Formal languages, like machines, can be extremely useful tools, but natural languages, like people, don't have to apologize for not being more like them (respectively.)
[Barbara Partee, 1994. Lexical Semantics and Compositionality]		 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

Research

Downloadable
papers

(Main Page)

Linguistic
links and stuffs

Personal
miscellanea


 Teaching

Courses I Teach or Have Taught for Undergraduates
LING101 Intro to Linguistic Analysis (about once a year)
LING205Phonetics (very occasionally)
LING310 Intro to Phonology (many years)
LING420 Phonological Acquisitions (most winters)
LING375 and 475 Directed Research (when my research interests align with those of the right students')
LING399 and 499 Independent Study (see Directed Research)

Courses I Teach for Undergraduates and Graduate Students Alike
LING501 Research Methods (some Falls)
LING599/683-type Seminars Topics in Phonology or Language Acquisition or Similar (occasionally: next in Fall 2011)

Courses I Teach for Graduate Students
LING601 Graduate Phonology I (every other Fall or so)
LING611 Graduate Phonology II (occasionally)

Advising

Current students
Corey Telfer, Ph.D. candidate. (Corey, get a webpage).

Former Students
(Co-supervised with Johanne Paradis) Tamara Sorenson Duncan, M.Sc. 2010. Early L2 phonology in spontaneous and non-word repetition tasks
Marnie Krauss, M.Sc. 2008. Featural eatural similarity in induced phonological speech errors.

Lisa Elliott, BA Honours 2011. L2 phonological proficiency (as quantified via acoustic measures) and socio-linguistic attitudes.
Jeffrey Klassen, BA Honours 2010. The Phonology of Verlan.

Guest Lecture Slides

Atypical Phonological Acquisition - guest lecture in LING419 Linguistics and Child Language Disorders, Fall 2008
How Toddlers Invent the Worlds' Phonologies - guest lecture to University of Alberta Linguistics Club, February 2008

Syllabus Materials for LING 101/100 for instructors in Ling at UofA:

University Policies about absences from exams, special needs, and so forth ** .doc format ** .pdf format
Research Participation info for classes whose students are participating in experiments for course credit ** .doc format ** .pdf format

* Footnote: At the University of Alberta, the "Winter" semester is what lasts from January until April. At e.g. my alma mater, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, this session is called the "Spring" semester, and the "Winter" session is a quick thing that is over by the last week of January. I suspect this difference in naming conventions speaks to something very important. Whether the difference is truly meterological or in fact more attitudinal is not yet clear; I remain optimistic that it is only a lack of optimism, and not spring, that the UofA system reflects.

last updated May 3, 2012