A beginner French class cycles through the basics of the language: numbers, greetings, family members — but unlike the English language, it will also cover gender.
In the field of computational linguistics, language variation and binary machine logic converge.
I could make a fence around breath and laughter and / meaningless joy and routine sadness / here it is, sketched with broken / pencil smudged by the palm of my hand / but would you see it?
I wasn’t raised in the Philippines, so all of my knowledge of the country comes from my family and what they chose to expose me to.
What is my native language? I say my sister, there is no other word for it.
Families, chosen and inherited, are also often contentious, diverse and messy. Still, learning a language that holds so much fragmented history requires an effort that communicates more than the words themselves.
English was always my worst subject in elementary school.
I learn to swear reading Catcher in the Rye / in Chinese, 10 years old and foreign / in a country called the Motherland.
Spanning topics from singing to AI, UBC’s Integrated Speech Research Laboratory (ISRL) has a diverse set of interests. Most recently, they have been looking at what speech can tell us about our brains — potentially contributing to a better understanding of the detection and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases.
In Canada, over 90 per cent of d/Deaf children are born to hearing parents — the same parents who may never learn sign language nor teach it to their d/Deaf child.
