About Me Current Courses Previous Courses Publications Presentations CV Useful Links Hélène Blondeau Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics Dauer Hall, 210 PO Box 117405 University of Florida Gainesville, FL, 32611-7405 (352) 392-2016 x 247 blondeau@rll.ufl.edu Office hours: Spring 2007 Tuesdays: 2h-4h Thursdays: 11h-12h Homepage last updated 02-01-2007	Hélène Blondeau Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics I joined the faculty of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida in 2004. I am also affiliated with the Program in Linguistics, and with the Department of Anthropology. After receiving my Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from Université de Montréal, I was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the FCAR (a prestigious funding institution in Québec, Canada) to do research in the Linguistic Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania (1999-2001). Before arriving at UF, I also spent three years as an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Ottawa (2001-2004), where I also had the opportunity to act as a research associate in the very dynamic Sociolinguistic Laboratory. My Research Interests I have always been fascinated by the interaction between language and society, and I am especially interested by the sociolinguistic study of French. I am interested in all varieties of French, more particularly Québec French, and other varieties spoken in North America. As a sociolinguist, my research interests encompass language variation and change, as well as language contact. For example, one of my current research projects focuses on longitudinal linguistic change in Montréal French. In addition, I do research about the variety of French spoken by young Anglophones living in Montréal, a second language which has nowadays become an integral part of their linguistic repertoire.