Emily Atkinson

Emily Atkinson is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga within the Department of Language Studies. She is also affiliated with the Department of Linguistics at the University of Toronto main campus. Her pronouns are she/her/hers, and she is based at 4150 Maanjiwe nendamowinan, Mississauga campus.

• PhD, John Hopkins University
• MA, Johns Hopkins University
• MS, Georgetown University
• BA, Georgetown University

Emily's research focuses on acquisition psycholinguistics, syntax, and sentence processing. She investigates topics like long-distance dependencies, filler-gap constructions, and wh-island acceptability, combining theoretical syntax with empirical child/adult parsing studies.

Her publications (2010-2024) reveal consistent interest in syntactic ambiguity resolution, dependency processing, and language acquisition mechanisms. While no explicit awards are listed, her dual departmental affiliation underscores institutional recognition of her interdisciplinary contributions.

Prospective graduate students at the University of Toronto can contact her via e.atkinson@utoronto.ca for supervision opportunities in syntax or psycholinguistics research.