Welcome Graduate Students!

We are excited to welcome our new graduate students who will be joining us for the 2021-2022 academic year! We know you all are capable of the best and cannot wait to see all your achievements and learning moments while you're here at UofT!

    Joining us as MA students, we have:

    • Maya Blumenthal

    • Emma Bornheimer

    • Abram Clear

    • Heidi DeWitte

    • Zachary Feldcamp

    • Akil Ismael

    • Ryan MacDonald

    • Parker Robbins

    • Mikenzie Sandy

    • Hanna Zhang

    Our new PhD students include:

    • Crystal Chen

    • Justin Leung

    • Christiana Moser

    • Gabriel Palmieri

    • Martin Renard

 

Once again, we send the warmest welcome to all our new graduate students! Wishing you all the best of luck for your journey here at UofT!

Here is a matching game to get to know our incoming graduate students. You'll have to check with the students to see if you guess correctly! (Faculty, you can check the bios you received, but no cheating!)

Get to Know the Graduate Student Matching Game

Incoming Graduate Student	Bios
a. Heidi DeWitte	1. Current areas of research include the structure of spell-out, second-position clitics, scrambling, and the functional structure of the extended noun phrases
b. Hanna Zhang	2. Double majored in statistics and linguistics, interested in computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics
c. Zachary Feldcamp	3. Foremost research interest is the revitalization and stabilization of Hodinohso:ni languages with second language-acquisition training during the formative years
d. Ryan MacDonald	4. Graduated from Queen’s University with a major in linguistics and a minor in English literature
e. Justin Leung	5. Have experience working as an RA on a psycholinguistic research project at the Language and Cognitive Development Lab at UC Berkeley
f. Abram Clear	6. Have spent two years working as a lab manager and research assistant at the University of Delaware and Boston College
g. Crystal Chen	7. Hope to dust off the statistical skills and use them in experimental (especially in psycholinguistics or language acquisition) research
h. Emma Bornheimer	8. Interested in areas of online communication, Autism allyship and Deaf culture
i. Akil Ismael	9. Interested in Georgian argument structure and case, and Japanese and Korean verbal morphology
j. Gabriel Palmieri	10. Interested in sociophonetics and how phonological theory and models of speech perception can be informed by the processing of dialectal variants
k. Parker Robbins	11. Love all areas of linguistics but favourite subfields are syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics
l. Maya Blumenthal	12. Minored in French and have worked as a public school teaching assistant in France
m. Mikenzie Sandy	13. Mostly worked on Kanyen’kéha (Mohawk) which this person has been learning for 4 years
n. Martin Renard	14. Passions lie in fieldwork, community linguistics, language revitalization, and descriptive work on indigenous language in the brain (e.g. acquisition)
o. Christina Moser	15. Speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin, also learning French, Hokkien, Hakka and Vietnamese