Welcome

I am professeur adjoint of phonology (US equivalent: Assistant Professor) 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.

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 second language acquisition. I’m also working on a Talian corpus with Natália B. Guzzo, and on an R package for phonological analysis called Fonology. For more information on my research projects, click here.

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 • 2024 ~ 2025

Workshop at ACL-CLA: In June, workshop on data analysis at the 72nd annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, McGill University.
Spring course at STEP: In May, course on data visualization at the CCP Spring Training in Experimental Psycholinguistics, University of Alberta.
Talks in 2025: In February, March and April, talks at the 22nd Old-World Conference in Phonology (Universiteit van Amsterdam), at the 47th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), and at New Sounds 2025 (University of Toronto), with Chao Zhou.
New grant: I’ve just 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.
New proceedings paper published: My chapter with Natália B. Guzzo has just been published in the NELS 54 proceedings. You can check it out here.
Update: the tutorial on Bayesian estimation and multiple comparisons has been updated.
I gave a workhop on data visualization in Lisbon on Sep 12 (Escola de Verão 2024 at Universidade de Lisboa); appui à la recherche, à la création et à la recherche-création, Université Laval.
New chapter published: my chapter on lexical stress in Portuguese has just been published in the The Routledge Handbook of Portuguese Phonology.
New paper accepted: My paper with Heather Goad on the parametrization of the foot has just been accepted for publication in Laboratory Phonology. The preprint can be found here.

Go to all 2025 news here.

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Last updated: January 2025