In Oct 2025, several representatives from the lab with Lisa Matthewson presented at UBC Linguistics Flash Talks Event.  This is usually a bi-yearly departmental event, and we previously presented at Nov 2024, and March 2024. This year, we gave a three-minute update about all the work we have been up to in the past year, including a newly-published research and newly-recorded conversations and stories with our new ISI fund.

Thanks to everyone who came out and asked questions, and as always, to our language consultants who make our work possible!

In November 2024, several representatives from the lab presented at UBC Linguistics’ Flash Talks Event.  We gave a rapidfire three-minute update about all the work we have been up to since the spring, including a whole bunch of newly-published research and newly-recorded conversations and stories.

Thanks to everyone who came out and, as always, to our language consultants who make our work possible.

Nɬab team members (L-R: Bailey, Anna, Reed, Noah, Ella, and Danica) give a (very!) brief update to the rest of the UBC Linguistics department.

In April 2024, we talked about our research at LinguisticsNEW, a joint event hosted by the UBC Linguistics department and the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Linguistics department.  We presented a poster at the event, and got to chat with students and faculty about the lab.

The poster is now hung upstairs in the UBC Linguistics department — check it out if you’re ever on campus!

UBC and SFU students mill about the poster session.

Student attendees, including lab members Anna Stacey, Noah Luntzlara, Ella Hannon, and Danica Reid.

In March 2024, we presented an overview of our lab activities at Flash Talks, a UBC Linguistics event where we share a research update with our colleagues in just a couple of minutes!

In LING 531 and LING 532, the students spent eight months learning about linguistic field methods from Lisa Matthewson, with a focus on Nɬeʔkepmxcín.  We were so fortunate to work with three speakers: Bev Phillips, C̓úʔsinek Marty Aspinall, and Kʷaɬtəzétkʷu Bernice Garcia.  In April 2023, to celebrate our progress thus far, we held a poster session attended by students and faculty from our department.  Thanks to everyone who came out!

Students Ella Hannon (front left) and Cayla Smith (behind left) take questions on their poster.

Student Anna Stacey (right) presents her poster (with student Farhan Samir (not pictured)).

Student Katie Givens (left) presents their poster.

Student Reed Steiner (centre) explains his poster.

Student Danica Reid (right) walks attendees through her poster.

Student Brent Hall (left) presents his poster.

Student Zara (Gazelle) Khalaji Pirbaluti (right) fields question on her poster.