PhD Alumni

  Name Year Title
  Koorosh Ariyaee 2025 REPRESENTATION OF NONCANONICAL FORMS: EVIDENCE FROM PERSIAN
  Tim Gadanidis 2025 Putting on the mask: language work, ideology, and resistance in restaurant servers’ stories from the COVID–19 pandemic
  Heather Yawney 2025 Phonological and Morphological Conditions on Dorsals in Kazakh: Productivity in Production and Acceptability
  Virgilio Partida Penalva 2024 Split Intransitivity, Event Structure and Person Licensing in Mazahua
  Angelika Kiss 2024 Form-Meaning Relations in Non-Canonical Questions
  Maida Percival 2024 Production and perception of ejective stops across languages
  Emilia Melara 2024 Missing Subjects in Mauritian Creole: pro or Voice?
  Sahar Taghipour 2024 Case and Phi-agreement in Laki: Parametrizing split-ergativity in Kurdish
  Andrei Munteanu 2024 Probabilistic Evaluation of Comparative Reconstructions
  Kiranpreet Nara 2024 An Acoustic Study of Punjabi Tones and an Investigation of Ongoing Tonal Changes
  Pocholo Umbal 2023 A Comparative Variationist Analysis of Phonetic Variation and Change in Toronto Heritage Tagalog
  Frederick Gietz 2023 Interpreting Complement Coercion in Context
  Jessica Denniss 2023 Non-conflating Roots: The Syntax of Light Verbs and Complex Predicates in Ngarinyman
  Radu Craioveanu 2023 Weighing Preaspiration: Phonetics, Phonology, & Typology of a Laryngeal Phenomenon
  Lex Konnelly 2023 “The Right Story”: Discursive Strategies in GenderAffirming Healthcare Access
  Frances Jessica Ruth Maddeaux 2023 Individual Differences as Predictors of Participation in Sound Change
  Lisa Sullivan 2022 Pre-velar /æ/-raising in Ontario and Colorado English: Production, Perception and Metalinguistic Awareness
  Katharina Pabst 2022 Putting “the Other Maine” on the Map: Language Variation, Local Affiliation, and Co-occurrence in Aroostook County English
  Fiona Wilson 2022 Negation in Cree
  Alexandra Motut 2022 REMOTE AGREE: Agreeing into the Workspace and a Case Study in Control
  Julien Carrier 2021 Ergativity on the Move
  Majed Al Solami 2020 Vowel Elision, Epenthesis and Metrical Systems in Bedouin Arabic Dialects
  Ross Godfrey 2020 Morphemes Without Morphs: A Theory of Syntactic Arrangements and Phonological Processes
  Erin Hall 2020 Child Participation in Linguistic Changes in Progress in Ontario English
  Joanna Chociej 2019 Exceptional Faithfulness and Exceptional Alternation: A Case Study of Polish Vowel-Zero Alternations as Deletion and Epenthesis
  Emily Clare 2019 Dynamicity in Speech Perception
  Julianne Doner 2019 The EPP Across Languages
  Daniel Milway 2019 Explaining the Resultative Parameter
  Patrick Murphy 2019 Listening to Writers and Riders: Partial Contrast and the Perception of Canadian Raising
  Iryna Osadcha 2019 Lexical Stress in East Slavic: Variation in Space and Time
  Na-Young Ryu 2019 Effects of Web-Based Auditory Training on the Perception of Korean Sounds by Mandarin Learners of Korean
  Rebecca Tollan 2019 Cross-Linguistic Effects of Subjecthood, Case, and Transitivity in Syntax and Sentence Processing
  Tomohiro Yokoyama 2019 The Person Case Constraint: Unconditional Interfaces and Faultless Derivations
  Clarissa Forbes 2018 Persistent Ergativity: Agreements and Splits in Tsimshianic
  Phil Howson 2018 A Phonetic Examination of Rhotics: Gestural Representation Accounts for Phonological Behaviour
  James Smith 2018 Sociophonetic Variation and Change of Northern Ontario English Vowels
  Shayna Gardiner 2017 Yours, Mine & Ours: What Ancient Egyptian Possessives can tell us about Language Change and Stable Variation
  Matthew Hunt Gardner 2017 Grammatical Variation and Change in Industrial Cape Breton
  Ross Krekoski 2017 Contrast and Complexity in Chinese Tonal Systems
  Annick Morin 2017 Questioning Particles: A Cross-Linguistic Approach to Quebec French Polar Interrogatives
  Marisa Brook 2016 Syntactic Categories Informing Variationist Analysis: The Case of English Copy-Raising
  Yu-Leng Lin 2016 Sonority Effects and Learning Bias in Nasal Harmony
  Safieh Moghaddam 2016 Split Ergativity in Davani
  Mercedeh Mohaghegh 2016 Connected Speech Processes and Lexical Access in Real-Time
  Ailis Cournane 2015 Modal Development: Input-Divergent L1 Acquisition in the Direction of Diachronic Reanalysis
  Derek Denis 2015 The Development of Pragmatic Markers in Canadian English
  Liisa Duncan 2015 Productivity of Finnish Vowel Harmony: Experimental Evidence
  Julie Goncharov 2015 In Search of Reference: A Case of Russian Adjectival Intensifier Samyj
  Christopher Spahr 2015 Contrastive Representations in Non-Segmental Phonology
  Suzanne Belanger 2014 Regeneration in Recall and Verb Phrase Ellipsis
  LeAnn Brown 2014 Phonetic Cues and the Perception of Gender and Sexual Orientation
  Catherine Macdonald 2014 Functional Projections and Non-Local Relations in Tongan Nominal Phrases
  Will Oxford 2014 Microparameters of Agreement: A Diachronic Perspective on Algonquian Verb Inflection
  Milica Radisic 2014 An Ultrasound and Acoustic Study of Turkish Rounded/Unrounded Vowel Pairs
  Ulyana Savchenko 2014 Second Language Acquisition of Russian Applicative Experiencers
  Eugenia Suh 2014 Incomplete Acquisition in the Nominal Domain of Korean by Heritage Language Speakers
  Abdel-Khalig Ali 2013 Syllabification and Phrasing in Three Dialects of Sudanese Arabic
  Sarah Clarke 2013 Aspectual Scope and Contrast in English and Japanese
  Bridget Jankowski 2013 A Variationist Approach to Cross-Register Language
  Paul Arsenault 2012 Retroflex Consonant Harmony in South Asia
  Richard Compton 2012 The Syntax and Semantics of Modification in Inuktitut: Adjectives and Adverbs in a Polysynthetic Language
  Bethany MacLeod 2012 The Effect of Perceptual Salience on Phonetic Accommodation in Cross-Dialectal Conversation in Spanish
  Kenji Oda 2012 Issues in the Left Periphery of Modern Irish
  Elham Rohany Rahbar 2012 Aspects of Persian Phonology and Morpho-Phonology
  Bettina Spreng 2012 Viewpoint Aspect in Inuktitut: The Syntax and Semantics of Antipassives
  Anne St-Amand 2012 Hiatus and Hiatus Resolution in Canadian French
  Julia Yu-Ying Su 2012 The Syntax of Functional Projections in the vP Periphery
  Sandrine Tailleur 2012 The French Interrogative System: Est-ce que, Clefting?
  Rashid Al-Balushi 2011 Case in Standard Arabic: the Untravelled Paths
  Jaehee Bak 2011 The Light Verb Construction in Korean
  Midori Hayashi 2011 The Structure of Multiple Tenses in Inuktitut
  Monica Irimia 2011 Secondary Predicates
  Kyumin Kim 2011 External Argument Introducers
  Maria Kyriakaki 2011 DETs in the Functional Syntax of Greek Nominals
  Marina Sherkina-Lieber 2011 Comprehension of Labrador Inuttitut Functional Morphology by Receptive Bilinguals
  Tanya Slavin 2011 The Syntax and Semantics of Stem Composition in Ojicree
  Cathleen Waters 2011 Social and Linguistic Correlates of Adverb Variability in English: A Cross-Varietal Perspective
  Nattaya Piriyawiboon 2010 Classifiers and Determiner-less Languages: The Case of Thai
  Eric Smith 2010 Query-Based Annotation and the Sumerian Verbal Prefixes
  Chiara Frigeni 2009 Sonorant Relationships in the Two Varieties of Sardinian
  Manami Hirayama 2009 Postlexival Prosodic Structure and Vowel Devoicing in Japanese
  Sara Mackenzie 2009 Contrast and Similarity in Consonant Harmony Processes
  Magdalena Goledzinowska 2007 Morphosyntactic Idiosyncracy and Lexical Specification
  Kevin Heffernan 2007 Phonetic Distinctiveness as a Sociolinguistic Variable
  Daniel Currie Hall 2007 The Role and Representation of Contrast in Phonological Theory
  Nicole Rosen 2007 Domains in Michif Phonology
  Michael Barrie 2006 Dynamic Assymetry and the Syntax of Noun Incorporation
  Alexandra D'Arcy 2005 Like: Syntax and Development
  Mohammad Haji-Abdolhosseini 2005 Modularity and Soft Constraints: A Study of Conflict Resolution in Grammar
  Arsalan Kahnemuyipour 2004 The Syntax of Sentential Stress
  Milan Rezac 2004 Elements of Cycle Syntax: Agree and Merge
  Wenckje Jongstra 2003 Variation in Reduction Strategies of Dutch Word-Initial Consonant Clusters
  Susana Béjar 2003 Phi-Syntax: A Theory of Agreement
  Nila Friedberg 2002 Metrical Complexity in Russian Iambic Verse: A Study of Form and Meaning
  Juli Cebrian 2002 Phonetic Similarity, Syllabification, and Phonotactic Constraints in the Acquisition of a Second Language
  Alexei Kochetov 2001 Production, Perception, and Emergent Phonotactic Patterns: A Case of Contrastive Palatalization
  Andrea Hoa Pham 2001 Vietnamese Tone: Tone is not Pitch
  JunMo Cho 2000 The Nature of Legibility Conditions
  David Beck 1999 The Typology of Parts of Speech Systems: The Markedness of Adjectives
  Trisha Causley 1999 Complexity and Markedness in Optimality Theory
  Elaine Gold 1999 Aspect, Tense, and the Lexicon: Expression of Time in Yiddish
  Hong Zhou 1999 Vowel Systems in Mandarin Languages
  Päivi Koskinen 1998 Features and Categories: Non-Finite Constructions in French
  David Heap 1997 Grammatical and Geolinguistic Variation: Subject Pronouns in Central Romance
  Ning Zhang 1997 Syntactic Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese
  Peter Avery 1996 The Representation of Voicing Contrasts
  Jila Ghomeshi 1996 Projection and Inflection: A Study of Persian Phrase Structure
  Philip Hamilton 1996 Phonetic Constraints and Markedness in the Phonotactics of Australian Aboriginal Languages
  Xi Zhang 1996 Vowel Systems in the Manchu-Tungus Languages of China
  Carrie Dyck 1995 Constraining the Phonology-Phonetics Interface
  Regina Moorcroft 1995 Clause-Level Functional Categories in Germanic V2 Languages
  Yuwen Wu 1994 Mandarin Segmental Phonology
  Barbara Brunson 1992 Thematic Discontinuity
  Karen Carlyle 1988 A Syllabic Phonology of Breton
  Wladyslaw Cichocki 1986 Linguistic Applications of Dual Scaling in Variation Studies
  Susan Ehrlich 1986 A Linguistic Analysis of Point of View in Fiction
  Guy Ewing 1984 Presyntax: The Development of Word Order in Early Child Speech
  Sheila Embleton 1981 Incorporating Borrowing Rates in Lexicostatistical Tree Reconstruction
  Salina Shrofel 1981 Island Lake Ojibwa Morphophonemics
  MIchael Dobrovolsky 1980 On Intonation: Functional, Emotive, Phonological
  Eric Wheeler 1980 Grammars for the Recognition of Natural Language
  Jean-Marie Massenet 1978 Some Aspects of Vowel and Consonant Quantity in Eskimo
  Wilbur Pickering 1978 A Framework for Discourse Analysis
  Lee Bohnhoff 1976 Vowel Length in Duru
  Victoria Neufeldt 1976 The Metric of English Alliterative Verse: Piers the Plowman and Beowulf
  Keren Rice 1976 Hare Phonology
  Candace Séguinot 1976 Some Aspects of the Intonations of Yes-No Questions in Canadian English
  Patricia Shaw 1976 Dakota Phonology and Morphology
  Eric Keller 1975 Vowel Errors in Aphasia
  Glyne Piggott 1974 Aspects of Odawa Morphophonemics
  Cheryl Goodenough 1973 A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Theme and Information Focus
  Jean Rogers 1973 Participant Identification and Role Allocation in Ojibwa
  Suzanne Whalen 1973 The Impersonal Sentence in Russian and Romanian: A Case Grammar Approach
  Maurice Holder 1970 "Ouisme" in the 17th Century: Causes and Results