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Syed Sazzadul Alam

Pronouns: He/Him/His

Contact information

Web presence

Phone number

Phonetics Lab: 403-220-3598

Location

Phonetics Lab: EDC259

Background

Educational Background

MA Linguistics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2021

MA English Language and Literature, Premier University Chittagong, 2018

BA English, Govt. Hazi Mohammad Mohsin College Chittagong, 2016

Awards

  • Faculty of Graduate Studies Doctoral Entrance Scholarship, University of Calgary. 2023
  • Travel Grant, Bangladesh Sweden Trust Fund. 2020
  • Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Southern Illinois University Carbondale. 2019

More Information

Cognitive Phonetics- Speech Perception and Production; Computational Modelling of Speech Sounds.

Alam, S. S., & Winters, S. (Manuscript in preparation). Contextual cue weighting in L2 stop perception: Evidence from English listeners of Bengali.

Alam, S. S., & Winters, S. (Manuscript in preparation). Contextual cue weighting in L2 stop production: English speakers of Bengali.

Alam, Syed S. (2025). From Perception to Production: Transfer of L1 Acoustic Feature in L2 Stop Production. Alberta Conference on Linguistics, University of Calgary.

Alam, Syed S. (2025). The Bengali DP: NP Movements, Adjective-Classifier Combination, and Acoustic Evidence for Focus. Canadian Linguistic Association.

Alam, Syed S. (2024). The Bengali DP: NP Movements, Adjective-Classifier Combination, and a (third) Focus Position. Alberta Conference on Linguistics, University of Calgary.

Alam, Syed S. & Winters, S. (2024). Laryngeal Feature Contrast Processing in L2 Perception. Canadian Linguistic Association.

Alam, Syed S. (2023). Laryngeal Feature Contrast Processing in L2 Perception. Alberta Conference on Linguistics, University of Lethbridge.

Alam, S. S. (2025). The Bengali DP: NP movements, adjective-classifier combination, and acoustic evidence for focus. Proceedings of the Canadian Linguistic Association 2025. https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2025/Alam-CLA-2025.pdf