University address
Modern Languages
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E1
Tel.: (780) 492-6777
Fax: (780) 492-9106
e-mail: terry.nadasdi@ualberta.ca
Rank: Full Professor
Sociolinguistics, Canadian French, Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition, CALL
a) Sociolinguistic Analysis of Variation in the Spoken French of Immersion Students (with R. Mougeon, York University)
b) Sociolinguistic Analysis of Grammatial Variation in Acadian French (with R. King, York University)
c) Lepatron.ca: a web-based feedback generator for French as a second language (with S. Sinclair, McMaster University).
d) Real-time Language Change in Minority Communities (with R. Mougeon, York University)
Variation grammaticale et langue minoritaire: Le cas des pronoms clitiques en français ontarien. 2001. Munich: LINCOM Europa.
The sociolinguistic competence of immersion students. (ms submitted). [with R. Mougeon and K. Rehner].
Le mot juste en français albertain. (2005). Cahiers franco-canadiens de l'Ouest. [with C. Keppie].
Learning to speak everyday French. (2005). The Canadian Modern Language Review 61, 4: 543-561 [with R. Mougeon & K. Rehner].
Contact-induced linguistic innovations on the continuum of language use: the case of French in Ontario. (2005). The Journal of Bilingualism and Cognitive Studies 8, 2: 99-115.[with R. Mougeon & K. Rehner].
Acquisition of the internal and external constraints of variable schwa deletion by French Immersion students. (2004). International Review of Applied Linguistics. [with R. Mougeon, K. Rehner & D. Uritescu]
Le français en Ontario (2005). Le français en Amérique du Nord. A. Valdman & J. Auger (eds.).
Deux auxiliaires qui voulaient mourir en français acadien. (2005). In P. Brasseur (ed.) Grammaire comparée des variétés de français d'Amérique. [with R. King]
Living in Ontario. (2005). Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics 8, 2: 167-182.
Indexing oral narratives of personal experience: the fate of the declining Acadian French vernacular variant je-verb-ons. (2004). Language Variation and Change. 16, 3: 237-255. [with R. King and G. Butler].
Expression de la notion de "véhicule automobile " dans le parler des adolescents francophones de l'Ontario. 2004. Francophonies d'Amérique 17. 91-106. [with R. Mougeon & K. Rehner].
The Learning of Spoken French Variation by Immersion Students from Toronto, Canada. 2004. The Journal of Sociolinguistics 8,3: 408-432. [with R. Mougeon & K. Rehner].
Acquisition de la variation par les apprenants avancés du français : les élèves d'immersion. 2003. AILE 17: L'Acquisition de la variation en langue étrangère. J-M Dewaele & R. Mougeon, eds. 7-50.[with R. Mougeon & K. Rehner].
Back to the Future in Acadian French. 2003. Journal of French Language Studies. 13: 3. 323-337 [with R. King].
The learning of sociostylistic variation by advanced FSL learners: The case of nous versus on in immersion French. Studies in Second Language Acquisition 25 (1)[with R. Mougeon & K. Rehner].
Emploi du «futur» dans le français parlé des élèves d'immersion française. 2003. The Journal of French Language Studies. 13:2, 195-219. [with R. Mougeon & K. Rehner].
Etre ou ne pas être in immersion French. 2001. The Canadian Modern Language Review: 58: 2. 287-306. [with V. Knauss]
Living and working in immersion French. 2003. The Journal of French Language Studies. 13:1. 41-60. [with M. McKinnie]Agreeing to Disagree: variable subject-verb agreement in immersion French. 2001. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics 4: 1-2. 87-101 .
The expression of evidentiality in French-English bilingual discourse. 1999. Language in Society. 23, 3. 355-365. [with R. King].
Sociolinguistic discontinuity in minority language communities. 1998. Language. 74.1. 40-55. [with R. Mougeon].
Lexicalisation disparate
en milieu minoritaire.
1997. Exploration du lexique. Julie Auger & Yvan Rose (eds.). Quebec:
CIRAL. 121-132.al. (ed.).
Left dislocation,
Number Marking and Canadian French". 1997. Probus 9:3. 1-18.
[with R. King].
The Truth about Codeswitching
in Insular Acadian. 1997. Penn Working Papers in Linguistics 4:1, Charles
Boberg, Miriam Meyerhoff, Stephanie Strassel (eds.). 299-315. [with R. King].
La puissance des pronoms faibles en français acadien. 1995. Proceedings
of the 19th annual meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association.
D. Lillian (ed.). 129-138. [with Ruth King].
Ecarts sémantiques entre le français hexagonal et le français
québécois. Significations: Un recueil d'articles en l'honneur
d'Henry Schogt. P. Bhatt (ed.). Canadian Scholars Press Inc. (in press).
Discontinuités
sociolinguistiques inter-/intra-communautaires en Ontario français.
1996. Revue du Nouvel Ontario 20. B. Cazabon, (ed.) 51 - 76. [with
R. Mougeon].
Sorting out Morphosyntactic Variation in Acadian French: the Importance of
the Linguistic Marketplace. 1996. Sociolinguistic Variation: Data, Theory,
and Analysis. Stanford University: Center for the Study of Language and
Information. 113-128. [with R. King].
Restriction linguistique
et cliticisation des pronoms indirects inanimés en français
ontarien. 1995. Le Français des Amériques. R. Fournier
and H. Wittmann (eds.). 165-180.
Subject NP Doubling, Matching
and Minority French. 1995. Language Variation and Change 7. D.
Sankoff (ed.). 1-14.
Possession inaliénable
et variation dialectale. 1994. Linguistica Atlantica. Jim Black
(ed.), vol. 15. 131-144.
L'emprunt lexical à la dérive: une évolution tranquille
au Québec. 1992. La problématique de l'implicite. Editions
GFA: Toronto. 93-106.
Divergence sémantique
des anglicismes au Québec. 1991. Revue québécoise
de linguistique théorique et appliquée: recherches sur le français
québécois. Claude Paradis (ed.), vol. 10: 3. 173-187.
Les attitudes des jeunes Franco-ontariens vis-à-vis de leur lexique".
1990. Information/Communication. Pierre Léon (ed.), vol.11.
78-87.
Déviation et
simplification linguistique dans le français bruxellois. 1989.
Journal of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association. Sandra Clarke
(ed.), vol. 11. 1-18.
Valdman, A. 1997. French and Creole in Louisiana. In Language 75, 4. 825-828
Du français des Acadiens à celui des Ontariens. 1998. Francophonies d'Amérique 8. 85-98.
Paolo Ramat, Typologie linguistique. 1991. In Information/Communication:
sémiolinguistique du discours. Pierre Léon (ed.), vol.12.
111-113.
Suzanne Romaine, Language in Society: an introduction to sociolinguistics
(1994). In Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development
17:5, 396-397. [with R. Mougeon].
Michelle Daveluy & Marty Laforest (eds.), Culture, vol.14, no 2,
vol. 15, no. 1, 1994. Pp. 1, 155. In Language in Society 26: 3. 455-450,
1997.
R. Bourhis. 1994. French Language Issues in Canada . In Canadian
Journal of Linguistics. 282-284, 1996.
Expression the notion of consequence in immersion French. NWAV30, Raleigh, Oct. 11-14, 2001). [with R. Mougeon and K. Rehner].
The Acquisition of the internal and external constraints of variable schwa deletion by French Immersion students. Sociolinguistics Symposium 14, Gent, 4-6 April, 2002[with R. Mougeon, K. Rehner & D. Uritescu ].
Not Fade Away: The Fate of the Declining Vernacular Variant je VERB-ons. Third UK Conference and Linguistic Variation. Univesrity of York, England. July, 2001.
La variation sociolinguistique en immersion française. University of Windsor, January, 2001. (Invited speaker)
How Auxiliaries be/have in Acadian French, Moncton, Annual Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association, November, 2000 [with R. King]
The Do's and Don'ts of French Immersion. University of Calgary. Dec. 1, 2000. (Invited speaker).
A sociolinguistic analysis of phonetic variation in the spoken French of immersion students, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics, University of Laval, May, 2001 [with R. Mougeon and D. Uritscu].
The Future of French Immersion, NWAV 29, Michigan State University, Oct 6,
2000 [with S. Burdine, R. Mougeon and K. Rehner]
How Auxiliaries be/have in Acadian French, Moncton, Annual Meeting of the
Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association, November, 2000 [with R. King]
Having it all in Acadian French, NWAV 29, Michigan State University, Oct 7,
2000 [with R. King]
Sociolinguistic Competence and the French Immersion Curriculum, Annual Meeting
of the Canadian Society for Studies in Education, University of Alberta. May
25, 2000 [with R. Mougeon and K. Rehner]
Etre ou ne pas être en Immersion, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association
of Applied Linguistics, University of Alberta, May 26 2000 [with V. Knaus]
Living and Working in Immersion French, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association
of Applied Linguistics, University of Alberta, May 26 2000 [with M. McKinnie]
To have and not to be in Acadian French. Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistics
Association, University of Alberta, May 28, 2000. [with R. King]
Acquisition de la variation du français par les élèves d'immersion en Ontario,
Association Canadienne française pour l'avancement des sciences, Université
de Montréal, May 18, 2000. [with R. Mougeon and K. Rehner]
Patterns of variation in the spoken French of Anglo-Canadian French Immersion
students. 19th annual Second Language Research Forum in Minnesota, Sept, 1999
[with R. Mougeon and K. Rehner].
Code-switching in the advanced foreign-language classroom. AILA, Tokyo, Japan,
1999. [with J. Dailey O'Cain].
Future Developments in Acadian French. Annual Meeting of the Candian Linguisitc
Association, Université de Sherbrooke, June 5, 1999. [with R. King].
If Schüler unerfolgreiche Erfahrungen haben: German-English Code-Switching
by Advanced Students of German. GLAC, Austin, Texas April 17, 1999 [with J.
Dailey O'Cain].
Research on Variation in the spoken French of Canadian immersion students:
A Synthesis. AAAL, Stamford, Connecticut, March 1999 [with R. Mougeon and
K. Rehner].
On the Variable Use of Traditional Acadian Verbal Morphology in Prince Edward
Island French. The Atlantic Provinces Linguisitc Association, University College
of Cape Breton. Nov 6, 1998. [with R. King].
Research on Variation in the Spoken French of Canadian Immersion Students:
a Synthesis. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 27, Athens, Georgia, October
3, 1998. [with R. Mougeon and K. Rehner].
Back to the Future in Acadian French. New Ways of Analyzing Variation 27,
Athens, Georgia, October 3, 1998. [with R. King].
The Truth about Code-Switching in Acadian French, Linguistic Circle Lecture
Series in Applied Linguistics, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative
Studies, University of Alberta. February 11, 1998.
L'alternance de code en français acadien. Journée du savoir, Faculté Saint-Jean,
Université d'Alberta. March 21, 1998. On Variable Use of Traditional Acadian
Verbal Morphology in Prince Edward Island French.
Annual Meeting of the Candian Linguisitc Association, University of Ottawa.
May 29, 1998. [with R. King].
Synthetic and Analytic Verb Forms in the Spoken French of Immersion Students.
Trends in second language teaching and learning, Carleton University, May
20-23, 1998. [with R. Mougeon].
"First Person Plural Pronouns in PEI French: All for on and on for all?". New Ways of Analyzing Variation 26, Quebec City, Québec, October 24, 1997. [with R. King].
"The expression of evidentiality in French-English bilingual discourse". November 8, 1997. Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, N.S. [with Ruth King].
"The Effect of Social Class in a Minority Language Setting". June 12, 1997. Canadian Anthropology Society. St. John's Nfld.
"L'Atrophie linguistique en français minoritaire". Discours
et pathologie. University of Alberta. March 22, 1997.
"Logic, Discourse and (non) Standard Language". Invited speaker,
Graduate seminar on the socio-pathology of the XIXth century. MLCS, University
of Alberta, March 19, 1997.
"Le français parlé‚ en milieu minoritaire". Journée
du savoir, Faculté Saint-Jean, Université de l'Alberta.
(March 7, 1997).
"(Socio-)linguistic Consequences of Language Attrition". University
of Alberta, Dept. of Linguistics, Invited speaker. March 3, 1997.
"Variable Lexical Affinity in Minority French". New Ways of Analyzing
Varition 25 , Las Vegas, Nevada, October 20, 1996.
"Discourse, Evidentiality and Codeswitching in Three Atlantic Canada
Acadian Communities. New Ways of Analyzing Varition 25 , Las Vegas,
Nevada, October 18, 1996. [with R. King].
"Sociolinguistic Discontinuity within and across Ontario's French-Speaking
Communities: implications for the theory of linguistic variation". Canadian
Association of Applied Linguistics. May, 1996, University of Western Ontario.
[with R. Mougeon].
"Lexicalisation disparate en milieu minoritaire". Association
canadienne français pour l'avancement des sciences: Exploration du
lexique. McGill University, May, 1996.
"The Relationship of Form and Function in Language Variation and Change".
Invited speaker, Sociolinguistics seminar, Dept. of Languages, Literatures
and Linguistics, York University, March, 1996.
"Morphosyntactic Variation and Change: Agreement Marking in (Non-)standard
French.
Invited speaker, Linguistics Student's Association Lecture Series 2, Dept.
of
Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, York University, North York, Ontario,
Feb. 15, 1996. [with Ruth King].
"Variation linguistique le long d'un continuum de compétence communicative".
Invited speaker, Dept. of French and Italian, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana, Feb. 5, 1996.
"Grammatical Variation along the French Language Proficiency Continuum".
Invited speaker, Modern languages, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta,
Jan. 26, 1996
"From L2 to L1 through Minority Language Grammars". Invited speaker,
Dept. of French and Italian, University of Arizon, Tucson, Arizona, Jan. 22,
1996.
"Morphological Variation in Prince Edward Island French". Annual
Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association , Nov. 1995 Charlottetown,
P.E.I. [with Ruth King].
"La puissance des pronoms faibles en français acadien." Annual
Meeting of the Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association , Nov. 1995,
Charlottetown, P.E.I. [with Ruth King].
"Variable Syntactic Rules in Minority Speech Communities". Invited
speaker, French Dept., University of Toronto, Nov. 16, 1995.
"On the Acquisition of Morphological Templates". Workshop on Postsyntactic
Mechanisms, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. Oct 27, 1995.
"Sociolinguistic Discontinuity in Minority Language Communities".
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 24 , Oct. 1995, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA. [with R. Mougeon].
"Left Dislocation, Number Marking, and (Non-)Standard French". New
Ways of Analyzing Variation 24, Oct., 1995 University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA. [with R. King].
"Le non-redoublement du sujet en français acadien".Congrès
annuel de l'Association canadienne de linguistique, Université
du Québec à Montréal, June 2, 1995. [with Ruth King].
"Affixation et cliticisation des pronoms faibles en grammaire générative".
Invited speaker, Département de français, University of Western
Ontario, Feb., 1995.
"Variation grammaticale en français ontarien". Invited speaker,
Département d'Etudes françaises, Queen's University, Feb., 1995.
"Sorting out Morphological Variation in Acadian French: the Importance
of the Linguistic Marketplace". New Ways of Analyzing Variation 23
, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Oct. 20-23, 1994. [with Ruth
King].
"Variation syntaxique, influence externe et français minoritaire".
French Dept., University of Toronto, Nov. 11, 1993.
"Subject Doubling in Ontario French". New Ways of Analyzing Variation
22, Université d'Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Oct. 14-17, 1993.
"Représentations morphologiques des clitiques dans les langues
romanes". Congrès annuel de l'Association canadienne de linguistique,
Université Carleton, Ottawa, Ontario, du 30 mai au 1er juin, 1993.
[avec Y. Roberge, S. Cummins et P. Bessler].
"Le rôle des schèmes morphologiques dans la cliticisation:
quelques études de cas". Congrès annuel de l'Association
canadienne de linguistique, Université Carleton, Ottawa, Ontario,
May 31, 1993. [avec P. Bessler, D. Heap, et S. Mastromonaco].
"A Morphosyntactic Analysis of Romance Clitic Constructions".Workshop
on Syntax-Morphology Interface , Linguistics Dept., University of Toronto,
Feb. 20-21, 1993. [with Y. Roberge, S. Cummins and P. Bessler].
"If a Template Fits ...: Case Studies in Syntactic vs. Morphological
Cliticization". Workshop on Syntax-Morphology Interface, Linguistics
Dept., University of Toronto, Feb. 20-21, 1993. [with P. Bessler D. Heap and
S. Mastromonaco]
"Morphological cliticisation". Workshop on X0 Syntax , University
of Toronto, June 24, 1992. [with S. Cummins, D. Heap, and Y. Roberge].
"Restriction linguistique et cliticisation des pronoms indirects inanimés
en français ontarien". Le français des Amériques,
Université Carleton, 26-27 sept., 1992.
"Cliticisation morphologique ou catégories fonctionnelles?".
Congrès annuel de l'Association canadienne de linguistique,
Université de l'Ile du Prince Edouard, Charlottetown, Ile du Prince
Edouard, 27 mai, 1992. [avec P. Bessler, S. Cummins, D. Heap, et Y. Roberge].
"L'emprunt lexical à la dérive: une évolution tranquille
au Québec". La problématique de l'implicite, Victoria
College, Université de Toronto, 2 juin, 1991.
"La possession des parties du corps dans les dialectes non standard".
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Queen's University,
Kingston, Ont., May 27, 1991.
Research Grants
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada regular research grant: from SSHRC: Le Patron: A Research and Writing Tool for Minority Francophones and Second Language Learners of French in Canada, $92,000, 05-07 [with S. Sinclair]
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada regular research grant: from SSHRC: Sociolinguistic Research on the Educational Input of High School Franco-Ontarian and French Immersion Students, $100,000, 05-07 [with R. Mougeon, F. Mougeon and K. Rehner]
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada regular research grant: from SSHRC: A Real Time Study of Linguistic variation along the Franco-Ontarian speech continuum, 04-07, $246,217 [with R. Mougeon]
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada regular research grant: Acadian French in Time and Space, 02-05, $75,000 [co-investigator with R. King] Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada regular research grant, Research on variation in the spoken French of French immersion students, 2000-2003, $82,900 [co-investigator with R. Mougeon]. Ranked 3rd in Canada.
Learning enhancement envelope: The building of an interactive French grammar database, 1998-2001, $118,710 [collaborator with Martin Beaudoin]
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada regular research grant: The Sociolinguistic structure of varieties of Acadian French, 98-01, $59,000 [co-investigator with R. King]
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Post-doctoral Fellowship: Syntactic variation in the spoken French of Ontario and P.E.I.,$59,000 (94-96). Held at York University
Television
- CBC television, Le Téléjournal (with Kevin Sweet), Le Patron, Dec. 13, 2005
- Shaw TV (with Jennifer O'Callaghan), Neologisms in dictionaries, January 12, 2004
- CFRN TV (with Deborah Shiry), French immersion and literacy, March 23, 2004
- Access TV (with Tasha Larson), Language change, careers in linguistics, and professions that are difficult to pronounce, November 24, 1998
Radio
- Radio Europe 1, Paris, (with Benjamin Vincent), Le Patron, Dec. 21, 2005.
- CBC Radio Canada - Winnipeg (with John Fontaine), Le Patron, Dec. 19th, 2005.
- CBC Edmonton, "le café show" (with host Pierre Girard), Le Patron, December 13, 2005
- CBC, Edmonton (with journalist Marie-Claude Guay), Le Patron, December 12, 2005
-Express News, Uniiversity of Alberta (with Phoebe Day), Le Patron, Dec., 2005
- Nouvelles Saint-Jean, Le Patron (with Jacqueline Verrat)
- Edmonton Journal, City slogans, 2002
- Edmonton Journal (with Curtis Stock), Clichés in the discourses of sportscasters and atheletes, 2000
- Express News, University of Alberta, Technology in Language teaching, 2001