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Contact: ichow3@uwo.ca
Education
2003
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Ph.D., French
Linguistics, University
of Toronto
Thesis:
"Prosodic Structures of French and Mandarin"
Supervisor: Professor
Philippe Martin
Specialization: Prosody and
Experimental Phonetics
Minor
Field: Syntax |
1998
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M.A., French Linguistics, University of Toronto
M.A. Thesis:
"Une comparaison sur l'aspect entre le français et le japonais"
Supervisor: Professor
Yves Roberge
Specialization:
Syntax and Semantic
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1996
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B.A. Honours, Psychology and French
Linguistics, University of Toronto
Major Fields:
Psychology; French Language and Linguistics
Minor Field:
Japanese Language |
Research
Experience
2004-present
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Visiting Post-Doctoral Researcher
- nominated member of
the Doctoral Examination Committee
- current research project: The Production and Perception of
Prosodic Juncture Cues
- train graduate students in research methodologies, acosutic analysis
and laboratory phonology
- participate in the ongoing research project: La phonologie du
français contemporain, directed by Prof.
François Poiré, research project funded by the SSHRCC
research grant.
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| 1996 |
Research Assistant
Supervisor:
Prof. David Heap, University
of Western Ontario
- Heap, D. (2000). La variation grammaticale en
géolinguistique: le cas des pronoms sujets. Lincom GmbH,
research project funded by the SSHRCC Doctoral Fellowship and the
Queen Elizabeth II Doctoral Fellowship.
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Teaching Experience
| 2000-2001 |
Lecteur
de langue étrangère (Foreign Language Lecturer)
Département
d'anglais, Université
Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne,
France
- DEUG 1: Conversational English,
English Laboratory Phonetics
- DEUG 2: Conversational English, English Laboratory Phonetics
- CAPES: English Laboratory Phonetics
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| 1997-1996 |
Teaching
Assistant
Department of
French Studies, University of Toronto
- FSL100F Oral Practice - Introductory French I
- FSL102S Oral Practice - Introductory French II
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Languages
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North American English
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Native Fluency
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Cantonese (Chinese)
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Native Speaker
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Mandarin (Chinese)
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Fluent
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French
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Fluent
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Japanese
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Working Knowledge
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Honours
2004
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International
Speech
Communication Association (ISCA) Grant |
2003
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Thesis Completion Grant, School of Graduate
Studies, University of Toronto
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| 2002 |
Department of
French
Fellowship, University of Toronto |
| 1996-2001 |
University of Toronto
Graduate Fellowship
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Administrative
Experience
1996-2000;
2001-2002
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Member
of the Technology Coordinating Committee
Department of French Studies, University of Toronto
- Promoted the use
of new
technology in French as a second language courses
- Designed and implemented course
web-pages
- Maintained pedagogical resource databases
- Hosted lectures at the Computing
Centre for the Humanities and Social Sciences |
| 2000-2001 |
Chair
of the Société des études canadiennes (Canadian
Studies Society)
Département
d'anglais, Université de Rennes II Haute Bretagne, France
- Facilitated discussions on the culture and
politics of Canada at discussion groups
- Managed the inventory of the
Canadian Studies Resource Library |
Professional
Experience
| 2000 |
Assistant
Project Coordinator
Alias |
Wavefront
- Coordinated A|W Education
Seminars at the 2000 ACM SIGGRAPH Conference
- Organized and judged the A|W
Education Student Competition in 3D Computer Animation |
1997
- present
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Freelance
Translator
ABC Translations, ASL Consulting,
iTerracom,
Translating Asia
- Translated documents such as: technical, patent
application documents for
electronic devices, computer software and hardware, adoption documents.
- Language combinations: Chinese-English, English-Chinese,
Chinese-French, French-Chinese, English-French, French-English. |
Technical
Skills
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Voice analysis
with
WinPitch: spectrogram, F0 contour, intensity
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Elementary
Computer
Programming in Java |
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Microsoft Word,
Excel
and Powerpoint |
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Adobe Photoshop,
HTML
and Web Design |
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Word Processing
in
Japanese, Traditional and Simplified Chinese |
Professional
Affiliations
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Member of the
Modern
Language Association |
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Member of the
Linguistic Society of America |
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Member of the
International Speech Communication Association |
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Chow, All Rights Reserved - Tous droits réservés
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