After a year of undergraduate study in Linguistics at the University of Alberta, I did my Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, under William Labov, graduating in 1997. Since graduation, I have been a member of the Department of Linguistics at McGill University in Montreal. ...
After a year of undergraduate study in Linguistics at the University of Alberta, I did my Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, under William Labov, graduating in 1997. Since graduation, I have been a member of the Department of Linguistics at McGill University in Montreal. My training and current research are in the areas of dialectology, sociolinguistics and language change, with a focus on contemporary varieties of North American English. Most of my work involves acoustic phonetic analysis, but I have also developed and reported on a survey of lexical (vocabulary) variation.