Tania Zamuner

Dr. Tania Zamuner (she/her) is a Full Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa, Cross-appointed in the School of Psychology. Dr. Zamuner completed her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Linguistics at McGill University and received her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 2001. She held a postdoctoral position at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, where she also conducted studies at the Max Plank Institute in Psycholinguistics. She then spent time as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia.
E-mail: tzamuner@uOttawa.ca

Fields of Interest

• Psycholinguistics
• Language Processing
• Speech Perception and Speech Production
• Spoken Word Recognition
• First Language and Bilingualism
• Eyetracking

Teaching 2022-2023

• Psycholinguistic II LIN7341
  
• First Language Acquisition LIN3354
• Psycholinguistics  LIN3350

Members

​Margarethe McDonald, Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
PhD Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA Linguistics & Korean, Indiana University
Research Interests

• Bilingual language development
• Phonetic/phonological acquisition
• Speech production and perception
• Time-course of lexical processing

Belén López Assef, PhD student
Education
MA in Linguistics, University of Ottawa
BA in English Literature and Linguistics at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
​Research Interests​

• Language Acquisition
• Speech Production
• Cognitive Development
• Language and Memory

Theresa Rabideau (she/her), PhD student
Education
MA in Linguistics, University of Ottawa
BA Honours in Linguistics, University of Ottawa
​Research Interests​

• Visual Speech Development
• Language Processing
• Speech Perception
• Prosody​

Scarlet Li, PhD student
personal website
Education
MA in Linguistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
BA Honours in Bilinguals Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
​Research Interests​

• Language Processing
• Memory and Language Acquisition
• Bilingualism

Juliette Bacon, MA student
Education
BA Joint Honours in Linguistics and Psychology, University of Ottawa
​Research Interests​

• Child Language Development
• First Language Acquisition
• Mental Lexicon​

​Rachel Fay Miller, Honours student
​Education
currrently in BA Joint Honours in Linguistics and Psychology, University of Ottawa
​Research Interests​

• Child Development
• Language Acquisition
• Speech-Language Pathology

Anaïs Beharry, Honours student
​Education
currrently in BA Joint Honours in Linguistics and Psychology, University of Ottawa
​Research Interests​

• Bilingualism
• Language Acquisition
• Speech-Language Pathology

S. M. Salama, Honours student
​Education
currrently in BA Joint Honours in Linguistics and Minor in Religious Studies, University of Ottawa
​Research Interests​

• Bilingualism 
• First Language Acquisition 
• Use of gender features in North African Dialects of Arabic  
  

IT Management

Maurice Bélanger
Lab Technologist

As the Linguistics Department Technologist, Maurice ‘Moe’ Bélanger provides technical support for all Linguistics labs, including the CCLR and the uOttawa Living Lab at Canada Science and Technology Museum. Responsibilities include consultation, purchase, installation, maintenance and on-going technical/technological support for all computer hardware, software, devices, application services as well as specialized research equipment. He can be contacted at lintech@uottawa.ca.