Research assistants conduct field work: recruiting participants,
conducting interviews and working with the data. In addition to acquiring valuable
data from research participants, some research assistants help with transcription,
statistical analysis, audio analysis and development of publicity and outreach
materials for the project.
Chengbin Zhou Chengbin dot Zhou at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
Chengbin is a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, majoring in linguistics and minoring in history and art history. He is interested in research on sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and philology. He is a fluent speaker of Cantonese, English, and Mandarin.
Siyi Fan Siyi dot Fan at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
Siyi is an MA Linguistics student at the University of Toronto. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of variationist sociolinguistics and health equity. Siyi's current MA project is dedicated to exploring and analyzing serious illness conversations, particularly those occurring between clinicians who speak Mandarin Chinese as a heritage language and patients who speak Mandarin as a homeland variety.
Ian Quan Ian dot Quan at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
I am Ian Quan, a second year undergrad student specializing in computer science with a statistics minor. I am a native Cantonese speaker from Hong Kong.
Douglas Quan Douglas dot Quan at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
Douglas is a second-year student at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. He is specializing in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics. He is a native speaker of Cantonese and is interested in language preservation with the help of technology.
Justin Leung Justinr dot Leung at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
Justin is a PhD student in Linguistics at U of T. His main interest is in morphosyntactic and lexcical variation and change, especially in Cantonese, his heritage language. This year, he is contributing to the HLVC project by adding to our inventory of heritage Cantonese data. He completed his undergraduate studies at UTM (bioinformatics specialist, linguistics minor). In 2021 he completed his MA, working on a project to investigate the expression of motion events in heritage Cantonese, looking at it from sociolinguistic and typological perspectives.
Faetar
Julian Kelly Julian dot Kelly at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
Gray Warriner g dot warriner at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
James Torangeau j dot torangeau at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
Hungarian
Italian
Hassan Khan yetanotherhassan dot khan at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
Angela Cristiano angela dot cristiano989 at gmail dot com more information
Angela is a PhD student at U Groningen. In 2022, she completed a Laurea magistrale (MA) in Linguistics at the University of Bologna, including a semester as a visiting student at UofT. Her primary interests are phonetics, spontaneous speech and reduction patterns and computational linguistics. She's a native speaker of Italian and the Neapolitan dialect (which she worked with for her bachelor's thesis), while also being fluent in English.
Maria Ramizo mariaadrianne dot ramizo at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
Pocholo Umbal [Faculty collaborator] p dot umbal at utoronto dot ca more information
Pocholo is a lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at U of T. He was born in Manila, Philippines and grew up in Vancouver, BC. He is fluent in English and Tagalog. His research investigates the role of language contact and ethnic identity in conditioning phonetic variation, particularly within the Filipino speech community in Canada. He is currently contributing heritage and homeland Tagalog data, which can be used for future HLVC studies! Check out his PhD Dissertation about variation and change in (Heritage) Tagalog.
Hilary Walton Hilary dot Walton at mail dot utoronto dot ca more information
Hilary is a PhD candidate in the French Department. Her thesis investigates the role of identity in the L2 acquisition of French speech. She conducts research in the areas of multilingualism, individual differences, phonology, phonetics, and bilingual education, with a special interest in Canadian French Immersion programs.
