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Ali,
Abdul-Khalig |
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations |
Arabic |
Arabic language, linguistics, literature |
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Ambros,
Veronika |
Slavic Languages & Literatures/Center for Comparative Literature |
Czech; Slovak |
Teaching a second language; style; language and culture; speech acts; Czech literature; modern drama (Czech); semiotics of drama and theatre; literary theory; women writers; exile. |
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Andree,
Alexander |
Center for Mediaeval Studies |
Latin |
Mediaeval biblical commentary, philology, codicology, paleography |
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Anna,
Shternshis |
Jewish Studies/German/Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies |
Yiddish |
Yiddish; Yiddish studies; Jews and the Soviet Union |
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Bancheri,
Salvatore |
Italian Studies (UTM) |
Italian |
Textual criticism; religious theater; 18th century literature, Sicilian literature; second language teaching and learning; drama: theory and performance; Italian-Canadian Studies; development of CALL software, computer research.; (Currently Graduate Coordinator and Associate Chair at UTM, Director of the Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies) |
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Barnes,
Christopher J. |
Slavic Languages & Literatures |
Russian |
Modern Russian language; “functional� and literary translation techniques; Russian 20th cent. literature; history of Russian poetry; life and works of Boris Pasternak; history of Russian music (esp. Aleksandr Scriabin); Russian pianism; interaction between Russian literature and music. |
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Beaulieu,
Paul-Alain |
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations |
Akkadian |
Assyriology; Akkadian language and literature; history of Mesopotamia. |
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Beauquis,
Corinne |
French (UTSC) |
French |
Program in education of teachers, CTEP; French and Francophone literature. |
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Bhatt,
Parth |
French |
French |
Neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics; phonetics, phonology (French); acoustic descriptions of aphasiac subjects; French speech pragmatics (radio); French creoles.; (Currently, Departmental chair) |
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Binnick,
Robert I. |
Linguistics (UTSC) |
Mongolian; Altaic |
Semantics, especially tense and aspect; bibliography on tense (www.scar.utoronto.ca/~binnick/TENSE/index.html); pragmatics; Mongolian. |
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Birnbaum,
Eleazar |
Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. |
Turkish; Turkish, Ottoman; Arabic; Persian; Hebrew |
Turkish: Modern and Ottoman; Ottoman Turkish language, literature, and history; early development of Ottoman Turkish as a literary language; Islamic languages: Arabic, Turkish, Persian interactions; manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian; Hebrew language; Oriental Jewry. |
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Blackmore,
Josiah |
Spanish & Portuguese |
Portuguese, Medieval; Spanish, Medieval |
Medieval Portuguese and Spanish; Medieval and early modern Iberian literatures and cultures; Camões and monsters, deviance, and the forbidden in literature and history. |
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Bogert,
Ralph |
Slavic Languages & Literatures |
Croatian; Serbian |
The Croatian-Serbian Diasystem (lexical, syntactic, stylistic differences and the definition of official literary languages); South Slavic languages and literature; Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian cultural ethnography, history and politics; dissident writers. |
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Brousseau,
Anne-Marie |
French |
French; French-based Creoles: Haitian Creole, St. Lucia Creole; Fongbe and other Gbé languages (Ewé, Gen, Aja, etc.) |
Derivational morphology and composition (theory, interface, productivity, lexicalization, compounding); St. Lucia Creole (description, morphology, lexicon, phonological variation and interference); Haitian Creole (genesis of phonological system, comparisons with sources (Gbé, French), formation from the perspective of L2); French (derivational morphology, composition, lexical semantics). |
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Campana,
John |
Italian Studies (UTM) |
Italian |
Second language acquisition of dialectophones and anglophones (esp. error correction and language interference); computer assisted language learning and software; Italian cinema, poetry, novels. |
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Chamberlin,
J. Edward |
English/Center for Comparative Literature |
Creole, West Indian (anglophone) |
Modernist and contemporary poetry; Caribbean literature; Aboriginal literatures and languages (cultural and political issues); stories and storytelling, oral and written traditions; theories of language and poetic language; West Indian (anglophone) creoles (relationships between speech and writing).; |
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Chambers,
Craig |
Psychology (UTM) |
English |
Cognitive Science; Psycholinguistics; Language Acquisition |
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Chambers,
J. K. (Jack) |
Linguistics |
English, Canadian |
Language variation; dialectology; Canadian English.; |
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Chasin,
Marshall |
Linguistics |
English |
Phonetics; audiology |
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Cody,
Francis |
Anthropology (UTM) |
English |
Social cultural anthropology; social and semiotic theory; political economy of representation; written language; activism; development; social movements; media-studies; postcolonial state; Tamilnadu, India, South Asia. |
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Colantoni,
Laura |
Spanish & Portuguese |
Spanish; French |
Acoustic motivations of sound variation and change in Romance; phonetic variation and phonological categorization; L2 acquisition of variable sound patterns; intonation: description and modeling of Argentine Spanish intonation. |
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Collins,
Frank |
French |
French; Umbundu (fluent); Portugese; Spanish |
Comparative study: French/English; Christian of Troy (the continuation in prose); transduction (French to English); Semiotics (texts: Greimas, etc.); language didactics. |
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Cowper,
Elizabeth A. |
Linguistics |
English; French; German; Hungarian |
Syntactic theory; Universal Grammar; inflectional morphology; lexical semantics; tense and aspect. ; |
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Cuervo,
Maria Cristina |
Linguistics/Spanish & Portuguese |
Spanish, modern English |
Syntax, argument structure, morphology, dative arguments, applicatives, clitics, neurolinguistics, acquisition (Spanish morphosyntax in L1 and L2). |
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Cumming,
Alister |
OISE: Curriculum Teaching and Learning, Modern Language Centre |
English; French |
Literacy in second languages, particularly writing; learning, teaching, and assessment of writing in English as a second/foreign language; evaluation of language education programs and curriculum, i.e. for second language education and immigrant settlement; thinking processes in language learning and instruction; development of assessment instruments and procedures in academic, professional and settlement contexts.; (Currently Head of Modern Language Center); |
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Danesi,
Marcel |
Anthropology |
English |
Linguistic anthropology, semiotics, youth culture; Italy, France, North America. |
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De Nil,
Luc F. |
Speech-Language Pathology |
Dutch |
Neuromotor processes underlying speech production; fluency disorders (stuttering), effective ways of treating such disorders; neuroimaging of cortical and subcortical activity during speech and oral movements; speech disorders in Tourette’s Syndrome.; |
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Dehli,
Kari |
OISE: Sociology and Equity Studies, Centre for Media and Culture in Education |
Norwegian; Swedish; Danish |
Analysis of policy discourse; adult literacy; sociological and political theory; feminist cultural studies; state formation and government; the social organization and effects of education policy and discursive practices.; (Currently Chair of Sociology and Equity Studies) |
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Dewar,
Michael |
Classics |
Latin |
Teaching Interests: Latin Language and Literature; Roman Culture and Society; |
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Dresher,
B. Elan |
Linguistics |
English, Old; Germanic; Hebrew, Biblical |
Phonology; learnability; diachronic linguistics; Biblical Hebrew prosody; the history of stress and syllable structure in West Germanic. ; (Currently, Departmental Chair) |
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English,
Jeri |
French (UTSC) |
French |
French women writers in the 19th and 20th centuries; enunciation and discourse theory; feminist theory on gender and writing; subjectivity and literary canon formation; language teaching. |
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Feuerverger,
Grace |
OISE: Curriculum Teacher Development |
English; French; Italian; Yiddish; Hebrew; German; Polish |
Minority language education; language loss and ethnic identity maintenance; language, culture and identity in schools; multicultural/multilingual literacy development; immigrant/refugee issues and language maintenance; cultural and linguistic diversity; conflict resolution and peacemaking in multicultural/multilingual societies. |
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Fox,
Harry |
Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs./Religion |
Hebrew; Aramaic; Yiddish |
Sociolinguistics, esp. particular language contact involving Hebrew and Aramaic (with each other and with other languages); Hebrew and Aramaic philology; Judaism of late antiquity; talmudic, rabbinic, geonic and Modern Hebrew literature. ; |
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Frame,
Grant |
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations/Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project |
Akkadian; Babylonian, Neo-; Assyrian, Neo- |
Akkadian language (Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian dialects); cuneiform script; Mesopotamian history and manuscripts.; |
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Garshowitz,
Libby R. M. |
Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. |
Hebrew; Hebrew, Medieval; Aramaic; Greek |
The development of language in the medieval period (Hebrew); Hebrew and Aramaic in the rabbinic period; development of trends in contemporary and modern Hebrew; Jewish history.; |
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Geva,
Esther |
OISE: Human Development and Applied Psychology |
Hebrew |
Second language acquisition; bilingualism; reading acquisition in second language learners; transfers from first to second language; second language learners at risk.; (Currently Chair of Human Development and Applied Psychology) |
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Girolametto,
Luigi |
Speech-Language Pathology |
N/a |
Mother-child interaction; educator-child interaction; caregiver-administered language intervention; efficacy of group language intervention for children; language impairment; social-conversational (pragmatic) skills in preschool-aged children with and without impairments. |
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Gold,
Elaine |
Linguistics |
English, Canadian; Yiddish |
Morphology; Yiddish; language contact; Canadian English; (Currently, Undergraduate Coordinator) |
|
Grayson,
A. Kirk |
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations/Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Project |
Akkadian; Babylonian; Assyrian |
Editing texts in Akkadian (Babylonian and Assyrian).; |
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GĂĽnther,
Sebastian E. |
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
Arabic |
Arabic languages and literature (classical and religious); ethics, philosophy, and education in Islam; transmission of knowledge; Classical Islamic thought; Quran and Hadith. ; |
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Hachimi,
Atiqa |
Linguistics (UTSC) |
|
Sociolinguistics; language and gender; language and ethnicity; language contact and multilingualism. |
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Hager,
Michael |
German |
German |
Second language acquisition; language teaching; business German |
|
Hall,
Daniel Currie |
Linguistics (UTM) |
English |
Phonology; morphosyntax; semantics; featural representations. |
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Harrak,
Amir |
Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. |
Aramaic; Syriac |
Old and Imperial (Biblical) Aramaic dialects; Syriac language and literature. |
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Harvey,
E. Ruth |
English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
English, Middle; Latin, Medieval |
History of English; Middle English and literature; Medieval Latin; Medieval and early Renaissance; Research Medieval literature, medieval learning, especially medicine (uroscopy); iconoclasm in England; tribulation and wisdom literature. |
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Healey,
Antonette di Paolo |
English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
English, Old; English |
Language and literature of England in the early medieval period; Old English lexicography and word studies; language and culture; history of the English language; Dictionary of Old English; Old English language and literature; development of computing tools in the humanities and their applications to medieval texts.; |
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Heinemann,
Edward A. |
French (New College) |
French; French, Old |
History of the French language: phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicology, lexicography, semantics, external history; aesthetic and repetition in the songs of Geste; literary and linguistic analysis on computers. |
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Heller,
Daphna |
Linguistics |
Modern Hebrew |
Experimental semantics and pragmatics; adult sentence processing; referring expressions and the identification of entities; copular constructions; generative approaches to Modern Hebrew. |
|
Heller,
Monica |
OISE: Sociology and Equity Studies, CREFO/Anthropology |
French; Franco-Ontarian |
Sociolinguistics; linguistic anthropology, anthropology of education; bi/multilingualism; Francophone Canada; code-switching; minority language education. |
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Helms-Park,
Rena |
Linguistics (UTSC) |
English |
Second language acquisition; child language acquisition; cross-linguistic transfer in L2 acquisition and creolization; L2 lexical acquisition; L2 learnability issues; language awareness; input processing; language and power; academic writing and web-based research. |
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Herdan,
Simona |
Linguistics |
|
Semantics |
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Hirst,
Graeme |
Computer Science: Computational Linguistics |
Computer |
Computational linguistics; natural language understanding.; |
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Holland,
Joan |
Dictionary of Old English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
Old English |
Drafting editor, revising editor, annual progress reporter (Dictionary of Old English); lexicography; history of the English language. |
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Holmstedt,
Robert |
Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. |
Hebrew, old |
Ancient Hebrew and West Semitic languages; wisdom and narrative literature in the Hebrew Bible; Hebrew linguistics |
|
Im,
Hye-Young |
East Asian Studies |
Korean |
Korean Language and literature; Altaic languages and linguistics; second language pedagogy. |
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Ippolito,
Michela |
Linguistics |
|
Formal semantics and pragmatics; modality; counterfactuals; focus; presuppositions; implicatures; tense and aspect; semantics of clitic pronouns in intensional and non-intensional contexts; crosslinguistic semantics and Romance linguistics. |
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Jackson,
Jennifer |
Anthropology (UTM) |
English |
Linguistic anthropology; ethnography of speaking and performance; oratory and rhetoric; language ideologies & aesthetics; democracy, agency and subjectivity; semiotic process; relation between agency and use of metalinguistic devices such as parody and reported speech in political resistance; Madagascar (Indian Ocean), USA. |
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James,
Deborah |
Linguistics (UTSC) |
Cree; Montagnais |
Language and gender; Algonquian linguistics; Semantics: modality.; |
|
Johns,
Alana |
Linguistics |
Inuktitut |
Syntax; morphology; Inuktitut; Aboriginal language maintenance.; |
|
Johnson,
Carla J. |
Speech-Language Pathology |
N/a |
Language acquisition; cognitive development; language disorders in children; vocabulary and naming skills. ; |
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Johnson,
Mayumi Yuki |
East Asian Studies |
Japanese, English |
Japanese Linguistics (Syntax and Semantics) and Applied Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition and Testing); modality; language curriculum and instruction. |
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Johnston,
Alexandra F. |
Records of Early English Drama |
English, Middle; Latin, Medieval; Latin, Neoclassical; Anglo-Norman |
Middle English; Medieval and Neoclassical Latin; Anglo-Norman; Director at REED; |
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Kalmar,
Ivan |
Anthropology/Jewish Studies/Victoria College |
English |
Linguistic anthropology; cultural studies; Orientalism; Jews. |
|
Kang,
Yoonjung |
Linguistics (UTSC) |
Korean |
Phonology; loanwords; Korean linguistics; historical linguistics; phonology/phonetics interface |
|
Kim,
Young-Gon |
East Asian Studies |
Korean |
Korean language and literature; Language Education Theory & Methodology; Language & Culture; Heritage Language Education & Bilingualism. |
|
Klausner,
David N. |
English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
Welsh; Welsh, Middle; English, Old; English, Middle |
Relations between Old English and early Welsh; history of English pronunciation; Old/Middle English language and literature; Old/Middle English drama; Middle Welsh language and literature; medieval and Tudor drama; vernacular palaeography and historical phonology.; (Currently vice-dean of interdisciplinary affairs for A&S) |
|
Kochetov,
Alexei |
Linguistics |
Russian; Slavic; Japanese; Komi-Permyak (Finno-Ugric); Korean |
Phonology; phonetics; phonology-Phonetics Interface; speech production; speech perception. |
|
Komuro-Lee,
Ikuko |
East Asian Studies |
Japanese |
Japanese linguistics and education; discourse analysis. |
|
Kramer,
Christina |
Slavic Languages & Literatures |
Macedonian; Bulgarian; Serbian/Croatian; Russian; Albanian; Turkish |
Russian and Balkan (synchronic) linguistics, esp. Macedonian, Bulgarian and Albanian; grammatical categories (verbal); sociolinguistic issues; issues in discourse and pragmatics; grammar of Standard Macedonian; grammaticalization of the future tense in Balkan languages; lingustic anthropology; heritage speakers; language and politics.; (Currently Chair of Slavic Languages and Linguistics) |
|
Labrie,
Normand |
OISE: Curriculum Teaching and Learning, CREFO |
French; Franco-Ontarian |
Sociolinguistics; psycholinguistics; language planning and language policy; language minorities; bilingualism; multilingualism; linguistic pluralism in Canada (French-speaking communities) and in Europe; discourse analysis; literacy development. ; (Currently Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies) |
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Lancashire,
Ian |
English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
English; English, Early Modern |
Computational text analysis in English literature; cognitive stylistics (cognitive psychology as applied to stylistics) and computer application; Renaissance bilingual and English dictionaries; early bilingual English to French/Italian/Latin/Spanish dictionaries; bibliography and editing; early English drama; Shakespeare; Chaucer. |
|
Lapkin,
Sharon |
OISE: Modern Language Centre |
French |
Classroom FSL learning and assessment; bilingual education; second language writing.; |
|
Larson,
Katherine R. |
English (UTSC) |
English |
Early modern literature and culture; early modern women’s writing; gender studies; music and literature; language and rhetoric. |
|
Leprohon,
Ronald J. |
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations |
Egyptian |
History (esp. administration and diplomacy), religion (myths from ancient Egypt, moral code of behaviour), and literature of ancient Egypt. |
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Lettieri,
Michael |
Italian Studies (UTM) |
Italian |
Renaissance Italian literature; textual criticism; second-language teaching and learning; 16th century drama; Italian-Canadian studies.; (Current Dean of Humanities at UTM) |
|
Li,
Hao |
English |
English |
Victorian; Nineteenth-Century Prose; Intellectual History; Memory and Narrative; Ethics and Language; Language theory and ethical discourse in Victorian England. |
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Livak,
Leonid |
Slavic Languages & Literatures/Jewish Studies |
Russian |
19th and 20th century Russian literature and culture; Russian language and linguistics; 19th and 20th century French literature and culture; literary and critical theory; comparative approaches to literary and cultural studies; Russian-Jewish cultural relations.; (Currently Undergraduate Coordinator) |
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Logan,
Robert |
Physics |
English; physics |
Language origin and evolution; language and promotion of knowledge development; the effects of written forms of language including the languages of math, science and computing. |
|
Longo Lavorato,
Rachele |
Italian Studies/SMC |
Italian |
Language teaching pedagogy (incl. software); Italian Holocaust literature and cinema; literary adaptation in film; Italian neorealist cinema. |
|
Luong,
Hy V. |
Anthropology |
Vietnamese |
Language, ideology and political economy; gender and social structure; East and Mainland South East Asia, Vietnam. |
|
Magliocchetti,
Bruno |
Italian Studies/SMC |
Italian |
Language teaching; Medieval and current Italian culture, development, contributions. |
|
Magnusson,
Lynne |
English |
English |
Shakespeare; Language, Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric; Early Modern Literature and Culture; Genre of the Letter; Early Modern Women Writers. |
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Martin,
Philippe |
French/Experimental Phonetics Lab |
French; Italian; English |
Intonation and syntax (Spanish, German, Netherland); phonostylistics; speech synthesis and recognition systems; experimental phonetics; prosodic systems (French, English/French contrast); print-to-speech recognition of Italian tonic accent. |
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Marujo,
Manuela |
Spanish & Portuguese |
Portuguese |
Portuguese as a foreign and as a second language; bilingualism and language acquisition; immigrant experiences with focus on grandparents, youngsters and women. |
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Mason,
Hugh |
Classics |
Greek |
Research Interests: Lesbos, Modern Greek Literature; Teaching Interests: ; Undergraduate: Greek Language and Literature ; Graduate: Ancient Novel, Linguistics; (Currently Undergraduate Coordinator) |
|
Massam,
Diane |
Linguistics |
English; Polynesian; Austronesian; Niuean |
Syntactic and morphological theory; case systems, case theory; phrase structure; argument structure; predication; the left periphery; the lexicon; word order; grammatical relations; Austronesian syntax; Polynesian syntax; Niuean grammar; cross-linguistic variation; spoken English. |
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McCrindle,
Karen Lyda |
French (UTSC) |
French |
Language and media; media criticism; sociolinguistics; French creole languages of the Caribbean; issues relating to cultural diversity. |
|
McDougall D.,
David |
Dictionary of Old English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
English, Old; English; Norse, Old; Danish |
Old English; Old Norse (Old Scandinavian); Danish; history of English; transmission of Latin learning in England, Iceland, and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages.; |
|
McDougall I.,
Ian |
Dictionary of Old English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
English, Old; English; Scandinavian, Old; Danish |
Old English; Old Scandinavian (Old Norse); Danish; history of English; language and literature; transmission of Latin learning in vernacular texts of the British Isles and Scandinavia.; |
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McElhinny,
Bonnie |
Anthropology |
English |
Linguistic anthropology; feminist anthropology; gender; socialization; ideology and political economy; stratified reproduction; work; USA, Canada, Philippines. |
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Meacham,
Tirzah |
Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. |
Aramaic, Babylonian |
Talmudic and rabbinic literature; legal/religious status; Judaism and feminism. |
|
Merrilees,
Brian |
French/Victoria College |
French, Medieval |
Modern French; Anglo-Normadic language and literature; editions of Mediaeval texts, Mediaeval lexicography; modern language pedagogy; transmission of texts; Bilingual dictionaries in France before 1500; French Mediaeval grammar. |
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Metso,
Sarianna |
Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs./History (UTM) |
Hebrew, Biblical, Dead Sea Scrolls |
Hebrew Bible; Dead Sea Scrolls and manuscripts; Second Temple Judaism and history. |
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Mikhailova,
Julia |
Slavic Languages & Literatures |
Russian |
Language pedagogy; acquisition of Russian; language assessment tools; discourse analysis; sociolinguistics; Slavic formal syntax; history of the Russian language. |
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Nagy,
Naomi |
Linguistics |
English, New England; French, Montreal; Faetar; Italian |
Sociolinguistics, language variation and change (contact and models); New England dialects; Montreal Anglophones and French; Faetar; Toronto heritage languages; phonemic dialect features; hyperforeignization; modeling diacritics; Italian syllabic structure; variation in optimality theory; variation in “wanna� contraction. |
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Najman,
Hindy |
Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs./Religion |
Hebrew, Old, Dead Sea Scrolls; Ancient Greek in Israel |
Second Temple history and literature; Dead Sea Scrolls; Hebrew Bible; Greek-speaking Judaism; rabbinic literature; relationship between Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity.; (Currently Director for the Center for Jewish Studies) |
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Narayan,
Chandan |
Linguistics (UTSC) |
English |
Speech perception (development and contributions to language change); language acquisition (phonetic categorization); acoustics of infant-directed speech; young children and sound change. |
|
Ndayiragije,
Juvenal |
French (UTSC) |
French; Bantu |
Syntactic theory, ergativity, locality; esp. Bantu. |
|
Nic Dhiarmada,
MáirĂn |
Celtic Studies, St Michael’s College |
Irish |
Modern Irish language and literature. |
|
Nikiema,
Emmanuel |
French (UTM) |
French; French-based Creole (Caribbean: St. Lucia, Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, etc.); Italian; Kwa (Yoruba, Abey); Chadic (Tangale); Gbe (Gen, Fon); Gur (Moore, Dagara, Kurumfe); Mande. |
Phonology and morphology of French, Italian, French-based creoles (Caribbean French: St. Lucia, Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, etc.); African languages: Gur (Moore, Dagara, Kurumfe), Gbe (Gen, Fon), Chadic (Tangale), Kwa (Yoruba, Abey), Mande; syllabic structure; language teaching; language planning; dialect variation; tone.; (Currently, Departmental Associate Chair) |
|
Orchard,
Andy |
English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
Old English; Old Norse; Mediaeval Latin |
Old English; Old Norse; Mediaeval Latin; Mediaeval Celtic; Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic literature; orality and literacy; textual criticism.; (Currently provost and vice-chancellor for Trinity College) |
|
Pasquarelli-Clivio,
Mirella |
Italian Studies/SMC |
Italian |
; (Currently Undergraduate Coordinator) |
|
Paz,
Alejandro |
Linguistics (UTSC) |
|
Pragmatics; interaction and textuality; language and ethnicity; linguistic anthropology. |
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Penn,
Gerald |
Computer Science: Computational Linguistics |
Computer |
Natural Language Processing; Mathematical Linguistics; ; Logic Programming; Linear Logics; Finite State Methods;; Speech Summarization; Linguistic Information Visualization;; Parsing in Freer-Word-Order Languages. |
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Percy,
Carol |
English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
English, Old; English |
History of the English language, esp. 1700-present; standardization; grammars and dictionaries; women's language; sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics.; |
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Perez-Leroux,
Ana Teresa |
Linguistics/Spanish & Portuguese |
Spanish |
First and second language acquisition at syntax/semantics interface; infant syntax; Spanish grammar; bilingualism; number, tense/aspect, object clitics. |
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Pierno,
Franco |
Italian Studies |
Italian |
History of Italian language; Italian lexicography; the “Questione della; lingua�; Italian language and religion; Italian and European linguistic policies; Italian Protestant literature (16th century); linguistic aspects of Jesuit Relations (17th century). |
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Pirvulescu,
Mihaela |
French (UTM) |
French |
First language acquisition; theoretical linguistics; bilingualism (Francophone); early second language acquisition (syntax and morphology); the syntax-morphology interface: verbal agreement paradigms; integration of novel technology in teaching FSL. |
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Placzkiewicz,
Artur |
Slavic Languages & Literatures |
Polish |
Polish poetry of the 20th century; problems of modernity and post-modernity; Polish mass culture and counterculture; language methodology; translation theory and practice. |
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Portebois,
Yannick |
French/Joseph Sablé Center for 19th Cent. French Studies |
French |
Cultural history of the French language (16th-20th century); history of books and editions (19th century); editors and printing factories; French romance in English translation (diffusion and critical reception in England and the United States).; (Member of the administrative counsel for the Canadian Association for the Study of Book Culture and of the editorial committee for the Review of 19th Century Texts) |
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Rehner,
Katherine |
Linguistics (UTM)/OISE (Modern Language Center) |
French |
Sociolinguistics; second language teaching and learning. |
|
Rice,
Keren D. |
Linguistics/Aboriginal Studies |
Athapaskan |
Phonology; morphology; Athapaskan.; |
|
Riskedahl,
Diane |
Anthropology |
English |
Linguistic anthropology; ideology and politics; collective memory; affect; the Middle East; linguistic mediation of political practices in Lebanon (authoritative discourse; social solidarity; collective memory). |
|
Roberge,
Yves |
French |
French, Canadian; French; Romance |
Linguistic theory; dialect variation; Romance languages; Candian French; syntax (Romance, French); morphology-syntax interface; first language acquisition (French); null complements; transitivity. |
|
Rogers,
Henry E. |
Linguistics |
Scots Gaelic |
Phonetics; writing systems; Scots Gaelic; phonetics and computers.; |
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Sandahl,
Stella |
East Asian Studies |
Sanskrit; Hindi, Classical; Hindi, Modern Standard |
Sanskrit language and literature; Medieval Hindi language and literature; Diachronic study of certain grammatical features of Modern Standard Hindi; Classical Indian Studies; Modern and Classical Hindi; Modern Indian society and politics shown through literature; language and religion.; |
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Scarci,
Manuela |
Italian Studies/Victoria College/Opera Studies |
Italian |
Contrastive analysis: English-Italian; Renaissance studies.; |
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Schallert,
Joseph |
Slavic Languages & Literatures |
Russian; Macedonian; Bulgarian |
Balkan Slavic dialects; Slavic accentuation; West Slavic prosody; Old Russian syntax; accentual dictionary and atlas of masculine nouns in Balkan Slavic dialects; morpho-lexical isoglosses in Balkan Slavic dialects. |
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Sidnell,
Jack |
Anthropology (UTM) |
English |
Linguistic anthropology; conversation analysis; philosophy of language; children, grammar, and interaction; gaze, gesture; sociolinguistics; vernacular poetics; pragmatics (esp. deixis, presupposition); language contact; pidgins; Guyanese, and Vincentian Creoles; Vietnamese; Caribbean, African American English. |
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Smyth,
Ronald |
Linguistics/Psychology (UTSC) |
English; Tagalog |
Psycholinguistics (Interface between linguistic knowledge and language comprehension, production, and acquisition; anaphora resolution (pronouns, PRO, traces, VP anaphors, and definite NP); subject-verb agreement errors in production; working memory capacity; lexical inhibition); Sociophonetics (Microphonetic variation in consonant and vowel articulation; male/female acoustic differences and sexual orientation/gender identity); Language acquisition.; (Currently, Program Director UTSC) |
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Sonina,
Snejina |
French (UTSC) |
French |
Language instruction; pedagogy. |
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Steele,
Jeffrey |
French |
French |
Second language acquisition (eps. phonetics); phonology; second language teaching |
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Stevenson,
Suzanne |
Computer Science: Computational Linguistics |
Computer |
Automatic acquisition of linguistic knowledge from large text corpora; predicative semantics; cognitive models of human language acquisition and processing; facilitation of learning through combining words and pictures. |
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Stock,
Markus |
German/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
German, Old and Middle-High |
Old and Middle High German; language history; high medieval epic and poetry; German (mediaeval and early: literature, language, culture); early modern autobiographies (incl. Alexander the Great); birth of German Philology (16th c.). |
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Subtelny,
Maria Eva |
Jewish Studies/Near & Middle Eastern Civs. |
Persian, Classical |
Classical Persian language and literature; Medieval Persian and Islamic cultural history; history of Mediaeval Iran; classical Persian poetry & mysticism; comparative Islamic and Jewish mysticism. |
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Swain,
Merrill |
OISE: Modern Language Centre, Curriculum Teaching and Learning/Linguistics |
French; English |
Bilingualism; bilingual education, esp. immersion education; language testing; second language learning; collaborative learning; task-based learning. |
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Tagliamonte,
Sali A. |
Linguistics |
English: Canadian, British, African American Vernacular |
Sociolinguistics (Adolescent dialect: London, Toronto, African American Vernacular; aspect); language variation; (intensification; aspect; phonetic); language change, directions of change (grammaticalization; social correlation); (Currently, Graduate Coordinator) |
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Taleghani,
Azita H. |
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations (St. George, UTM) |
Persian |
Modern Persian language, linguistics, and literature. |
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Taylor,
J. Glen |
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations/Toronto School of Theology |
Hebrew, old, Northwest Semitics |
Hebrew and Other Northwest Semitic Languages; History of Israelite Religion; Ugaritic Studies; Relationship between Yahweh and Other Biblical Deities; Ancient Near Eastern Sun Cults; The Old Testament and Archaeology. |
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Townsend,
David |
English/Center for Mediaeval Studies |
Mediaeval Latin; Old, Middle English |
Old and Middle English; Medieval ecphrasis and memory techniques; religious culture in fifteenth-century Norwich; verse hagiography of the High Middle Ages; editing and interpreting texts, esp. where close philological analysis can be combined with tools of contemporary critical theory in thematics of cultural studies. |
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Tsimenis,
Malama |
French |
French |
French Literature (19th century); language instruction; translation |
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Urbancic,
Anne |
Italian Studies/Victoria College |
Italian |
Foreign language pedagogy (esp. Italian as a foreign language), critical pedagogy; 19th/20th century Italian literature with focus on transdisciplinary approach; oral history; semiotics and culture; Computer Assisted Language Instruction (CALI), evaluation, training, inservice for instructors; developing language courses for International Studies; first-year experience.; (Current coordinator of Vic One program) |
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Vähämäki,
Börje |
Slavic Languages & Literatures |
Finnish; Swedish |
Finnish Studies. Syntax and semantics; Finnish linguistics and language variation; Finnish language, literature, and culture in North America; philosophy of language; Finnish literature, cinema and folklore; bilingualism of Finland. |
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Visoi,
Marie-Anne |
French |
French |
Language instruction; instructor training. |
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Xie,
Ming |
English |
English |
Twentieth-Century Poetry; Modernism/Modernity; Translation Theory and Comparativity, appropriation; Asian American/Canadian. |