SFU Language & Brain Lab

Congratulations Dr. Yue Wang, Director of the SFU Language and Brain (LAB) Lab, for being elected as an Acoustical Society of America Fellow. Dr. Wang and collaborators in the LAB Lab have recently been investigating the features of clear speech. Learn more here: http://www.sfu.ca/linguistics/events/2022/08/linguistics-research-spotlight-yue-wang.html

Congratulations to two of our LABlab members—Kayla and Samantha—for graduating and moving on to the Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology program at UBC this fall!

We appreciate all that they have done for the lab, and we wish them all the best in their future endeavours! ❤️

Help us welcome one our newest LABlab members, Rebekah! Check out some questions we asked her!

1. What are you studying at SFU?
I'm currently studying Computing Science and Linguistics at SFU, so that I can hopefully work in computational linguistics in the future!

2. What prompted your interest in Linguistics?
I've always loved foreign language classes back in high school, so I thought that linguistics would've been a fun elective to take in university to study natural languages from a scientific perspective. After taking LING 220 (Introduction to Linguistics), I thought that linguistics was super interesting and I absolutely loved it. As a result, I decided to add a Linguistics joint major to my undergraduate studies.

3. What are you looking forward to most in the LABlab?
I'm looking forward to honing my research skills and deepening my understanding of linguistics through the LABlab! I'm very excited to work with people with a similar passion for linguistics.

4. If you had to eat one food for the rest of your life, what would that be?
I think I could (probably) live off salmon sashimi for the rest of my life!

Welcome, Rebekah!