Laurens J. Bosman

Education

MA in Linguistics, Simon Fraser University

2022-2025

Thesis: "Morphosyntactic Variation in the Past Tense of Greek Canadians"

BSc in Computer Science and Linguistics, Simon Fraser University

2018-2022

Research Experience

Computational Speech Lab (COS Lab), SFU

Supervisor: Dr. Sara Ng

Years: 2026–present

Worked on computational linguistics and corpus linguistics research, focusing on speech data analysis using the Montreal Forced Aligner.

Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, SFU

Supervisor: Dr. P. A. Pappas

Years: 2021–present

Assisted in linguistics research projects, by providing technical and scripting support to other graduate students. Part of my research work included setting up the MFA pipeline for Greek.

Research Assistant, Discourse Processing Lab, SFU

Supervisor: Dr. Maite Taboada

Years: 2019–2020

Worked as part of the lab team in supporting the Gender Gap Tracker project as well as running the data analysis pipeline for the Characterising Online News Comments: A Multi-Dimensional Cruise Through Online Registers paper.

Publications

Ehret, K., Bosman, L., Babayode, A., Chan, N., Fong, I., Harris, N., ... & Taboada, M. (2024). Podcasts as an emerging register of computer-mediated communication. Register Studies, 6(2), 128-174.

Talks

2025

Title: The Immigrec Spoken Corpus

Authors: Pappas, P., Papazachariou, D., and Bosman, L.

Venue: 10th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects & Linguistic Theory

2024

Title: Morphosyntactic variation in the past tense verbs of Modern Greek

Authors: Bosman, L.

Venue: Annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Ottawa, Canada

Title: Variation in the Active Imperfective Past Stem Suffix for IC2 Verbs in the Greek of Greek-Canadians

Authors: Bosman, L.

Venue: 40th Northwest Linguistic Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

2023

Title: The use of the unstressed past tense prefix among Greek-Canadians

Authors: Bosman, L., Pappas, P.

Venue: NWAV51, CUNY, New York, USA

Title: Regressive voicing assimilation in Modern Greek dialects

Authors: Pappas, P., Babayode-Lawal, A., Bosman, L.

Venue: NWAV51, CUNY, New York, USA

2022

Title: Forced Alignment and Morphological Annotation for Greek Dialectology

Authors: Bosman, L., Pappas, P., Papazachariou, D.

Venue: NWAV50, Stanford, San Jose, USA

Skills

Computational Linguistics: Python, Praat, R, Montreal Forced Aligner
Corpus Linguistics: Text analysis, annotation, corpus management
Languages: English (Fluent), Dutch (Native), Spanish(conversational), Mandarin Chinese(Beginner)

Curriculum Vitae