People: Faculty

Dr. E. Jane Fee

778-782-8467
jfee@sfu.ca
Office: AQ 6176

Research Areas

  Phonetics and Phonology
  First Language Acquisition
  Speech and language disorders
  Language policy in post-secondary education

Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, with a dissertation on underspecification theory and typically-developing children's acquisition of vowels in Hungarian and Spanish. Jane began her career as Assistant Professor in the School of Human Communication Disorders at Dalhousie University, a graduate program within the Faculty of Health Professions, and in 1996 was promoted to Associate Professor. While at Dalhousie her primary areas of research were speech and language disorders as well as the prosodic structures of children's early speech. Moving to Canada's west coast in 1997, Jane assumed a series of academic administrative roles, and in 2007 became a faculty member in the Department of Linguistics at SFU. Jane's current research interests are in language policy in higher education settings.

Selected publications include:

• Fee, E. Jane. (1997). The prosodic framework for language learning. Topics in Language Disorders.
• Armson, Joy, Jenson, Sarah, Gallant, Diane, Kalinowski, Joseph and Fee, E. Jane. (1997). The relationship between degree of audible struggle and judgments of childhood disfluencies as stuttered or not stuttered. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 6, 42-50.
• Fee, E. Jane. (1995). The phonological system of a specifically language impaired population. Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 9, 189-209.
• Fee, E. Jane. (1995). Segments and syllables in early language acquisition. Phonological Acquisition and Phonological Theory. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 43-62.
• Clements, A., and Fee, E. Jane. (1994). An intratwin phonological study: the phonologies of an SLI twin and her normally developing co-twin. First Language, 14, 213-231.