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Margaret Grant

@mglinguist.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University

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Margaret Grant @mglinguist.bsky.social · Jun 26

4yr old: Mom, why does an alarm go off instead of on? 😳

Margaret Grant @mglinguist.bsky.social · Jun 13

So proud of Elizabeth and Carley! Michelle Cohn gave a great talk at this event, a perfect way to celebrate. @sfulinguistics.bsky.social

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Celebrating the winners of the 2025 Becker Essay Prize

Read the winning essays by Carley Carder and Elizabeth Alvarez Alfaro! Learn about their journeys at SFU, what inspired the ideas for their essays, and the sources of motivation that drive them.

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Margaret Grant @mglinguist.bsky.social · May 23

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Margaret Grant @mglinguist.bsky.social · May 22

Four-year-olds ask a lot of questions. Today mine finally asked me the one I have been waiting for: Mama, do our brains make us talk? 🥹

Margaret Grant @mglinguist.bsky.social · Jan 22

Check out the new thematic issue of RCL/CJL on teaching and learning in linguistics, edited by Catherine @candershamilton.bsky.social, Nathan @ludling.bsky.social and me!

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique: Volume 69 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique - Volume 69 - Issue 3

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Margaret Grant @mglinguist.bsky.social · Dec 2

I assigned a ‘community building activity journal’ for points in a class this term, and one student submitted a photo of their work group going bowling! 100% will do again. (Got the idea from Ai Taniguchi!)

Margaret Grant @mglinguist.bsky.social · Nov 29

Happy birthday! I wish we had known at the meeting!

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Margaret Grant @mglinguist.bsky.social · Nov 22

Can’t go wrong with a cat post, right?

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