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The Montréal Bilingualism Initiative (MoBI) hosted a conference at ACFAS this year.

Dr. Linda Polka

Dr. Linda Polka
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Email address: 
linda.polka [at] mcgill.ca
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Linda Polka is a Professor and Graduate Program Director at the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders (㽶Ƶ). She is also a fellow of the and former Chair of their Speech Communication division. Dr. Polka’s research program examines speech perception development during infancy and how it is shaped by language experience. She has contributed foundational knowledge on how infants perceive phonetic segments and how they process fluent speech in multilingual environments. Dr. Polka’s laboratory, in collaboration with Dr. Byers-Heinlein, established the Montréal Bilingual Infant corpus, the first audio archive of the language environment of bilingual infants in their everyday lives in Canada.

L'image lit « 'Fièrement propulsé par les Fonds de recherche nature et technologies du Québec ». The English translation is 'proudly funded by the Fonds de recherche nature et technologies du Québec.

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