Welcome

I am professeur adjoint of phonology in the Département de langues, linguistique et traduction at Université Laval, in Québec City. I am also associate editor at Second Language Research, member of the Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music (CRBLM), and member of the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN). Before joining Université Laval, I was assistant professor in the USA and lecturer in the UK.

I have a PhD in linguistics from McGill University, where I also completed the Interdisciplinary Language Acquisition Program (LAP), which focuses on the scientific exploration of language acquisition from different perspectives (Communication Sciences and Disorders, Education, Linguistics, and Psychology). My PhD supervisor was Heather Goad—you can see my academic tree here. A short version of my CV is available here. For a complete version, click on the “CV” icon below.

My research interests are phonology, (second) language Acquisition, and quantitative data analysis. I’m especially interested in using data analysis to uncover patterns that help us better assess representational and theoretical assumptions in phonology. I’m currently working on projects that involve (lexical) stress, (syllable) weight and sonority effects, metaphony, and second language acquisition. For more information on my research projects, click here.

I have two side projects dedicated to the development of resources for research and teaching in phonology. First, an R package for phonological analysis called Fonology. Second, a Typst package called Phonokit for typesetting phonological representations, such as feature matrices, syllable trees, and tableaux.

Given my research interests, if you’d like to pursue a PhD in linguistics at Université Laval under my supervision, please visit this page. For MAs, visit this page.

News • 2025 ~ 2026

I’m happy to announce that I have been granted tenure at Université Laval. As of June 2026, I will hold the rank of professeur agrégé, equivalent to associate professor.
Award: Honoured to have been awarded The CLA Early Career Researcher Award (2025) by the Canadian Linguistic Association.
New Typst package (under development): I’ve started a project to develop a Typst package for phonology. See here.
New paper: Our paper Feet without stress: High vowel deletion in Québec French (Guzzo, Goad & Garcia) has just been accepted for publication in Phonology.
New paper: My paper Bayesian estimation in multiple comparisons has just appeared in Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
New review: My review of New Perspectives on English Stress (Yamada et al.) has just appeared in Phonology (invited)
Talks in 2026: In March, round table and talks at the 14th International Congress (INTERAB) of the Brazilian Linguistic Association (Abralin), Brazil.
Spring course at STEP: In May, course on data visualization at the CCP Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics, University of Alberta.
New grant: I’ve been awarded a 2-year grant to investigate the role of lexical and post-lexical statistics in second language acquisition. Funding agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Canada.

Go to all 2026 news here.

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Last updated: January 2026