Jeffrey Steele
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Room:MN4120
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3359 Mississauga Road
Maanjiwe nendamowinan, 4th floor
Mississauga ON L5L 1C6
Canada
Born and raised in Winnipeg, Jeffrey has had a passion for language – French, in particular – since a very young age. Trained as a formal linguist with a special interest in sound structure, his research investigates both the ways in which people acquire second languages as well as various aspects of the French sound system. He is also a musician and holds two performer’s diplomas (Associate of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto; Premier prix, Conservatoire international de musique, Paris).
Areas of Academic Interest
- Second Language Acquisition
- Experimental Phonology
- Second Language Assessment
- French Linguistics
Grants, Fellowships and Awards
Reading Comprehension among Majority and Minority Language Children in French Immersion: The Contribution of Oral Language Skills and Reading Strategies (2022-27; SSHRC Insight Development) – Co-Investigator: Examination of the role L1 & L2 skills, metalinguistic awareness and cognitive individual differences on the acquisition of French reading among later elementary school children
Language Experience and Linguistic Skills among Multilingual Learners in Higher Education (2018-23; SSHRC Insight Development) – Co-Investigator: Examination of the role of previous language experience on the learning of French and Spanish linguistic competence
Publications
- Patience, M., & Steele, J. (2022). Relative difficulty in the acquisition of the phonetic parameters of obstruent coda voicing: Evidence from Mandarin-speaking learners of French. Language & Speech. 238309221114143–238309221114143. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309221114143.
- Krenca, K., Segers, P. C. J., Verhoeven, L. T. W., Steele, J., Shakory, S., & Chen, X. (2022). Lexical restructuring stimulates phonological awareness among emerging English-French bilingual children’s literacy. Journal of Child Language, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000922000083
- Colantoni, L., Kochetov, A., & Steele, J. (2021). Articulatory settings and L2 English coronal consonants. Phonetica, 78(4), 273-316. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2021-2007
- Colantoni, L., Steele, J., & Escudero, P. (2015). Second language speech: Theory & practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Steele, J., & Collaborators. (2013-22). University of Toronto Test of French. https://uttf.artsci.utoronto.ca/login
- Colantoni, L., & Steele, J. (2004-22). University of Toronto Romance Phonetics Database. https://rpd.artsci.utoronto.ca