CV
Last updated 10 July 2025. Download PDF for full CV.
General Information
| Full Name | Jeanne Brown |
| Title | Linguistics PhD student |
| Languages | English, French (Canadian) |
Education
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2027 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Linguistics
McGill University, Montreal, Canada - Thesis TBD
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2020 Master of Arts (MA) in Linguistics
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada - “An Acoustic Study of Voicing and Register in Northern Raglai” -- Supervised by Marc Brunelle
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2019 Joint Honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology and Linguistics
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Experience
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09/2025-12/2025 Course Lecturer
Department of Linguistics, McGill University - Intro to speech science (LING210)
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05/2025-06/2026 LabPhon20 organizing committee RA
Department of Linguistics, McGill University -
09/2023-04/2025 Teaching Assistant
Department of Linguistics, McGill University - Phonetics 3 (LING330)
- Intro to speech science (LING210)
- Language acquisition 1 (LING355)
- Intro to linguistics (LING201)
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09/2019-04/2020 Teaching Assistant
Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa - Intro à la phonologie (LIN2720)
- Acoustique de la parole (LIN4726)
- Théorie syntaxique (LIN3710)
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04/2021-04/2023 Research Coordinator
School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Dalhousie University, Dr. Patricia Cleave - The Discourse Skills of Monolingual and Bilingual School-aged Children
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10/2021-04/2022 Freelance transcriber
Faculty of Education, Crandall University -
01/2019-07/2021 Research Assistant
Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Marc Brunelle - Voicing and its transphonologization: the initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia
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01/2019-12/2021 Research Assistant
Department of Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Stephen Levey - Learning to Sound Like a Native Speaker
Projects
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2022-2025 A sociophonetic study of creaky voice across language, gender and age in Canadian English-French bilinguals
- A study of creaky voice acoustic correlates across language, gender and age.
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2024-present Disentangling acoustic and social biases in creaky voice perception - The effects of f0 and face gender on creakiness ratings
- A study of how creaky voice perception is shaped by speaker f0 and perceived speaker gender.
Honors and Awards
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2025 - Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC) Grant
- Linguistics Society of America Summer General Institute Fellowship
- Government of Québec – Graduate Mobility Award
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2019 - University of Ottawa – Summa cum laude
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2018 - University of Ottawa – Edward Sapir Scholarship in Linguistics
Academic Interests
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Phonetics
- Speech acoustics
- Speech perception
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Sociolinguistics
- Language variation and change
- Indexicality