- Department Chair
- Undergraduate Program Director
- Graduate Program Director
- Graduate Admissions & Funding Director
Michael Wagner
Department Chair
(he/him)
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield |听room #113
Office Hours:听听By appointment听
chael [at] mcgill.ca
Alternative Chair contact in case of COI:听 junko.shimoyama [at] mcgill.ca (Junko Shimoyama)
Junko Shimoyama
Undergraduate Program Director
(she/her)
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield |听room #219
Office Hours:听by appointment
email:听junko.shimoyama [at] mcgill.ca (Junko Shimoyama)
Meghan Clayards
Graduate Program Director
(she/her)
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield |听room #201
Office Hours:听听by appointment
meghan.clayards [at] mcgill.ca
Alternative GPD contact in case of COI: junko.shimoyama [at] mcgill.ca (Junko Shimoyama)
Morgan听Sonderegger听听
Graduate Admissions & Funding Director听听
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield |听room #227
Office Hours:听听by appointment
morgan.sonderegger [at] mcgill.ca听
Department听
- Administrative Staff
- Professors
- Emeritus Professors
- Faculty听Lecturer
- Postdoctoral Fellows
- Graduate Students
- Award Recipients
- Alumni
- In Memoriam
Administrative Staff
Andria De Luca
Administrative Student Affairs Coordinator
1085 Dr. Penfield | room #111
(514) 398-1723
andria.de_luca [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail Andria)
Office Hours:听 By appointment听
Angela Fotopoulos
Area Manager (Student Affairs)
680 Sherbrooke W. | room #0425
(514) 398-5284
angela.fotopoulos [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail Angela)
Office Hours:听 By appointment听
Lina Trivino
听 听 听 听 听 听Area Manager (Finance)
听 听 听 听 听 听lina.trivino [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail Lina)
听 听 听 听 听 听Office Hours: By appointment
Victor Mayer
听 听 听 听 听 听Administrative Coordinator HR & Ops
听 听 听 听 听 听(514) 398-3650 or (514) 399-9441
听 听 听 听 听 听ovidiu.iacobmayer [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail Victor)
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Professors
| Name | Specializations |
|---|---|
| Luis Alonso-Ovalle | Semantics, Pragmatics, Spanish |
| Charles Boberg | Language Variation and Change, Dialectology, North American English |
| Meghan Clayards听(she/her) | Phonetics, Speech Perception |
| Jessica Coon听(she/her) | Syntax, Morphology, Mayan languages, Field Methodology, Language Documentation |
| James A. Crippen | Morphology, Syntax, Syntactic Interfaces, Information Structure, Tlingit and Na-Dene (Dene-Eyak-Tlingit) languages, North American Indigenous Languages, Field Methodology, Language Documentation, Research Ethics |
| Brendan Gillon | Semantics, Pragmatics, Sanskrit Linguistics, Chinese (Mandarin and Classical) |
| Heather Goad听(she/her) | Phonology, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition |
| Martina Martinovi膰 | 听Syntax, Morphology, Field Methodology, West African languages |
| Timothy O'Donnell | Computational Models of Language Learning and Processing, Mathematical Linguistics, Probabilistic Inference |
| Siva Reddy | Linguistically-Informed Deep Learning, Computational Syntax and Semantics, Biases in Deep Learning Models |
| Bernhard Schwarz | Semantics, Pragmatics, German |
| Junko Shimoyama听(she/her) | Syntax, Syntax/Semantics Interface, East Asian Languages |
| Morgan Sonderegger | Phonology, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, Quantitative Methods |
| Francisco Torreira | Phonetics, Intonation, Prosody, Interactional Linguistics |
| Michael Wagner听(he/him) | Prosody/Syntax, Prosody/Semantics, Phonology, Language Processing |
Emeritus Professors
| Name | Specializations |
|---|---|
| Michel Paradis | Bilingualism, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics |
| Glyne Piggott | Phonological Theory, Historical Phonology, Morphology, Amerindian (Ojibwa) |
| Lisa Travis | Syntax, Morphology, Language Variation and Language Change, Austronesian (Malagasy, Tagalog) |
| Lydia White | Generative L2 Acquisition |
Faculty Lecturer
To view the current list of individuals who have , visit the Opportunities & Visitors page.听
Winter 2024听
Andrei Munteanu
Office:听1085 Dr. Penfield | room #322
Office Hours:听Wednesdays 1:30 - 2:30 (in person) or by appointment (in person or Zoom)
Email:听 andrei.munteanu2 [at] mcgill.ca
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral research offers recent Doctoral Degree recipients the chance to further their professional development, build on their research, and effectively transition from life as a student to that of an independent scholar. At 平特五不中, postdoctoral candidates have the opportunity to听collaborate听with some of the world鈥檚 foremost professors and researchers, and to work in an environment that supports and celebrates excellence. For more information, visit the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies website.听
The Linguistics Department's current Postdoctoral Fellows are listed below:
2023-2024
| Name | General Interests听 | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Eva Portelance听 | Computational linguistics; cognitive science; language acquisition | eva.portelance [at] mcgill.ca (email)/ |
Graduate Students
Masters
| Name | General Interests | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Brandon Chaperon | Syntax, Semantics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Fieldwork, Niger-Congo languages |
brandon.chaperon [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Casandra听Jones | Syntax, Syntax-semantic interface, and Prosody | casandra.jones [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail听) |
| Austin Kraft听 | Syntax, Semantics, Computational Linguistics, and Language Documentation and Revitalization | austin.kraft [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Benjamin LeBrun |
Computational Linguistics, Probabilistic and Neural Models of Natural Language, Semantics |
benjamin.lebrun [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Simon LiVolsi听 | Phonological theory, Laboratory Phonology, Prosody, Syntax, and Optimality Theory | simon.livolsi [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail听) |
| Jackson Mundie (he/him) | Language variation and change, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and quantitative methods | jackson.mundie [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Zlata Odribets (she/her) | Syntax, Morphology, and Field Methodology | zlata.odribets [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Sabrina Wang | Syntax, Semantics, Prosody, East Asian Languages, and Computational Linguistics | yingxuan.wang [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
PhD
| Name | General Interests | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Laurestine Bradford (she/her) | Semantics, Mathematical and Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Language and Mathematics | laurestine.bradford [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| George Bennett听 | Syntax, Morphology, Prosody, Information Structure, and Scandinavian languages | george.bennett [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail)听 |
| Jeanne Brown |
Sociolinguistics, Language variation and change, Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology |
jeanne.brown [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Xuanda Chen | Speech Prosody, Sound Change, Prosody and Pragmatics Interface and Computational Linguistics | xuanda.chen [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Amanda Doucette | Phonology, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Modeling |
amanda.doucette [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Terrance Gatchalian | Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Documentation and Revitalization, and Fieldwork |
terrance.gatchalian [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Jacob Hoover | Computational Psycholinguistics, Probabilistic Modelling, Syntax | jacob.hoover [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Jing Ji | Syntax, Semantics, Mandarin Chinese, Computational linguistics |
jing.ji [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| William Johnston | Syntax, Semantics, Fieldwork, Event Structure, Hmong-Mien Languages |
william.johnston4 [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Gaurav Kamath | Semantics, NLP, Computational Linguistics, Expressive Language听 |
gaurav.kamath [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Andrea Kim (they) | Phonetics, Phonology, Historical linguistics, Socio-cultural linguistics | andrea.y.kim [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Luan茅 Lennox | Syntax, Semantics, Information Structure, Fieldwork, Typology, Austronesian Languages, Germanic Languages | luane.lennox [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Kuilin Li | Phonetics, Speech Production and Perception, Speech Imitation and Acquisition, Computational Linguistics | kuilin.li [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail)听 |
| Massimo Lipari | Corpus Phonetics, Language Variation and Change, Phonetics-Phonology Interface, Quebec French | massimo.lipari [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Esmail Moghiseh | Semantics, Pragmatics, Farsi | esmail.moghiseh [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Katya Morgunova | Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Fieldwork | ekaterina.morgunova [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Willie Myers | Fieldwork, Syntax, Language Documentation and Revitalization |
willie.myers [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Olivia Oppong | Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax-Prosody Interface, Ghanaian Languages | olivia.oppong [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Jonathan Palucci | Semantics, Pragmatics, Mathematical Linguistics and Logic, Syntax | jonathan.palucci [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Clinton Parker | Syntax, Language Documentation and Revitalization, Corpus Linguistics, Iranian Languages |
clinton.parker [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Cheman Baira A Sangma | Phonology, Phonetics, Syntax-Phonology Interface, Phonetics-Phonology Interface, Phonological Acquisition | cheman.asangma [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Irene Smith | Phonetics, variation, corpus linguistics, quantitative methods | irene.smith [at] mail.mcgill.ca (email) |
| Michaela Socolof | Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Fieldwork |
michaela.socolof [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Connie Ting |
Phonetics, Phonology, Speech Perception and Production, Language Acquisition |
connie.ting [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Weiyi Zhai | Speech Perception, Second Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, East Asian languages | weiyi.zhai [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Wei Zhang | Phonetics, Prosody, Speech Perception and Production, Quantitative Methods | wei.zhang16 [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
Award Recipients
On behalf of the Department of Linguistics, we are pleased to announce the recipients for: the In-House Undergraduate Student Awards, the Cremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics and the Lara Riente Memorial Prize in Linguistics. Visit the Undergraduate听and Graduate pages for more details.
Academic Leadership Award
2022听| Tallis Clark
2021 | Clara Saliba听
2020 | Avleen Mokha
2019 | Megan Deegan
2018 |听Oscar Costa
2017 |听Lydia Felice
2016 |听Daniel Biggs
2015 |听September Cowley
2014 |听Lauren Garfinkle
2013 |听Olivia Ait-Bella
2012 |听Hannah Pinsky
2010 |听Jonathan Abramsohn
2009 |听Katherine Anne McCurdy
Cremona Memorial Prize
2022 |听Amelia Clayton
2021 | Aliza Ellner
2020 | Emma Gibson
2019 | Beini Wang
2018 |听Gabriel Daitzschman
2017 |听Vincent Rouillard
2016 |听Michaela Socolof
2015 |听Louisa Bielig
2014 |听Misha Schwartz
2013 |听Madeleine Leto Revill
2012 |听Elise McClay
2012 |听Erin Olson
2011 |听Aron Zachary Hirsch
2009 |听Edwin Howard
2008 |听Marc Garellek
2007 |听Megan Sabsay Tylee
2006 |听Bronwyn Bjorkman
2005 |听Margaret Ann Grant
2004 |听Janet Nielsen
2003 |听Anicka Ruth Fast
Department Citizenship Award
2022| Ray Marks
2021| Sarah Denomy
2020 | Benjamin Foster
2019 | Hayley Ostrega
2018 |听Maya Keshav
2017 |听Jacob Schermer
2016 |听Christopher Burnett
2015 |听Marjorie Labelle
2014 |听Andrew MacLachlan
2013 |听Roseanne Lau
2012 |听Madeleine Revill
2011 |听Maude Poirier-Caron
2010 |听David Max Fromstein
2009 |听Laura Kalin
2008 |听Blakey Larsen
2007 |听Michelle St-Amour
Excellence in Research Award
2022 | Benjamin Lebrun
2021 | Sijia Zhang
2020| Emily Baylor
2019 | Michael Goodale
2018 |听Yunxiao (Vera) Xia
2017 |听Sarah Mihuc
2016 |听Cora Lesure
2015 |听Liam Bassford
2014 |听Louisa Bielig
2013 |听Thomas Kettig
2012 |听Erica J. Yoon
2011 |听Tingchun Chen
2010 |听Steffani Maartje Scheer
2009 |听Anna Howell
2008 |听Meaghan Fowlie
2007 |听Gwen Gillingham
Lara Riente Memorial Prize
2023 | Michaela Socolof
2022 | Mathieu Paill茅
2021 | Justin Royer
2020 | James Tanner
2019 | Juric Bozic
2018 |听Donghyun Kim
2017 |听Guilherme Duarte Garcia
2016 |听Hye-Young Bang
2015 |听Daniel Goodhue
2014 |听Michael Hamilton and Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron
2013 |听Brian Buccola
2012 |听Alexandra Simonenko and Jozina Vander Klok
2011 |听Walter Andrew Pedersen
2010 |听脰ner 脰z莽elik
2009 |听Eva Dobler
2008 |听Alyona Belikova
2007 |听Tobin Skinner
2006 |听Naoko Tomioka
2005 |听Heather Sarah Newell
2004 |听Theres Gr眉ter
2003 |听Jos茅e Poirier
U2 Academic Achievement Award
2022 |听Kevin Fan
2021 | Amanda Alicandro
2021 | Emily Mayes
2020 | David Shanks
2019 | Aliza Ellner
2018 |听Beini Wang
2017 |听Fiona Higgins
2016 |听Eva Portelance
2015 |听Michaela Socolof
2014 |听Elena Russo
2013 |听Jessica Lilly Cooper
2012 |听Douglas Herrick
2011 |听Claire Rebecca St George
2010 |听David Adam Simons
2009 |听Jonathan Abramsohn
2009 |听Tingchun Chen
2008 |听Laura Kalin
2007 |听Meredith Tamminga
Alumni
In Memoriam
Irena Findeisen-Bellert (1919-2017)
Hiroko Hagiwara (1955-2015)
Nicole Domingue (1932-2011)