Faculty and Collaborators
Lab Director
Associate professor, received her PhD from Indiana University and held an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Departments of Psychology and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Iowa. Her research interests include the role of phonological knowledge in speech processing; first-language phonological acquisition; online processing and word recognition in special populations, especially individuals with cochlear implants; and weighted-constraint-based theories of phonology. Ashley uses eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm as a real-time measure of speech processing and word recognition.
Lab Manager
Sahibnoor Dhami
Sahibnoor is an undergraduate student at SFU pursuing a major in Linguistics and an extended minor in Psychology. After completing her BA, she hopes to pursue a Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology. She is interested in billingualism and language acquisition. In her free time, she enjoys reading and baking.
Collaborators
Anne-Michelle (Ph.D. 2007, UMass Amherst) is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at UBC. She is a phonologist specializing in acquisition, constraint-based grammars, learning algorithms, and child L1 and L2 production. She previously held faculty and researcher appointments at the University of Alberta, SFU and the Center for Human Growth and Development (UMichigan). In 2015, she published a textbook "Phonological Acquisition: Child Language and Constraint-Based Grammar" (Palgrave Macmillan). She is currently PI of a SSHRC Insight Grant (2015-2019) studying L2 English production and perception among adults and children, especially among young and recently-arrived immigrants.
Claire is a phonologist specializing in phonological variation, constraint-based models of phonology, learning algorithms, and the interface of phonology and psycholinguistics, especially speech processing and the structure of the lexicon. She received her PhD from UMass Amherst in 2016, and since then, has taught at Yale and UConn. From 2018-2019, she worked on Dr. Anne-Michelle Tessier's SSHRC Insight Grant, studying early L2 acquisition of English. She is now an assistant professor in the linguistics department at UCLA.
Z.L. is a phonetician and phonologist interested in interface issues, particularly phonologization and phonetic implementation, and prosody. Currently a PhD candidate in the linguistics department at UCLA, his dissertation investigates marginal phonemes and which factors condition individual-level variation in the perception of them. In between riding the bus, research, and teaching, catch him having lots of opinions about simulationism in art, product design, and food. Two of his favorite (linguistic) hobby horses: spontaneous bilabial trills in emphatic speech and metalinguistic focus.