Dr. Philip Monahan

Associate Professor

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Biography

Philip J. Monahan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language Studies at the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD in Linguistics in 2009, having earned his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Linguistics from the University of Florida in 2003 and 2001, respectively. Between 2010 and 2013, he was engaged in a Marie Curie IIF Post-doctoral Research position at the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain, and Language (BCBL). His research focuses on the intersection of linguistics, experimental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, particularly on how the brain encodes phonetic information and phonological structures. This involves predictive processing and the interpretation of incoming speech signals, as well as the time-course of accessing morphological structures. Monahan’s work is significant in the areas of Speech Perception and Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, contributing to our understanding of psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics.

Research Interests

Requirements for University of Toronto

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.3
IELTS
Listening
Required:6.5
Reading
Required:6.5
Writing
Required:6.5
Speaking
Required:6.5
Overall
Required:7
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:22
Speaking
Required:22
Total
Required:93
Prerequisites
Appropriate four-year bachelor's degree Background in sociological theory and statistics preferred
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Specialization Notes

Department of Sociology