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The SFU Language Learning and Development Lab is a research group that studies the learning and acquisition of spoken languages. Let's Talk! www.sfu.ca/child-research-group.html

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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📣 We are recruiting participants for a paid research study via Prolific! We are looking for non-native English speakers living in Canada to participate in an online study. Check out the poster below for details and eligibility! 👇
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SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @sfufass.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Join SFU Multilingual Week February 23 to 28, 2026. Celebrate linguistic diversity in a week-long series of event: a keynote, talks, panels, roundtable discussions, and a language and culture expo. Everyone is welcome—students, faculty members, and staff. And it's free! www.sfu.ca/wll/mlw.html
Graphic with black background. A transparent pink heart and yellow square overlap each. The shapes look like speech bubbles in conversation. Text on the graphic reads: Celebrate Multilingual SFU Feb 22–28. Our stories, our languages. Embrace diversity  •  break barriers  •  build connections.
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18/01/2026
Nice examples of toddler overgeneralization in English past tense in this banger
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Jen Nycz @jennycz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
second dialect acquisition in The Atlantic! I'm quoted in this piece (along w/@abbyjwalker.bsky.social & other linguists) #linguistics
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Why Taylor Swift’s Accent Has Changed
And yours might too.
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UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Bilingual Brains, Better Outcomes?: The Benefits of Multilingual Upbringing; Raising kids multilingual can boost brain development and future success.
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Bilingual Brains, Better Outcomes?: The Benefits of Multilingual Upbringing
Bilingualism shapes minds, identities, and relationships. Research shows it’s more than a “brain boost”—it’s about connection and resilience.
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Slang is an important part of sociolinguistics - an ever-evolving rite of passage as we come of age, giving us a window into different cultures and social groups. Mastering it as an outsider is tough, but when we do, it opens up a new avenue of belonging: mymodernmet.com/gen-alpha-ta...
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Polyglot Delivers Speech to High Schoolers in Their “Native” Gen Alpha Slang
“It’s lowkey a huge W to be vibing here…”
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Does your language's grammar change how you think? A fascinating argument calling for the incorporation of more diversity when crafting linguistic models to provide a realistic picture of human language-based thinking: www.scientificamerican.com/article/does...
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Do You Think Differently in Different Languages?
The brain’s response to information depends on language’s grammatical structure
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🎉 Congratulations to our Lab Director, Dr. Henny Yeung, for this esteemed honour! We are so very proud of you! www.sfu.ca/vpacademic/n...
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2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Is there a limit to how many languages a baby can learn? It depends on the input a child receives! This study not only supports this idea, but also explores direct vs. indirect input in infant language learning: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
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How many languages can you learn at the same time? – Ghanaian babies grow up speaking two to six languages
Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a research team led by the Potsdam psycholinguists Prof. Dr. Natalie Boll-Avetisyan and Paul ...
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UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The people who 'see' foreign languages: How synaesthesia can help language learning #BBC www.bbc.com/future/a...
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The people who 'see' foreign languages: How synaesthesia can help language learning
Synaesthesia is a neurological condition found to enhance memory and learning. Now, scientists say seeing in colour could help when it comes to learning a second language.
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Depending on where you live in the world, it can be difficult to source books in one's native language to read to children. This is a (free!) fill-in-the-blanks book that allows caregivers to use their language of choice! Great for bi- or multilingual families and a wonderful resource all around.
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SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @sfufass.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
We're kicking off Multilingual Week today, with an exciting panel tonight! ⤵️ Happening all week until March 1, we have film screenings, workshops, lectures and more. All events are free & open to everyone. Check out the full schedule: www.sfu.ca/wll/mlw
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SFU Multilingual Week
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SFU Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences @sfufass.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
President Joy Johnson is excited to invite you to SFU's Multilingual Week, a vibrant festival that celebrates the diversity of languages spoken within our community. www.sfu.ca/wll/mlw @mortabasi.bsky.social @sfuhumanities.bsky.social @sfulinguistics.bsky.social
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UMassLinguistics @umasslinguistics.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Escape goats? Carpool tunnel syndrome? The science of mispronounced words #wbur www.wbur.org/hereand...
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Escape goats? Carpool tunnel syndrome? The science of mispronounced words
Here & Now revisits one of the show’s favorite topics: mispronounced words. It turns out we all do it — sometimes spending years or decades convinced we’re saying a word correctly until we find out we’re not.
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This thread is excellent! This duo is also displaying shared eye gaze, joint attention, and parental responsiveness to the child's cues - all of which are crucial to language development. It may look like the child is "swiping" the book pages, but there's more to it if we peel back the layers!
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
This is super niche, but what fun! Wondering what other beloved games can be...linguistified? 🤔
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
For linguists, a cartoon is never just a cartoon! An excellent discussion on choices made in children's media that are more than meets the eye (and ears!).
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
New year, new activities! We're looking for participants aged 4.5 to 18 months for our paid infant language research studies. We have online and in-person studies for BC residents. For more information, DM us or click on the link! bit.ly/3C6dnuw
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Wishing you and your loved ones a jolly holiday season, from everyone at the SFU LangDev Lab. See you in 2025!
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SFU Linguistics & Indigenous Languages @sfulinguistics.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
The 2024 LinguisticsNOW Colloquium was delivered by @cbchang.bsky.social in partnership with UBC Linguistics. Sharing research from @pamlab.bsky.social, Dr. Chang explored the dynamics of cross-linguistic influence among one’s first and additional languages. #langsky #language #multilingual #SFU
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🤔 A fun thing to try (to put yourself in the shoes of an infant learning a new language!) is to watch an episode - with the subtitles turned off - of a series in a language that you're not fluent in. Can you predict the meanings of some words? Is this hard? Or super easy?
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sfulangdevlab.bsky.social @sfulangdevlab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Are we late to the party with Gramle?! A Spectrogram version of Wordle, this is a fantastically frustrating game for linguistics fanatics to lose their mind over during the holidays: nascl.rc.nau.edu/gramle/
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Gramle
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