Hi, I’m Leah! I am currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychology at McGill University, under the supervision of Prof. Debra Titone. My work focuses on bilingualism, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics.
My broad research interests include:
- Code-switching
- Typed language production and processing
- Corpus-based analyses
- The bilingual language faculty
- Grammatical gender
- Accented speech processing
Education
2019 – 2024
Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Thesis title: The production-processing paradox: Examining the cognitive effects of code-switching via FEBLOC, a novel ecologically valid switching corpus (nominated for thesis prizes)
- Supervisor: Dr. Laura Sabourin
- Thesis Committee: Prof. Jorge Valdés Kroff; Prof. Shanna Kousaie; Prof. Tania Zamuner; Prof. Juana Liceras
2019
Visiting student, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Spain
- Project title: Perception of mispronunciations in accented speech
- Co-supervisors: Prof. Clara Martin, Prof. Sendy Caffarra
2018 – 2019
Master of Arts in Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Mémoire title: Frequency of mixing habits modulates processing costs attributed to code-switching in determiner phrases
- Supervisor: Dr. Laura Sabourin
2014 – 2018
Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude), Joint Honours in Psychology and Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Honours thesis title: Electrophysiological effects of code-switching within nominal phrases
- Supervisor: Dr. Laura Sabourin
Research Experience
2025 – present
Postdoctoral Researcher, Language & Multilingualism Lab (Director: Prof. Debra Titone), McGill University
2024 – 2025
Research assistant, ERPLing Laboratory (Director: Prof. Laura Sabourin), University of Ottawa
2019 – 2021
Research assistant, Laboratoire des polyphonies (Director: Prof. France Martineau), University of Ottawa
Summer 2020
Research assistant, ERPLing Laboratory (Director: Prof. Laura Sabourin), University of Ottawa
Summer 2019
Researcher, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (Supervisors: Prof. Clara Martin, Prof. Sendy Caffarra)
Summer 2017
Research assistant, Centre for Child Language Research (Director: Prof. Tania Zamuner); uOttawa Living Lab
Teaching Experience
Winter 2024
Instructor. Neurolinguistics. (LIN2352), University of Ottawa.
Fall 2023
Instructor. Neurolinguistique. (LIN2752), University of Ottawa.
Fall 2022
Teaching assistant (Instructor: Dr. Gustavo Freire); Acquisition des langues secondes (LIN2755), University of Ottawa.
Teaching assistant (Instructor: Prof. Laura Sabourin); Language and Mind (LIN1303), University of Ottawa.
Winter 2022
Instructor. Psycholinguistics (LIN3350), University of Ottawa.
Guest speaker: “What is psycholinguistics?” (Instructor: Mariana Cortés Kandler), LIN1315, University of Ottawa.
Fall 2021
Instructor. Psycholinguistique (LIN3750), University of Ottawa.
Guest speaker: “Code-switching” (Instructor: Gabrielle Manning), LING 370A, University of Victoria, Canada.
Winter 2021
Teaching assistant (Professor: Prof. Laura Sabourin); Labo en psycholinguistique / Psycholinguistics lab (LIN4952), University of Ottawa.
Winter 2021
Teaching assistant (Professor: Prof. Kevin McMullin); Computational Linguistics (LIN2330), University of Ottawa.
Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant (Instructor: Gustavo Beritognolo); Introduction à la linguistique: des mots aux énoncés (LIN1710), University of Ottawa.
Winter 2019
Teaching assistant (Professor: Prof. Laura Sabourin); Acquisition des langues secondes (LIN2755), University of Ottawa.
2018 – present
Event-Related Potentials trainer, ERPLing Laboratory, University of Ottawa.
Select Funding and Scholarships
2024
Academic and Professional Development Fund, Association of Part-Time Professors of the University of Ottawa
2024
Trainee Scholarship Award, Society for the Neurobiology of Language
2022-2024
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).
2023
2019-2022
Travel grant, Canadian Linguistics Association
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
2019-2022
Excellence Scholarship, University of Ottawa
2019
Globalink Research Award for Canadian research abroad; MITACS
2018-2019
Canada’s Graduate’s Scholarship (Master); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
2018
Edward Sapir Scholarship; University of Ottawa
2017
Undergraduate Student Research Award; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Personal Interests
I grew up in a francophone pocket of Northern Ontario, with two bilingual parents. My first language is Frenglish/Franglais. In my spare time, I love to read, watch sports, build jigsaw puzzles, and take care of my two chihuahua rescues and 50 houseplants. Some of my favourite authors include Roxane Gay, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
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