Michael Wagner

Michael Wagner is a Professor and Department Chair in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University. He holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research focuses on prosody-syntax-semantics interfaces, phonology, and experimental methods in language processing. He leads the Prosody Lab and has developed tools like the Montreal Forced Aligner for speech analysis.

Research Interests: Prosody's role in syntax and semantics, phonological variation, experimental approaches to language processing, and computational methods in linguistic analysis. His work combines formal theoretical frameworks with empirical methods from psycholinguistics and phonetics.

• Education: PhD in Linguistics, MIT
• Labs/Tools: Prosody Lab, Montreal Forced Aligner (speech alignment software)
• Key Contributions: Pioneering work on prosodic parsing mechanisms, intonation semantics, and cross-linguistic variation in focus marking

Publications from 2020-2023 highlight advancements in understanding prosody's role in sentence processing, experimental methods for quantifying focus marking, and computational tools for linguistic research.