Patrick-André Mather

Academic Degree:

PhD Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh

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Areas of Expertise:

sociophonetics, pidgins & creoles, language policy & planning

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About: 

Patrick-André Mather specializes in the study of language contact and diversity, including pidgins and creoles, sociophonetics, and language policy and planning. Trained at McGill University (Canada), the Université Paris 7 Denis-Diderot (France), the Universität des Saarlandes (Germany) and the University of Pittsburgh (USA), he conducted fieldwork in Moselle (France), where he studied French-German language contact, and more recently in New York City where he investigated the acquisition of English phonetics and phonology by Puerto Rican and Dominican immigrants. His current research focuses on the acquisition of phonetics by adult learners of French, and on language policy and planning in Québec and Puerto Rico.

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Undergraduate Courses:

• INGL 4237 Introduction to Linguistic Research
• INGL 4205 Introduction to Linguistics
• INGL 3249 Pidgin and Creole Languages of the Americas

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Graduate Courses:

• INGL 8007 Language Birth and Language Death
• LING 6008 Languages in Contact
• LING 6010 General Linguistics
• LING 6050 Syntax
• LING 6080 Plurilingualism: an Interdisciplinary Approach
• LING 6110 Language Planning
• LING 6190 Sociolinguistics
• LING 6995 Sociophonetics / Acquisition of Phonetics