Details about the French Linguistics Program
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Faculty members
The Programs
Other linguists at IU
Financial Support
Current Research Projects
Overseas Opportunities
Recent Theses
Current Theses
Career Paths
The Campus
For more information
Deadlines
Faculty Members (for full profiles, click here)
Julie Auger, Associate Professor, (sociolinguistics, variation, morphosyntax, French & Gallo-Romance dialects). For more information on Prof. Auger please click here.
Laurent Dekydtspotter, Associate Professor, (second-language acquisition, semantics, syntax-semantics interface). For more information on Prof Dekydtspotter please click here.
Kevin Rottet, Associate Professor, (sociolinguistics, language contact, French dialectology, Louisiana French, pidgins and creoles, lexicography, endangered languages and language death). For more information on Prof. Rottet please click here.
Kelly Sax, Lecturer, (second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy, computer assisted language learning, sociolinguistics, Québécois French). For more information on Dr. Sax please click here.
Albert Valdman, Professor Emeritus, (phonology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, second-language acquisition, pidgins and creoles, French outside of France). For more information see the Indiana University Creole Institute or visit Professor Valdman's personal web page.
Barbara Vance, Associate Professor, (syntax, history of the French language). For more information on Prof. Vance please click here.
The Programs
Other linguists at IU
Department of Linguistics: one of the oldest linguistics departments in the United States, with strengths in many areas of theoretical linguistics.
Numerous linguists in other departments and programs (language departments, TESOL & Applied Linguistics, Second Language Studies, Cognitive Science, Speech & Hearing Sciences, Anthropology, Psychology).
Financial Support
- Associate Instructor positions available with yearly stipend of at least $12,770 plus a non-taxable fee remission equal to approximately $21,082 for out-of-state students and $7,239 for in-state students.
- Summer AI positions with a stipend of $1275-$2550 are also available.
- Research assistant positions available in research projects.
- For students interested in second-language acquisition or applied linguistics, two-year editorial assistantships available on a competitive basis (same stipend and fee scholarship as AIships but for 12 instead of 10 months).
- Special minority fellowships available based on need and merit.
Current Research Projects in French Linguistics
Edition of early texts of American varieties of French-based creole (Valdman; in collaboration with the Institut d'Études Créoles et Francophones, Université de Provence)
- Knowledge and processing in second language acquisition (Dekydtspotter)
- Lexicographic research on Louisiana French (Valdman and Rottet)
- Morphosyntactic variation and linguistic theory (Auger)
- Sociolinguistic and linguistic aspects of Picard, a Gallo-Romance language (Auger)
- Syntactic analysis of Old and Middle French (Vance)
- Word order change in the history of Occitan (Vance)
- Language contact phenomena in Louisiana French (Rottet)
Overseas Opportunities
Associate Instructors have the opportunity to serve as exchange instructors at the universities of Lille, Pau, and Strasbourg.
Recent Theses
- The Acquisition of French Intonation by American Learners (Laurie Ramsey)
- Attitudes of American 8th Grade Learners of French Toward Foreign Peoples and Cultures: A Case Study (Laureen Hurt)
- Attrition of Pronunciation Accuracy among Advanced American Learners of French (Larissa Godish Dugas)
- The Development of Pragmatic Competence: Evidence from French Program Study Abroad Participants (Sheila Hoffman-Hicks)
- An Ethnographic Study of Given Names in France (Laurel Willingham-McLain)
- French Language Maintenance in Ontario, Canada: A Sociolinguistic Portrait of the Community of Hearst (Dan Golembeski)
- French Liaison: A Case Study of the Syntax-Phonology Interface (Julia Davis)
- Language Shift and Language Death in the Cajun French Speech of Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes, Louisiana (Kevin Rottet)
- A Lexical Study of the Creole Speech of Pointe Coupee (Tom Klingler)
- Missing Prepositions among Adult Learners of French as a Second Language (Sarah Jourdain)
- The Prosodic Morphology of French (Mary Ellen Scullen)
- Shades of the Storyteller in Medieval Historiography: A Text-Contrastive and Diachronic Application of the Labovian Oral Narrative Frame and of Indices of Orality in Medieval Historical Prose (Charles Pooser)
- A Sociolinguistic Study of Lexical Particularities of French in the Haitian Press (Corinne Etienne).
- The Syntax and Interpretation of the Passé Surcomposé (Katherine Paesani)
- Acquisition of Stylistic Variation by American Learners of French (Kelly Sax)
- The Expression of Futurity by English-Speaking Learners of French (John Moses)
- The Semantics of Adjective Placement in English-French Interlanguage(Bruce Anderson)
Current Theses
- Acquisition vs Suppression of Phonological Processes in the Second Language Acquisition of French and English
- The Decline of Interrogative Pronominal Inversion in the History of French
- A Study of the Status of the French Language Among Youth in a French-English Bilingual Community in Maine.
Career Paths
Our recent graduates in French linguistics have obtained jobs teaching French linguistics, French language courses, and/or coordinating language programs in universities and colleges across the country. Other possible career paths include research positions in software companies, in telecommunications, and in other large companies.
The Campus
The Bloomington campus has been recognized as one of the five most beautiful campuses in the nation. Bloomington provides all the cultural and social benefits of a larger city (including a top music school) and yet retains the charm of a small town. For more information see our Life in Bloomington page.
For More Information
Graduate Admissions Chair
French Linguistics Program
Department of French and Italian
Ballantine Hall 642
1020 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7103
Phone: (812) 855-1088
Fax: (812) 855-8877
E-mail: fritdept @indiana.edu
Deadlines
Application deadline for Fall admission is January 15.
For international students,
the deadline is December
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