Members

Director


Dr. Christopher Hammerly is Director of ELF-Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UBC. He is a member (descendent) of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota of mixed Anishinaabe and Norwegian American descent. His work primarily focuses on his ancestral language Anishinaabemowin. He uses a variety of methods to understand the cognitive representations and processes underpinning human knowledge of syntax (sentence structure) and morphology (word structure), including formal theories, fieldwork, computational models, and experimental tasks.

Dr. Christopher Hammerly is Director of ELF-Lab and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at UBC. He is a member (descendent) of the White Earth Nation in Minnesota of mixed Anishinaabe and Norwegian American descent. His work primarily focuses on his ancestral language Anishinaabemowin. He uses a variety of methods to understand the cognitive representations and processes underpinning human knowledge of syntax (sentence structure) and morphology (word structure), including formal theories, fieldwork, computational models, and experimental tasks.

Graduate Students


Anna Stacey is an incoming PhD student at UBC Linguistics and former MA student (completed 2025). She works on technological developments for Indigenous languages. She got her BSc in Computer Science and Linguistics from UManitoba in 2022. Anna has been developing software for ELF Lab as an RA for over 3 years, working on code for eye-tracking experiments (VisualWorldTools) and creating tests for the Ojibwe morphological parser (ParserTools). She is also involved in fieldwork on Nɬeʔkepmxcín, a Salish language spoken in the Pacific Northwest. In her free time, she loves heading outside to work on her knowledge of flowers and birds, and making music.
Marcella Jurotich is a third year PhD student in Linguistics at UBC. Her research interests are in syntax and psycholinguistics, particularly in the interaction between Information Structural elements and syntax and the processing of non-canonical structures. She is excited to be part of the ELF-Lab and to be able to learn more about Anishinaabemowin. In her spare time, she enjoys embroidering, dancing, and playing piano.

Anna Stacey is an incoming PhD student at UBC Linguistics and former MA student (completed 2025). She works on technological developments for Indigenous languages. She got her BSc in Computer Science and Linguistics from UManitoba in 2022. Anna has been developing software for ELF Lab as an RA for over 3 years, working on code for eye-tracking experiments (VisualWorldTools) and creating tests for the Ojibwe morphological parser (ParserTools). She is also involved in fieldwork on Nɬeʔkepmxcín, a Salish language spoken in the Pacific Northwest. In her free time, she loves heading outside to work on her knowledge of flowers and birds, and making music.

Marcella Jurotich is a third year PhD student in Linguistics at UBC. Her research interests are in syntax and psycholinguistics, particularly in the interaction between Information Structural elements and syntax and the processing of non-canonical structures. She is excited to be part of the ELF-Lab and to be able to learn more about Anishinaabemowin. In her spare time, she enjoys embroidering, dancing, and playing piano.

Elizabeth Harrigan is a MA student in Linguistics at UBC, and has worked in ELF-Lab as a Research Assistant on the Ojibwe Corpus project and constraint-based learning.

Shao-li Green is in the MDS-CL (Masters of Data Science and Computational Linguistcs) at UBC and is volunteering as a Research Assistant on the Ojibwe Corpus project.

Undergraduate Students

Katherine Tu is a volunteer in the lab and a previous Diploma student in Linguistics at UBC.

Ethan Lyric is an undergraduate in Linguistics at UBC and is currently working on adapting lexical resources for use in the OjibweMorph FST.

Matthias Diederichsen is an undergraduate in Linguistics and Computer Science at UBC and is currently working on FST disambiguation and constraint grammars for Ojibwe.

naskwâw Laframboise is an undergraduate researcher and student in Linguistics at UBC working on the documentation of the Muskeg Seepee dialect of nêhiyawêwin (Cree).

Collaborators

Past Members

Hope Trischuk
Mila Loginova
Minh Nguyen
Reed Steiner
Jolie Lepere
Grace Zhang
Cindy Zhang
Viann Sum Yat Chan
Sonja Fougère
Axel Kong
Aaditya Kulkarni
Alicia Matthews
Juan Tampubolon
Shenran Wang