The 10th Annual Language Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference (LSURC) is hosting an Abstract Writing Workshop on November 6th, 2026! For more information and the registration form, visit this page!

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Our Plenary Speaker theme for this year is

“Language Across Time”

Every language carries traces of its past. Sounds change, words are born and forgotten, and language is constantly evolving. For LSURC’s 10th anniversary, we invite you to explore language through time. We ask how language unfolds over centuries, within a single lifetime, and in the split second it takes to produce and understand a word. Time links where we have been to where we are going. How are endangered and Indigenous languages being sustained and revitalized by their communities? How will innovations like large language models, trained on vast collections of human language, shape how we communicate tomorrow? Whether your research spans millennia or milliseconds, we hope to see your work become part of our timeline. Join us in commemorating the evolution of language and recognizing the research that continues to shape a brighter tomorrow.

CONGRATULATIONS TO LAST YEAR’S WINNERS:

Oral Presentation:

First Place: Matthias Diederichsen (UBC), “Word Order in a “Free Word Order” Language: An Ojibwe Treebank Study”

Second Place: Phoenix Neuscheler (SFU), “Reduplication and Pluractionality in Javanese” 

Poster Presentation:

First Place: Marija Cvetkovic, Erin Wong, Zoe Cheng (UBC), “Gestural Timing and the Emergence of Rhoticity in Memphis English /ju/” 

Second Place: Mandy Moniz (UBC), “The Impact of Testing Environment on Adult Statistical Word Segmentation: An In-Person Replication of Melville”, AND Esme Yang, Lindsay De Souza, Priya Singh (UBC), “Embodied Emotion: Evidence from Vocal Tract Posture During Speech Pauses”

Interested in getting involved or collaborating? Check out Get Involved for more information or email us at ubc.lsurc@gmail.com!