National Achievement Award, Canadian Linguistic Association Prix national d'excellence, Association canadienne de linguistique 2021

Dr. John Archibald has demonstrated leadership in linguistics in Canada and has made substantial and distinguished contributions to language research over a significant period. He has exhibited innovation, and has impacted practice, policy, and the broader community; he has also been effective in communication and popularization beyond academia. In short, he is an extraordinary academic leader, educator and scholar who has made great contributions to the field within Canada and around the world. Dr. Archibald earned his Ph.D. in 1991 at the Modern Language Centre in O.I.S.E, after completing his BA and MA, also at the University of Toronto. He is currently Professor at the University of Victoria, where he has served as Dean of Humanities. Prior to this position, he was Department Head and Associate Dean at the University of Calgary. He is also an affiliate researcher at the Bilingualism Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He served as President of the Canadian Linguistic Association from 2002 to 2005, and in 2020 he was inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada. Dr. Archibald’s research focusses on second language phonology, with five books and many published articles and presentations in this area. His groundbreaking 1993 monograph Language Learnability and L2 Phonology was the first to adapt models of language learnability to the question of how second-language learners acquire phonological knowledge, taking seriously the notion of L2 phonology as cognition. His approach laid the groundwork for much future research on interlanguage grammars and the architecture of the bilingual mind, and is regularly covered in textbooks in the field. In his current work, he is probing recursion and representational realism through research on second language acquisition at the interfaces of morphology and syntax. In addition to his own research, Dr. Archibald has served the field as a reviewer, adjudicator, and editor. Dr. Archibald is also an extremely effective bridge-builder, bringing together the worlds of theoretical linguistics and L2 pedagogy. He has influenced thousands through his work on the benefits of second language education and bilingualism, including the production of the video Advantage for Life: Learning Another Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 66(3): 451–461, 2021 doi: 10.1017/cnj.2021.24 © Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique 2021