Invited Lectures and Invited Conference Presentations

  1. “Multiethnic urban speech styles in the French media” (tentative), invited presentation, ‘The Sounds of Multiethnolects in Western Europe’, panel presentation, Institut für Computerlinguistik, University of Zürich, delayed to June 2022 due to COVID-19.

  2. “Social meaning and consonantal variation in French and Romance”, invited research seminar, Department of French and Romance Linguistics program, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley, March 17, 2021, 12 pm (CT) 10 am (PT).

  3. “Modeling the social dynamics of nasal vowel perception and production in French: current and future challenges”, keynote lecture, 50th virtual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages, University of Texas, Austin, April 9-11, 2020.

  4. “Refugees need language”: perspectives on the ‘Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants’ (LIAM) initiative of the Council of Europe”, invited lecture, ‘Europe in a Global Context’ Speaker Series, Illinois State University, Bloomington (IL), March 21, 2018.

  5. “Multilingualism, Ltd.: New challenges for linguistic diversity in Europe””, Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, keynote lecture, Lexington, Kentucky, April 15, 2016.

  6. “Mixed methods in sociophonetics : a case study”, Demi-journée consacrée à la sociophonétique, invited presentation, ILPGA Paris III, December 2, 2015.

  7. “Speech rhythm and vowel processes in Multicultural London English and Multicultural Paris French”, invited presentation and panel, ‘Sociolinguistics of Globalization’ conference, Hong Kong, June 3-6, 2015.

  8. “Multilingualism and language education in Europe: Challenges and aspirations”, European Studies Symposium, keynote lecture, Illinois State University, April 2, 2015.

  9. “Phonetic variation and change in contemporary Parisian French”, invited presentation, Multicultural London English, Multicultural Paris French: selected findings and stock taking, Birkbeck College, University of London, December 10, 2015.

  10. “EU language regimes: balancing efficiency and linguistic diversity”, European Union Center Celebrating Languages: Translation Day @ Illinois, invited presentation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 31, 2014.

  11. “Languages in contact and clash: the sociolinguistic legacy of Peuples Méditerranéens”, invited presentation, Approaches to the Study of the Middle East and the Mediterranean: a Symposium in Honor of Paul Vieille, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 14, 2014.

  12. “Voicing integration: gender-split and variable phonology in multi-ethnic youth vernaculars in Paris”, French in Contact, keynote lecture, inter-disciplinary workshop organized by the France-Florida Research Institute, University of Florida, Gainsville, November 15-16, 2013.

  13. “The myth of Euro-Babel: status, identity, and the unique constellation of languages in Europe”, EUNIC – Chicago “Faces of Europe: Languages and Identities”, European Professional Development Day, invited presentation, College of DuPage, April 27, 2013.

  14. “More of a minority than others”: attitudes and ideologies in transnational language maintenance in Europe, ILLS 5 (Illinois Language and Linguistic Society Annual Conference), keynote lecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 6, 2013.

  15. “What have we achieved? Introduction to the Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages”, organizer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, November 5, 2012, with Eda Derhemi (UIUC).

  16. “Heritage or assimilation: immigrant multilingualism in France and the EU”, invited presentation, Linguistics Undergraduate Student Association Colloquium, University of Toronto, October 5, 2011.

  17. “Convergence: the tonal marking of cooperative social interaction in a pre-adolescent friendship network”, keynote lecture, UTA Graduate Student conference, April 15, 2011.

  18. “Corrélats phonétiques de rupture et d’appartenance à un groupe d’adolescents dans un quartier populaire de Paris”, invited presentation, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, November 19, 2010.

  19. “Analyzing rhythm: Best practices in sociophonetics”, invited lecture, workshop on prosody, NWAV 41, San Antonio, November 4, 2010, with Malcah Yaeger-Dror, University of Arizona.

  20. “Sounds and symbols: Phonetic reflexes of adolescent peer-group affiliation”, invited lecture, Dialect and Social Change in Urban Diasporic Communities workshop, Queen Mary, University of London, July 2, 2010.

  21. “Languages from North Africa and Europe: Two lesson plans”, invited presentation, African Institute for Educators, UIUC, June 28, 2010.

  22. “Culture wars: African Immigrants in France”, Islam in Europe: Past, present, and future”, invited presentation, European Union Center, UIUC, June 23, 2010.

  23. “Sounds and symbols: Phonetic reflexes of adolescent peer-group affiliation”, keynote address, “Significant readings” graduate student conference, Department of French, Louisiana State University, March 13, 2010.

  24. “The New Immigrant Europe: Languages and Borderlands”, 2-day international conference, organizer, March 11-12, 2010, with Douglas Kibbee and Dorothee Schneider (UIUC).

  25. “Alternance stylistique comme outil de négociation identitaire”, keynote lecture, « Hétérogénéité et variation : quels objets socio-linguistiques et didactiques aujourd’hui ? », conference, Montpellier (France), May 28, 2009.

  26. “Alternance stylistique et cohésion intra-groupe dans une banlieue multiethnique de Paris: le rôle de l’intonation”, « Mise en scène des pratiques langagières : le cas du français » conference, keynote lecture, Department of French, Simon Fraser University, April 16, 2009.

  27. “Innovation et changement linguistique : production, perception et simulation”, keynote lecture, « Les modes langagières dans l’histoire » conference, Montpellier, France, June 13, 2008, with Samarth Swarup (Virginia Tech), Anna Maria Escobar, Les Gasser, and Kiran Lakkaraju (UIUC).

  28. “Les français régionaux au laboratoire : pour une analyse des variations stylistiques contextuels intra-locuteur”, keynote lecture, Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole conférence, Avignon, June 9, 2008, with Noël Ngyen (University of Provence).

  29. “Muslim minorities in France: from postcolonial immigration to bilingual citizenship and language use”, invited presentation, European Union Center Core Curriculum Lecture, coordinator Professor Zsuzsa Gille (Sociology), UIUC March 13, 2007.

  30. “De l’ethnolecte au dialecte urbain : Intonation en contact dans une ouvrière de Paris”, invited lecture, Linguistics Lecture Series, Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence (France), December 1, 2006.

  31. “De dilation à la coarticulation: y-a-t-il de l’harmonie vocalique en français? invited lecture, École Doctorale, University of Paris III, November 18, 2006.

  32. “La Sociophonétique. Réflexions méthodologiques à propos des parlers dits « de banlieues”, invited lecture, École Doctorale, University of Paris Ouest, Nanterre, France, November 11, 2006.

  33. “Inner city French: French intonation in contact with immigrant languages in a Parisian banlieue,” keynote lecture, Third Annual Conference on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Chicago, April 20-21, 2006.

  34. “Social factors in prosodic variation: case studies from French,” Annual PFC (Phonology of Contemporary French) conference, Louvain (Belgium), keynote lecture, July 6, 2006.

  35. “Testing the limits: the prosodic domain of Liaison as a social stereotype”, invited lecture, Indiana University, Department of French and Italian, March 25, 2005.

  36. “Speaking heads, organ reeds, and the telephone: the mechanical simulation of speech in the history of phonetics”, invited lecture, ‘A Century of Experimental Phonetics: Its History and Development: From Théodore Rosset to John Ohala’, international conference, Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble, France, February 26, 2005.

  37. “Français, mais de quelle origine ? Accents de collégiens d’une banlieue parisienne et catégorisation ethnique”, Linguistics Department, Université Stendhal Grenoble (France), February 23, 2005.

  38. “Blacks, Blancs, Beurs: French Prosody in Contact with Immigrant Languages in Paris”. ‘Language and (Im)migration in France, Latin America, and the United States: Sociolinguistic Perspectives’ Conference, University of Texas, Austin. September 2003.

  39. “Mid-front vowels in open syllables in French: The anatomy of a merger”, Indiana University, French Department Speaker Series, April 2002.

  40. “The mechanical simulation of speech: Cartesian views of the noblest human motion from Descartes to Chomsky.” Rethinking Descartes Workshop. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. March 2002.

  41. “Eppur si move! Changements phonétiques en cours en français parisien”, Colloque Eclats de la Langue du Groupe de Recherche et d’Etudes Cliniques, Faculté de Théologie, Paris, June 2001.