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 Another Linguist (and a dog we share) (mouse over their image) |
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. On this page you can find:
* 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 Here are two recent talks (January/February 2013) that summarize various strands of my work from two perspectives: * A talk at York University about my phonological acquisition research * A talk at the University of Toronto about my learning thoughts about serial vs. parallel grammars * Acquisition and learnability consequences of Harmonic Serialism being a derviational varant of OT, and also being the latest in a series of different constraint-based grammars whose learning consequences I am somehow always thinking about. :: [a case study (ICPC2011 poster)] :: [a learnability argument (NELS42 paper)] :: [manuscript under revision; feel free to ask for it by email] * Early child L2 phonological acquisition, starting with the production and soon the perception of onset clusters, currently by children with L1 Asian and South Asian languages One sub-project is in collaboration with Tamara Sorenson Duncan and Johanne Paradis at UofA: :: [paper just published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition] Another sub-project was begun at the University of Michigan, now to be run at UofA: :: [Slides from a Pomona College colloquium] :: [LSA2013 talk (slides to appear in January)] Slightly Older Research * Different developmental trajectories and variation in L1 child phonologies [with Michael Becker at UMass Amherst] :: [article in Phonology 28.2 pp. 163-196.] :: [project page] * Consonant harmony, similarity, and modeling/predicting/inducing speech errors :: [most recent handout from a talk at UMichigan, January 2011] * Gradient phonological pressures on English hypocoristics including the influence of coda sonority on men's one-syllable nicknames :: [abstract and poster] 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, during the semester Info on Graduate Admissions including contact info, deadlines and forms Info for Undergraduates including the Honours program, Directed Research opportunities and undergraduate scholarships |