Dr. Vincent Chanethom

Biography

Vincent Chanethom joined the Department of French and Italian at Princeton University in 2012. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from New York University, where he researched bilingual acquisition, language interaction, and speech production in French-English bilingual children, supported by a dissertation improvement grant from the National Science Foundation. He earned an M.A. in Linguistics from Syracuse University and a Maîtrise in English language literature from L'Université de Savoie in France. Prior to his current position, he taught linguistics and French language courses as an Assistant Professor of French Linguistics at George Mason University. Chanethom currently heads the course for FRE 101 and 102 in the French and Italian Department and specializes in French phonetics. His research focuses on developing pedagogical resources aimed at explicit learning of French pronunciation based on cross-linguistic differences in articulatory, acoustic, and aerodynamic characteristics of speech sounds. As a co-founder of the Non-Native Articulatory Corpus, he collaborates on creating an acoustic database for French L2 learners. He is also actively involved in organizing an international conference on teaching French as a foreign language. His research interests include French linguistics, first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, articulatory and acoustic phonetics, experimental phonology, and teaching pedagogy, with multiple collaborative research projects underway across institutions globally.

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