Edna Dharmaratne
I was planning to write many stories of the time when I worked with you as Head. Two weeks into my joining Linguistics, Michael Rochemont stepped down as Head, and you had to step in as Head very quickly. We had no files, and only 3 filing cabinets with only a few files as Linguistics […]
Nicholas Rolle
I remember meeting Doug when I was to be an MA student at Toronto. I was super intimidated by his work on (and comfort with) tone, and wanted to know who the man was behind the name (and many books and articles). I couldn’t have met a nicer person, whose knowledge was matched by his […]
Joe Pater
I had the great fortune of getting to spend my post-doc at UBC, working with Doug and Janet Werker. I remember lots of great interdisciplinary conversations that Doug organized and always had incisive contributions to. This was of course a hint at what was to come, with his work on Emergent Phonology with Diana Archangeli, […]
Anne-Michelle Tessier
When I got this job at UBC in 2018, I had already known (of) Doug since at least grad school — and in fact unsuccessfully tried to get SSHRC to give me a postdoc to study phonological learnability with him. When we arrived, Doug was as energetic and friendly as I’d been told he was, […]