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🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Justin Case on his successful PhD thesis defence!Justin completed his PhD through a cotutelle p...
07/13/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Justin Case on his successful PhD thesis defence!

Justin completed his PhD through a cotutelle program between the University of Ottawa and Leiden University, under the supervision of Dr. Andrés Salanova at the University of Ottawa and colleagues at Leiden University.

His thesis is titled: "Differential case-marking in Ecuadorian Siona"

Congratulations, Dr. Case, on this outstanding achievement!

07/13/2026

🎉 Congratulations to our Department of Linguistics members who presented their research at the 2026 Canadian Linguistic Association (CLA) Conference this past June!

We are proud to recognize the following presentations:

👏 Simone Diana Zamarlik & Dennis Ott
"Asymmetry and derivational ambiguity in ATB dependencies: Evidence from Polish"

👏 Hengliang Xia
"The evolution of Chinese classifiers: An account based on grammaticalization"

👏 Nathalie Dion
"A question of data? Extralinguistic conditioning in Quebec French interrogatives"

Congratulations to our presenters on sharing their research with the linguistics community!

Send a message to learn more

🎉 Congratulations to our graduate student Mariana Cortes Kandler on receiving the University of Ottawa Faculty of Arts A...
06/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to our graduate student Mariana Cortes Kandler on receiving the University of Ottawa Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Studies for 2026!

Mariana, who is supervised by Dr. Suzy Ahn, is currently completing her PhD thesis. Her research in the Sound Patterns Laboratory uses ultrasound tongue imaging to investigate variability in speech production across languages. We are delighted to see her outstanding academic achievements recognized with this prestigious award.

Congratulations, Mariana! 👏

Read more about Mariana and the Faculty of Arts Award for Excellence in Studies here:

These awards are a way to recognize and encourage excellence in undergraduate and graduate studies by celebrating those who have distinguished themselves not only academically, but also outside the classroom.The Faculty of Arts is proud to announce the recipients for the year 2026.

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Samuel Gardiner and his supervisor, Dr. Steven Levy, on his successful PhD thesis defense! The j...
05/06/2026

🎉Congratulations to Dr. Samuel Gardiner and his supervisor, Dr. Steven Levy, on his successful PhD thesis defense!
The jury members were Dr. Suzy Ahn, Dr. Tania Zamuner, and our alumnus Dr. Salvio Digesto (now at Carleton University), and the external evaluator was Dr. Merja Kytö of Uppsala University.
Sam's thesis is titled: "Investigating variable linguistic systems in flux in 17th century Massachusetts English"

We are delighted to congratulate Felix Desmeules-Trudel, a former PhD student in the uOttawa Department of Linguistics, ...
02/02/2026

We are delighted to congratulate Felix Desmeules-Trudel, a former PhD student in the uOttawa Department of Linguistics, on his new position as Professor of Phonetics at UQAM. We are proud to see our alumni continuing to make significant contributions to linguistic research and teaching.

Nous félicitons chaleureusement Félix Desmeules-Trudel, qui a complété son doctorat au département de linguistique de l'Université d'Ottawa, pour l'obtention du poste de Professeur de phonétique à l'UQAM. C'est avec fierté que nous voyons nos anciens contribuer de façon continue et significative à la recherche et l'enseignement de la linguistique.

Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Félix Desmeules-Trudel, nouveau professeur en phonétique au Département de linguistique. Félix a reçu son doctorat en linguistique de l'Université d'Ottawa en 2018 sous la direction de Tania Zamuner. Sa thèse s’intitule « Phonetic Details and Spoken Word Recognition in L1 and L2 Canadian French » et porte sur l’articulation, l’acoustique, la perception et l’apprentissage des sons de la parole du français laurentien. Avant cela, il a obtenu un baccalauréat et une maîtrise en linguistique à l'Université Laval. Après son doctorat, il a été chercheur postdoctoral à l'Université Western (boursier FQRQS) et à l'Université de Toronto à Mississauga.

Son programme de recherche vise à comprendre les facteurs articulatoires-acoustiques, linguistiques et cognitifs qui influencent la perception, le traitement et l’apprentissage des sons de la parole chez les enfants et les adultes en français québécois comme langue seconde. Ses travaux ont été publiés dans plusieurs revues scientifiques prestigieuses, notamment Journal of Phonetics, Journal of Child Language, et Child Development, entre autres.

Au sein du département, Félix donnera des cours tels que LIN1621 Phonétique, LIN2622 Phonétique instrumentale et LIN8206 Phonétique 1, ainsi que de séminaires thématiques en phonétique au niveau du doctorat.

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06/30/2025

uOttawa Linguistics was strongly represented at this year's annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association, which was held at McGill University. For a list of talks given by our professors and students, see our X post linked below.

Congrats to all presenters!

03/28/2025

will be hosting this year's Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Workshop.

Info and CfP:

The seventeenth Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal Semantics Workshop will be hosted by the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa on May 10, 2025.

Address

70 Laurier Avenue East
Ottawa, ON
K1N6N5

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