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) 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 (with Vincent Chanethom, George Mason University) and on language policy and planning in Québec and Puerto Rico. Mather has published articles and book chapters in various edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals, including Language Sciences, the Journal of English LinguisticsStudies in Language and the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages.

Education

Baccalauréat français, Série S, Collège Stanislas, Montréal
B.A. French Literature and Translation (McGill University)
M.A. Linguistics (McGill University)
Ph.D. Linguistics (University of Pittsburgh)

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    Publications

    Books

    Mather, P.-A., Ed. 2020. Technology-Enhanced Learning and Linguistic Diversity: Strategies and Approaches to Teaching Students in a 2nd  or 3rd  Language. Emerald Studies in Higher Education, Innovation and Technology. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.

    Mather, P.-A., L. de Serres, F. Ghillebaert & A. Bosch Irrizarry, Eds. 2014. Aspects culturels, linguistiques et didactiques dans l’enseignement du français à un public non-francophone. Québec: Association internationale des études québécoises. ISBN : 978-2-9812535-2-1

    Mather, P.-A. 2009. Crosslinguistic Influence in L2 Acquisition and in Creole Genesis. Saarbrücken, Germany: AV Akademikerverlag. ISBN 978-3-639-20904-4

    Articles

    Chanethom, V. & P.-A. Mather. In preparation. Production et discrimination de l’opposition /s/-/z/ en français par des apprenants hispanophones.

    Mather, P.-A. Forthcoming. Language policy and bilingualism in Québec and Puerto RicoLa Loi 101 et les Québécois d’expression anglaise. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval.

    Chanethom, V. & P.-A. Mather. 2019. Production and perception of French nasal vowel contrasts by English- and Spanish-speaking L2 learnersJournal of Linguistics & Language Teaching 10:2.

    Mather, P.-A. & Y. Rivera. 2016. Codeswitching and Borrowing in Aruban Papiamentu: the Blurring of Categories. In: M. Gonzalez and S. Sessarego (eds.), New Perspectives on Hispanic Contact Linguistics in the Americas. Madrid: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 155-176. ISBN: 9788484898771

    Mather, P.-A. 2015. The (non-) acquisition of New York City vowels by two generations of Caribbean immigrantsLanguage Sciences 48: 48-61.

    Mather, P.-A. 2015. Le franglais, épouvantail des ayatollahs de la langueRevue Argument 17:2, 115-123.

    Mather, P.-A. 2015. Instrumental and awareness-raising educational programs in Haiti and in the French islands and territories of the Eastern Caribbean. In: Faraclas, N., R. Severing, C. Weijer and E. Echteld (eds), Envisioning the Greater Caribbean. Willemstad: University of Curaçao and Fundashon pa Planifikashon di Idioma.

    Mather, P.-A. 2015. L’enseignement du français en Haïti: L1, L2 ou langue étrangère? Crisolenguas 3:1 – numéro spécial « Didactique du FLE à réinventer » (F. Ghillebaert, Ed.), pp. 109-117. ISSN 1941-1006.

    Mather, P.-A. 2015. Review of « Creoles, their substrates and language typology » (C. Lefebvre, Ed., 2011).  Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 30:2.

    Mather, P.-A. 2014. Language Planning and Social Justice in QuébecReadings in Language Studies, Volume 4. Grandville, MI: International Society for Language Studies, 283-291.

    Mather, P.-A. 2013. Creoles and Educational PolicyJournal of Pidgin and Creole languages 28:1, 1-11.

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