I am a fourth year PhD candidate in Linguistics, specializing in bilingualism, psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.
My broad research interests include:
- Intra-sentential code-switching
- The bilingual language faculty
- Executive functioning
- Grammatical gender
- Foreign-accented speech processing
Education
2019 – present
PhD student, Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada
2019
Visiting student, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
2018 – 2019
Master of Arts, Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada
2014 – 2018
Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude), Joint Honours in Psychology and Linguistics, University of Ottawa, Canada
Research Experience
2019 – 2021
Research assistant, Laboratoire des polyphonies (Director: Dr. France Martineau), University of Ottawa
Summer 2020
Research assistant, ERPLing Laboratory (Director: Dr. Laura Sabourin), University of Ottawa
Summer 2019
Researcher, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (Supervisors: Dr. Clara Martin, Dr. Sendy Caffarra)
Summer 2017
Research assistant, Centre for Child Language Research (Director: Dr. Tania Zamuner); uOttawa Living Lab
Teaching Experience
Fall 2022
Teaching assistant (Professor: Dr. Laura Sabourin); Language and Mind (LIN1303), University of Ottawa.
Teaching assistant (Instructor: Dr. Gustavo Freire); Acquisition des langues secondes (LIN2755), 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: Dr. Laura Sabourin); Labo en psycholinguistique / Psycholinguistics lab (LIN4952), University of Ottawa.
Winter 2021
Teaching assistant (Professor: Dr. 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: Dr. Laura Sabourin); Acquisition des langues secondes (LIN2755), University of Ottawa.
2018 – present
Event-Related Potentials trainer, ERPling lab, uOttawa.
Select Funding and Scholarships
2022-2023
2019-2022
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS).
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, write, craft and take care of my two chihuahua rescues and 50 houseplants. Some of my favourite authors include Roxane Gay, Margaret Atwood, Donna Tartt, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kristin Hannah.
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