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Bio

Dr. John Archibald (PhD Toronto; FRSC) specializes in the field of second language acquisition, particularly second and third language phonology. He is author or editor of 9 books, author of approximately 60 journal articles and book chapters, and has been an invited speaker over 50 times at many international conferences in places such as Sweden, Holland, Poland, England, Greece, the United States, Austria, Germany, China, Brazil, and Canada.  He has been co-editor of the journals Second Language Research, and TESL Canada Journal, and the President of the Canadian Linguistic Association (from whom he received the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021).

Courses

• LING 100A: Foundations in Linguistics I
• LING 110: Language and Thought
• LING 270: The Evolution of Language
• LING 338: Second Language Phonology
• LING 370B: Child Language Acquisition
• LING 473: Advanced Topics in Second Language Acquisition
• LING 573: Second Language Acquisition Theory and Research

Selected Publications

Archibald, J. (accepted). Second language phonology. In P. de Lacy & A. Jardine , eds. Cambridge Handbook of Phonology.

Archibald, J. (in press). Waiting in the wings: The place of phonology in the study of multilingual grammars. Invited keynote article. Second Language Research.

Archibald, J. (2024). A transition theory of L3 segmental phonology: Phonological features and phonetic variation in multilingual grammars. In E. Babatsouli, ed. Multilingual Acquisition and Learning: Towards an Eco-systemic View of Diversity. Pps. 348-379. John Benjamins.

Archibald, J. (2023). Frontiers in Language Sciences.

Archibald, J. (2023). Using a Contrastive Hierarchy to formalize structural similarity as I-proximity in L3 phonology. In N. Kolb, N. Mitrofanova, & M. Westergaard, eds. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 13(5): 614-637. Special Issue (Invited). 

Archibald, J. (2023). Phonological redeployment and the mapping problem: Cross-linguistic E-similarity is the beginning of the story, not the end. Second Language Research. 39(1): 287-297.

Archibald, J. (2022). Languages 7(1), 28. 

Archibald, J. (2022). Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism. 

Archibald, J. (2022). Feature dependency and the poverty of the stimulus in the acquisition of L2 German plural allomorphy. In T. Leal, E. Shimanskya, & C. Isabelli, eds. Generative SLA in the age of Minimalism: Features, interfaces, and beyond (Selected proceedings of the 15th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference. John Benjamins. Pp. 117-136.

Archibald, J. (2021). Speaking and hearing with an accent. Frontiers for Young Minds: Understanding Neuroscience. 

Archibald, J. (2019). A unified model of mono- and bilingual intelligibility: Psycholinguistics meets pedagogy. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech. 1(1): 8-31.

Archibald, J. and S.-N. Sciban (2024). Factors influencing global English accent ratings of students in Mandarin bilingual programs. In W. Cai, ed. Research and Teaching the Chinese Language: Voices from Canada. Springer.

Archibald, J., M. Yousefi, & A. Alhemaid (2022). Redeploying appendices in L2 phonology: Illusory vowels in L1 Persian and Arabic acquisition of English sC initial clusters. Journal of Monolingual and Bilingual Speech 4(1): 76-108.

Archibald, J. and N. Croteau (2021). Acquisition of L2 Japanese WH questions: Evidence of phonological contiguity and non-shallow structures. Second Language Research 37(4): 649-679.

Archibald, J. & G. Libben (2019). Morphological theory and second language acquisition. In F. Masini & J. Audring, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory. Oxford University Press. Pp. 522-540.

Stefanich, S., J. Cabrelli, D. Hilderman, and J. Archibald (2019). Frontiers in Communication: Language Sciences. 

Selected Presentations/Talks

Archibald, J. (forthcoming). Merged contrastive hierarchies or language tags: how best to account for bilingual phonological knowledge and performance? Paper at the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft workshop on Multifaceted and Multifactorial Approaches to Developing Phonological Systems at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. March.

Archibald, J. (2024). Explaining L3 phonology. L3 Workshop on Acquisition and Processing. May. Chuo University, Japan. Invited plenary.

Archibald, J. (2023). Differential substitution: A Contrastive Hierarchy account. Paper presented at the Multilingual Theory and Practice conference. Dublin. April.

Archibald, J. (2022). Using Jaccard Distance to Measure the Linguistic I-Proximity of Phonological Inventories in a Contrastive Hierarchy. L3 Workshop. London. October.

Archibald, J. (2022). Phonology in multilingual grammars: Representational complexity and linguistic interfaces. Invited plenary. GASLA XVI. Norway.

Archibald, J. (2022). Measures of phonological similarity in L2A and L3A. Part of a Special Session entitled Phonological similarity in multilingual acquisition at New Sounds Barcelona.

Archibald, J. (2021). Phonology in the multilingual mind.  Plenary speaker on being awarded the National Achievement prize. Canadian Linguistic Association. June.

Archibald, J. (2019). Assessing linguistic I-proximity in L3 phonology. Workshop on Third Language Acquisition. June. Konstanz.

Archibald, J. (2019). Multiple exponence in L2 German plural allomorphy: feature dependency and the poverty of the stimulus. March. Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition (GASLA). Reno, Nevada.

Archibald, J., J. Wu & M. Desmarais (forthcoming). L3 acquisition of pitch accent in Japanese and Quebec French: phonological redeployment and input effects. New Sounds 2025. University of Toronto. April.

Archibald, J. & X.X. Li (2022). The second language acquisition of English expletive infixing: universals and complexity at the phonology/morphology interface in multilingual grammars. Poster at the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ Lexicon conference. Niagara-on-the-Lake. October.

Hayter, E. & J. Archibald (2022). Why high-variability phonetic training works: a phonological account. Poster at the Bilingualism Forum, University of Illinois at Chicago. October.

Nelson, BrettC, A. González Poot, D. Flynn & J. Archibald (2024). The L2/L3 acquisition of Mayan ejectives: Redeployment of dimensions and learning of gestures. GASLA XVII. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. May, 2024.

Current Research Projects/Information

Dr. Archibald’s current SSHRC-funded project is on the third language acquisition of pitch accent in Japanese and Quebec French. He is in the midst of writing a book called Redeployment in Multilingual Phonology (co-authored with Darin Flynn at the University of Calgary) which will be published in the Cambridge Elements of Phonology series.