Zsuzsanna Fagyal
Office Number: 2130 FLB
Phone: 265-0743
Email: zsfagyal@illinois.edu
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My work is on Phonetics, Phonology and Sociolinguistics of French, with special emphasis on phonological variation and sound change in Parisian French.
My most recent research projects focus on vowel harmony in the Northern and Southern dialects of France and prosodic and segmental characteristics of the speech of working-class adolescents of immigrant origin in a Northeastern suburb of Paris. I also published on lexical innovation in adolescent peer groups, liaison sans enchaînement, and the tonal characteristics of parentheticals.
I frequently collaborate with colleagues, and I am a member of the 'Phonetics and Phonology' (F^3) Reading Group and the 'Dynamics of Language and Dialect Contact' (DLDC) Research Group at UIUC. I spend my free time with my family. I like running, swimming and playing the violin.
Selected recent publications:
Books
Fagyal, Zs. - Jenkins, F. - Kibbee, D (2006). French: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Reviewed in:
Journal of French Language Studies, 2007, 17(2), 237-239
The French Review, 2008, 81(3), 637-638
Fagyal, Zs. (in press). L'Accent des banlieues: aspects prosodiques du français populaire en contact avec les langues de l'immigration. Paris: L'Harmattan.
Articles
Fagyal, Zs. (in press). Rhythm types and the speech of working-class youth in a banlieue of Paris: the role of vowel elision and devoicing. In: Preston, D. R. & Niedzielski, N. (in press). Methods in Sociophonetics, Part I., Chapter 4 'Phonetic variation and social identity', Mouton de Gruyter, to appear in 2009. [book chapter]
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Golato, A & Fagyal, Z. (2008). Comparing single and double sayings of the German response token ja and the role of prosody: A conversation analytic perspective. (ROLSI) Research on Language and Social Interaction, 41(3), 1-30. [journal article]
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Nguyen, Noel - Fagyal, Zs. (2008). Acoustic aspects of vowel harmony in French. Journal of Phonetics, 36 (1), 1-27.
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Fagyal, Zs. (2007). Syncope : de l'irrégularité rythmique dans la musique rap au dévoisement des voyelles dans la parole des adolescents dits « des banlieues ». Nottingham French Studies, 46 (2), 119-134.
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Miller, Jessica, S. & Fagyal, Zs. (2005). Phonetic cues to common and special cases of liaison; Looking for a prosodic domain. In: Gess, Randall, S. and Rubin, Edward, J. (eds). Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Romance Linguistics: Selected papers from the 34 th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Salt Lake City, Utah. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 179-196. [Book chapter]
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