Grants Received

2018

UIUC Research Board, Humanities Release Time, $14,000.

2015-2018

Co-recipient, European Union Commission Jean Monnet Grant to the European Union Center of Excellence at Illinois, €80,000, project. Identity and Minority Language Use in Europe.

2013-2015

Research and Course Development Grant, European Union Center UIUC, with E. Derhemi and M. Terkourafi, €334, graduate student and conference travel support, Languages of the Mediterranean

2011-2013

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Improvement Grant (1121780), “Doctoral Dissertation Research: Oral Articulation of French Nasal Vowels”, with R. Shosted (PI) and C. Carignan (co-PI)

summer 2013

Research and Course Development Grant, European Union Center UIUC, with E. Derhemi, $2,000, summer salary, Language and Minorities in the European Union: a survey, textbook proposal and companion website

2011- 2013

Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (FLAS) Course Development grant, European Union Center UIUC, $3,000, TA support, European Union Center (UIUC), Linguis Europae: a blogsite for language and minorities in Europe

2010-2011

UIUC Research Board, $9,250, RA support, with Douglas Kibbee (co-PI), Modeling lexical change: the role of political centers and marginal groups in the selection and spread of lexical innovations

2003 & 2006

UIUC – CNRS Exchange Grant, twice $10,000, with Noël Nguyen (Co-PI), Acoustic correlates of assimilatory phenomena: vowel-to-vowel co-articulation in French

2003-2005

Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (FLAS) Course Development Grant, European Union Center UIUC, $15,000, RA support, with Douglas Kibbee (Co-PI), Develop the cross-listed course ‘Language and Minorities in Europe’ (418)

2004

UIUC Research Board. Humanities Release Time, $9,000, book on working-class Parisian French in contact with immigrant languages

2002-2003

UIUC Research Board, $9,000 RA and equipment support, The merger of the front mid-vowels [e] and [ɛ] in Parisian French

2001-2002

UIUC Research Board Grant ($10,839 RA support), Sound Change and Variation in Parisian French: the role of higher-level prosodic units

2001

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Summer Fellowship, fieldwork on working-class Parisian French in contact with immigrant languages

1999 –

UIUC Scholars’ Travel Fund for multiple domestic and foreign conference travels