Visiting Scholar in New College, University of Alabama
I finished a Maîtrise des sciences du langage at the Université Stendhal in Grenoble, France (since absorbed into U. Grenoble-Alpes), and then returned to do the Ph.D. at UF, on the topic of speech perception by bilinguals. I taught at Florida Gulf Coast U and Central Michigan U before going to U of Alabama in 2004. I kept contact with my French colleagues, and eventually got involved with Louis-Jean Boë's work on evolution of speech. I have temporarily stepped away from teaching for family reasons.
Dec 13, 2019 01:32 am UTC| Insights & Views
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