Saint Mary's University Linguistics

10/27/2025

08/26/2025

We are very proud to share the work of Linguistics Honours student Jay Carmichael and her sociolinguistic research on Maritime English(es). Listen to her interview on CBC radio.

03/19/2025

The Faculty of Arts Student Conference is this Friday - come out to see research being done by undergraduate students. Click on the link for the full schedule

Fri. 21 Mar., 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. [ADT]: Join us as undergraduate and graduate Arts students present and discuss their research. Back again this year is an alumni roundtable! All are welcome to attend. THE 2025 PROGRAM 9:30 - 10:00am Welcomi

03/17/2025

Join us for a public talk by Dr. Christine Schreyer, a linguistic anthropologist who has studied both language revitalization and constructed languages. She'll be discussing her research as well as the languages she has created for movies and television. All are welcome.

Sunday, April 13th, 2:00pm in Paul O'Regan Hall, Halifax Central Library.

03/06/2025

Learn more about Dr. Henry's research and the future of the English language in China.

According to the British Council, one in four English-language learners globally is Chinese, for a total of 400 million students. That number may be massive, but it fails to capture just how pervasive English is in China, not only within schooling, but also in everyday conversations, public signage,...

01/17/2025

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology will be hosting its first installment of a series of online panel discussions, this one on the topic of free speech.

01/20/2024

A sociolinguist at Memorial University argues that Newfoundland accents are preserved in stories and narratives about older speakers.

While some features of Newfoundland and Labrador English may be in decline, linguist Paul De Decker says younger generations who don't have a Newfoundland accent when they speak often use one when imitating others, and that's an act of preserving the distinct language.

12/05/2023

For students planning to continue their studies at SMU after graduation, please take at look at the Durland Scholarships for Graduate Research. Application deadline is January 31, 2024.

The Durland Scholarships in Graduate Research are opportunities designed to attract and retain talented incoming students, within any of our PhD programs or research-based Masters programs, who show the highest potential to contribute to research supporting both the Major Research Thematic areas of....

12/05/2023

The Big Think interviews a polyglot on the techniques of second language learning. Arieh Smith discusses the intersection of neurolinguistics and culture along with practical strategies for acquiring conversational fluency.

Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.

11/27/2023

Linguist Ingrid Piller discusses the cultural issues that beset machine language translation and why we still need to learn other languages.

Machine translation can seem alarmingly good – but it’s still no substitute for human language knowledge.