Philip J. Monahan

Biography

Philip J. Monahan (Ph.D., University of Maryland) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Language Studies and holds a graduate appointment in the Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto. He completed his PhD in Linguistics at the University of Maryland in 2009, preceded by a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Linguistics from the University of Florida in 2003 and 2001, respectively. From 2010 to 2013, he worked in a Marie Curie IIF Post-doctoral Research position at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language (BCBL).

His work combines linguistics, experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience to understand how the brain encodes phonetic information, how phonological structure is employed predictively to interpret the incoming speech signal, and the time-course of access to morphological structure.

Research Interests: Speech Perception, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Lexical Access, Spoken Language Comprehension, Spoken Word Recognition, Multilingualism

Teaching Interests: Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, Speech Perception, Phonetics, Language and the Brain

Recent Publications:

Soo, R. & Monahan, P.J. (2023). Phonetic and lexical encoding of tone in Cantonese heritage speakers. Language and Speech 66(3): 652-677.

Soo, R. & Monahan, P.J. (2023). Language dominance and order of acquisition affect auditory translation priming in heritage speakers. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 76(2): 284-293.