- Department Chair
- Undergraduate Program Director
- Graduate Program Director
- Graduate Admissions & Funding Director
Michael Wagner
Department Chair
(he/him)
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield | room #113
Office Hours: By appointment
chael [at] mcgill.ca
Alternative Chair contact in case of COI: junko.shimoyama [at] mcgill.ca (Junko Shimoyama)
Junko Shimoyama
Undergraduate Program Director
(she/her)
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield | room #219
Office Hours: by appointment
email: junko.shimoyama [at] mcgill.ca (Junko Shimoyama)
Meghan Clayards
Graduate Program Director
(she/her)
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield | room #201
Office Hours: by appointment
meghan.clayards [at] mcgill.ca
Alternative GPD contact in case of COI: junko.shimoyama [at] mcgill.ca (Junko Shimoyama)
Morgan Sonderegger
Graduate Admissions & Funding Director
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield | room #227
Office Hours: by appointment
morgan.sonderegger [at] mcgill.ca
Department
- Administrative Staff
- Professors
- Emeritus Professors
- Faculty Lecturer
- Postdoctoral Fellows
- Graduate Students
- Award Recipients
- Alumni
- In Memoriam
Administrative Staff
Andria De Luca
Administrative Student Affairs Coordinator
1085 Dr. Penfield | room #111
(514) 398-1723
andria.de_luca [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail Andria)
Office Hours: By appointment
Angela Fotopoulos
Area Manager (Student Affairs)
680 Sherbrooke W. | room #0425
(514) 398-5284
angela.fotopoulos [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail Angela)
Office Hours: By appointment
Lina Trivino
Area Manager (Finance)
lina.trivino [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail Lina)
Office Hours: By appointment
Victor Mayer
Administrative Coordinator HR & Ops
(514) 398-3650 or (514) 399-9441
ovidiu.iacobmayer [at] mcgill.ca (E-mail Victor)
Professors
| Name | Specializations |
|---|---|
| Luis Alonso-Ovalle | Semantics, Pragmatics, Spanish |
| Charles Boberg | Language Variation and Change, Dialectology, North American English |
| Meghan Clayards (she/her) | Phonetics, Speech Perception |
| Jessica Coon (she/her) | Syntax, Morphology, Mayan languages, Field Methodology, Language Documentation |
| James A. Crippen (he/him) | Morphology, Syntax, Syntactic Interfaces, Information Structure, Tlingit and Na-Dene (Dene-Eyak-Tlingit) languages, North American Indigenous Languages, Field Methodology, Language Documentation, Research Ethics |
| Brendan Gillon |
Semantics: noun phrases and implicit arguments History: Grammar and logic in India |
| Heather Goad (she/her) | Phonology, First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition |
| Martina Martinović | Syntax, Morphology, Field Methodology, West African languages |
| Timothy O'Donnell | Computational Models of Language Learning and Processing, Mathematical Linguistics, Probabilistic Inference |
| Siva Reddy | Linguistically-Informed Deep Learning, Computational Syntax and Semantics, Biases in Deep Learning Models |
| Bernhard Schwarz | Semantics, Pragmatics, German |
| Junko Shimoyama (she/her) | Syntax, Syntax/Semantics Interface, East Asian Languages |
| Morgan Sonderegger | Phonology, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Language Variation and Change, Quantitative Methods |
| Francisco Torreira | Phonetics, Intonation, Prosody, Interactional Linguistics |
| Michael Wagner (he/him) | Prosody/Syntax, Prosody/Semantics, Phonology, Language Processing |
Emeritus Professors
| Name | Specializations |
|---|---|
| Michel Paradis | Bilingualism, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics |
| Glyne Piggott | Phonological Theory, Historical Phonology, Morphology, Amerindian (Ojibwa) |
| Lisa Travis | Syntax, Morphology, Language Variation and Language Change, Austronesian (Malagasy, Tagalog) |
| Lydia White | Generative L2 Acquisition |
Faculty Lecturer
To view the current list of individuals who have priority points, visit the Opportunities & Visitors page.
Fall/2024 and Winter/2025
Andrei Munteanu
Office: 1085 Dr. Penfield | room #322
Office Hours: By appointment (in person or Zoom)
Email: andrei.munteanu2 [at] mcgill.ca
Postdoctoral Fellows
Postdoctoral research offers recent Doctoral Degree recipients the chance to further their professional development, build on their research, and effectively transition from life as a student to that of an independent scholar. At McGill, postdoctoral candidates have the opportunity to collaborate with some of the world’s foremost professors and researchers, and to work in an environment that supports and celebrates excellence. For more information, visit the Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies website.
The Linguistics Department's current Postdoctoral Fellows are listed below:
2024-2025
| Name | General Interests | Contact |
|---|---|---|
Graduate Students
Masters
| Name | General Interests | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Brandon Chaperon | Syntax, Semantics, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Fieldwork, Niger-Congo languages |
brandon.chaperon [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Casandra Jones | Syntax, Syntax-semantic interface, and Prosody | casandra.jones [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail ) |
| Simon LiVolsi | Phonological theory, Laboratory Phonology, Prosody, Syntax, and Optimality Theory | simon.livolsi [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail ) |
| Jackson Mundie (he/him) | Language variation and change, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and quantitative methods | jackson.mundie [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Zlata Odribets (she/her) | Syntax, Morphology, and Field Methodology | zlata.odribets [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Sama'a Salama | samaa.salama [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) | |
| Clara Tran | chau.t.tran [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) | |
| Sabrina Wang | Syntax, Semantics, Prosody, East Asian Languages, and Computational Linguistics | yingxuan.wang [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
PhD
| Name | General Interests | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Laurestine Bradford (she/her) | Semantics, Computational Linguistics, Fieldwork | laurestine.bradford [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) Website |
| George Bennett | Syntax, Morphology, Prosody, Information Structure, and Scandinavian languages | george.bennett [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Jeanne Brown |
Sociolinguistics, Language variation and change, Phonetics and Laboratory Phonology |
jeanne.brown [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Xuanda Chen | Speech Prosody, Sound Change, Prosody and Pragmatics Interface and Computational Linguistics | xuanda.chen [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Amanda Doucette | Phonology, Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Modeling |
amanda.doucette [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Terrance Gatchalian | Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Documentation and Revitalization, and Fieldwork |
terrance.gatchalian [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Gaurav Kamath | Semantics, NLP, Computational Linguistics, Expressive Language |
gaurav.kamath [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Austin Kraft | Syntax, Semantics, Computational Linguistics, and Language Documentation and Revitalization |
austin.kraft [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Kuilin Li | Phonetics, Speech Production and Perception, Speech Imitation and Acquisition, Computational Linguistics | kuilin.li [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Massimo Lipari | Corpus Phonetics, Language Variation and Change, Phonetics-Phonology Interface, Quebec French | massimo.lipari [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Katya Morgunova | Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Fieldwork | ekaterina.morgunova [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) Website |
| Willie Myers (he/him) | Fieldwork, Syntax, Semantics, Morphology, Language Documentation and Revitalization |
willie.myers [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Jonathan Palucci | Semantics, Pragmatics, Mathematical Linguistics and Logic, Syntax | jonathan.palucci [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Nicolas Poisson | nicolas.poisson [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) | |
| Cheman Baira A Sangma | Phonology, Phonetics, Syntax-Phonology Interface, Phonetics-Phonology Interface, Phonological Acquisition | cheman.asangma [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Irene Smith | Phonetics, variation, corpus linguistics, quantitative methods | irene.smith [at] mail.mcgill.ca (email) |
| Connie Ting |
Phonetics, Phonology, Speech Perception and Production, Language Acquisition |
connie.ting [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
| Weiyi Zhai | Speech Perception, Second Language Acquisition, Phonetics, Phonology, East Asian languages | weiyi.zhai [at] mail.mcgill.ca (e-mail) |
Award Recipients
On behalf of the Department of Linguistics, we are pleased to announce the recipients for: the In-House Undergraduate Student Awards, the Cremona Memorial Prize in Linguistics and the Lara Riente Memorial Prize in Linguistics. Visit the Undergraduate and Graduate pages for more details.
Academic Leadership Award
2024 | Alex Ito
2022 | Tallis Clark
2021 | Clara Saliba
2020 | Avleen Mokha
2019 | Megan Deegan
2018 | Oscar Costa
2017 | Lydia Felice
2016 | Daniel Biggs
2015 | September Cowley
2014 | Lauren Garfinkle
2013 | Olivia Ait-Bella
2012 | Hannah Pinsky
2010 | Jonathan Abramsohn
2009 | Katherine Anne McCurdy
Cremona Memorial Prize
2024 | Chase Boles
2024 | William Zumchak
2023 | Jasper Jian
2022 | Amelia Clayton
2021 | Aliza Ellner
2020 | Emma Gibson
2019 | Beini Wang
2018 | Gabriel Daitzschman
2017 | Vincent Rouillard
2016 | Michaela Socolof
2015 | Louisa Bielig
2014 | Misha Schwartz
2013 | Madeleine Leto Revill
2012 | Elise McClay
2012 | Erin Olson
2011 | Aron Zachary Hirsch
2009 | Edwin Howard
2008 | Marc Garellek
2007 | Megan Sabsay Tylee
2006 | Bronwyn Bjorkman
2005 | Margaret Ann Grant
2004 | Janet Nielsen
2003 | Anicka Ruth Fast
Department Citizenship Award
2024 | Yanran Mou
2023 | Jasper Jian
2022| Ray Marks
2021| Sarah Denomy
2020 | Benjamin Foster
2019 | Hayley Ostrega
2018 | Maya Keshav
2017 | Jacob Schermer
2016 | Christopher Burnett
2015 | Marjorie Labelle
2014 | Andrew MacLachlan
2013 | Roseanne Lau
2012 | Madeleine Revill
2011 | Maude Poirier-Caron
2010 | David Max Fromstein
2009 | Laura Kalin
2008 | Blakey Larsen
2007 | Michelle St-Amour
Excellence in Research Award
2024 | Yanran Mou
2023 | Chase Boles
2022 | Benjamin Lebrun
2021 | Sijia Zhang
2020| Emily Baylor
2019 | Michael Goodale
2018 | Yunxiao (Vera) Xia
2017 | Sarah Mihuc
2016 | Cora Lesure
2015 | Liam Bassford
2014 | Louisa Bielig
2013 | Thomas Kettig
2012 | Erica J. Yoon
2011 | Tingchun Chen
2010 | Steffani Maartje Scheer
2009 | Anna Howell
2008 | Meaghan Fowlie
2007 | Gwen Gillingham
Lara Riente Memorial Prize
2024 | Wei Zhang
2023 | Michaela Socolof
2022 | Mathieu Paillé
2021 | Justin Royer
2020 | James Tanner
2019 | Juric Bozic
2018 | Donghyun Kim
2017 | Guilherme Duarte Garcia
2016 | Hye-Young Bang
2015 | Daniel Goodhue
2014 | Michael Hamilton and Oriana Kilbourn-Ceron
2013 | Brian Buccola
2012 | Alexandra Simonenko and Jozina Vander Klok
2011 | Walter Andrew Pedersen
2010 | Öner Özçelik
2009 | Eva Dobler
2008 | Alyona Belikova
2007 | Tobin Skinner
2006 | Naoko Tomioka
2005 | Heather Sarah Newell
2004 | Theres Grüter
2003 | Josée Poirier
U2 Academic Achievement Award
2024 | Sophia Flaim
2023 | Maya Cornwall
2022 | Kevin Fan
2021 | Amanda Alicandro
2021 | Emily Mayes
2020 | David Shanks
2019 | Aliza Ellner
2018 | Beini Wang
2017 | Fiona Higgins
2016 | Eva Portelance
2015 | Michaela Socolof
2014 | Elena Russo
2013 | Jessica Lilly Cooper
2012 | Douglas Herrick
2011 | Claire Rebecca St George
2010 | David Adam Simons
2009 | Jonathan Abramsohn
2009 | Tingchun Chen
2008 | Laura Kalin
2007 | Meredith Tamminga
Alumni
In Memoriam
Irena Findeisen-Bellert (1919-2017)
Hiroko Hagiwara (1955-2015)
Nicole Domingue (1932-2011)