STEP2026 – CCP Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics

Advancing the methodological skills and conceptual prowess of students of linguistics and psycholinguistics since 2014.

The Centre for Comparative Psycholinguistics (CCP, University of Alberta Department of Linguistics) organizes a week long Spring Training Workshop in current issues and methods in psycholinguistics. STEP will take place in Edmonton, Alberta June 12-15, 2026.

The Spring School is directed at postdoctoral fellows, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and anyone else interested in learning how to turn their research ideas into concrete steps towards experimental designs, data collection and analysis using advanced experimental and statistical methods.

All ticket prices include %5 GST.

Courses

A short overview and introduction to statistics and R, Hannah Lam and Vera Xia, University of Alberta

Introduction to Mixed-Effects Modelling with LME4, Dalia Cristerna-Román and Veranika Puhacheuskaya, University of Alberta

Embrace the Complexities: Visualizing and Modeling Multidimensional Factors in Bilingual Development, Youran Lin, University of Alberta

The fundamentals of data visualization in R, Guilherme Garcia, Université Laval