Pocholo Umbal
[pəˈtʃoʊloʊ umˈbɐl]
Hello! I am a PhD Candidate in linguistics at the University of Toronto. My pronouns are he/him.
I am a sociolinguist working under the variationist framework. I examine the relationship between language and the linguistic and societal forces that lead to variation and change. In particular, I am interested in modeling the linguistic behaviour of bilinguals in language contact situations, with specific focus on sound production. I have analyzed vowel variation in Canadian English among Filipinos in Vancouver and Toronto and currently, I am analyzing variation in rhotic, obstruent, and vowel production in Toronto Heritage Tagalog.
I also work on issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in linguistics (and beyond).
I currently serve as Managing Editor of Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
I was born in Manila, Philippines and immigrated to Vancouver, BC. I received a BSc in cell biology and linguistics, as well as an MA in linguistics from Simon Fraser University. My MA work was supervised by Dr. Panayiotis A. Pappas and Dr. Suzanne K. Hilgendorf. For my PhD at UofT, I am supervised by Dr. Naomi Nagy and part of the Heritage Language Variation and Change (HLVC) in Toronto project.
For a list of works and projects, please see my CV.
I am a sociolinguist working under the variationist framework. I examine the relationship between language and the linguistic and societal forces that lead to variation and change. In particular, I am interested in modeling the linguistic behaviour of bilinguals in language contact situations, with specific focus on sound production. I have analyzed vowel variation in Canadian English among Filipinos in Vancouver and Toronto and currently, I am analyzing variation in rhotic, obstruent, and vowel production in Toronto Heritage Tagalog.
I also work on issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in linguistics (and beyond).
I currently serve as Managing Editor of Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics.
I was born in Manila, Philippines and immigrated to Vancouver, BC. I received a BSc in cell biology and linguistics, as well as an MA in linguistics from Simon Fraser University. My MA work was supervised by Dr. Panayiotis A. Pappas and Dr. Suzanne K. Hilgendorf. For my PhD at UofT, I am supervised by Dr. Naomi Nagy and part of the Heritage Language Variation and Change (HLVC) in Toronto project.
For a list of works and projects, please see my CV.
Contact information
p 'dot' umbal 'at' mail 'dot' utoronto 'dot' ca
Department of Linguistics | University of Toronto
Sidney Smith Hall Fourth Floor, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 Canada
Department of Linguistics | University of Toronto
Sidney Smith Hall Fourth Floor, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3 Canada
Office hours
Fall 2021: Thursdays, 9–10 AM, via Zoom
Recent activities and updates
- September 2021: My co-authored paper on integrating qualitative and quantitative analyses of stance has been released in Language in Society as a FirstView article
- July 2021: A special issue on language and gender diversity has been published in Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. Read our introduction here.
- May 2021: Lex Konnelly, Nathan Sanders, and I presented our work on the Diverse Names Database at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association.
- April 2021: My paper on /u/-fronting in second-generation Filipinos in Toronto has been released in American Speech as an Advanced Publication article.
- January 2021: I was awarded the LSA's Elizabeth Pine Dayton Award in recognition of my work on the sociolinguistics of heritage languages.
- Ongoing: I am recruiting heritage Tagalog speakers as part of the Heritage Language Variation and Change (HLVC) in Toronto project. If you are a Heritage Tagalog speaker living in Toronto and would like to participate in an interview, please contact me!
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