Graduate Students
McKinley Alden
PhD
North American language documentation; Dene & Alaskan languages; prosody, corpus linguistics.
Email: malden@ualberta.ca
Karoline Antonsen
MSc
Dene languages, language revitalization and documentation, morphology, semantics.
Email: karoline@ualberta.ca
Rodrigo Becerra
PhD
Grammar and information structure, functional and cognitive linguistics, Mapuche language, language documentation and revitalization.
Email: rbecerra@ualberta.ca
Megan Bohach
Figurative language, psycholinguistics/cognitive linguistics, individual differences, stereotypes, verbal irony.
Email: mbohach@ualberta.ca
Fabian Leonardo Malaver Chaparro
MSc
Ethnolinguistics, phonology, morphosyntax, historical linguistics, language documentation and revitalization, Tucanoan, Sáliban and Northwestern Amazonian languages
Email: malaverc@ualberta.ca
Dalia Cristerna Román
PhD
Pronoun resolution, Spanish, implicit causality, null pronouns.
Email: dcrister@ualberta.ca
Daniel Decanay
MSc
Language documentation, lexical semantics, morphosyntax, lexicograpy, corpus lunguistics, Algonquian languages.
Email: decanay@ualberta.ca
Lex Giesbrecht
MSc
Indigenous languages, endangered languages, morphology, morphosyntax, semantics.
Email: sagiesbr@ualberta.ca
Stephanie H-Thrasher
PhD
Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Social Psychology.
Email: hammondt@ualberta.ca
Atticus Harrigan
PhD
Corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, North American indigenous languages, language documentation and revitalization, morphosyntax and phonetics.
Email: galvin@ualberta.ca
Claudia Heinrich
PhD
Cognitive linguistics and semantics, Talmyan semantics, corpus linguistics.
Email: claudia2@ualberta.ca
Saghar Javidpour
PhD
Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax-Phonology interface, prosody, information structure, speed production, speech perception.
Email: javidpou@ualberta.ca
Eduardo Salinas Lactaoen
MSc
Filipino heritage languages, language maintenance, sociocultural linguistics, linguistic anthropology
Email: lactaoen@ualberta.ca
Rachel McGraw
PhD
Linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, child language acquisition of Totenac, language sustainability of Totonac.
Email: rmcgraw@ualberta.ca
Aarya Menon
MSc
Phonetics, perception and production of speech sounds, loan word acquisition and lexicalization, language contact.
Email: anmenon@ualberta.ca
Devin Moore
PhD
Documentary linguistics, Totonacan languages, morphoshyntax, semantics.
Email: devin.moore@ualberta.ca
Scott Perry
PhD
Phonetics, bilingualism, laboratory phonology, romance linguistics.
Email: sperry1@ualberta.ca
Veranika Puhacheuskaya
PhD
Psycho and neurolinguistics, figurative language, individual differences, foreign-accented speech.
Email: puhacheu@ualberta.ca
Alexander Rice
PhD
Morphosyntax, discourse, corpus linguistics, gesture, phonology, language documentation and revitalization, Quechuan and Western Amazonian languages.
Email: rice@ualberta.ca
Tyler Schnoor
MSc
Phonetics, Speech technology, non-native speech, accentedness, intelligibility, comprehensibility.
Email: tschnoor@ualberta.ca
Maaz Ahmad Shaikh
PhD
Language documentation and description, morphosyntax, historical linguistics, phonology, language planning and revitalization, language contact, Western Tibetic languages, Indo-Aryan languages.
Email: maazahma@ualberta.ca
Cayla Smith
MSc
Semantics, Salish languages, language revitalization, language documentation
Email: cayla3@ualberta.ca
Ali Talebi Targhi
PhD
Language acquisition, bilingualism, heritage languages, morphosyntax, narrative, Persian.
Email: 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.
Email: toler@ualberta.ca
Vera Yunxiao Xia
PhD
Bilingualism, heritage languages, structural priming, implicit learning
Email: yunxiao4@ualberta.ca