Linguistics
Potential Research Areas and Supervisors
![Angeliki Athanasopoulou](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-07/Angeliki.jpg?itok=ACXE2745)
Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Broad areas of research interest: Phonology and phonetics and in particular, prosodic phenomena across languages.
Specific research interests: Prosodic structures (stress, tone, focus, intonation) and the developmental process of more complex prosodic structures (e.g., compound stress, clitic stress, etc.) with a focus on the production properties of children.
![Darin Flynn](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-07/Darin%20Flynn.jpg?itok=SkWyQBHp)
Darin Flynn
Broad areas of research interest: Phonology, Canadian Indigenous languages, endangered language documentation and revitalization
Specific research interests: Phonetics-phonology interface, distinctive features, prosodic structure, Wakashan, Algonquian, Dene/Athabaskan, French, black English
![David Liebesman](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%286%29_4.png?itok=8VyUnf78)
David Liebesman
Broad areas of interest: Philosophy of Language, Semantics, Pragmatics, Metaphysics
Specific areas of interest: Number words, quantification, the mass/count distinction, generics
![Amanda Pounder](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%287%29.png?itok=zDFg3MVR)
Amanda Pounder
Broad areas of research interest: Historical linguistics, morphology; Germanic, Romance, and Turkic languages
Specific research interests: Morphological theory, paradigms, morphology-syntax interface, semantics of morphology; paradigm in diachrony, language standardization
![Elizabeth Ritter](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%287%29%20copy.png?itok=KlKntwfD)
Elizabeth Ritter
Broad areas of research interest: Syntax, morpho-syntax, syntax-semantics interface
Specific research interests: Syntactic categories and features, animacy, DPs, Blackfoot, Hebrew, tenselessness, and its implications for clause structure in Blackfoot
![Dimitrios Skordos](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%287%29%20copy%202.png?itok=o_0FFnrP)
Dimitrios Skordos
Broad areas of research interest: First language acquisition, experimental semantics and pragmatics, psychology of language, language and cognition.
Specific research interests: Pragmatic inference, quantification and logical operators, space and motion events cross-linguistically.
![Dennis Storoshenko](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%287%29%20copy%203.png?itok=yjOTuUtJ)
Dennis Storoshenko
Broad areas of research interest: Syntax, semantics, syntax-semantics interface
Specific research interests: Experimental syntax, Japanese and Korean syntax, research on syntactic theories outside the generative model, including Tree Adjoining Grammar
![Stephen Winters](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2020-01/Portrait%20-%20Thumbnail%287%29%20copy%204.png?itok=sVU33-xg)
Stephen Winters
Broad areas of research interest: Phonetics, speech perception
Specific research interests: Exemplar Theory, talker identification, voice quality, intonation perception