Graduate Students

McKinley Alden
PhD

North American language documentation; Dene & Alaskan languages; prosody, corpus linguistics.
malden@ualberta.ca

Karoline Antonsen
MSc

Dene languages, language revitalization and documentation, morphology, semantics.
karoline@ualberta.ca

Rodrigo Becerra
PhD

Grammar and information structure, functional and cognitive linguistics, Mapuche language, language documentation and revitalization.
rbecerra@ualberta.ca

Megan Bohach

Figurative language, psycholinguistics/cognitive linguistics, individual differences, stereotypes, verbal irony.
mbohach@ualberta.ca

Kasandra Calkins
MSc

Accented speech perception.
kcalkins@ualberta.ca

Fabian Leonardo Malaver Chaparro
MSc

Ethnolinguistics, phonology, morphosyntax, historical linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, Tucanoan, Sáliban and Northwestern Amazonian languages
malaverc@ualberta.ca

Rae Anne Claxton
PhD

claxton@ualberta.ca

Dalia Cristerna Román
PhD

Pronoun resolution, Spanish, implicit causality, null pronouns.
dcrister@ualberta.ca

Daniel Decaney
MSc

Language documentation, lexical semantics, morphosyntax, lexicograpy, corpus lunguistics, Algonquian languages.
decanay@ualberta.ca

Lex Giesbrecht
MSc

Indigenous languages, endangered languages, morphology, morphosyntax, semantics.
sagiesbr@ualberta.ca

Stephanie H-Trasher
PhD

Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Social Psychology.
hammondt@ualberta.ca

Atticus Harrigan
PhD

Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, North American indigenous languages, language documentation and revitalization, morphosyntax and phonetics.
galvin@ualberta.ca

Claudia Heinrich
PhD

Cognitive linguistics and semantics, Talmyan semantics, corpus linguistics.
claudia2@ualberta.ca

Saghar Javidpour
PhD

Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax-Phonology interface, prosody, information structure, speed production, speech perception.
javidpou@ualberta.ca

Eduardo Salinas Lactaoen
MSc

Filipino heritage languages, language maintenance, sociocultural linguistics, linguistic anthropology
lactaoen@ualberta.ca

Hannah Lam
PhD

Language acquisition, bi-/multilingualism, heritage language.

Erin McGarvey
MSc

emcgarve@ualberta.ca

Rachel McGraw
PhD

Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, child language acquisition of Totenac, language sustainability of Totonac.
rmcgraw@ualberta.ca

Aarya Menon
MSc

Phonetics, perception and production of speech sounds, loan word acquisition and lexicalization, language contact.
anmenon@ualberta.ca

Devin Moore
PhD

Documentary linguistics, Totonacan languages, morphoshyntax, semantics.
devin.moore@ualberta.ca

Scott Perry
PhD

Phonetics, bilingualism, laboratory phonology, romance linguistics.
sperry1@ualberta.ca

Veranika Puhacheuskaya
PhD

Psycho and neurolinguistics, figurative language, individual differences, foreign-accented speech.
puhacheu@ualberta.ca

Alexander Rice
PhD

Morphosyntax, discourse, corpus linguistics, gesture, phonology, language documentation and revitalization, Quechuan and Western Amazonian languages.
rice@ualberta.ca

Tyler Schnoor
MSc

Phonetics, Speech technology, non-native speech, accentedness, intelligibiilty, comprehensibility.
tschnoor@ualberta.ca

Maaz Ahmad Shaikh
PhD

Language documentaiton and description, morphosyntax, historical linguistics, phonology, language planning and revitalization, language contact, Western Tibetic languages, Indo-Aryan languages.
maazahma@ualberta.ca

Cayla Smith
MSc

Semantics, Salish languages, language revitalization, language documentation
cayla3@ualberta.ca

Ali Talebi Targhi
PhD

Language acquisition, bilingualism, heritage languages, morphosyntax, narrative, Persian.
talebita@ualberta.ca

Nicholas Toler
PhD

Language documentation and revitalization, cognitive linguistics, semantics, and morphosyntax. Focus is primarily on study of Yup'ik-Inuit-Unangan languages and on native American languages in general.
toler@ualberta.ca

Vera Yunxiao Xia
PhD

Bilingualism, heritage languages, structural priming, implicit learning
yunxiao4@ualberta.ca