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.