachelors of Science in Linguistics (with a Neuroscience focus) To supplement these degrees,... More
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Ai Taniguchi on winning the 5-Minute Linguist competition at the LSA (Linguistics Society of America) Annual Meeting in New York City, January 4th. Click here to read the official LSA announcement. A video of her presentation, "Why we Say Stuff," is available online along with video from the other... More
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