Izaak Walton Killam Recipient

I am particularly proud to be one of the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship Award recipients! This award is one of the three most prestigious awards in Canada that a doctoral researcher can receive.
illustration of the award

Tutorials

Praat

Praat video tutorial in which I show how to create TextGrids with a script, calculate duration with a script, extract vowels and more.

Praat video tutorial in which I show how to extract duration, intensity, and F0 to study the production of stress in English.

LaTeX

In this video, I show how to install and work on LaTeX for Windows

Awards

Izaak Walton Killam Doctoral Scholarship

In establishing this memorial to her late husband, Dorothy Johnston Killam’s purpose was “to help in the building of Canada’s future by encouraging advanced study… to increase the scientific and scholastic attainments of Canadians, to develop and expand the work of Canadian universities, and to promote sympathetic understanding between Canadians and the peoples of other countries.” It was her “desire that those selected to receive Scholarships shall be likely to contribute to the advancement of learning or to win distinction in a profession.” The Izaak Walton Killam Doctoral Scholarship is considered the University of Calgary’s pinnacle award. Awarded: $60,000.

Eyes High International

Eyes High International Award is established to attract and retain the best and brightest doctoral students from around the world in support of the University of Calgary’s Eyes High vision of becoming one of the top five research universities in Canada. Awarded: $15,000.

Open Doctoral Award

Open Doctoral Award is a University of Calgary prize awarded to best doctoral candidates in a variety of fields. Awarded: $10,000.

Dean’s Entrance Graduate Award

Dean’s Entrance Graduate Scholarship is open to students registered full-time in a thesis-based doctoral program in the Faculty of Graduate Students of the University of Calgary. Awarded: $10,000.

Erasmus +

Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. Awarded $5,400.

Dositeja Fund

Dositeja Fund or the Fund for Young Talents of the Ministry of Education in Serbia supports certain number of best Serbian students around the globe by allocating up to $7,000 for each selected student.

LRC Fellowships

LRC Fellowship is the fellowship instituted in 2019 to support students from the graduate programs in Languages, Literatures and Cultures and in Linguistics in implementing a community outreach project of their own design. Awarded: $4,000.

Podcast

A young boy recording a podcast

Linguistically Aware

Linguistically Aware is a conversation-based podcast about the ways we use, understand, and think about language. In this podcast, which is broadcast once monthly onCJSW 90.9 FM, I sat down with linguists to talk about a number of roles language plays in our lives. This podcast is now led by brilliant Brooklyn Sheppard! Listen to the recordings below and enjoy!

All episodes available on Apple podcasts and at CJSW 90.9