Nathan Sanders
He/Him
I’m gay and I’m a linguist. //
I am a linguist at the University of Toronto. My main research focus is on teaching and learning in linguistics, especially innovative pedagogy (such as gamification, project-based learning, and creative/artistic approaches in STEM) and addressing linguistic injustice and biases in the classroom and in teaching materials. I also do research on signed and spoken languages in the areas of theoretical phonology, phonetics, and linguistic typology, with an overall drive to understand to physical, biological, and cognitive factors that shape language. I have worked on derivational opacity, ludlings (language games, like Pig Latin), the history and use of constructed languages (like Esperanto and Klingon), Polish phonology, historical phonology, perception and biomechanics of signed languages, and mathematical and statistical models of linguistic phenomena.