Florent CHEVALIER

Bachelor in English Studies (année universitaire 2024-2025)

• L1 English Phonetics 1: Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology
• L1 English Phonetics 2: Sound Patterns in English
• L2 English Phonetics 3: Morphophonology
• L2 English Phonetics 4: Rhythm and Meaning
• L3 Variationist Studies: a computational look at variation across time, space and communities
• L3 Scottish Studies: a linguistic survey of Scotland

Masters of Research in Modern Languages (année universitaire 2024-2025)

• M1 Research methods in Linguistics
• M1/M2 Seminar on Oralities: analysing spoken English
• M1 Computing skills for research data

• Dialectal/idiolectal variation, dialects in contact, minority languages; sound change; sociolinguistics.
• Speakers day-to-day mobilities and participation in sound change.
• Linguistic landscape of the railways.
• Interfaces and interactions between phonetics, phonology and morphology.
• Computational linguistics: methods and tools for spoken corpora, open science.

Local and national responsabilities

• Associate Head of the Department for English Studies (2022 - 2024)
• Joint convener for English Studies timetables (2023 - ongoing).
• Joint convener for the final year of the Bachelor in English Studies (2024 - ongoing).
• Elected member of the FLCE Faculty Council (2024 - ongoing).
• Organiser of the P3 (Phonetics, Phonology, Prosody) research seminars for the LLING (2024 - ongoing).
• Elected staff representative at the Loire Atlantique Medical Council (2023 - ongoing).
• Elected member of the Executive Board for the ALOES (Association des anglicistes pour les études de langue orale dans l’enseignement supérieur, secondaire et primaire, https://aloesfrance.wordpress.com/) (2021 - ongoing).

Supervision

• 2024-2025 : four Masters theses (two M1 and two M2); three paid internships in Higher Education and Research (M1).
• 2023-2024 : two Masters theses (M1); four paid internships in Higher Education and Research (M1).

• Uptalk in joke-telling (defense scheduled for 2025)
• Phonological variability in bilingual children aged 4-5: French and English interlanguage acquisition (defense scheduled for 2025)
• Phonetic variations in speech production: streamers in specific contexts (defense scheduled for 2026)
• Trans slang and girlvoice, and their role in sociability (defense scheduled for 2026)

Current research projects

• PULSAR (2023 cohort) : Spaces and languages in transition: social/spatial distance and sound change.

Online CV

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