TEACHING

Student Supervision

Post-doctoral

2018-2020

Li, Ying

Prosodic transfer and the second language acquisition of Mandarin by English-speaking learners. China Scholarship Council post-doctoral fellow.

Current position: Associate Professor, Dept of Linguistics, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China.

2016-2019

Guzzo, Natália Brambatti

Phonological effects on grammatical representation and processing. SSHRC-funded post-doctoral fellow. [co-supervised with Lydia White]

Current position: Lecturer, Dept of Linguistics, McGill University.

2010-2011

Mackenzie, Sara

Crosslinguistic study of laryngeal features in languages with asymmetrical inventories. SSHRC post-doctoral fellow.

Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2007-2010

Hwang, Hyekyung

The perception and use of prosody in the processing of spoken language.

Centre for Research on Language, Mind and Brain post-doctoral fellow. [co-supervised with Karsten Steinhauer & Lydia White]

Doctoral

In Progress

Cucinelli, Alex

A cross-linguistic examination of the acquisition of phonotactic complexity.

2020

Lamontagne, Jeffrey

Interaction in phonological variation: Grammatical insights from a corpus-based approach. [co-supervised with Francisco Torreira].

Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept of French and Italian, Indiana University.

2017

Garcia, Guilherme

Weight effects on stress in Portuguese: Lexicon, grammar and acquisition.

Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept of English, Ball State University, Indiana.

2014

Austin, Gavin

Variability in L2 functional morphology: The Korean speaker of English.

University of New England, Australia. [co-supervised with Einar Thorsteinsson]

Current position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Applied Linguistics and TESOL, University of Southern Queensland, Australia.

2013

Qu, Chen

The representation and acquisition of tone sandhi in Mandarin.

2012

Özçelik, Öner

Representation and acquisition of stress: A prosodic learning path for second language learners and the case of Turkish. [co-supervised with Lydia White]

Current position: Associate Professor, Dept of Central Eurasian Studies & Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept of Second Language Studies, Indiana University.

2011

Brannen, Kathleen

The perception and production of interdental fricatives in second language acquisition.

Current position: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa.

Mah, Jen

Segmental representations in interlanguage grammars: The case of francophones and English /h/.

Current position: Lecturer, Dept of Humanities, Mount Royal University, Calgary; Research Associate, Language Research Centre, University of Calgary.

2003

Cardoso, Walcir

Topics in the phonology of Picard.

Current position: Associate Professor, TESL Centre, Dept of Education, Concordia University.

2002

Steele, Jeff

Representation and phonological licensing in the L2 acquisition of prosodic structure.

Current position: Associate Professor, Dept of French, University of Toronto.

2000

Rose, Yvan

Headedness and prosodic licensing in the L1 acquisition of phonology.

Current position: Professor, Dept of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1999

Kawasaki, Takako

Coda constraints – Optimizing representations. [co-supervised with Glyne Piggott]

Current position: Professor, Dept of English, Hosei University, Tokyo.

1998

Brown, Cindy

Acquisition of segmental structure: Consequences for speech perception and second language acquisition. [co-supervised with Lydia White]

1997

Pater, Joe

Consequences of constraint ranking.

Current position: Professor, Dept of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Masters

In Progress

Wang, Beini

Testing the perceptual basis of T3 sandhi.

[co-supervised with Meghan Clayards]

2017

Schwarz, Martha

Nepali laryngeal contrasts. [co-supervised with Morgan Sonderegger]

2016

Leung, Betty

Production of the low-level and low-falling tone merger by Heritage Cantonese speakers in Toronto. [co-supervised with Morgan Sonderegger]

2015

Martinez, Ruth

La perception naïve non-native des voyelles nasales du portugais. Université de Montréal. [co-supervised with Michael Dow and Daniel Valois]

Tanner, James

The representation and processing of inflectional morphology: The prosodic dual-route hypothesis.

2011

Shimada, Aki

Syllabification in Blackfoot: Nucleic /s/.

2010

Dalton, Will

Allophony in the L2: The acquisition of high vowel allophones in Québec French.

Prévost, Adèle-Elise

Prosodic transfer from the L1 to the L2: An electrophysiological investigation. [co-supervised with Karsten Steinhauer]

2007

Beritognolo, Gustavo

Hiatus in Argentinian Spanish.

2004

Fowler, Sadie

An investigation of medial epenthesis in the L2 English of Iraqi Arabic speakers.

2002

Ruiz, Pablo

Behaviour of [n] and [s] in stress assignment in L2 Spanish: Does orthography play a role?

2001

Kang, Hyun-Sook

An optimal approach to syllabification in the phonology of Korean learners of English.

1999

Gonzalez Poot, Antonio

Spanish rhymes: A challenge to constraints on syllable structure?

1998

Lebel, Éliane

On first language acquisition of word-initial English clusters: A case study.

1997

Taler, Vanessa

S-weakening in the Spanish of San Miguel, El Salvador. [co-supervised with Julie Auger]

1996

Royle, Phaedra

Verb production in French DLI subjects.

1995

Narasimhan, Rama

Coronal, velars and front vowels.

Undergraduate Honours

In Progress

Toutant, Charles

The status of schwa in Middle English.

Zhang, Sijia

Errors in the near native productions of Mandarin-speaking learners of English.

Ellner, Aliza

Patterns in the acquisition of branching onsets in learners of German with phonological delay.

2020

Passarelli, Sophia

Consonant clusters and syllable structure in French children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
[co-supervised with Phaedra Royle]

2019

Miller, Kaylee

Acquisition of Hebrew stress in English speaking elementary school students.

Wang, Beini

Prosodic transfer in L2 production and comprehension: The acquisition of English agreement by Mandarin speakers.

Wang, Chu Han (Celine)

Syllable structure constraints in Mandarin-speaking learners of English.

2018

Higgins, Fiona

The perception and production of /s/ in hearing impaired children with cochlear implants.

2017

Javaheri-Cabrera, Nadia

Negotiating identity through language: The case of Iranian youth in the diaspora.

Zhang, Junmei

Indirect evidence in the acquisition of a subset grammar: A study of English learners of Mandarin.

2014

Koh, Justin

Prosody in the French of internationally-adopted children. [co-supervised with Fred Genesee]

Orbegozo Zavala, Omar

Syllable segmentation in adults using allophonic cues. [co-supervised with Kris Onishi]

Schwartz, Misha

Indirect positive evidence in second language acquisition.

2012

Yoon, Erica

Cues used by 10-month-old infants in within-word segmentation. [co-supervised with Kris Onishi]

2011

Bucurel, Elisa

The use of allophonic cues and backward transitional probabilities in infant within-word segmentation. [co-supervised with Kris Onishi]

Poirier-Caron, Maude

Perception of the /f/-/Θ/ contrast by anglophone children and francophone adults.

Thorne, Julia

The effects of prosodic transfer on English-speaking learners of Spanish.

2010

Fromstein, David

To Tokyo with rove: Perception of non-native liquid contrasts in the adaptation of Japanese loanwords from English.

2008

Garellek, Marc

L1 allophony and the acquisition of non-native contrast.

McManus, Jenny

Disambiguating prosodic structure: Can infants use statistics and allophonic cues to segment speech? [co-supervised with Kris Onishi]

2007

Dalton, Will

Covert contrast and articulatory locality in child consonant harmony.

Prévost, Adèle-Elise

From personal stereotype to shared protoyype: Internal and interactional contributions to the acquisition of word meaning in infants. [co-supervised with Robert Myles]

2004

Buckley, Meaghen

Linguistic bootstrapping and the syntax-prosody interface: The syntax and phonology of clitics in second language French. [co-supervised with Lydia White]

Vandendorpe, Maïda

The phonological structure of English and French loanwords in Japanese.

2001

Tessier, Anne-Michelle

On the Athapaskan superstem: Interaction between principles and constraints in the morpho-phonology of Chilcotin and Sarcee verbs.

1997

Haugh, Bridget

AH! AW!: The changing production and perception of low vowels in Canadian English. [co-supervised with Julie Auger]

Iveson, Jennifer

Diphthongization of lax vowels in the speech of two southern U.S. speakers.

Roncone, Tina

Belmontese phonology.

1996

Curtin, Suzanne

The role of post-lexical phonology in second language acquisition: A speech perception experiment.

Zamuner, Tania

The acquisition of coda consonants.

1995

Wood, Karen

Word minimality, coda and onset development: A case study in phonological acquisition over the word-spurt boundary.

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