Key Note Speaker: Prof. Nathan Sanders, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto.
My main research focus is on teaching and learning in linguistics, especially innovative pedagogy (such as gamification, project-based learning, and creative/artistic approaches in STEM) and addressing linguistic injustice and biases in the classroom and in teaching materials. I do research on signed and spoken languages in the areas of theoretical phonology, phonetics, and linguistic typology, with an overall drive to understand to physical, biological, and cognitive factors that shape language. I have worked on derivational opacity, ludlings (language games, like Pig Latin), the history and use of constructed languages (like Esperanto and Klingon), Polish phonology, historical phonology, perception and biomechanics of signed languages, and mathematical and statistical models of linguistic phenomena.
I was the Principal Investigator for "Innovations in Linguistic Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Linguistics Curriculum and Beyond", an initiative to develop course materials and pedagogical methods for linguistics that address issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. More information is available on our Linguistics Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Respository.
I am a collaborator on Kathleen Currie's Hall's SSHRC-funded project "Message-Oriented Phonology: Canadian ASL", with Julie Hochgesang, Hope Morgan, Erin Wilkinson, Nigel Howard, and Janet Jamieson.
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