Learn about the professional and academic accomplishments of our alumni. Our graduates’ journeys exemplify the success and impact of the University of Calgary Linguistics program.
Alumni
PhD
BrettC Nelson (PhD’ 23) – Thesis: Learning the Sounds of Silence: Adult acquisition of Kaqchikel (Mayan) plain and glottalized stop consonants, Supervisor: Dr. Darin Flynn
Dusan Nikolic (PhD ’23) – Thesis: Perception of Lexical Pitch-Accents by Serbian and French Speakers, Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Lindsay Hracs (PhD ’21) – Thesis: Modelling Exposure and Input in Language Acquisition, Supervisor: Dr. Susanne E. Carroll [Currently: Postdoctoral Associate in the Kaplan Lab (University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine)]
Kelly Burkinshaw (PhD’20) – Thesis: Vowel Space, Variability, and Lexical Context in Infant Speech Perception, Supervisor: Dr. Suzanne Curtin [Currently: Laboratory Manager in the Language Processing Lab (University of Calgary, Department of Psychology)]
Mohammad Al-Samaani (PhD’20) – Thesis: VOT and F0 in the production and perception of Swahili obstruents: From the island to the coast to the inland region, Supervisors: Dr. Darin Flynn & Dr. Stephen Winters
Elias Abdollahnejad (PhD’20) – Thesis: Online and Offline Examinations of Constituent Order in Persian Ditransitives, Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Sameera Allihibi (PhD ’17) – Thesis: The Nominal Inflectional Suffix -e(t) in Damascus Arabic: A Network Morphology Account, Supervisor: Dr. Darin Flynn
Joey Windsor (PhD ’17) – Thesis: Phonology to Syntax–and Back Again: Hierarchical Structure in Irish and Blackfoot, Supervisors: Dr. Darin Flynn & Dr. Elizabeth Ritter [Currently: Postdoctoral associate in epidemiology lab (Kaplan Lab, University of Calgary, Cumming School of Medicine) specializing in knowledge translation.]
Salma Alqahtani (PhD ’16) – Thesis: Number in Saudi Arabic: Acquisition and Child-Directed Speech, Supervisor: Dr. Susanne E. Carroll
Svitlana Winters (PhD ’16) – Thesis: Lexical Blending in Ukrainian: System of Sport?, Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder
Jamison Cooper-Leavitt (PhD ’15) – Thesis: Comparing Human Perception to Computational Classifications of Lexical Tones, Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
MA
Shayne Shapkin (MA ’23) – Thesis: Knowledge and grounding: The syntax of discourse particles in Swiss German, Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Ritter
Summer Abdalla (MA ’23) – Thesis: Perception and Production of a Quantity-Sensitive Stress System in Adults and Children: The case of Levantine Arabic in Canada, Supervisor: Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Quinn Goddard (MA ’23) – Thesis: On Indefinite Singular Generics, Supervisor: Dr. David Lieberman [Currently: Master’s Student in Epidemiology, Cumming School of Medicine]
Kody Tufts (MA ’23) – Thesis: Dene Sųŀiné Non-Segmental Morphology: Implications for Morphological Theory, Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder
Cheman Baira A Sangma (MA ’22) – Thesis: Non-convergence of pitch and duration: Word-prosody of Garo, Supervisor: Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou [Currently: PhD student at McGill University]
Andrea Levinstein-Rodriguez (MA ’22) – Thesis: When Articles Go Missing: Analyzing Optionality in Spanish Prepositional Relative Clauses, Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko [Currently: PhD student at University of Toronto]
Brittany McDonald (MA ’21) – Thesis: The Interactional Structure of Nominals: An Investigation of Paranouns, Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Ritter [Currently: Completed MPP (Master of Public Policy) at UCalgary, and now works for Calliou Group, an Indigenous consulting firm based in Calgary]
Metehan Oğuz (MA ’21) – Thesis: Investigating Raising Structures in Turkish, Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko [Currently: PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Southern California]
Merion Hodgson (MA ’21) – Thesis: Voice Onset Time in Plains Cree, Supervisors: Dr. Darin Flynn and Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Lyndon Rey (MA ’20) – Thesis: Modeling the Perception of Deceptive Speech: a Neural Network Approach, Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters [Currently: NLP Data Scientist at SportsBiz Group Inc.]
Una Chow (MA ’17) – Thesis: An Exemplar-Based Model of Intonation Perception of Statements and Questions in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Blake Lewis (MA ’16) – Thesis: Modal Syntax and Semantics: Concord and Multiple Modals, Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Nazila Ilkechy (MA ’16) – Thesis: Persian Complex Predicates: Evidence for Verb Movement from Ellipsis and Negation, Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Sarah Greer (MA ’15) – Thesis: The Perception of Coolness: Voice Quality and its Social Uses and Interpretations, Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Jacqueline Jones (MA ’15) – Thesis: I Bag Your Pardon: The Albertan ae/ɛ Vowel Shift as a Window into Community Grammars, Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
BA (Honours)
Nicole Ferguson (BA ’23)– Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Ritter
Madeline MacLean (BA ’23)– Supervisor: Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Andres Giudice (BA ’23)– Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder
Tanna Butlin (BA ’22) – Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Charys Russell (BA ’22) – Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder
Billy Lindsay (BA ’22) – Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Amy Sun (BA ’21) – Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Skordos
Cheryl Iwanchuk (BA ’21) – Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Skordos
Brookyln Sheppard (BA ’21) – Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Raina Schnider (BA ’20) – Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Skordos
Quinn Goddard (BA ’20) – Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Ritter
Jesse Weir (BA ’20) – Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Kody Tufts (BA ’20) – Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder