Ph.D. Linguistics, French linguistics (joint)
Indiana University (2014)
M.A. Linguistics
Indiana University (2013)
M.A. French Linguistics
Indiana University (2012)
B.A. French, Classics
Saint Olaf College (2008)
Associate professor
Université de Montréal (2014 – present)
Département de linguistique & de traduction
Co-editor
Revue canadienne de linguistique/Canadian Journal of Linguistics (2022 - present)
Associate instructor
Indiana University (2009 - 2014)
Department of French & Italian, Department of linguistics
Tracing the evolution of the gender of "COVID-19" in the French of three continents: A traditional and social media study
Michael Dow & Patrick Drouin. (2023). Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue Canadienne de Linguistique, 68(3), 486-513
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L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral-nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese.
Ruth Martinez, Heather Goad & Michael Dow. (2021). Second Language Research, 39(2), 387-423
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A phonetic-phonological study of vowel height and nasal coarticulation in French
Michael Dow. (2020). Journal of French Language Studies, 30(3), 239-274
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Tongue displacement, vowel height and nasality in Québec French: An acoustic and articulatory study
Michael Dow, Mark Gibson & Charles Johnson. (2019). Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 23, 130-147
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Nasalisation régressive en picard et en français : Preuves phonétiques des différences phonologiques
Michael Dow. (2016). Bien dire et bien aprandre 32, 27-52
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The coronal fricative problem
Daniel Dinnsen, Michael Dow, Judith A. Gierut, Michelle L. Morrisette & Christopher R. Green. (2013). Lingua 131, 157-178
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The morphophonology of nouns in Najamba (Dogon)
Christopher R. Green C & Michael Dow. (2018). In Obeng S, Green C. African Linguistics in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Paul Newman, 57-69
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Twitter-MPhon: Studying morphophonological variation with Twitter data
Michael Dow, François Lareau & Patrick Drouin. (accepted). Proceedings of the 2023 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association
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Temporal vs. area-sum formulae of vowel nasality in simulated and nasometric corpora
Michael Dow. (2023). Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 748-752
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The Open Letter: Responses and recommendations
Itamar Kastner, Hadas Kotek, Anonymous, Rikker Dockum, Michael Dow, Maria Esipova, Caitlin M. Green, Elise Stickles & Todd Snider. (2022). Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 7(1)
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Experimental and typological approaches to nasal vowel sonority
Michael Dow. (2021). Proceedings of the 2020 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association
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Subsegmental interactions between affrication and devoicing in Québec French
Michael Dow. (2020). Proceedings of the 2019 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association
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A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends
Michael Dow. (2019). Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association
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Ultrasound and nasometric evidence for high vowel nasalization in Montreal French
Michael Dow, Mark Gibson & Charles Johnson. (2019). Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 1744-1748
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Mind your /ti/'s and q's: A subsegmental approach to affrication in Québec French
Michael Dow. (2019). Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 41, 1-11.
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Hybrid opacity in Berbice Dutch Creole
Michael Dow. (2013). Supplemental Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology, 1-14
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Different [back] [round]’s: Lexical origin and vowel harmony in Turkish
Michael Dow & Jeffrey Lamontagne (2024). Annual Congress of the Canadian Linguistic Association (Ottawa, Canada).
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Time a loan will tell: Phonological adaption of loanwords into Turkish on Twitter
Michael Dow & Jeffrey Lamontagne (2024). Change and Variation in Canada (CVC 13) (Montréal, Canada).
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Temporal vs. area-sum formulae of vowel nasality in simulated and nasometric corpora
Michael Dow (2023). 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic).
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Of pronoun havers and havers-not: The semantic shift of ‘pronoun’ in online political discourse
Kelly Biers, Michael Dow, Eric Beuerlein, Kimaya Guthrie, Sam McIntosh, & Heather Roberts-VanSickle (2023). UNCA Queer Studies Conference (Asheville, North Carolina, USA).
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Applying Twitter data to linguistic research: Case studies in sound, form and meaning
Michael Dow (2023). Patterns and Singularities: Department of French and Italian Graduate Conference (Invited talk) (Bloomington, Indiana, USA).
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Twitter-MPhon: Studying morphophonological variation with Twitter data
Michael Dow, François Lareau & Patrick Drouin (2023). Annual Congress of the Canadian linguistic Association (Toronto, Canada).
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The Open Letter: Responses and Recommendations
Itamar Kastner, Hadas Kotek, Anonymous, Rikker Dockum, Michael Dow, Maria Esipova, Caitlin M. Green, Elise Stickles & Todd Snider (2022). Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Washington, D.C., USA).
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L'évolution du genre du mot "COVID-19" dans le français de trois continents: Une étude de deux corpus médiatiques
Michael Dow & Patrick Drouin (2021). Annual Congress of the Canadian Linguistic Association (Online).
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Liquid consonants and onset sonority in Dogon languages
Michael Dow (2021). 50 ans de linguistique à l'UQAM : Regards croisés sur les enjeux de la linguistique (Online).
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Experimental and typological approaches to nasal vowel sonority
Michael Dow (2020). Annual Congress of the Canadian Linguistic Association (Online).
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Subsegmental interactions between affrication and devoicing in Québec French
Michael Dow (2019). Annual Congress of the Canadian Linguistic Association (Vancouver, Canada).
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Mind your /ti/'s and q's: A subsegmental approach to affrication in Québec French
Michael Dow (2019). Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonetics-Phonology Workshop (Toronto, Canada).
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Ultrasound and nasometric evidence for controlled high vowel nasalization in Montreal French
Michael Dow, Mark Gibson & Charles Johnson (2019). 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Melbourne, Australia).
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A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends
Michael Dow (2018). Annual Congress of the Canadian Linguistic Association (Regina, Canada).
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Let me see that truncussy: Elucidating patterns in a novel blending meme
Michael Dow (2018). Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonetics-Phonology Workshop (Hamilton, Canada).
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Vowel-specific metrics of phonological nasalization in French
Michael Dow (2017). Annual Congress of the Canadian Linguistic Association (Toronto, Canada).
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Phonological Consequences of high front vowel nasalization in French
Michael Dow (2017). Manchester Phonology Meeting (Manchester, England).
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Elucidating Dogon prosodic structures: the case of liquid ‘flip-frops’ in Beni (Dogon)
Michael Dow, Ryan Hendrickson & Christopher R. Green (2017). Annual Conference on African Linguistics (Bloomington, Indiana, USA).
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Temporal vs. area-sum measurements of vowel nasality
Michael Dow (2016). Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Washington, D.C., USA).
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Phonetic evidence for nasal vowel markedness parameters
Michael Dow (2016). North American Phonology Conference (Montréal, Canada).
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Issues in identifying nasal vowel markedness
Michael Dow (2015). Old World Conference in Phonology (Barcelona, Spain).
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High vowel nasalization and contrast preservation in French
Michael Dow (2015). Annual Congress of the Canadian Linguistic Association (Ottawa, Canada).
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Multiple repairs for voiced obstruent codas in Berbice Dutch Creole
Michael Dow (2013). Manchester Phonology Meeting (Manchester, England).
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Too much, too little, too late: Hybrid opacity in Berbice Dutch Creole
Michael Dow (2013). Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA).
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Hybrid opacity in Berbice Dutch Creole
Michael Dow (2013). Annual Meeting on Phonology (Amherst, Massachussetts, USA).
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Towards a unified taxonomy of dual interactions
Michael Dow (2013). Department of Linguistics 50th anniversary celebration (Bloomington, Indiana, USA).
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On the seemingly opaque morphophonology of Najamba (Dogon)
Michael Dow & Christopher R. Green (2010). Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology (Evanston, Illinois, USA).
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(Principal and/or sole investigator for all grants, unless stated otherwise.)
Insight Development grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Harnessing Twitter for morphophonological variation. Co-applicants: François Lareau, Patrick Drouin. Collaborators: Jeffrey Lamontagne, Kevin Rottet. (2021-present). $71,556 (CAD)
Internal grant, Université de Montréal/SSHRC
Une étude pilote sur l'adaptation de données Twitter pour la morphophonologie. (2021-2023). $5,533 (CAD)
Internal grant, Université de Montréal/SSHRC
Vers une automatisation du traitement de schwa dans des corpus de français nord-americain. (2019-2022). $5,892 (CAD)
Internal grant, Université de Montréal/SSHRC
Encadrer la variation phonétique dans des théories binaires: La nasalisation vocalique chez la population bilingue montréalaise. (2018-2021). $4,670 (CAD)
Insight grant, SSHRC (collaborator)
L'Hypothèse lexicaliste et la représentation mentale des noms déverbaux. Principal investigators: Daniel Valois, Phaedra Royle. (2016-2019). $44,350 (CAD)
Internal grant, Université de Montréal/SSHRC
Une étude pilote de nasalisation contextuelle en français québécois. (2018-2019). $4,215 (CAD)
Doctoral Dissertation Research grant, National Science Foundation, Linguistics
Structural differences between French and Picard: Evidence from phonetics and phonology. (2014-2016). $12,449 (USD)
Householder Research Funds
Department of Linguistics, Indiana University. (2014). $500 (USD)
Gertrude F. Weathers Fellowship
Department of French & Italian, Indiana University. (2014). $5,250 (USD)
Grace P. Young Award
Department of French & Italian, Indiana University. (2012).
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