Major Research Papers
2024
2023
Haniyeh Mohammadi: "Speech acts on social media: Iranian Instagram influencers' posts"
Supervisors: Jacques Lamarche and Robert Stainton
Lucy Li: "Acquisition of modals in Mandarin Chinese"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
2022
Marzieh Faraji: “Persian verbs and complement clauses”
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Mengchen Li: “Acquisition of intonation of English tag questions by Mandarin L1 speakers”
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Yanfei Lu: “Orthographic variations among Oneida (Iroquoian) sources: Understanding the differences for better interpretations”
Supervisor: Tania Granadillo
2021
Devon Blucher-Martin: “Phonetic variation in transgender speech: the role of speaker agency in gendered speech styles”
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Alexander Gooding: “‘What’s It All Aboat’: Proposal for an Analysis of the Albertan English Vowel System”
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Rae Vanille: “Speaking up with the Kardashians: Exploring Indexical Meanings of Vocal Fry Using Stance” "
Supervisor: Tania Granadillo
Felix de Zuviria Abbate:"Quotative and Intensifier Use: Gender Identities and Word Choice in Guided Narrations"
Supervisor: David Heap
2020
Deborah Allotey: "Overt pronouns of infinitival predicates of Gã"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Emma Butterworth: "Redefining Franco-Ontarian: Negotiating identity criteria through stance"
Supervisor: Karen Pennesi
Nusaybah Qublan Almutairi: " Code-switching in Arabic-Englishdiscourse on Twitter"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Eugene Efremov: "The subject of the russian infinitive and its case"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Sonia Masi: "The morphosyntax of kinship terms and enclitic possessive constructions in the dialect of ardore superiore"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Svetla Nikolova: "Singular they for specific referents of binary and non-binary gender"
Supervisor: David Heap
2019
Douglas Cubas Severo:"The role appearance plays in judging whether a person is a native speaker of English"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Susuana Denkyira Kwaning:"The use of first language (L1) in the second/foreign language (L2) Classroom: Attitudes and perceptions"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Matthew Lund: "Memetic Productions in an Online Speech Community"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Kang Xu: "On the topic of Malagasy dia topicalization construction"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Astrid Winchester-Archer: "Tobago English Creole Orthography—from Oral to Formal: A Sociolinguistic investigation of the orthographic choices of speakers according to age and gender"Supervisor: Tania Granadillo
2018
Anwar Alkhudidi: "Geminate attrition in the speech of Arabic–English bilinguals living in Canada"
Supervisors: Yasaman Rafat
Albandary Aldossari: "The production of germinates in Arabic as a second language: Evidence for language specific and orthographic effects from Japanese and English speaking learners"
Supervisor: Yasaman Rafat
Nasim Fakoornia: "Towards building a database for Persian Light Verbs Constructions through
Extracting Lexical Functions"
Supervisor: Jacques Lamarche & Robert Mercer
Leila Habibi: "The case of Farsi nominal suffix [-e], a semantical account"
Supervisor: Jacques Lamarche
Yasmeen Hakooz: "Mapping Diaspora: A Sociolinguistic Profile of Circassian Speakers Across Toronto and
Surrounding Areas"
Supervisor: Tania Granadillo
Ren Lohmann: "Statistical Language Learning in School-Aged Children: A Closer Look at Stimulus Exposure Times for Word Learning in Developmental Language Disorder"
Supervisor: Lisa Archibald
Eduard Sviridenko: "“Believe Me… We Are Going to Make… A Lot of Money”: Expressivity of Donald Trump’s Public Speeches"
Supervisor: Karen Pennesi
Madeline Walker: "A Corpus Analysis: Second Language Acquisition of French Subject Clitics"
Supervisor: Silvia Perpinan
2017
Amal Alrashidi: "Language attitudes of Saudi Arabic speakers towards code switching"
Supervisors: Jeff Tennant
Serwaa Amampene: "Attitudes of Ghanaians towards indigenous languages"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Michael Iannozzi: "The good [w]ita in Canada"
Supervisor: David Heap
Christopher Maligec: "The liar in context and in possible worlds"
Supervisor: Helmut Jürgensen
Lauren McIntosh:"Plenty of Pigs Putting Pronouns in Perspectives in Alzheimer’s Disease"
Supervisor: Robert Stainton
2016
Yahya Aljohani: "The Effect of Orthographic Input on the L2 English- Speaking Learners' Production of the Arabic Definite Article"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant & Yasaman Rafat
Alexander Angsongna: "Syntax and Semantics of Dagaare complex costructions: Serial verb constructions, multi-aspectual constructions and coordination"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul & Michiya Kawai
Alexandra Annibale: "Semantic Representation in Adults with Learning Disabilities and in ASD"
Supervisor: Robert Stainton
Sarah Cornwell: "Interdental Fricative Production in Dutch Heritage Language Speakers living in Canada"
Supervisor: Yasaman Rafat
Lyal Islambouli: "Variation in the Spoken Arabic of Beirut"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Kristy Townshend:"Towards Discourses of Resilience: Reframing Youth Mental Health"
Supervisor: Robert Stainton
2015
Lina Dallabachi: "A Study of the Acquisition of Syrian Arabic as a First Language"
Supervisor: Elizabeth Skarakis-Doyle
Meghan Hayes: "Borrowing Adverbs in Chiac"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Imam Ibrahim: "Assigning Genders to Borrowed Nouns by Heritage Speakers and Monolinguals of Arabic"
Supervisor: Silvia Perpiñán
Nataliia Larchenko: "Content Analyses of Local Newspapers in the Chinese and in English Languages in a Mid-size Canadian City."
Supervisor: Victoria Rubin
Meagan Puterman: "A comparison of verb deployment in preschool children with and without language impairment."
Supervisor: Elizabeth Skarakis-Doyle
Arielle Vanderschans: "Is this me? - Negotiating Transgender Social Identity through Names"
Supervisor: Karen Pennesi
Chelsea Whitwell: "Acquisition of L3-Spanish Articles & Generics The effects of L2-French proficiency in the plural NP/DP"
Supervisor: Silvia Perpiñán
2014
Samah Abuhasabo: "Second Language Transfer in Heritage Speakers: Evidence from Resumptive Pronouns in Modern Standard Arabic"
Supervisor: Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
Deema Aldajan: "Arabic Nominal Agreement with Broken Plural Nouns: Evidence from Heritage Speakers"
Supervisor: Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
Monica McMillan: "Linguistics Strategies for Brevity on Twitter"
Supervisor: Rob Stainton
Feliks Rozenberg: "Towards an Implementation of Millstream Readers Using a Generic Graph Transformation Engine (GrGen.NET)"
Supervisor: Helmut Jürgensen
2013
Key Cortes: "There exists may*:An analysis of the existential verb may construction in Tagalog"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Vanessa Girouard: "Popular and Unpopular Fanfiction: Stylistic and Linguistic Analysis for Automated Text Classification"
Supervisor: Victoria Rubin
Craig Gullons: "English/Japanese Code Switching of Determiner Phrase"
Supervisor: Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
Lareina Milambiling: "Tagalog Verbs and Situation Aspect"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Gillian Schnurr: "Nicknaming by University Students in a Community of Practice: The Case of "Soph Names""
Supervisor: Karen Pennesi
2012
Sorina Dragusanu: " Vowel quality change in Romanian heritage speakers"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Jordan Dyment: "Troubling Unaccusatives: The Syntax of Aspect and V1 Unaccusatives in Modern Hebrew"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Mojgan Farahani: "The Investigation of the Influence of Ethnicity on the Vowel System of Lebanese Residents of London Ontario"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Philippe Gauthier: "The long and the short of vowel harmony in Canadian French
Supervisor: François Poiré
Jacqueline Nyhout: "The Relationship between the Verb Lexicon and Syntactic Length and Complexity: A Case Study of a Preadolescent with Specific Language Impairment"
Supervisor: Elizabeth Skarakis-Doyle
Matthew Pankhurst: "A Diachronic Context for Sanjiazi Manchu Vowel Harmony"
Supervisor: François Poiré
2011
Monther Almeqdadi "Some indexical features of the English of Engineering: A Systemic Functional Analysis"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Elijah Deer "DWASGOHOWQfNAHT:TOWARDS A FEATURE STRUCTURE OF CAYUGA PRONOMINALS"
Supervisor: David Heap
Marlon Graichy "The Existential Construction in Lebanese Arabic"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Kristen Izaryk "Investigating the Source of Young Children's Pragmatic Knowledge: A Study of Typically Developing Three- and Four-Year-Olds"
Supervisor: Elizabeth Skarakis-Doyle
Danny Kim "A Reanalysis of Multiple Nominative Constructions in Korean"
Supervisor: Ileana Paul
Mackenzie Salt "Pragmatic Communication among Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders"
Supervisor: Robert Stainton
Nerissa Taylor "The French Rhythm of Canadian Native English Speakers"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
2010
Mehrnoush Ahmadi Joobaneh:"The contribution of speech rate on Consonant reduction in Persian"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
Caelan Bowers: "Lexico-Semantic Organization of Language in Japanese-English Bilinguals"
Supervisor: Elena Valenzuela
Sheryl Sawyer:"Exploring identity construction in an online commenting forum"
Supervisor: Tania Granadillo
2009
Mehrnaz Ahmadi Joobaneh: "Second language education in Iranian schools "
Supervisor: Shelley Taylor
Kaja Jasinska: "The Cooperative Principle and Theory of Mind: Is There A Distinct Module of Mind? "
Supervisor: Elizabeth Skarakis-Doyle
Trevor Plug: "Discourse Abilities of Individuals with Spina Bifida."
Supervisor: Elizabeth Skarakis-Doyle
Jessica Spieker: "Constructions of local and non-local identity in Canadian hip hop"
Supervisor: Jeff Tennant
