Randall Gess
Professor
Department of French
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
After nine years at Carleton as Director of the School of Linguistics and Language Studies, with a cross-appointment in French since 2008, I joined the Department officially in 2016 with a half-time appointment. I have a long (20+ year) history of working on historical French phonology and for the past several years have also been working on phonological variation in current varieties, focusing especially on those in Canada and Senegal. This work is in support of the international project, Phonologie du Français
Research Interest
Phonological variation in French Historical phonology of French French corpus linguistics Haitian Creole Second language acquisition of French Teaching French pronunciation
Publications
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Boutin, Béatrice Akissi, Randall Gess and Gabriel Marie Gueye. 2012. French in Senegal after three centuries: A phonological study of Wolof speakers’ French. Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from Three Continents. Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg (eds.), 45-71. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg. 2012. Introduction to Phonological variation in French: Illustrations from three continents. Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from Three Continents. Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg (eds.), 1-19. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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Gess, Randall, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg. 2012. Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from Three Continents. Studies in Language Variation, 11. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. vii, 387 pp. + index.
