Meet our Alumni
PhD
Brett C. Nelson ('23)
Supervisor: Dr. Darin Flynn
Dusan Nikolic ('23)
Thesis: Perception of Lexical Pitch-Accents by Serbian and French Speakers,
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Lindsay Hracs ('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 ('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-Saamani ('20)
Thesis: 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 ('20)
Thesis: Online and Offline Examinations of Constituent Order in Persian Ditransitives
Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Sameera Allihibi ('17)
Thesis: The Nominal Inflectional Suffix -e(t) in Damascus Arabic: A Network Morphology Account
Supervisor: Dr. Darin Flynn
Joey Windsor ('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 ('16)
Thesis: Number in Saudi Arabic: Acquisition and Child-Directed Speech,
Supervisor: Dr. Susanne E. Carroll
Svitlana Winters ('16)
Thesis: Lexical Blending in Ukrainian: System of Sport?
Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder
Jamison Cooper-Leavitt ('15)
Thesis: Comparing Human Perception to Computational Classifications of Lexical Tones
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
MA
Cheryl Iwancuk ('25)
Thesis: Do you get what I mean? Contrastive Inference and Comprehension in Children
Supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Skordos
Currently: MSc Student in Speech Language Pathology at McGill University
Shayne Shapkin ('23)
Thesis: Knowledge and grounding: The syntax of discourse particles in Swiss German
Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Ritter
Summer Abdalla ('23)
Supervisor: Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Quinn Goddard ('23)
Thesis: On Indefinite Singular Generics
Supervisor: Dr. David Lieberman
Currently: Master’s Student in Epidemiology, Cumming School of Medicine
Kody Tufts ('23)
Thesis: Dene Sųŀiné Non-Segmental Morphology: Implications for Morphological Theory
Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder
Cheman Baira A Sangma ('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 ('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 ('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 OÄŸuz ('21)
Thesis: Investigating Raising Structures in Turkish
Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Currently: PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Southern California
Merion Hodgson ('21)
Thesis: Voice Onset Time in Plains Cree
Supervisors: Dr. Darin Flynn and Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Lyndon Rey ('20)
Thesis: Quantifying the Role of Prosody in the Perception of Deception
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Currently: NLP Data Scientist at SportsBiz Group Inc.
Una Chow ('17)
Thesis: An Exemplar-Based Model of Intonation Perception of Statements and Questions in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Blake Lewis ('16)
Thesis: Modal Syntax and Semantics: Concord and Multiple Modals
Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Nazila Ilkechy ('16)
Thesis: Persian Complex Predicates: Evidence for Verb Movement from Ellipsis and Negation
Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Sarah Greer ('15)
Thesis: The Perception of Coolness: Voice Quality and its Social Uses and Interpretations
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Jacqueline Jones ('15)
Thesis: I Bag Your Pardon: The Albertan ae/É› Vowel Shift as a Window into Community Grammars
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
BA (Honors)
Sarah Krassman ('24)
Supervisor: Dr. Darin Flynn
Bethany Joo ('24)
Supervisor: Dr. Darin Flynn
Ya’ara Gurel ('24)
Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Ritter
Ileia Goode ('24)
Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder
Rowan Sali ('24)
Supervisor: Dr. Dimitris Skordos
Nicole Ferguson ('23)
Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Ritter
Madeline MacLean ('23)
Supervisor: Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Andres Giudice ('23)
Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder
Tanna Butlin ('22)
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Charys Russell ('22)
Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder
Billy Lindsay ('22)
Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Amy Sun ('21)
Supervisor: Dr. Dimitris Skordos
Cheryl Iwanchuk ('21)
Supervisor: Dr. Dimitris Skordos
Brookyln Sheppard ('21)
Supervisor: Dr. Stephen Winters
Raina Schnider ('20)
Supervisor: Dr. Dimitris Skordos
Quinn Goddard ('20)
Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Ritter
Jesse Weir ('20)
Supervisor: Dr. Dennis Storoshenko
Kody Tufts ('20)
Supervisor: Dr. Amanda Pounder