CV

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Linguistics

• From discourse to data — Empirical approaches to studying sociophonetic variation within the Canadian landscape — Supervised by Morgan Sonderegger and Meghan Clayards

Master of Arts (MA) in Linguistics

• An acoustic study of voicing and register in Northern Raglai — Supervised by Marc Brunelle

Joint Honours Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Psychology and Linguistics

Co-supervisor

• Joint Honours Undergraduate Thesis (with Prof. Meghan Clayards)
• Gender presentation and the perception of nonbinary voices

Co-supervisor

• Undergraduate RA work (two students; with Prof. Morgan Sonderegger & Prof. Meghan Clayards)
• Training in data collection and processing for corpus construction

Course Lecturer

• Intro to speech science (LING210)

LabPhon20 organizing committee RA

Teaching Assistant

• Phonetics 3 (LING330)
• Intro to speech science (LING210)
• Language acquisition 1 (LING355)
• Intro to linguistics (LING201)

Teaching Assistant

• Intro à la phonologie (LIN2720)
• Acoustique de la parole (LIN4726)
• Théorie syntaxique (LIN3710)

Research Coordinator

• The discourse skills of monolingual and bilingual school-aged children

Freelance transcriber

Research Assistant

• Voicing and its transphonologization: The initiation and actuation of a sound change in Southeast Asia

Research Assistant

• Learning to sound like a native speaker

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.

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.

Causal structure in creaky voice acoustics - Evidence for f0 mediation

• A causal mediation analysis testing whether f0 mediates relationships between social factors and creaky voice acoustics.

Perceptual accessibility of Laurentian French dialect boundaries

• A perceptual dialectology study testing whether regional distinctions between Ontario and Quebec French varieties are perceptually grounded, with an exploratory acoustic analysis of the features informing listener judgements.

• Doctoral Research Scholarship [373124] – Fonds de recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC)
• General Institute Fellowship – Linguistics Society of America
• Graduate Mobility Award – Government of Québec
• Graduate Student Travel Award – Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music

• McCall MacBain Fellowship in Arts – McGill University

• Graduate Student Travel Award – Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music

• Summa cum laude – University of Ottawa

• Edward Sapir Scholarship in Linguistics – University of Ottawa