{"id":22,"date":"2012-09-05T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:26:14","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/blondeau\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a sociolinguist, my interests encompass language variation and change as well as langage contact and bilingualism, and\u00a0 language attitudes and representations. Over the years, I have built a research program that focuses on Francophone communities in North America and on urban varieties of French.Trained as an anthropologist, I base my empirical research on fieldwork and large corpora of language data collected in natural settings. While my approach is primarily quantitative, I include qualitative insights from linguistic anthropology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent funded projects<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(2025-2029) The fragmentation of Laurentian French: Three trajectory Types\u00a0 (<em>La fragmentation du fran\u00e7ais laurentiel: trois types de trajectoires<\/em>).<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Insight grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2025-2029. PI: Mireille Tremblay, University of Montreal, Role: Collaborator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(2019-2025) Forty years of Linguistic Change in Montreal and Welland: The individual and the community (Quarante ans de changement linguistique \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al et \u00e0 Welland: l&#8217;individu et la communaut\u00e9)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Insight grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2019-2023. PI: Mireille Tremblay, University of Montreal, Role: Collaborator<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(2021-2024) Create a Digital Platform: Fonds de donn\u00e9es linguistiques du Qu\u00e9bec<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke &amp; Secr\u00e9tariat \u00e0 la promotion et \u00e0 la valorisation de la langue fran\u00e7aise (Government of Qu\u00e9bec). PI: Wim Remysen, Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke, Qu\u00e9bec, Canada, Role: Co-I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project, led by Dr. Wim Remysen from the University of Sherbrooke, Canada, aims to create a digital platform &#8216;Fonds de donn\u00e9es linguistiques du Qu\u00e9bec&#8217; to allow Quebec and the Francophone world to discover the linguistic and cultural Quebec heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(2024-2025) Environmental Humanities and the French and Francophone World<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Centers of Excellence projects.French Embassy in the United States. 2024-2025. PI: H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Blondeau<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">(2024-2026) Promoting Global Health and French Studies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/blondeau\/files\/Bulles-de-conversation.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-225 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/blondeau\/files\/Bulles-de-conversation-288x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/blondeau\/files\/Bulles-de-conversation-288x300.jpg 288w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/blondeau\/files\/Bulles-de-conversation-768x801.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/blondeau\/files\/Bulles-de-conversation.jpg 982w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/blondeau\/files\/Bulles-de-conversation-200x209.jpg 200w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/blondeau\/files\/Bulles-de-conversation-300x313.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>French in Higher Education Program.French Embassy in the United States. 2014-2026. 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