Graduate Research Supervision
PhD Supervisor / Co-supervisor
PhD Committee member
- Robert Prazeres. Comparative sociolinguistic study of nominal genitives across Arabic varieties. 2018-.
- Vanina Machado Araujo (Department of Spanish & Portuguese). Cross-generational variation in Uruguayan border Spanish: the prosody of Spanish-Portuguese bilinguals in Rivera. 2018-2022.
- Julien Carrier. Ergativity on the move. 2017-2020.
- Emily Blamire. Guess Who: Linguistic and Social Factors of Voice Recognition. supervised 2017-2019; proposal approved December 2019.
- Tanya Battersby (Department of Spanish & Portuguese). The Speaker-oriented use of Estar: Semantic variation in the [Copula + Adjective] context in Buenos Aires Spanish. 2017.
- Marisa Brook. Syntactic categories informing variationist analysis: The case of English copy-raising. 2016.
- Holman Tse (University of Pittsburgh). Beyond the Monolingual Core and out into the Wild: A Variationist Study of Early Bilingualism and Sound Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese. 2015-2018.
- Derek Denis. The Development of pragmatic markers in Canadian English. 2014-2015.
- Bridget Jankowski, A variationist approach to cross-register language variation and change, 2009-2013.
- Cathleen Waters, Social and linguistic correlates of adverb variability in English: A cross-varietal perspective, 2011.
PhD Generals Paper supervisor
- Nicholas Haggerty. French OLS sequence simplification in Montreal French. 2023-2024.
- Laura Griffin. Distinguishing Variation from Interference: An Investigation of Back Vowel Shifts in Heritage Seoul Korean. 2022-2023.
- Pocholo Umbal. Contact-induced change in Heritage Tagalog: Evidence from adjective intensification, 2019.
- Robert Prazeres. Variability of nominal genitives in Casablanca Moroccan Arabic. 2018
- Emilia Melara. This, that, and the other, it: Propositional anaphora in Toronto English, 2016-2017.
- Julien Carrier. Variation in three transitive constructions in Resolute Bay Inuktitut, 2014-2015.
- Joanna Chociej. Context over form: Factors affecting null subject use by Heritage Polish speakers in Toronto. 2010-2011.
PhD Generals Paper Committee member
- Kelly-Ann Blake. Vowels of rural Jamaican Creole speakers, 2023-
- Robert Prazeres, Nominal and pronominal possessives in Moroccan Arabic, 2018.
- Angelika Kiss. Word order in Mbyá Guaraní, 2019.
- Pocholo Umbal, An acoustic analysis of /u/-fronting in
second-generation Filipinos in Toronto, 2018.
- Shayna Gardiner. Prized Possessions: Variation in Ancient Egyptian Possessive Constructions, 2014.
- Marisa Brook. A peripheral view of a change from above:
Prestige forms over time in a medium-sized community, 2014.
- Jim Smith. Phonetic Variation of Word-Final Stop Voicing in Toronto English, 2013.
- Jim Smith. Phonetic and Perceptual Variation of Word-Final Stop Voicing in Toronto English, 2012.
- Derek Denis. Innovators & innovation:
Tracking the innovators of stuff in York English, 2011.
- LeAnn Brown. Sibilant Phonetic Microvariation and Gender:
Incorporating Trans and Cis Speakers, 2011.
- Cathleen Waters. Actually, it’s more than pragmatics, it’s really grammaticalization, 2009.
MA Forum Paper / Thesis supervisor
MA Forum Paper reader
- Julia Petrosov. The ‘Ult’imate Question: Variable Linguistic Patterns in League of Legends. 2023-2024.
- Christopher Legerme. Creole on the Cusp: Phonological Variation and Change in Haitian Determiners. 2020-2021.
- Gabrielle Dumais. What do they say in French? Non-binary gender expression in spoken Quebec French. 2019-2020.
- Savannah Meslin. It's all about how you feel and who you know: The effects of bilingual identity and social contact on the Voice Onset Time of Ottawa bilinguals. 2017.
- Lex Konnelly. Enriching sociolinguistic categories: Evidence from variation within the adjective phrase. 2016.
- Erin Brassel. Jewish Montrealers in Toronto A Study in Dialect Acquisition. 2012.
- Marisa Brook. Looks as if there's something interesting going on here: Comparative complementizers following perception verbs in Canadian English. 2011.
- Madeline Shellgren. Language and Ideology of Vermont High School Students. 2011.
- Jacqueline Peters, Generational variation in the speech of Jamaican-Canadians in Hamilton. 2009.
Independent studies
- Letizia Tesi. “Sono” o “Io sono”? Risultati preliminari sulle variabili linguistiche
che concorrono alla caduta del pronome personale in italiano. 2015.
- Paolo Frascà. Use and perception of dialect. 2014.
- Yannis Koumarianos. Adjective suffixation across three generations of Italian-Canadians. 2013.
Graduate student work at other institutions supervised while at U of T
- Iuliia Rezvukhina. 2023-. Some phonetic features of Heritage Russian in Toronto. University of Manitoba, PhD Exam committee and Dissertation committee.
- Angela Cristiano. 2021. (r) in Heritage Calabrese Italian: Cross-generational nativeness. Università di Bologna, MA Thesis.
- Iannozzi, M. 2018-2024. The imbalanced interaction of verbal ambiguity and pro-drop: The functional hypothesis in homeland and heritage varieties of Calabrian Italian and Ciociaro University of Western Ontario PhD Dissertation. Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository.
- Holman Tse. 2016-2018. Beyond the Monolingual Core and out into the Wild: A Variationist Study of Early Bilingualism and Sound Change in Toronto Heritage Cantonese,
University of Pittsburgh, PhD dissertation.
- Maria Parascandolo. 2011-2014. Morphological attrition in the Italian verb system. A study of three generations of Italian heritage speakers. Università di Salerno, PhD Dissertation (incomplete).
- Holman Tse. 2014-2015. Acoustic analysis of Heritage Cantonese vowels.
University of Pittsburgh, PhD Qualifying paper.
- Timea Molnár. 2011. Cross-generational change in Heritage Hungarian. University of Szeged PhD student.
- Veronika Molke. 2011. Russisch als Migrationssprache – zum Russisch-Englischen Sprachkontakt in Kanada. Diplomarbeit, Justus Liebig University, Giessen.
- Jim Wood. 2011. The Phonetic status of short-a in Northern New England. Journal of English Linguistics 2:135-65. NYU.
- Villard, Sarah. 2009. Postvocalic /r/ in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. Paper presented at NWAV 38, Ottawa. University of New Hampshire.
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