Mireille Babineau

Mireille Babineau is a part-time Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto (St. George campus). She holds a Ph.D. and Psy.D. from the Université du Québec à Montréal (2016) and completed postdoctoral research at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris under Anne Christophe, supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship. Her research focuses on early language acquisition mechanisms, particularly how children learn novel words through syntactic and prosodic cues. She also practices as a child psychologist at Possibilities Clinic, specializing in neurodevelopmental disorders and early childhood.

Education:

• Ph.D./Psy.D., Université du Québec à Montréal (2016)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, École Normale Supérieure (Paris, 2016–2020)
• Undergraduate Degree, Université de Moncton (Psychology)

Research Interests: Language acquisition, bilingualism's impact on cognitive development, syntactic bootstrapping, prosody's role in word learning, and neurodevelopmental disorders in early childhood.

Awards:

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (EU, 2018–2020)
• Fyssen Foundation Postdoctoral Grant (2016)
• SSHRC Insight Development Grant (current funding)

Grants & Projects: Leads the SASC project (ERC Horizon 2020-funded), investigating synergies between syntactic and semantic acquisition. Collaborates on the ManyBabies 5 project, a large-scale study on infant cognition.

Labs/Teams: Directs the Babineau Lab at U of T (collaborating with institutions in Paris, Vancouver, and Toronto), focusing on language acquisition and neurodevelopmental research. Lab members include undergraduates and graduate students working on bilingualism, moral development, and speech impairments.