Assistant Professor of Linguistics
University of Alberta, 4-22 Assiniboia Hall
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E7, CANADA
(780) 492-5698
amtessier at ualberta dot ca
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Anne-Michelle Tessier Assistant Professor of Linguistics University of Alberta, 4-22 Assiniboia Hall Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E7, CANADA (780) 492-5698 amtessier at ualberta dot ca |
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Research Downloadable papers Teaching and Supervision Linguistic links and stuffs Personal miscellanea Some Other Linguists frequently rotated blogroll of sorts in which I point you to semi-randomly selected linguists for whom I harbour affection or respect or both or neither: Here is one... ...another... and another and one more and also this one and also that one also another hey, and this one And of course |
Hi. I'm a linguist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I study linguistic things like phonology, Optimality Theory and other constraint-based grammars, phonological acquisition, language learnability, phonological experimentation, and other things that seem interesting.
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* links to UofA linguistic things and to resources for linguistics grad students * evidence of the value of science
* more on my research interests, and sometimes my CV if you're lucky * nearly everything I've published, written or presented except for really old or terrible things * other linguistics links to people, places, resources, updated very sporadically * a bit of personal info in case you are bored Current Research * Consequences for acquisition of different constraint-based grammars which is something I seem to pretty much always be working on. Right now I'm thinking about error-driven learning in Harmonic Serialism, being a derivational variant of OT. The beginnings of this work was just presented in this poster at the International Child Phonology conference at York University, June 2011. [This work in collaboration with various people, always intellecutally and sometimes on paper, notably Karen Jesney and Joe Pater at UMass Amherst] * Consonant harmony, similarity, and modeling/predicting/inducing speech errors [most recent handout from a talk at UMichigan, January 2011] * Different developmental trajectories and variation in L1 child phonologies [with Michael Becker at UMass Amherst] [project] :: [manuscript under review] * Aspects of early child L2 phonological acquisition, particularly deletion vs. epenthesis cluster repairs, currently by children with L1 Chinese and South Asian languages [with Tamara Sorenson Duncan and Johanne Paradis at UofA] [manuscript under revision] Slightly Older Research * Gradient phonological pressures on English hypocoristics including the influence of coda sonority on men's one-syllable nicknames [abstract and poster] * learning process-based morpho-phonology in the lab and connections to typological frequency [with John Alderete in the Phonology and Cognition Lab at Simon Fraser, and many UofA undergraduate RAs] Linguistics at the University of Alberta LING Research Participation Sign-up Database for 100-level students Ling Colloq Schedule viewable month-by-month including titles and abstracts Info on Graduate Admissions including contact info, deadlines and forms Info for Undergraduates including the Honours program, Directed Research opportunities and undergraduate scholarships |