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Christian Guilbault is an associate professor in the Department of French at Simon Fraser University. His research is fundamentally empirical, focusing on the Use of naturalistic laboratory data to understand language acquisition. His work involves data collection on the French language, particularly French spoken in Maillardville, Mitchif French, and variations in Arabic from Marrakech. Guilbault is interested in defining the fundamental acoustic characteristics of Laurentian French, especially those related to rhythmic properties. His research interests include Acoustic Phonetics, Experimental Linguistics, and Prosody, with a special focus on French as a second or foreign language, and the dynamics of French in Western Canada. He has contributed to various publications, including a special issue on minority French contexts and research on prosody in French language teaching. Guilbault’s empirical approach aims to address the challenges and intricacies of language structures and its acquisition, thereby contributing valuable insights to the understanding of linguistic phenomena.
Department of Philosophy