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 deal with variable aspects of vowel harmony in the Northern and Southern dialects of France, the prosodic and social aspects of liaison sans enchaînement, and the intonation of working-class adolescents of immigrant descent in La Courneuve, a Northeastern suburb of Paris. Although I am concentrating on prosodic phenomena, I also published about the mechanisms of lexical innovation in adolescent peer groups, and pursue my interests in the early modern mechanical modeling of speech production.
My closest collaborators at UIUC are Professors Jennifer Cole, Jose Hualde, and Chilin Shih at the Linguistics departments at the University of Illinois, as well as Noël Nguyen (Université de Provence) and Cécile Fougeron (ILPGA Paris III) at the CNRS in France.I spend my free time with my husband and two children. I like running, dancing 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
Golato, A. & Fagyal, Zs. (in press). Comparing single and double sayings of the German response token 'ja' and the role of prosody: A conversation analytic perspective. Research in Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI).
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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Fagyal, Zs. (2004). Action des médias et interactions entre jeunes dans une banlieue ouvrière de Paris: Remarques sur l'innovation lexicale. [Notes on lexical innovation: action of the media and interactions between adolescents in a working-class suburb of Paris]. Cahier de Sociolinguistique, 9, 41-60. [Journal paper]
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Fagyal, Zs. (2003). La prosodie du français populaire des jeunes à Paris: traits héréditaires et novateurs. [The prosody of working class Parisian French: hereditary and innovative features.] Le Français aujourd'hui, 143, n° spécial "Français de l’école et langues des élèves : quel statut, quelles pratiques ?", pp. 47-55. [Journal paper]
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Fagyal, Zs. (2002). Prosodic boundaries in the vicinity of utterance-medial parentheticals in French. Probus 14, 93-111. [Journal paper]