McLing is very happy to welcome Myriam Lapierre as an incoming faculty member in the McGill Linguistics Department. Myriam will be officially joining us in January 2026.
Myriam’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. She specializes in the sound systems of Amazonian languages of Brazil, especially languages of the Jê and Tupí-Guaraní families. She 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). In addition, Myriam has carried out extensive typological research on the typology of nasal-oral alternations among Indigenous languages spoken all over Amazonia.
