Erin Quirk

FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellow
Infant Research Lab
Concordia University

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Email: erinnora.quirk at mail.concordia.ca

About me

I finished my PhD in Linguistics at the CUNY Graduate Center in 2020. I'm now a postdoctoral fellow at Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein’s Infant Research Laboratory at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. I'm interested in various aspects of child multilingualism, including the multilingual home literacy environment, the beliefs and practices of parents raising multilingual children, and how children learn three or more languages. I also have an interest in open science practices and R.

Selected Publications

Quirk, E., Brouillard, M., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (In press). Reading in two languages: Parents’ strategy and language use across book formats during bilingual shared reading. Bilingual Research Journal. pre-print

Kircher, R., Quirk, E., Brouillard, M., Ahooja, A., Ballinger, S., Polka, L., & Byers-Heinlein, K. (2022). Quebec-based parents’ attitudes towards childhood multilingualism: Evaluative dimensions and potential predictors. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 41(5): 527-552. doi.org: 10.1177/0261927X221078853 or pre-print

Dal Ben, R., Brouillard, M., Gonzalez-Barrero, A. M., Killam, H., Kremin, L. V., Quirk, E., Sander-Montant, A., Schott, E., … Byers-Heinlein, K. (2021). How open science can benefit bilingualism research: A lesson in six tales. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-8. doi:10.1017/S1366728922000256
or pre-print

Quirk, E. (2020). Interspeaker code-switching use in school-aged bilinguals and its relation with affective factors and language proficiency. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1-27. doi:10.1017/S0142716420000752

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Teaching

I have taught university-level courses in Linguistics, Communication Sciences, English as a Second/Foreign Language, and Psychology. Below are some examples. Please see my CV for a full list.