Graduate Students
McKinley Alden
PhD
North American language documentation; Dene & Alaskan languages; prosody, corpus linguistics.
malden@ualberta.ca
Elizabeth Assefa
MSc
Psycholinguistics, individual differences, emotion processing, foreign-accented speech.
assefa@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
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
Indigenous languages (specifically Salish languages with particular focus on Hul'q'umi'num'), language reclamation, language documentation, morphology, morphosyntax, phonetics, semantics, and language pedagogy from an Indigenous (specifically my own) approach.
Dalia Cristerna Román
PhD
Pronoun resolution, Spanish, implicit causality, null pronouns.
dcrister@ualberta.ca
Daniel Decanay
MSc
Language documentation, lexical semantics, morphosyntax, lexicograpy, corpus lunguistics, Algonquian languages.
decanay@ualberta.ca
Cameron Rousseau Duval
PhD
Quantitative linguistics, morphosyntax and phonology, cognitive/psycholinguistics, North American Indigenous languages, low-resource NLP, language documentation and revitalization.
cduval@ualberta.caLex Giesbrecht
MSc
Indigenous languages, endangered languages, morphology, morphosyntax, semantics.
sagiesbr@ualberta.ca
Stephanie H-Thrasher
PhD
Psycholinguistics, Language Processing, Social Psychology.
hammondt@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
Ali Mosanna
PhD
Sound symbolism, psycholinguistics, embodiment, language acquisition.
mosanna@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
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
Ziyan Zou
PhD
Phonology, phonetics, prosody, sociolinguistics, language acquisition.
zzou8@ualberta.ca