Linguistics at Canterbury

Linguistics at Canterbury Welcome to the UC Linguistics Department. Welcome to the Linguistics Department at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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15/04/2026

Congratulations to all Linguistics graduates this week! 🎓

Congratulations to Dr Sidney Wong who tonight defended his PhD thesis entitled "Language, Place, and Social Media: Geogr...
27/03/2026

Congratulations to Dr Sidney Wong who tonight defended his PhD thesis entitled "Language, Place, and Social Media: Geographic Dialect Alignment". Well done Sidney!

For those of you in Christchurch, please consider coming along to support our very own Prof Kevin Watson for his Raising...
01/09/2025

For those of you in Christchurch, please consider coming along to support our very own Prof Kevin Watson for his Raising the Bar talk in two weeks. It's so great to see Linguistics being included in these public events

Why do those people talk funny? Wait, do I talk funny? And why don’t kids talk properly these days? They don’t even use grammar*. In this talk we’ll dive into the revealing world of how we speak, why it changes, and what it says about us even when we don’t mean it to. Expect dodgy impression...

Congratulations to newly minted Dr Gia Hurring who expertly defended her PhD dissertation last night. Thanks also to her...
19/08/2025

Congratulations to newly minted Dr Gia Hurring who expertly defended her PhD dissertation last night. Thanks also to her examiners Prof Jane Stuart Smith (Glasgow) and Ass Prof Nicolai Pharao (Copenhagen).

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