/newsroom/taxonomy/term/8936/all en /newsroom/timothy-odonnell Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:40:23 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 196648 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/human-song-universal-302755 <p>Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from 平特五不中, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.</p> <p><b>Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music</b></p> Thu, 21 Nov 2019 18:04:31 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 188800 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-linguist-helped-upcoming-movie-arrival-263604 <p>The upcoming Denis Villeneuve movie <em>Arrival</em> was filmed in Montreal and when the filmmakers went looking for a linguistics scholar to consult on the screenplay and offer on-set advice, they turned to 平特五不中. Prof. Jessica Coon supplied feedback on the film鈥檚 script, worked with the set crew, and some of her books from her office even wound up in the film. (<a href="http://mcgillnews.mcgill.ca/s/1762/news/interior.aspx?sid=1762&gid=2&pgid=1344&utm_source=1132&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MNEWS">平特五不中 News</a>)</p> Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:08:47 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26307 at /newsroom