Erik Anonby

Biography

In 2011, following a decade of research across four continents, and after a year teaching linguistics at Carleton, I settled in the French Department as a professor of French linguistics. For me, French and linguistics are, like Montréal and smoked meat, inseparable: it was my love for French that motivated me to pursue three degrees in linguistics, and my love for linguistics has opened up my eyes to the astonishing diversity of the French language, both historically and as it is spoken around the world today. My interests revolve around Canadian French and African French, particularly in the areas of prosodic phonology and phonological variation. I am also fascinated by the effects of interaction between these varieties and the languages around them.

Research Interest

Variation in vowel length and quality in Canadian French Linguistics of francophone Africa: African French, Adamawa languages, Mambay Languages of the Middle East: Kumzari, the Persian-Luri-Kurdish continuum, Gulf dialects of Persian Language mapping Language ecology: endangerment and revitalization Prosodic phonology: morphological templates, tone and intonation, pharyngealization