Members

Charles Boberg

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
1085 Dr. Penfield, #223
tel: 514-398-4869
e-mail: charles.boberg(at)mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Associate Member

Research Themes

Speech Science Modeling

Areas of Expertise

Current Research Interests

Selected Publications

Graduate Students

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Victor Boucher

Professeur
Département de linguistique et traduction
Université de Montréal
room C9126 Pavillon Lionel-Groulx, 3150, rue Jean-Brillant
tel: 514-343-6019
e-mail: victor.boucher(at)umontreal.ca

Membership Status

Associate Member

Research Themes

Speech Science Modeling

Areas of Expertise

speech rhythms and their relation to thestructure of oral language; links between acoustic perceptionand speech & voice production; applications of phonetic sciences

Current Research Interests

Rhythm and immediate serial memory of speech sounds
Effects of phonatory effort on vocal fatigue and speech

Selected Publications

  • Boucher, V. J. (2002). Timing relations in speech and the identification of voice-onset times: a stable perceptual boundary for voicing categories across speaking rates. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 121-130.
  • Boucher, V. J., & Lamontagne, M. (2001). Effects of speaking-rate on the control of vocal-fold vibration. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 44, 1005-1014.
  • Boucher, V. J. (2001). A stumbling block in the development of motor theories of speech: Relating EMG to force-related changes in articulation. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 15, 123-127
  • Boucher, V. J., Garcia, L., Fleurant, J., & Paradis, J. (2001). Variable efficacy of rhythm and tone in melody-based interventions: Implications for the assumption of a right-hemisphere facilitation in non-fluent aphasia. Aphasiology, 15, 131-149.

Graduate Students

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Denis Foucambert

<p>Coming soon</p>

Brendan Gillon

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
1085, Docteur-Penfield Room #119
tel: 514-398-4868
e-mail: brendan.gillon(at)mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Associate Member

Research Themes

Visual Language Processing

Areas of Expertise

Semantics, Sanskrit Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Chinese (Mandarin and Classical), Sanskrit

Current Research Interests

Research interests in semantics extend to a number of neighboring fields: syntax and morphology (within linguistics) and logic and ontology (within philosophy)

Selected Publications

  • Gillon, B. 1(999). Collectivity and distributivity internal to English noun phrases. Language Sciences, 18.1-2, 443-468.
  • Gillon, B. (1996). Word order in Classical Sanskrit. Indian Linguistics, 57.1, 1-35.
  • Gillon, B. (1995). Autonomy of word formation: Evidence from Classical Sanskrit. Indian Linguistics, 56.1-4, 15-52.
  • Gillon, B. (1992). Towards a common semantics for English count and mass nouns. Linguistics and Philosophy, 15.6, 597-640.
  • Gillon, B. & Hayes, R.P. (1991). Introduction to Dharmakirti's theory of inference as presented in Pramanavarttika Svopajnavrtti 1-10. Journal of Indian Philosophy, 19.1, 1-73.

Graduate Students

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Heather Goad

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics
McGill University
1085 Dr. Penfield, #320
tel: 514-398-4223
e-mail: heather.goad(at)mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Associate Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition
Speech Science Modeling

Areas of Expertise

Phonology, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Genetic Dysphasia, Speech Perception

Current Research Interests

My research is broadly concerned with examining the role that highly-articulated representations play in circumscribing the notion ‘possible grammar’ in the acquisition of phonology. In first language acquisition, my current research focusses on the acquisition of constituency in prosodic structure (specifically, the syllabification of left-edge clusters, word-final consonants, and stress). In second language acquisition, my work focusses on trying to find prosodic explanations for asymmetries in the patterns of suppliance of functional morphology (specifically, determiners, tense and agreement morphology), a domain of enquiry for which syntactic explanations are typically sought.

Selected Publications

  • Goad H. & Y. Rose, (Eds.)(2003). Segmental-prosodic interaction in phonological development: A comparative investigation. Special issue of Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 48(3/4), 139-452.
  • Goad, H. & Rose, Y. (2004). Input elaboration, head faithfulness and evidence for representation in the acquisition of left-edge clusters in West Germanic. In R. Kager, J. Pater, & W.Zonneveld, (Eds.), Constraints in Phonological Acquisition, 109-157. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Goad, H. & Buckley, M. (2006). Prosodic structure in child French: Evidence for the foot. Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 5, 109-142. Special Issue on the Acquisition of Romance Languages as First Languages.
  • Goad, H. & White, L. (2006). Ultimate attainment in interlanguage grammars: A prosodic approach. Second Language Research, 22, 243-268.

Graduate Students

  • Brannen, Kathleen
  • Mah, Jen
  • Qu, Chen

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Lucie Godard

Coming soon

Roy Lyster

Associate Professor
Department of Integrated Studies in Education
McGill University
3700 McTavish Street
tel: 514-398-5942
e-mail: roy.lyster@mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Principal Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition

Areas of Expertise

Second language acquisition, immersion education, classroom discourse, educational sociolinguistics, cross-cultural pragmatics

Current Research Interests

My research is primarily classroom-based and focuses on the effects of different types of classroom interaction and instructional options on second language development, especially in the context of content-based second language classrooms. Of special interest to me are the pragmatic and cognitive dimensions of form-focused negotiation, including the types of retrieval processes that most effectively trigger developmental changes in a learner's underlying interlanguage system.

Selected Publications

  • Lyster, R. (2004). Research on form-focused instruction in immersion classrooms: Implications for theory and practice. Journal of French Language Studies, 14 (3). 321-341
  • Lyster, R. (2004). Differential effects of prompts and recasts in form-focused instruction. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 399-432.
  • Lyster, R. (2006). Predictability in French gender attribution: A corpus analysis. Journal of French Language Studies, 16, 69-92.
  • Lyster, R., & Mori, H. (2006). Interactional feedback and instructional counterbalance. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 28, 269-300.

Graduate Students

  • Susan Ballinger (PhD candidate)
  • Kimiko Hinenoya (PhD candidate)
  • Jesús Izquirdo (PhD candidate)
  • Daniéle Guènette (PhD candidate)
  • Margaret Quéguiner(PhD candidate)
  • Andrea Sterzuk (PhD candidate)
  • Yingli Yang (PhD candidate)
  • Michael Lenane (MA candidate)

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Glyne Piggott

Associate Professor
Department of Linguistic
McGill University
1085 Dr. Penfield, #223
tel: 514-398-4869
e-mail: glyne.piggott(at)mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Associate Member

Research Themes

Visual Language Processing

Areas of Expertise

Phonological Theory, Historical Phonology, Morphology, Amerindian (Ojibwa)

Current Research Interests

Selected Publications

Graduate Students

Bruce Pike

Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
McGill University
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, 3801 University St,. #WB-315,
tel: 514-398-1929
e-mail: bruce(at)bic.mni.mcgill.ca

Membership Status

Associate Member

Research Themes

Neural Bases of Language

Areas of Expertise

My research is focused on MRI methods and applications for basic and clinical neuroscience. My primary focus, has been the detection and measurement of the physiological modulations that are involved in neuronal activation. This technique is called functional MRI (fMRI). fMRI can detect changes in blood oxygenation and tissue perfusion with a high temporal and spatial resolution. It also provides a powerful tool for studying activation physiology (e.g. flow / metabolism coupling). I also study quantitative MRI techniques such as magnetization transfer (MT) imaging. This technique probes the magnetic interaction between protons associated with macromolecules and water. MT imaging has many applications and the one that we have studied the most is multiple sclerosis

Current Research Interests

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) of Brain Physiology
  • fMRI Applications in Basic and Clincial Neuroscience
  • Quantitative Magnetization Transfer (qMT) MRI Methods
  • qMT in Multiple Sclerosis
  • Anatomical and Functional MRI Simultaion and Optimization
  • Normal Brain Development Characterization via MRI
  • Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) and White Matter Fibre Tracking

Selected Publications

  • Sled, J.G & Pike, G,B. (2000). Quantitative interpretation of magnetization transfer in spoiled gradient echo MRI sequences. Journal of Magnetic Resonance, Jul;145(1), 24-36.
  • Dumoulin, S.O., Bittar, R.G., Kabani, N.J., Baker, C.L. Jr., Le Goualher, G., Pike B.G. & Evans, A.C. (2000). A new anatomical landmark for reliable identification of human area V5/MT: a quantitative analysis of sulcal patterning. Cerebral Cortex, May;10(5), 454-63.
  • Belin P., Zatorre, R.J., Lafaille, P., Ahad, P. & Pike, B. (2000). Voice-selective areas in human auditory cortex. Nature, Jan 20;403(6767), 309-12.
  • Belin, P., Zatorre, R.J., Hoge, R,, Evans, A.C. & Pike, B. (1999). Event-related fMRI of the auditory cortex. Neuroimage, Oct;10(4), 417-29.

Graduate Students

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Philippe Prévost

Associate Professor
Département de langues, linguistique et traduction
Université Laval

Membership Status

Associate Member

Research Themes

Language Acquisition

Areas of Expertise

Current Research Interests

Selected Publications

Graduate Students

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