Our Team
Meet the members of the DPL. Scroll down for more information on each member.
Phonological and Prosodic Development Group
![Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-06/43cabf42-89c2-4c9a-a065-945c7e58c0b5.jpg?itok=KvxSuatV)
Dr. Angeliki Athanasopoulou
Associate Professor
email: angeliki.athanasopou@ucalgary.ca
website: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/angeliki-athanasopoulou
Research areas: Phonology, Phonetics, First (child) Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Experimental Methods, Typology
![Ushmum](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2024-03/Ushmum.jpg?itok=hAslyIZS)
Mir Ushmum Alam
Ph.D. Student
M.S., Communication Disorders, University of Dhaka, 2022
M.A., Linguistics, University of Dhaka, 2018
email: ushmum.alam@ucalgary.ca
Thesis: Acquisition of Bengali phonology
Semantic and Pragmatic Development Group
![Dr. Dimitrios Skordos](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-07/DSkordos_-o4id45szk1ww5aq3j5tcc9o47olymc6fdpapsc8ylo_0.jpg?itok=-U-qFTWC)
Dr. Dimitrios Skordos
Associate Professor
email: dimitrios.skordos@ucalgary.ca
website: https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/dimitrios-skordos
Research areas: Acquisition of Semantics and Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
![Mathieu](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2023-07/MP.png?itok=s63tPXuw)
Dr. Mathieu Paillé
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Linguistics, McGill 2022
email: mathieu.paille@ucalgary.ca
Research areas: Formal Semantics, Syntax
![Cheryl](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2022-08/Screenshot%202022-07-15%20175542.png?itok=P2NLHWe0)
Cheryl Iwanchuk
M.A. Student
B.A. (Honours), Linguistics, University of Calgary, 2022
email: cheryl.iwanchuk@ucalgary.ca
![Rowan](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_thumbnail_portrait/public/2024-03/IMG_20240315_091228840.jpg?itok=MCRz9T4Y)
Rowan Sali
M.A. Student
B.A. (Honours), Linguistics, University of Calgary, 2024
email: rowan.sali@ucalgary.ca
![group](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_image_4_3_desktop/public/2024-03/SummerGraduation.png?h=0c825f78&itok=NQ0jZUMS)
![Olson graduation](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_image_desktop/public/2024-07/Graduation_Olson2.jpg?itok=QlVaxG8o)
![Sung](/sites/default/files/styles/ucws_image_desktop/public/2024-07/Graduation_Angeliki%2BAlyssa2.jpg?itok=maWUMxB5)
Lab Alumni
2024
Rowan Sali - B.A. (Honours), Linguistics
Thesis: Every Adult has Consistent Acceptability Judgements or They Don’t: An examination of strong vs weak distributivity in English speaking adults
Currently pursuing a M.A. in Linguistics at the University of Calgary
Celeste Olson - B.A., Linguistics and Psychology (Project Manager)
Alyssa Sung - B.A., Linguistics
Currently pursuing a M.Sc. in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Alberta
2023
Summer Abdalla - M.A., Linguistics
Currently working at POD Marketing
Madeline MacLean - B.A. (Honours), Linguistics
Thesis: Context and affective prosody in language perception
Currently pursuing a B.A. in Social Work at the University of Calgary
Anika Rogalski - B.A., Linguistics (Lab Manager)
Shannon Bierman - B.A., Linguistics (PURE project)
2022
Cheman Baira A'Gitok Sangma - M.A., Linguistics
Thesis: Non-convergence of pitch and duration: Word-prosody of Garo
Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Linguistics at McGill University
Cheryl Iwanchuk - B.A. (Honours), Linguistics
Currently pursuing a M.A. in Linguistics at the University of Calgary
Amy Sun - B.A. (Honours), Linguistics
2021
Jomanna Sleiman - B.A., Linguistics (PURE project)
Currently pursuing a M.Sc. in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Alberta
2020
Raina Schneider - B.A. (Honours), Linguistics