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Our professors

Suzy Ahn

Suzy Ahn

Assistant Professor

Laryngeal contrasts, ultrasound imaging of speech, speech production, phonetics-phonology interface, phonology-morphology interface, phonological and phonetic representations

Room: MHN 438
Work E-mail[email protected]

Marc Brunelle.

Marc Brunelle

Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

Phonology, phonetics, tone and intonation, register and voicing, sound change, effect of language contact on sound systems, Southeast Asian linguistics

Room: MHN 429
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 1771
Work E-mail[email protected]

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Christopher Fennel

Professor (cross-appointed, Department of Psychology)

Early word learning, infant bilingualism, infant speech perception

Naomi Francis

Naomi Francis

Assistant Professor

Semantics, pragmatics

Room : MHN 423
Work E-mail : [email protected]
 

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André Lapierre

Emeritus Professor 

Onomastics, lexicography, sociolinguistics 

Stephen Levey.

Stephen Levey

Associate Professor 

Urban dialectology and linguistic change, the language of adolescents and preadolescents from a variationist perspective, Pidgin and Creole languages 

Room: MHN 418
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 1573
Work E-mail[email protected]

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Juana Liceras

Distinguished Professor (cross-appointed, Department of Modern Languages and Literature) 

Language acquisition, Spanish and general linguistics, psycholinguistics, contrastive and descriptive grammar 

Éric Mathieu.

Éric Mathieu

Professor, Department Chair

French linguistics, syntax-semantics interface, Algonquian linguistics 

Room: MHN 447
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 5287
Work E-mail[email protected]

Kevin McMullin.

Kevin McMullin

Assistant Professor 

Theoretical phonology, experimental phonology, consonant harmony and dissimilation, formal models of learnability, artificial language learning.

Room: MHN 410
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 1758
Work E-mail[email protected]

Dennis Ott.

Dennis Ott

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies 

Syntax, Germanic linguistics, philosophy of language 

Room: MHN 434
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 7919
Work E-mail[email protected]

Shana Poplack.

Shana Poplack

Professor 

Linguistic variation and change, language contact and bilingualism, Romance linguistics, Canadian French and English 

Room: MHN 422
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 1764
Work E-mail[email protected]

Maria Luisa Rivero

Maria Luisa Rivero

Emeritus Professor 

Syntax, comparative and historical linguistics, Romance and Slavic languages, languages of the Balkan region

Laura Sabourin.

Laura Sabourin

Associate Professor 

Psycholinguistics, first and second language processing, neural organization of language 

Room: MHN 439
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 1763
Work E-mail[email protected]

Andres Salanova

Andres Salanova

Associate Professor 

Descriptive linguistics (of Amerindian languages), semantics, morphosyntax

Room: MHN 425
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 1760
Work E-mail[email protected]

Tania Zamuner

Tania Zamuner

Professor 

First language acquisition, psycholinguistics, developmental speech perception and production, lexical development 

Room: MHN 416
Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 2701
Work E-mail[email protected]

Contact us

Department of Linguistics

Hamelin Hall, room 401
70 Laurier Ave. East
Ottawa ON Canada K1N 6N5
Map

Tel.: 613-562-5286
Fax: 613-562-5141
[email protected]

Office hours

Monday to Friday
8:45 a.m. to 12 p.m.
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(June to August: closed at 3:30 p.m.)

Academic assistants

Undergraduate studies
Simard Hall, room 128
613-562-5134 
[email protected]

Graduate studies 
Desmarais Hall, 8th floor
613 562-5800 ext. 5439
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