Joy Peltier

Joy's research centers on the pragmatics and psycholinguistics of functional and discourse items, particularly in situations involving languages in contact. My methodologies draw upon insights from work in sign languages and gesture, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, and generative syntax. Currently, I am exploring the determiner system of Kwéyòl Donmnik, an understudied creole language that emerged on the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.