Research areas
- Varieties of French
- Language variation and change
- Phonetics and phonology
My research focuses on language variation and change, with a greater focus on the phonetics and phonology of Laurentian French (also called Canadian French, Quebec French, or Québécois). I’m especially interested in examining what variation teaches us about linguistic systems and how they interact with each other – for example, whether variability in one aspect of pronunciation can predict variability in others.
Research Interests
- Experimental and laboratory phonology, phonetic and phonological variation, phonology-morphosyntax interface, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, computational linguistics, sound change, corpus linguistics, Laurentian French, phonetics-phonology interface, individual differences, sociolinguistics (syntax, phonetics and phonology), internet language and its relationship with spoken language.
Ongoing Projects:
- Constraints on and motivations for phonological variation
- Perceptibility of changes in progress
- Prominence in French
- Phonological variation in new media
Research Interests:
- language variation and change, with a greater focus on the phonetics and phonology of Laurentian French (also called Canadian French, Quebec French, or Québécois)
