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Michael Dow is an Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal, affiliated with the Faculté des arts et des sciences and the Département de linguistique et de traduction. His research focuses on the interplay between phonetics and phonology, particularly through generative frameworks, with a strong emphasis on nasal vowels in French and the Picard language.
His scholarly work includes extensive projects funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (CRSH) from 2015 to 2025, exploring topics such as nasal vowel sonority, morphophonological variation via Twitter data, and experimental phonology. He has supervised multiple Master’s students including Bayan Ibrahim, Ruowei Liu, Alex Matthew Stefanelli, and Ruth Martinez.
- Research Highlights:
- Phonetic-Phonological Interface
- Generative Phonology Applications
- Nasality Vocalic Analysis
- Picard Language Studies
- Opacity in Phonological Systems
- Corpus-Based Morphophonology
- Key Projects:
- 2021-2025: Twitter-MPhon (CRSH-funded)
- 2018-2021: Montreal Bilingual Nasality Study
- 2015-2017: Picard Language Documentation
Contact: michael.dow@umontreal.ca
