Michael Dow
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Last update: September 1, 2022
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Education
Indiana University, Bloomington, INDoctor of Philosophy, French Linguistics & General Linguistics (joint), October 2014
Master of Arts, General Linguistics, September 2013
Master of Arts, French Linguistics, December 2012
Bachelor of Arts, French, Classics (majors), Linguistics (minor), May 2008
Experience
2022 – present
Co-editor, Revue canadienne de linguistique/Canadian Journal of Linguistics
2014 – present
Assistant professor, Université de Montréal, Department of Linguistics and Translation
2009 – 2011, 2012 – 2014
Associate instructor, Indiana University, department of French and Italian
2012 – 2013
Research assistant, Michael Becker. Indiana University.
2011 – 2012
Associate instructor, Indiana University, department of linguistics
2010 – 2012
Research assistant, Daniel Dinnsen. Indiana University.
2010 – 2012
Instructor, Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages, Brest (France)
Publications
Refereed journal articles
forthcoming
Dow M, Drouin P. Tracing the evolution of the gender of "COVID-19" in the French of three continents: A traditional and social media study. Revue canadienne de linguistique/Canadian Journal of Linguistics.
2021Martinez R, Goad H, Dow M. L1 phonological effects on L2 (non-)naïve perception: A cross-language investigation of the oral-nasal vowel contrast in Brazilian Portuguese. Second Language Research.
Dow M. A phonetic-phonological study of vowel height and nasal coarticulation in French. Journal of French Language Studies.
Dow M, Gibson M, Johnson C. Tongue displacement, vowel height and nasality in Québec French: An acoustic and articulatory study. Journal of the Phonetic Society of Japan 23: 130-147.
Dow M. Nasalisation régressive en picard et en français : Preuves phonétiques des différences phonologiques. Bien dire et bien aprandre 32: 27-52. Dinnsen D, Dow M, Gierut JA, Morrisette ML, Green CR. The coronal fricative problem. Lingua 131: 157-178 Kastner I, Kotek H, Anonymous, Dockum R, Dow M, Esipova M, Green C, Stickles E, Snider T. The Open Letter: Responses and recommendations. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 7 (1).
Dow M. Experimental and typological approaches to nasal vowel sonority. Proceedings of the 2020 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
Dow M. Subsegmental interactions between affrication and devoicing in Québec French. Proceedings of the 2019 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
Dow M. A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends. Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association: 1-14. Dow M, Gibson M, Johnson C. Ultrasound and nasometric evidence for high vowel nasalization in Montreal French. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences: 1744-1748. Dow M. Mind your /ti/'s and q's: A subsegmental approach to affrication in Québec French. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 41: 1-11. Dow M. Hybrid opacity in Berbice Dutch Creole. Supplemental Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology.: 1-14. Kastner I, Kotek H, Anonymous, Dockum R, Dow M, Esipova M, Green C, Stickles E, Snider T. The Open Letter: Responses and recommendations. Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of America. Washington, DC.
Dow M, Drouin P. L’évolution du genre du mot "COVID-19" dans le français de trois continents: Une étude de deux corpus médiatiques. Annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Online. Dow M. Experimental and typological approaches to nasal vowel sonority. Annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association. Online. Dow M. Subsegmental interactions between affrication and devoicing in Québec French. Annual conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Vancouver, Canada. Dow M. Mind your /ti/'s and q's: A subsegmental approach to affrication in Quebec French. Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonetics-Phonology Workshop, Toronto, Canada. Dow M, Gibson M, Johnson C. Ultrasound and nasometric evidence for controlled high vowel nasalization in Montreal French. 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia. Dow M. Let me see that truncussy: Elucidating patterns in a novel blending meme. Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonetics-Phonology Workshop, Hamilton, Canada. Dow M. A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends. Annual conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Regina, Canada. Dow M. Vowel-specific metrics of phonological nasalization in French. Annual Congress of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Toronto, Canada. Dow M, Green CR, Hendrickson R. Elucidating Dogon prosodic structures: the case of liquid ‘flip-frops’ in Beni (Dogon). Poster presentation. Annual Conference on African Linguistics (48), Bloomington, IN, United States. Dow M. Phonological Consequences of high front vowel nasalization in French. Manchester Phonology Meeting, Manchester, England. Dow M. Temporal vs. area-sum measurements of vowel nasality. Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Society of America. Washington, DC, United States. Dow M. Issues in identifying nasal vowel markedness. Old World Conference in Phonology 16, Barcelona, Spain. Dow M. High vowel nasalization and contrast preservation in French. Annual Conference of the Canadian Linguistics Association, Ottawa, Canada. Dow M. Multiple repairs for voiced obstruent codas in Berbice Dutch Creole. Manchester Phonology Meeting 21, Manchester, England. Dow M. Too much, too little, too late: Hybrid opacity in Berbice Dutch Creole. Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference 18, Ann Arbor, MI, United States. Dow M, Green CR. On the seemingly opaque morphophonology of Najamba (Dogon). Mid-Continental Workshop on Phonology 16, Evanston, IL, United States. Introductory phonetics and phonology (LNG1400) Introductory French (F100, F115) French conversation & communication Insight Development, SSHRC. Harnessing Twitter for morphophonological variation. $71,556 (CAD) Internal grant, Université de Montréal/SSHRC. $5,892 (CAD) Internal grant, Université de Montréal/SSHRC. $4,670 (CAD) Collaborator in L'Hypothèse lexicaliste et la représentation mentale des noms déverbaux, SSHRC (principal investigators: Daniel Valois, Phaedra Royle). $44,350 (CAD) Internal grant, Université de Montréal/SSHRC. $4,215 (CAD) Structural differences between French and Picard: Evidence from phonetics and phonology. National Science Foundation, Linguistics, Doctoral Dissertation Research. $12,449 (USD) Student Conference Travel Funds. Department of Linguistics, Indiana University. $200 (USD) Grace P. Young Award. Department of French & Italian, Indiana University. Reviewer for The Mental Lexicon (1 article), Speech Communication (1 article), Communication, lettres et sciences du langage (1 article), Glossa (1 article), Lingua (2 articles), Indiana University Linguistics Club Working Papers Online (2 articles). Canadian Association of Linguistics: Program committee, student paper committee, ad hoc committee for relations with the Linguistic Society of America, ad hoc committee for the Canadian Linguistics Olympiad
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Teaching
Université de Montréal (2015 – present)
Undergraduate phonology (LNG2470)
Advanced Phonology (LNG3070)
Graduate phonology (LNG6360)
Travail dirigé (LNG 3960)
Intermediate French (F200, F250)
Pronunciation and phonetics (F315)
French conversation (F316)
Reading knowledge for graduate students (F492)
Introductory graduate phonology (L542, with Daniel Dinnsen)
Advanced graduate phonology (L642, with Daniel Dinnsen)
Grants & Awards
2021
Internal grant, Université de Montréal/SSHRC. $5,533 (CAD)
Travel grant, Université de Montréal. $2,000 (CAD)
Householder Research Funds. Department of Linguistics, Indiana University. $500 (USD)
Gertrude F. Weathers Fellowship. Department of French & Italian, Indiana University. $5,250 (USD)
Travel Funds. Department of French & Italian, Indiana University. $275 (USD)
Service
Service to the profession
Comité d'études
Comité d'études supérieures
Comité de conflits d'intérêt et de déontologie
Comité d'évaluation des chargé(e)s de cours
Comité responsable des bourses