Sali Tagliamonte


Sali A. Tagliamonte is a Canadian linguist. Her main area of research is the field of language variation and change. Tagliamonte has been a professor at the University of Toronto since 2001, where she currently serves as Chair of the Department of Linguistics. Tagliamonte is also an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistic Science at the University of York. She currently holds the title of Canada Research Chair in Language Variation and Change.

Education

Tagliamonte received a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from York University in 1981, and a Master of Arts in 1983 and a Ph.D. in 1991 in Linguistics from University of Ottawa. Her graduate thesis, supervised by Shana Poplack, looked at past temporal reference structures in Samaná English.

Career

Tagliamonte has held a number of professional positions. From 1995 to 2002 she held the position of Adjunct Professor at the Linguistics Department at University of Ottawa. She was a lecturer at the University of York on two occasions, in 1995 and 2000 and held a position of Visiting Assistant Professor there in 2001 until she became a professor at the University of Toronto.
Tagliamonte was a Killam Research Fellow from 2013-2015 and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2013. She was a media expert for the Linguistic Society of America in 2013. She was an associate editor of Language from 2007-2010. She is a co-creator of a variable rule program, Goldvarb.
Tagliamonte's research has focused on varieties of English. In particular, her work has focused on Ontario English, including projects related to speech communities looking at various communities in Toronto, North Bay, South Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, Haliburton, Almonte, Wilno, Kapuskasing and Barry's Bay. Tagliamonte has also worked on internet and youth language.

Selected publications