UBC PhD Candidate and ELF-Lab member Sijia Zhang has published (with co-authors Molly Babel, Christopher Hammerly, and Anne-Michelle Tessier) a paper on the influence of L1 allophones on L2 phonological processing using a visual world paradidigm. Find the full citation and link to the paper below!

Zhang, S., Babel, M., Hammerly, C., & Tessier, A.-M. (2026). The online processing of phonological contrasts in an L2: Mapping L1 allophones to L2 phonemes. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 17(1), pp. 1–46.

A number of current and former ELF-Lab members are presenting at the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) in Mallorca, Spain from May 13-15.

Current RA Matthias Diederichsen and Professor Christopher Hammerly are presenting their work entitled Two Ojibwe Constraint Grammars: Morphological Disambiguation and Dependency Parsing in a talk on May 15th. You can find the full proceedings paper here.

Former RA and UBC MA student Anna Stacey is presenting her work in a poster on May 13th entitled Glossed Data in Northern Interior Salish. You can find the full proceedings paper here.

PhD Student and graduate RA Marcella Jurotich (with co-author Chris Hammerly) is presenting her work entitled Impact of Information Structure on Comprehension of the Inverse Verb Form in Ojibwe in a poster at the 39th Annual Conference on Human Sentence Processing at MIT on March 26-28, 2026.