University of Florida

Hélène Blondeau

Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics

Dauer Hall, 210

PO Box 115565

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL, 32611-5565

 

352) 273-3766

(352) 392-1433 Fax

blondeau@ufl.edu

 

Office hours

 

Fall 2009

 

Monday

11:45 am-12:35 pm

1:55 pm- 2:45 pm

 

Wednesday:

1:55 pm- 2:45 pm

 

 

 

Publications     plume-papierweb

                          2002-present

 

 

 

(accepted) Pushing the change forward? Contact-induced influences and inherent tendencies in the pronominal paradigm of Quebec French. In I. Léglise & C. Chamoreau (eds) Language Contact and Morphsyntactic Variation and Change. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia. 32 p.

 

(accepted) (with Gillian Sankoff) Instability of the [r] ~ [R] alternation Montreal French: The conditioning of a sound change in progress In. Van de Velde, H., Van Hout, R., Demolin, D.  & W.  Zonnevelde (eds)  VaRiation: Sociogeographic, Phonetic and Phonological Characterics of / r/. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 25 p.

 

(in press) (with Marie-Odile Fonollosa) The representation of French as part of the Linguistic Repertoire of Young Anglo-Montrealers. Multilingua 28:4. 35 p.

 

(in press) Bilingual language practices and identity construction: A generation of Anglophones in Montreal and its linguistic repertoire. In  V. Regan (ed.) Language practices and identity construction in French. (Modern French Identities) Peter Lang, Oxford 30 p.

 

2008 Normes identitaires et configuration de l’espace sociolinguistique. Le cas des jeunes Anglo-Montréalais.  Cahiers de sociolinguistique. 13 93-117.

 

The French pronominal dynamics in the Québec languages in contact dynamics. In M. Meyerhoff & N. Nagy, (eds.) Social Lives in Language. Sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities. Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff. John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia. 249-271.

 

(with Naomi Nagy) Subordinate clause marking in Montreal Anglophone French and English. In M. Meyerhoff & N. Nagy, (eds.) Social Lives in Language. Sociolinguistics and Multilingual Speech Communities. Celebrating the work of Gillian Sankoff. John Benjamins: Amsterdam/Philadelphia. 273-313.

 

2007 (with G. Sankoff) Longitudinal Change across the lifespan: r in Montreal French. Language 83 (3): 560-588.

-To be reprinted in Meyerhoff, M & R. Schleef (eds) (in preparation) Sociolinguistic reader, Routledge. 

 

L’épreuve du temps réel et la variation pronominale à la première personne du pluriel en français québécois du XIXe et du XXe siècle. Actes du colloque Phénomènes de changement en français, Verbum. Nancy: Presses Universitaires de Nancy

 

2006 La trajectoire de l’emploi du futur chez une cohorte de Montréalais francophones entre 1971 et 1995. In R. Papen and G. Chevalier (eds). "Les variétés de français en Amérique du Nord. Évolution, innovation et description".  Numéro conjoint de la Revue canadienne de linguistique appliquée / Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics , 9 (2) & Revue de l'Université de Moncton, 37 (2) 73-98.

 

 

Panel studies and language variation. In Keith Brown (ed) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. Vol 9  Elsevier, Oxford p. 150.

 

2005 (with Nathalie Dion) Variability and future temporal reference. The French of Anglo-Montrealers University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 10 (2): 71-76.

 

2004 La spécialisation socio-stylistique d’un trait variable du français montréalais : les pronoms toniques du pluriel. In A. Coveney et C. Sanders (dir) Variation et francophonie. L’Harmattan, Paris, 191-213.

 

2003 The old nous and the new nous. A comparison of 19th and 20th century spoken Quebec French.  University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics 9 (2): 1-15.

 

(with Naomi Nagy, and Julie Auger) Second language acquisition and « real » French : An investigation of subject doubling in the French of Montreal Anglophones. Language Variation and Change. 15 (1): 73-103

 

2002 (with Gillian Sankoff, and Anne Charity) Parcours individuels et changements linguistiques en cours dans la communauté francophone montréalaise. Revue québécoise de linguistique 31(1):13-38.

 

(with Gillian Sankoff, Pierrette Thibault, and Naomi Nagy) La couleur locale du français des Anglo-Montréalais. In R. Mougeon, and J.M. Dewaele (dir) L’acquisition de la variation par les apprenants du français langue seconde AILE Acquisition et Interaction en Langue étrangère 17 : 73-100.