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Linguistics at U of T

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

Graduate research supervised at UNH

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Updated 9 September 2024