Presentations and Talks
I love presenting! I enjoy connecting with the audience, exciting them about ideas and inciting conversation. Here are some presentations and talks I’ve delivered.
Language Latitudes Workshop, Vancouver, Canada
April 2023
Speaking of immigrants: Evaluations of Non-Canadian English accents in hiring decisions
Language and Power Conference, Münster, Germany
March 2023
More than words: Non-Canadian English accents and hiring decisions in Toronto
Canadian Linguistic Association 2022 Conference (online)
June 2022
What I Say or How I Say It? Ethnic Accents and Hiring Decisions in Toronto (poster)
Workshop on Linguistic Equity and Justice 2022 (online)
April 2022
What I Say or How I Say It? Ethno-racial Accents and Hiring Decisions in the GTA
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 2021 Conference (online)
October 2021
Acquiring Variable Phonologies in Trinidad: Assessing (Sociolinguistic) Acquisition in a Bivarietal Context (with Derek Denis!)
Speech-Language and Audiology Association of Trinidad and Tobago meeting
September 2021
Acquisition Norms for Trinidadian Children
Canadian Linguistic Association 2021 Conference (online)
June 2021
Pronoun Acquisition in a Varilingual Context
Caribbean Research Methodologies (CRM) Online Seminar
Oct 2020
Caribbean Language Acquisition Research: Hybridisation as EndonormativeBridging Wor(l)ds, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
April 2018
Wee Talk Trini: Variation in Trinidadian Pre-schoolers’ SpeechVariation in Language Acquisition 3, Salzburg, Austria
Feb 2017
Wee Talk Trini: Variation in Past Tense Expressions of Trinidadian Pre-schoolersSociety for Caribbean Linguistics 21st Biennial Conference, Mona, Jamaica
Aug 2016
Trinidadian Pre-schoolers’ Personal Pronouns and Possessive DeterminersSociety for Caribbean Linguistics 20th Biennial Conference, Palm Beach, Aruba
Aug 2014
Screening for Language Development among Trinidadian English Creole-speaking Children (with Valerie Youssef)