Michael D. Picone
The University of Alabama
Department of Modern Languages & Classics
Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487-0246

Presentations

1. "Mirror Image Rhythmic Groups: Stress Displacement and Its Relationship to Liaison Based on an Investigation of Canadian French," presented at the Oregon Academy of Sciences annual meeting, University of Oregon (Eugene), February 26, 1977 (subsequently published in résumé form in the Academy's journal).

2. "Compound Word Formation in French: One Hundred Years Later," presented at the 19th Annual Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 19), Ohio State University (Columbus), April 21-23, 1989.

3. "Synthetic Tendencies in French Neology: Is English to Blame?" presented at the 18th Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Language (NWAVE 18), Duke University (Durham, North Carolina), October 20-22, 1989.

4. "Technological Advance and Language Change: The Example from French Neology," presented at the International Pragmatics Conference, Universitàt de Barcelona, July 9-13, 1990.

5. "Cosmology, Typology and Pedagogy: the Cases of French and English," presented at the Interdepartmental Colloquium on Second/Foreign Language Learning/Teaching, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), October 24, 1990.

6. "A Non-Linear Assessment of the Phonological Status of the Velar Nasal in Contemporary Metropolitan French," presented at the 44th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 44), University of Tennessee (Knoxville), April 4-6, 1991.

7. "Le français face à l'anglais : Aspects linguistiques," presented at the XLIIIe Congrès de l'Association Internationale des Etudes Françaises, Collège de France (Paris), July 22-24, 1991.

8. "Variation in the Pronunciation of the Borrowed -er Suffix of Agent in Metropolitan French," presented at the 46th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 46), University of Florida (Gainesville), April 3-5, 1992.

9. "Lexicogenesis as Diagnostic Tool," presented at the 37th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association (ILA 37), Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.), April 24-26, 1992.

10. "Code-Switching and Loss of Inflection in Louisiana French," presented at Language Variety in the South (LAVIS 2), Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama), April 1-3, 1993.

11. "Néologie et vitalité linguistique," presented at Ateliers créole et français cadien, University of Southwestern Louisiana (Lafayette), June 1-4, 1993.

12. "Lexical Code-Switching in Louisiana French," presented at the 22nd Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Language (NWAVE 22), University of Ottawa, October 14-17, 1993.

13. "Code-intermediate Phenomena in Louisiana French," presented at the 30th Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS 30), University of Chicago, April 14-16, 1994.

14. "Lexical Productivity in Cajun French," presented at the Workshop on Louisiana French Corpora, Tulane University (New Orleans), March 16-19, 1995.

15. "Language Contraction: A Profile of Louisiana French, with Special Reference to the Houma of Terrebonne Parish and with a Comparison to Mississippi Band Choctaw," presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Dialect Society (ADS 1995), Chicago, December 27-30, 1995.

16. Panelist in "The Future of the French Class," at the annual joint meeting of the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers and the Alabama chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, University of Alabama at Birmingham, January 31-February 1, 1997.

17. "The Disarticulation of Unisegmental Representation of Nasalization and Palatalization across French Dialects," presented at the 56th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 56), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, April 4-6, 1997.

18. "Constraint Ranking and Representation of Nasality and Palatality across French Dialects," presented at the 2nd International Congress of Dialectologists and Geolinguists, Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), July 28-August 1, 1997.

19. "La néologie et les anglicismes par tranches d'âge en français louisianais," presented at IVe Journées Scientifiques du Réseau « Etude du français en francophonie », Université Laval (Québec), May 4-7, 1998. Co-presenter: Amanda LaFleur.

20. "Historic French Diglossia in Louisiana," presented at the 58th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 58), University of Southwestern Louisiana (Lafayette), March 26-28, 1998.

21. "Contrastive Lexicogenetic Variation in Acadiana: A Study of a Bilingual Population across Generations," presented at the 27th Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Language (NWAVE 27), University of Georgia (Athens), October 1-4, 1998. Co-presenter: Amanda LaFleur.

22. "Patois in Louisiana," presented at the 60th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 60), Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia), April 8-10, 1999.

23. "Codemixing in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana: The Example of Adrien Rouquette," presented at the 62nd Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 62), at the University of Mississippi (Oxford), April 6-8, 2000.

24. "The Contribution of Rememberers to Linguistic Studies: The Isleños of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana," presented at the 62nd Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 62), at the University of Mississippi (Oxford), April 6-8, 2000. Joint presenters: Patricia Lestrade and Yolanda Rivera-Castillo.

25. "Phonological and Semantic Information from Isleño Rememberers of St. Bernard Parish," presented at the 27th LACUS Forum 2000 (Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States), at Rice University (Houston), July 25-29, 2000. Joint presenters: Patricia Lestrade and Yolanda Rivera-Castillo.

26. "Reconstructing Nineteenth-Century Triglossia in Francophone Louisiana," presented at the Seventh New Zealand Language and Society Conference, at the University of Auckland, June 29 - July 1, 2000.

27. "French-English Codemixing in Contemporary Songwriting," presented at the 63rd Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 63), Birmingham, Alabama, November 10 - 12, 2000.

28. "Surviving French in Louisiana outside of Acadiana," presented at the Annual Meeting of American Dialect Society (ADS 2001), Washington, D.C., January 3-7, 2001.

29. "Languages in Contact: Challenging the Autonomy of Syntax," presented at the University of Memphis, April 19, 2001.

30. "Artistic Codemixing," presented at the 30th Annual Conference on New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Language (NWAVE 30), North Carolina State University (Raleigh), October 11-14, 2001.

31. "Literary Dialect and the Reconstruction of Nineteenth-Century French, Creole, and English in Louisiana," presented at the 66th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 66), at the University of Memphis, April 18-20, 2002.

32. "Anglophone Slaves on la Rivière des Cannes," presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO 31), California State University, Los Angeles, October 4-6, 2002.

33. "Anglophone Slaves in Francophone Louisiana," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL), Atlanta, January 3-4, 2003.

34. "Les dialectes français en Louisiane : une typologie révisée" presented at the colloquium Le français aux Etats-Unis/French in the United States, Indiana University (Bloomington), April 22-24, 2003.

35. "Assessing English Influence on French Compounding in France and Louisiana," presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB 4), Arizona State University, Tempe, April 30-May 3, 2003.

36. "The Rise and Fall of Plantation Society French," presented at the Creole Studies Conference: Creole Legacies, New Orleans, October 23-25, 2003.

37. "Using the Federal Writers' Project Materials for the Documentation of Language in Louisiana," presented at Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (LAVIS 3), University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), April 15-17, 2004.

38. "The Changing Linguistic Landscape of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Adjacent Areas," presented at Alabama Museum of Natural History Expedition 26, Fort Toulouse-Fort Jackson State Historic Site, Alabama, June 13-19, 2004.

39. "Code-Mixing in Nineteenth-Century Louisiana Epistolary and Literary Production," presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO 33), co-hosted by Southeastern Louisiana University and University of New Orleans, in New Orleans, September 10-12, 2004.

40. "Louisiana’s Linguistic Gumbo: Problems and Prospects,” presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Association of the Southwest (LASSO 33), co-hosted by Southeastern Louisiana University and University of New Orleans, in New Orleans, September 10-12, 2004. Co-presenter: Amanda LaFleur.

41. "Linguistic Testimonies of 19th-Century Immigrant Jacques Martin," presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 72), sponsored by North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Language and Life Project (Raleigh), April 7-9, 2005.

 

42. "Planters, Slaves, Creoles, and Cajuns: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Language in Louisiana,"  presented at Göteborgs Universitet (Sweden), May 13, 2005.

 

43. "Le français louisianais hors de l’Acadiana," presented at the symposium Les variétés de français en Amérique du Nord, at the 12th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods 12), Université de Moncton (New Brunswick), August 1-5, 2005.

 

44. "Codeswitching for the Classroom," presented at the annual meeting of the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), February 3-4, 2006.

45. "Linguistic Leveling in Louisiana: qui / quoi / qu’est-ce que, " presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 73), Auburn University (Auburn, Alabama), April 27-29, 2006.

46. "Early Settlement on the Borders of the Louisiana Territory and Its Relevance for Creole Language and Culture," presented as part of the South Atlantic American Dialect Society (SAADS) panel on "Creole Language and Identity" at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 74), Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, Louisiana), April 12-14, 2007.

47. "Mississippi Choctaw, Louisiana Creole, and Cajun French," presented as part of the plenary panel "A Southern Linguistic Quilt" at the 74th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 74), Northwestern State University (Natchitoches, Louisiana), April 12-14, 2007.

48. "Le français aux frontières de la Louisiane coloniale," presented at the 25th Congrès international de linguistique et de philologie romanes (CILPR 25), Universität Innsbruck (Austria), September 2-8, 2007.

49. "Multilingual Alabama," presented at the annual meeting of the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Montgomery, February 2-3, 2008.

50. "Linguistic Archeology: Uncovering a State’s Ignored Historical Riches," presented as part of the South Atlantic American Dialect Society (SAADS) panel on "Stating the Linguistic State of a State: Performing Linguistics Outreach" at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 75), University of Tennessee (Knoxville), April 3-5, 2008.

51. "The Evolving Role of Spanish in Northwest Alabama," presented at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 75), University of Tennessee (Knoxville), April 3-5, 2008. Co-presenter: María E. Johnson.

52. "Documenting the Multilingual History of Alabama," presented as part of the panel on "Sources and Tributaries: Documenting Language and Dialect in Alabama" at the annual meeting of the Society of Alabama Archivists (SALA), University of North Alabama (Florence), September 26, 2008.

 

53. "Spanish in Alabama," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeast Regional Teachers of English as a Second Language Conference (SETESOL), Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center (Birmingham), September 25-27, 2008. Co-presenter: María E. Johnson.

 

54. "Enseigner la Bande Dessinée franco-belge," presented at the annual joint meeting of the Alabama Association of Teachers of French and the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers, Birmingham, February 6-7, 2009.

 

55. "African Town, Alabama, 1927: the English of Cudjo Lewis," presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 76), Tulane University, New Orleans, April 8-10, 2009.

 

56. "La Bande Dessinée franco-belge," by invitation, workshop for French educators in the Southeast, jointly sponsored by the Consulat Général de France à Atlanta, the Alliance Française d’Atlanta, and the Georgia Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French, Atlanta, September 26, 2009.

 

57. "Des outils pour apprendre le français louisianais," presented at the annual joint meeting of the Alabama Association of Teachers of French and the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers, University of Alabama at Huntsville, February 5-6, 2010.

 

58. "Alabama, a Multilingual Tapestry," by invitation, presented at the initiation ceremony of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Alabama Chapter, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, April 20, 2010.

 

59. "Louisiana French: Resources for Educators," presented at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 77), University of Mississippi, Oxford, April 27-29, 2010.

60. "Representations of African American Language in Popular Culture in France," presented at the 2nd Bienniel African American Language Conference (AAL 2), University of Texas at San Antonio, November 2-3, 2010.

61. "African Americans in France: Realities and Representations," presented at the annual joint meeting of the Alabama Association of Teachers of French (AATF) and the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers (AAFLT), University of Montevallo (Alabama), February 4-5, 2011.

62. "Enseigner le français par la photographie : Henri Cartier-Bresson," by invitation, presented at the Teacher Institute workshop at the High Museum of Art, held in conjunction with the special exhibit "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century," jointly sponsored by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Consulat Général de France à Atlanta, February 19 & 26, 2011.

63. "Henri Cartier-Bresson and the «Decisive Moment»: How an American Translation Branded the French Founder of Photojournalism," presented as part of the South Atlantic American Dialect Society (SAADS) special session at the 78th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 78), Callaway Gardens (Pine Mountain, Georgia), April 13-15, 2011.

64. "Creating the Dictionary of Louisiana French: Some Highlights," presented at the Modern Languages and Classics Faculty Forum, University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa), April 20, 2011.

65. "Comic Art in Museums and Museums in Comic Art (bandes dessinées and fumetti)," presented at the Joint International Conference of Graphic Novels, Bandes Dessinées and Comics, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester (UK), July 5-8, 2011.

66. "Literary Dialect and the Linguistic Reconstruction of Nineteenth-Century Louisiana," presented at the International Conference on Dialect and Literature, University of Sheffield (UK), July 11-13, 2011.

67. Panelist in "Book Talk: Dictionary of Louisiana French," at the Louisiana Book Festival, State Library of Louisiana and Louisiana State Capitol, Baton Rouge, October 29, 2011. Co-panelists: Barry Jean Ancelet, Thomas Klingler, Amanda LaFleur, Tamara Lindner, Kevin Rottet, Albert Valdman.

68. "Language and Immigration in Alabama," by invitation, presented at the sympoisum Becoming Alabama: Immigration and Migration in a Deep South State, Auburn University, Auburn (Alabama), January 20-21, 2012.

69. "Enseigner le français à l'aide des images : l'exemple du photojournalisme de Henri Cartier-Bresson," presented at joint meeting of the Alabama Association of Teachers of French (AATF) and the Alabama Association of Foreign Language Teachers (AAFLT), Auburn University Montgomery (Alabama), February 3-4, 2012.

 

 

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