Gagnant-e-s | Winners:

• 2012:

  Best paper: Sara Johansson (Memorial University)
  “Acquiring Northern East Cree verbal morphology: Evidence from inchoative verbs”

  Sarah’s research was both original and ambitious, with her paper being characterized by outstanding treatment of interesting Northern East Cree data, methodological rigour, solid knowledge of issues in theoretical linguistics and language acquisition, and a thorough understanding of the relationship between her data and theory. Her presentation, which was relaxed, confident, and strikingly articulate, was matched by the quality of her handout. The clarity of her reasoning and gentle humour of her manner combined to make a very effective presentation accessible to all. Congratulations!

  Best poster: Philippe Gauthier (Western University)
  “High-vowel laxing in Canadian French”

  Philippe’s poster presented data from a study-in-progress with implications for sociolinguistics, phonetics, and phonology. Philippe’s presentation was engaging, lucid, and knowledgeable as were his responses to questions about the data, the methodology, the theoretical context, and possibilities for future research. The poster itself was well organized, clearly laid out, visually engaging, and easy to follow. The judges were impressed by his thoughtful articulation of both the implications and limitations of his findings. Well done!

• 2011:
  
  • Communications | Talks:
    • Gagnantes | Winners:
      • Beth MacLeod, University of Toronto
        Perceptual salience and cross-dialectal phonetic convergence in Spanish
      • Alexandra Simonenko, McGill University
        Domains in Mainland Scandinavian DP: Syntax and phonology
  • Affiches | Posters:
    • Gagnante | Winner:
      • Joanne Markle LaMontagne, University of Toronto
        Acquisition of the Spanish Present Perfect by Spanish–English Bilinguals
• 2010:
  
  • Communications | Talks:
    • Gagnant | Winner:
      • Viktor Kharlamov, University of Ottawa
        Final devoicing & (in)complete neutralization: The role of task-specific factors
  • Affiches | Posters:
    • Gagnante | Winner:
      • Liisa Duncan, University of Toronto
        Consonant gradation in Finnish dialects
• 2009:
  
  • Communications | Talks:
    • Gagnante | Winner:
      • Elisabeth Ferch, University of British Columbia
        Number and Quantification in Shona?
    • Mentions honorables | Honorable mentions:
      • Viktor Kharlamov, University of Ottawa
        Speakers' Notion of the Syllable: The Role of Statistical Factors in Onset Wellformedness
      • Bethany MacLeod, University of Toronto
        Gwhat did you say? Epenthetic Velars in Costa Rican Spanish
  • Affiches | Posters:
    • Gagnante | Winner:
      • Darcie Blainey, Tulane University
        Schwa Behaviour in Formal and Informal Speech in the French of Ville Platte, Louisiana
• 2008:
  
  • Communications | Talks:
    • Gagnantes | Winners:
      • Heather Bliss, University of British Columbia
        Structuring information in Blackfoot: Against an A'-agreement analysis of cross-clausal agreement
      • Isabelle Charnavel, University of California, Los Angeles
        L'alternance avoir été/être eu dans les auxiliaires du passé surcomposé en français: un nouvel argument pour le caractère syntaxique du morphème se
  • Affiches | Posters:
    • Gagnante | Winner:
      • Jennifer Glougie, University of British Columbia
        On future expression in St'át'imcets: Modality vs. aspect
    • Mentions honorables | Honourable mentions:
      • Heather Bliss, University of British Columbia, and Denis Storoshenko, Simon Fraser University
        Passivization and A'-movement in Shona
      • Bethany MacLeod, University of Toronto
        The hierarchy of velar weakening in Buenos Aires Spanish
• 2007:
  Gagnante | Winner:
  • Bethany Lochbihler, University of Ottawa
    Mapping inversion: A morpho-syntactic analysis of the inverse system in Ojibwa
• 2006:
  Gagnante | Winner:
  • Catherine Macdonald, University of Toronto
    Tongan Personal Pronouns
  Mentions honorables | Honourable mentions:
  • Janet Leonard, University of Victoria
    Formalising the Phonology of Stress in Senćoŧen
  • Ulyana Savchenko, University of Toronto
    L2 Acquisition of the Semantics of Russian Dative Subjects
• 2005:
  Gagnante | Winner:
  • Christina Manouilidou, University of Ottawa
    Computation of thematic features in deverbal nouns: Probing the effect of the verbal root
  Mention honorable | Honourable mention:
  • Christine Pittman, University of Toronto
    Changes in the Inuktitut switch-reference system
• 2004:
  Gagnante | Winner:
  • Anousha Sedighi, University of Ottawa
    Animacy: The overlooked feature in Persian
  Mention honorable | Honourable mention:
  • Mike Barrie, University of Toronto
    On unifying antisymmetry and bare phrase structure
• 2003:
  Gagnante | Winner:
  • Rachel Wojdak, University of British Columbia
    PF incorporation in Nuu-chah-nulth
  Mentions honorables | Honourable mentions:
  • Chiara Frigeni, University of Toronto
    Reconsidering lenition/fortition
  • Daniel Currie Hall, University of Toronto
    Prophylaxis and asymmetry in Yokuts
• 2002:
  Gagnant-e-s | Winners:
  • Simone Conradie, McGill University
    Parameter resetting in the second language acquisition of Afrikaans
  • Denis Liakin, University of Western Ontario
    [Spec, CP] et [Spec, FocP] - Deux positions de focus
  Mentions honorables | Honourable mentions:
  • Marc Brunelle, Cornell University
    Proclitic reduction in Quebecois French
  • Elissa Flagg, MIT
    Adjacency and lowering in morphology: The case of English sentential negation
  • Ilana Mezhevich, University of Calgary
    Adjectives, genitives and argument structure
  • Rebecca Smollett, University of Toronto
    Latinate verbs and English particles: Why you can 'mix up the ingredients' but not 'combine them up'
• 2001: Mary MacKeracher, University of Toronto
  Reconsidering the standard temporal model of language change
• 2000: Wenckje Jongstra, University of Toronto
  Variability in the acquisition of word-initial consonant clusters
• 1999: Asya Pereltsvaig, McGill University
  On extent adverbials and case theory
• 1998: Trisha Causley, University of Toronto
  Redefining the line between faithfulness and markedness
• 1997: Marie-Hélène Côté, MIT
  Salience phonetique et simplification des groupes consonantiques