NZILBB
Connecting mouths, minds and movement
Welcome
The New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour (NZILBB) is a multi-disciplinary centre dedicated to the study of human language. The researchers come from a wide range of disciplines, forging connections across linguistics, speech production and perception, language acquisition, language disorders, social cognition, memory, brain imaging, cognitive science, bilingual education, and interface technologies. This highly interdisciplinary team is working together toward a truly unified understanding of how language is acquired, produced and understood in its social and physical contexts.
Announcements
NZILBB Seminar Series: Associate Professor Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona) The role of lexical contrast in the evolution of phonemic distinctions: Three complementary methodological approaches. Thursday 17th May at 4pm in the Brain Box (104a Locke Building).
The UC QuakeBox has launched at ReStart in Cashel Mall. It gives Cantabrians a chance to share their quake stories. Footage from the recent TV1 News story can be viewed here.
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Team Tamariki
How to sign up your child for research projects.
Congratulations to Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (Northwestern) who has been appointed as an Adjunct Professor with NZILBB.
Welcome to our first Strategic Fellow Associate Professor Andy Wedel (University of Arizona) who will be working with NZILBB for three weeks. Also a big welcome to visiting scholar Associate Professor Adam Ussishkin (University of Arizona).
Features
Grants awarded to NZILBB members
Congratulations to those awarded grants from the CEISMIC Research Committee for work on collecting earthquake stories.
NZ Lottery Board awards $100,000
Congratulations to Stephanie Stokes, Thomas Klee, Megan McAuliffe and Catherine Moran.
Learning ROILA book (HitLab website)
Now
available for purchase through Amazon. Made possible with the support of NZILBB and HIT Lab NZ.
$501,000AUD Australian Research Council Grant
See External grants awarded section.
Waking up with a new accent (Campbell Live)
Megan McAuliffe discussing Foreign Accent Syndrome.
Lost for Words. Listener article with Stephanie Borrie.
Effective emergency communications hightlighed
Contact us
New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140, New Zealand
Tel: +64 3 364 2149
nzilbb@canterbury.ac.nz
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