Dr. John Archibald, PhD

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Dr. John Archibald is the Dean of Humanities at the University of Victoria. John is a noted linguist who co-edited the best selling introductory text on linguistics: Contemporary Linguistic Analysis. Before joining UVic, John spent 19 years at the University of Calgary, during which he held a variety of roles (including linguistics professor and head of the linguistics department as well as associate director the Language Research Centre).

His research interests include second language acquisition, bilingualism, and phonology.