Damien Hall
Research Assistant
djh514@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 432665
I joined the AISEB project in August 2008. My PhD dissertation is on the sociolinguistics of the Regional French of Normandy at the University of Pennsylvania; my main linguistic interests are in the sociolinguistics of all modules of linguistics (particularly phonetics and phonology), and also in dialectology.
I spent the whole of 2006-7 in Normandy conducting fieldwork for my doctoral dissertation; while there, I also conducted most of the Rouen interviews for the Phonology of Contemporary French project (Durand, Laks & Lyche 2002, 2005; http://www.projet-pfc.net), and published an article in the project’s journal, the Bulletin PFC (Hall 2007). A shorter summary chapter on the Regional French of Normandy, written with Chantal Lyche, is in press (Hall & Lyche, in press). In March 2007, I gave an invited talk at the Université de Toulouse II – Le Mirail, on my work on the dialectology of Normandy. A poster on this work won the Best Student Poster award at New Ways of Analyzing Variation 33 (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; 2005).
During my doctoral studies, I also spent time as a research assistant in Gillian Sankoff’s Language Change Across the Lifespan project (on Montreal French), and I have presented at international conferences on that and other work. I have been an instructor or a Teaching Assistant for a variety of courses (mostly in sociolinguistics) at the University of Pennsylvania. I have also published on the phonetics and vocal techniques of the female alto singing voice (Hall 2006).
Research
- Hall, Damien & Lyche, Chantal. In press. Conversation à Darnétal (Seine Maritime): la télévision dans les loisirs. To appear in a sourcebook for advanced learners of French (title to be decided), to be published in 2009 by Éditions Ophrys (Paris).
- Hall, Damien. In preparation. 'The Regional French of Normandy: twentieth-century varieties reflecting mediaeval settlement'. This paper has been submitted to Linguistica Atlantica and is now awaiting peer-reviews. Comments are welcome and will be incorporated along with those of the reviewers.
- ———. 2008. A Sociolinguistic Study of the Regional French of Normandy. PhD dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.
- ———. 2007. Le français de Rouen (Haute-Normandie, France): une variété de français qui représente bien sa ville. Bulletin PFC (Projet 'Phonologie du Français Contemporain') 7: 171-191. http://www.projet-pfc.net/?pfc-rc:bibiliopfc:bulletinspfc
- ———. 2006. How Do They Do It? Singing and speaking by female altos. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 12(1): 123-136.
- ———. 2005. Variation Explained through Contact and History: the Regional French of Normandy. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 11(2).
References
- Durand, Jacques; Laks, Bernard; & Lyche, Chantal. 2002. La phonologie du français contemporain: usages, variétés et structure. In C. Pusch & W. Raible (eds) Romanistische Korpuslinguistik- Korpora und gesprochene Sprache / Romance Corpus Linguistics - Corpora and Spoken Language. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Pp 93-106.
- Durand, Jacques; Laks, Bernard; & Lyche, Chantal. 2005. Un corpus numérisé pour la phonologie du français. In G. Williams (ed.) La linguistique de corpus. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Pp 205-217. Proceedings of the conference La linguistique de corpus, Lorient, 12-14 September 2002.