Dr. Arsenault has lived and traveled extensively in South Asia doing language research, teaching linguistics, and providing consultant support to non-governmental organizations involved in literacy, translation, and other language development projects. His areas of specialization include phonology, phonetics, language documentation and description, and South Asian languages.
2012. PhD, University of Toronto
2002. M.A., University of Hyderabad, India
1998. SIL Linguistic Training, Trinity Western University
1995. B.Th., Eastern Pentecostal Bible College
Arsenault, Paul. 2012. Retroflex consonant harmony in South Asia. Toronto: University of Toronto dissertation. https://hdl.handle.net/1807/33911.
Arsenault, Paul & Binny Abraham. 2022. Centralized vowels in Muduga. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics, 9(1-2). 97-129. https://doi.org/10.1515/jsall-
Arsenault, Paul & Alexei Kochetov. 2022. Two types of retroflex harmony in Kalasha: Implications for phonological typology. In Joan L.G. Baart, Henrik Liljegren & Thomas E. Payne (eds.), Languages of Northern Pakistan: Essays in Memory of Carla Radloff, 39–75. Karachi: Oxford University Press.
Kochetov, Alexei, Paul Arsenault, Jan Heegård Petersen, Sikandar Kalas & Taj Khan Kalash. 2021. Kalasha (Bumburet variety). Journal of the International Phonetic Association 51(3). 468–489. doi:10.1017/S0025100319000367.
Abraham, Binny & Paul Arsenault. 2020. Muḍuga vowels in historical context. In Tariq Khan (ed.), Queries in the Structure of Language, 99–111. Mysuru: Central Institute of Indian Languages and Linguistic Society of India.
Kochetov, Alexei, Jan Heegård Petersen & Paul Arsenault. 2020. Acoustics of Kalasha laterals. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147(4). 3012–3027. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001013.
Kochetov, Alexei & Paul Arsenault. 2019. Kalasha affricates: An acoustic analysis of place contrasts. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 6(2). 245–280. https://doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2019-2013.
Kochetov, Alexei, Paul Arsenault & Jan Heegård Petersen. 2019. A preliminary acoustic investigation of Kalasha retroflex (rhotic) vowels. In Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019, 1109¬–1113. Canberra, Australia: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2019/papers/ICPhS_1158.pdf.
Arsenault, Paul. 2017. Retroflexion in South Asia: Typological, genetic, and areal patterns. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 4(1). 1–53. https://doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2017-0001.
Arsenault, Paul. 2015. Retroflex consonant harmony: An areal feature in South Asia. Journal of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2(1). 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jsall-2015-0001.
Arsenault, Paul & Alexei Kochetov. 2011. Retroflex harmony in Kalasha: agreement or spreading? In Suzi Lima, Kevin Mullin & Brian Smith (eds.), Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 39, 55–66. Amherst: GLSA.
Arsenault, Paul. 2009. Coronal features and retroflexion in Dhivehi and other Indo-Aryan languages. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 30. 17–33.
Arsenault, Paul. 2008. On the feature geometry of coronal articulations. Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics 29. 1–21.
Arsenault, Paul. 2007. Marking the unmarked: Exceptional patterns of syncretism in English and Hindi. In Milica Radišić (ed.), Proceedings of the 2007 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association (11 pages).
Arsenault, Paul. 2022. The vowels of Badaga re-examined. Paper presented at the Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto Phonology/Phonetics Workshop, University of Ottawa, March 25–27.
Kochetov, Alexei, Paul Arsenault & Jan Heegård Petersen. 2019. A preliminary acoustic investigation of Kalasha retroflex (rhotic) vowels. Paper presented at the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), Melbourne, Australia, August 5–9.
Abraham, Binny & Paul Arsenault. 2018. Muduga vowels in historical context. Paper presented at the 40th International Conference of the Linguistic Society of India (ICOLSI-40), Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India, December 5–7.
Abraham, Binny & Paul Arsenault. 2018. Muduga vowels: Preliminary results of an acoustic and historical-comparative study. Paper presented at the Summer Phonology Forum, University of Toronto, August 2.
Kochetov, Alexei & Paul Arsenault. 2018. Parameters in Kalasha retroflex vowel harmony: Preliminary acoustic evidence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Salt Lake City, UT, January 4-7.
Kochetov, Alexei & Paul Arsenault. 2017. Retroflex vowel harmony in Kalasha: A preliminary acoustic analysis. Paper presented at the CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, August 15.
Arsenault, Paul. 2016. Retroflexion in South Asia: Typological, genetic, and areal patterns. Paper presented at the Workshop on Typological Profiles of Language Families of South Asia, Uppsala University, Sweden, September 15–16.
Kochetov, Alexei & Paul Arsenault. 2016. The retroflex/dental phoneme frequency in South Asian languages: Preliminary observations. Paper presented at the Workshop on Typological Profiles of Language Families of South Asia, Uppsala University, Sweden, September 15–16.
Arsenault, Paul. 2016. Retroflexion in South Asia: Typological patterns and areal distributions. Paper presented at the CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, June 16.
Arsenault, Paul. 2015. The evolution of retroflex phonotactics in South Asia. Paper presented at the 31st South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-31), Lancaster University, UK, May 14–16.
Arsenault, Paul. 2014. Retroflex consonant harmony: An areal feature in South Asia. Paper presented at the International Workshop on Linguistic Microareas in South Asia, Uppsala University, Sweden, May 5–6.
Arsenault, Paul. 2012. The diachronic origins of retroflex phonotactics. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, May 26–28.
Arsenault, Paul. 2012. An evolutionary perspective on retroflex phonotactics. Paper presented at the MOT Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, March 9–11.
Arsenault, Paul. 2011. Similarity and contrast in consonant harmony: Evidence from Dardic. Paper presented at the CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, June 16.
Arsenault, Paul. 2010. Deriving a typological asymmetry: Long-distance laryngeal and coronal co-occurrence restrictions. Paper presented at the CRC-Sponsored Summer Phonetics/Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, July 29.
Arsenault, Paul. 2009. Coronal consonant harmony in Indus Kohistani. Paper presented at the MOT Phonology Workshop, University of Toronto, February 27–March 1.
Arsenault, Paul & Alexei Kochetov. 2009. Retroflex (consonant) harmony in Kalasha. Paper presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, 8–11 January.
Arsenault, Paul & Alexei Kochetov. 2008. Retroflex harmony in Kalasha: Agreement or spreading? Poster presented at the 39th Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, Cornell University, 7–9 November.
Arsenault, Paul. 2008. Coronal classes and features in Indo-Aryan languages. Paper presented at the MOT Phonology Workshop, McGill University, Montreal, 14–16 March.
Arsenault, Paul. 2007. Coronal classes and features in Dhivehi. Paper presented at the Coronal Workshop, University of Toronto, 9 November.
Arsenault, Paul. 2007. Marking the unmarked: Exceptional patterns of syncretism in English and Hindi. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Saskatchewan, 26–29 May.
Arsenault, Paul. 2007. [−anterior] as a natural phonological class: Evidence from Sanskrit and Gujarati re-examined. Paper presented at the MOT Phonology Workshop, University of Ottawa, 2–4 March.
Arsenault, Paul. 2006. The adaptation of English alveolar stops in Telugu and Hindi. Paper presented at the MOT Phonology Workshop, York University, Toronto, 10–12 February.
LING 1013 Introduction to Linguistics I
LING 1023 Introduction to Linguistics II
LING 2013 Phonetics
LING 2033 Phonology I: Phonological Analysis
LING 3033 Phonology II: Advanced Phonological Analysis
LING 4053 Field Methods
