Assistant Professor at McGill
Prof. Lapierre will be joining the McGill Linguistics Department as an Assistant Professor of Phonology in January 2025.
Prof. Lapierre’s research combines phonological theory, original fieldwork, articulatory and perceptual phonetics and in-depth typological surveys. Her theoretical work centers on formal models of representational phonology and, in particular, the role of subsegmental representations within the phonological grammar.
Research interests
I specialize in the sound systems of Amazonian languages of Brazil, especially languages of the Jê and Tupí-Guaraní families. I have conducted extensive in-situ fieldwork on four languages of the Jê family, namely Panãra (ISO code: kre), Mẽbêngôkre (ISO code: txu), Kajkwakhrattxi (ISO code: suy-tap), and Xavante (ISO code: xav), and on one language of the Tupí-Guaraní family, Kawaiwete (ISO code: kyz). I have carried out extensive typological research on the typology of nasal-oral alternations among indigenous languages spoken all over Amazonia.