Conference Presentations

• January 2009. “Phonetics and Phonology in Loanword Adaptation: Low Vowels in Borrowings in Montréal French,” paper presented at LSA (Linguistic Society of America) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

• November 2008. “Another Look at /r/ in Montréal: Rhotics in Loanwords in Montréal French,” paper presented at NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 37, Rice University, Houston, TX.

• May 2008. “La variation dans la périphérie : /r/ et /h/ dans les emprunts en français montréalais,” paper presented at Les français d'ici : 2e Colloque, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

• April 2008. “Loanword Adaptation in the French of Spanish-Speaking Immigrants in Montréal,” paper presented at LSRL (Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages) 38, Parasession on Romance Languages in the Diaspora, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL.

• March 2008. “Vowel Classes in Loanword Adaptation in Montréal French,” paper presented at MOT (Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto) Phonology Workshop 2008, McGill University, Montréal, Québec.

• December 2006. “The Adaptation of Romanian Loanwords from Turkish and French,” paper presented at Going Romance, 20th Symposium on Romance Linguistics, Special Session on Loanword Phonology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• November 2006. “The Diffusion of Two Stereotypical Traits of Canadian French,” paper presented at NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 35, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

• June 2006. “Le facteur temps et le changement phonétique dans le français montréalais,” with Gillian Sankoff, Damien Hall, and Hélène Blondeau, paper presented at Les français d'ici, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.

• October 2005. “French Phrasal Phonology in a Derivational Model of PF,” with Marjorie Pak, poster presented at NELS (North East Linguistic Society) 36, U.Mass., Amherst, MA.

• October 2005. “Russian Immigrants in Philadelphia as Russian Speakers and Philadelphians,” with Aaron Dinkin, paper presented at NWAV (New Ways of Analyzing Variation) 34, NYU, New York, NY.

• April 2005. “A Unified Account of the French Language Game of Verlan,” paper presented at the Penn Working Group in Language Second Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

• February 2005. “Bracketing and Cyclicity in Romanian Stress,” paper presented at PLC (Penn Linguistics Colloquium) 29, Philadelphia, PA.

• April 2004. “Aspects of Loanword Adaptation in Continental French,” paper presented at the Penn Working Group in Language First Symposium, Philadelphia, PA.

Other Presentations

• April 2008. “Loanword Adaptation in the French of Spanish-Speaking Immigrants in Montréal,” talk presented at Splunch, Penn's weekly phonetics lab meeting.
• November 2007. “Vowel Plots as a Diagnostic for the Nature of Loanword Integration in Montréal French,” talk presented at Splunch, Penn's weekly phonetics lab meeting.
• Fall 2007. “Loanword Phonology,” guest lecture, Linguistics 450 (“Languages in Contact”).
• Summer 2007. “Language Contact,” guest lecture, Linguistics 102 (“Introduction to Sociolinguistics”).
• November 2006. “The Social and Linguistic Predictors of the Outcomes of Borrowing in the Speech Community of Montréal,” talk presented at Splunch, Penn's weekly phonetics lab meeting.
• Fall 2005. “The Motivations and Processes of Lexical Borrowing,” guest lecture, Linguistics 450 (“Languages in Contact”).

Teaching Experience