Michael Schwan

Michael Schwan
Lab collaborator

Research interests

Education: 2013. B.A. Honours Linguistics with Minor in Chinese, University of British Columbia. Honours Essay: An acoustic description of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. Supervisor: Molly Babel In Progress. M.A. Linguistics, University of Toronto Research Interests: acoustic phonetics, Tsimshianic (Gitksan), glottalization, Canadian dialects, Chinese, aspect Current Research Grants: Topics in Gitxsan (Jacobs Research Fund). Principal Investigator: Lisa Matthewson. Poster Presentations: 2013 (March 23). An acoustic description of glottalized obtruents in Gitksan. Presented at MURC 2013, University of British Columbia. 2013 (June 2). With Andrei Anghelescu. Nuclear consonants in Gitksan. Presented at Canadian Linguistic Association Conference 2013, University of Victoria. 2013 (June 7). Acoustic characteristics of glottalized obstruents in Gitksan. Presented at the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, Montreal, QC. (abstract) Awards: 2012. UBC Arts Undergraduate Research Award – $2478.08 2013. MURC (Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference) Poster Presentation Winner