Linguistics

Potential Research Areas and Supervisors


Angeliki Athanasopoulou

Angeliki Athanasopoulou

Broad areas of research interest: Phonology and phonetics and in particular, prosodic phenomena across languages.
 
Specific research interests: Prosodic structures (stress, tone, focus, intonation) and the developmental process of more complex prosodic structures (e.g., compound stress, clitic stress, etc.) with a focus on the production properties of children.

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Darin Flynn

Darin Flynn

Broad areas of research interest: Phonology, Canadian Indigenous languages, endangered language documentation and revitalization
 
Specific research interests: Phonetics-phonology interface, distinctive features, prosodic structure, Wakashan, Algonquian, Dene/Athabaskan, French, black English

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David Liebesman

David Liebesman

Broad areas of interest: Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Pragmatics, Metaphysics
 
Specific areas of interest: Number words, quantification, the mass/count distinction, generics

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Mary Grantham O'Brien

Mary Grantham O'Brien

Broad areas of research interest: Second language acquisition, phonetics, phonology, German
 
Specific research interests: Pronunciation, perception, processing, prosody, intonation of German language learners

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Amanda Pounder

Amanda Pounder

Broad areas of research interest: Historical linguistics, morphology; Germanic, Romance, and Turkic languages
 
Specific research interests: Morphological theory, paradigms, morphology-syntax interface, semantics of morphology; paradigm in diachrony, language standardization

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Elizabeth Ritter

Elizabeth Ritter

Broad areas of research interest: Syntax, morpho-syntax, syntax-semantics interface
 
Specific research interests: Syntactic categories and features, animacy, DPs, Blackfoot, Hebrew, tenselessness, and its implications for clause structure in Blackfoot

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Dimitrios Skordos

Dimitrios Skordos

Broad areas of research interest: First language acquisition, experimental semantics and pragmatics, psychology of language, language and cognition.
 
Specific research interests: Pragmatic inference, quantification and logical operators, space and motion events cross-linguistically.

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Dennis Storoshenko

Dennis Storoshenko

Broad areas of research interest: Syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface
 
Specific research interests: Experimental syntax, Japanese and Korean syntax, research on syntactic theories outside the generative model, including Tree Adjoining Grammar

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Stephen Winters

Stephen Winters

Broad areas of research interest: Phonetics, speech perception
 
Specific research interests: Exemplar Theory, talker identification, voice quality, intonation perception

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