Linguistics
Potential Research Areas and Supervisors
Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Broad areas of research interest: Phonology and phonetics and in particular, prosodic phenomena across languages.
Specific research interests: Prosodic structures (stress, tone, focus, intonation) and the developmental process of more complex prosodic structures (e.g., compound stress, clitic stress, etc.) with a focus on the production properties of children.
Darin Flynn
Broad areas of research interest: Phonology, Canadian Indigenous languages, endangered language documentation and revitalization
Specific research interests: Phonetics-phonology interface, distinctive features, prosodic structure, Wakashan, Algonquian, Dene/Athabaskan, French, black English
David Liebesman
Broad areas of interest: Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Pragmatics, Metaphysics
Specific areas of interest: Number words, quantification, the mass/count distinction, generics
Elizabeth Ritter
Broad areas of research interest: Syntax, morpho-syntax, syntax-semantics interface
Specific research interests: Syntactic categories and features, animacy, DPs, Blackfoot, Hebrew, tenselessness, and its implications for clause structure in Blackfoot
Dimitrios Skordos
Broad areas of research interest: First language acquisition, experimental semantics and pragmatics, psychology of language, language and cognition.
Specific research interests: Pragmatic inference, quantification and logical operators, space and motion events cross-linguistically.
Dennis Storoshenko
Broad areas of research interest: Syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface
Specific research interests: Experimental syntax, Japanese and Korean syntax, research on syntactic theories outside the generative model, including Tree Adjoining Grammar
Stephen Winters
Broad areas of research interest: Phonetics, speech perception
Specific research interests: Exemplar Theory, talker identification, voice quality, intonation perception