Graduate Faculty

Faculty members with continuing graduate or budgetary appointments in the Department of Linguistics 

Samuel Akinbo 
samuel.akinbo@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor 
Phonology, Community-based language Documentation, Phonetics and Language-Music Connection 

Emily Atkinson 

e.atkinson@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (Language Studies, UTM) 

Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science 

Barend Beekhuizen 

barend.beekhuizen@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (Language Studies, UTM) 

Computational linguistics 

Susana Béjar 

susana.bejar@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor  

Syntax, morphology 

Shohini Bhattasali

shohini.bhattasali@utoronto.ca

Assistant Professor (Language Studies, UTSC) 

Cognitive Science of Language, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Syntax

Ivan Bondoc 

ivan.bondoc@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor, CLTA 

Psycholinguistics 

Tahohtharatye Joe Brant 

tj.brant@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor 

Indigenous languages, Kanien’kéha, language revitalization 

M. Cristina Cuervo 

mc.cuervo@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese) 

Syntax, argument structure, second-language acquisition 

Ryan DeCaire 

ryan.decaire@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (Centre for Indigenous Studies) 

Indigenous languages, Kanien’kéha, language revitalization 

Derek Denis 

derek.denis@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (Language Studies, UTM) 

Language change and innovation, Canadian English 

Myrto Grigoroglou 

m.grigoroglou@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (Linguistics, Cognitive Science) 

Psycholinguistics, cognitive science 

Atiqa Hachimi 

ahachimi@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (Historical & Cultural Studies, UTSC) 

Sociolinguistics, language and gender, language and ethnicity 

Daphna Heller 

daphna.heller@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor 

Anaphora, pragmatics, processing, Modern Hebrew 

Michela Ippolito 

michela.ippolito@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor  

Formal semantics, formal pragmatics 

Peter Jurgec 

peter.jurgec@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor 

Phonology, Slavic languages 

Arsalan Kahnemuyipour 

a.kahnemuyipour@utoronto.ca 

Professor (Language Studies, UTM) 

Syntax, syntax-phonology interface, Iranian languages 

Yoonjung Kang 

yoonjung.kang@utoronto.ca  

Professor (Language Studies, UTSC) 

Phonology, loanwords, Korean linguistics 

Alexei Kochetov 

al.kochetov@utoronto.ca 

Professor 

Phonetics, phonology 

Dave Kush 

dave.kush@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (Language Studies, UTSC) 

 Linguistic theory, psycholinguistics 

Suzi Lima 

suzi.lima@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor 

Language documentation, formal semantics, psycholinguistics 

Pedro Mateo Pedro 

pedro.mateo@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream 

Indigenous language documentation and revitalization 

Philip J. Monahan 

philip.monahan@ utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (Language Studies, UTSC) 

Psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience, perception of language 

Keir Moulton 

keir.moulton@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor and Graduate Chair 

Syntax-semantics interface 

Naomi Nagy 

naomi.nagy@utoronto.ca 

Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics 

Sociolinguistics, language variation and change, Faetar 

Avery Ozburn 

avery.ozburn@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (Language Studies, UTM) 

Phonology 

Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux 

at.perez.leroux@utoronto.ca 

Professor (Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese)  

Second language acquisition, child syntax, bilingualism 

Nathan Sanders 

nathan.sanders@utoronto.ca 

ugling@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream and Associate Chair, Undergraduate 

Phonology, phonetics, historical linguistics, sign languages 

Jessamyn Schertz 

jessamyn.schertz@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (Language Studies, UTM) 

Bilingualism, perceptual drift, regularization of loanwords  

Sali A. Tagliamonte 

sali.tagliamonte@utoronto.ca 

lin.chair@utoronto.ca 

Professor 

Language variation and change, sociolinguistics 

Guillaume Thomas 

guillaume.thomas@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator 

Formal semantics, fieldwork 

Emeriti and retired faculty members 

Robert I. Binnick 

robert.binnick@utoronto.ca 

Professor Emeritus, UTSC 

Semantics, pragmatics, Mongolian 

J. K. Chambers 

jack.chambers@utoronto.ca 

Professor Emeritus 

Language variation, Canadian English 

Elizabeth Cowper 

cowper@chass.utoronto.ca 

Professor Emeritus 

Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, tense and aspect 

B. Elan Dresher 

dresher@chass.utoronto.ca 

Professor Emeritus 

Diachronic linguistics, phonology, learnability 

Elaine Gold 

egold@chass.utoronto.ca 

Lecturer (retired) 

Morphology, Yiddish, language contact, Canadian English 

Deborah M. James 

james@utsc.utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor, retired (UTSC) 

Language and gender, Algonquian, semantics 

Alana Johns 

ajohns@chass.utoronto.ca 

Professor Emeritus 

Morphology, syntax, Inuktitut 

Diane Massam 

diane.massam@utoronto.ca 

Professor Emeritus 

Syntax, argument structure, case, Austronesian languages 

Peter A. Reich 

peter.reich@utoronto.ca 

Professor Emeritus 

Keren D. Rice 
rice@chass.utoronto.ca 

University Professor Emeritus 

Phonology, morphology, Dene (Athabaskan) 

Faculty members with continuing graduate cross-appointments in the Department of Linguistics 

Curtis Anderson 

curt.anderson@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (Language Studies, UTSC), CLTA 

Formal/lexical semantics, formal syntax, psycholinguistics 

Anne-Marie Brousseau 

annemarie.brousseau@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (French) 

Haitian Creole, phonology, semantics, morphology 

Craig Chambers 

craig.chambers@utoronto.ca 

Professor (Psychology, UTM) 

Psycholinguistics, pragmatics, language acquisition 

Laura Colantoni 

laura.colantoni@utoronto.ca 

Professor (Spanish & Portuguese) 

Sound change, phonetics and phonology, Spanish, French 

Ewan Dunbar 

ewan.dunbar@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (French) 

French linguistics 

Rena Helms-Park 

rhelms@utsc.utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (Language Studies, UTSC) 

Second language acquisition, input processing 

Elizabeth Johnson 

elizabeth.johnson@utoronto.ca 

Professor (Psychology, UTM) 

Infant studies, language acquisition, speech perception 

Lyn Tieu 

lyn.tieu@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (French) 

Language acquisition, semantics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics 

Emmanuel Nikiema 
emmanuel.nikiema@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (Language Studies, UTM) 

Phonology, language teaching, language planning 

Mihaela Pirvulescu 

ma.pirvulescu@utoronto.ca 

 Professor (Language Studies, UTM) 

First language acquisition, bilingualism 

Joseph Schallert 

joseph.schallert@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (Slavic): Balkan Slavic dialects, Slavic 

accentology, West Slavic prosody, Old Russian syntax 

Jeffrey Steele 

jeffrey.steele@utoronto.ca 

Professor (Language Studies, UTM) 

Second/third language acquisition & assessment, laboratory phonology

Ai Taniguchi 

ai.taniguchi@utoronto.ca 

Assistant Professor (Language Studies, UTM)  

Semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, linguistic pedagogy 

Michelle Troberg 

michelle.troberg@utoronto.ca 

Associate Professor (Language Studies, UTM)  

Language Change, historical linguistics  

Other teaching staff and retired faculty members 

Marshall Chasin 

marshall.chasin@rogers.com 

Adjunct Assistant Professor 

Phonetics, audiology