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Barbara E. Bullock
Professor of French and Linguistics
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of French and Francophone Studies
Department of French and Francophone Studies
Pennsylvania State University
211 Burrowes Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-0138
Fax: (814) 863-1103
E-mail: bbullock@psu.edu
Research Interests:
Phonology and phonetics, bilingualism & language contact, language variation and change.
Research Opportunities:
Students interested in assisting with on-going projects on phonetic and syntactic convergence in bilingual speech should contact Professor Toribio or Professor Bullock.
Those interested in the acquisition of phonology in French, should contact Professor Bullock.
Recent Publications:
Recent Publications (since 2000):
Bullock, Barbara E. & Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2006. Intra-system variability and change in nominal and verbal morphology. In Deborah Arteaga & Randall Gess (eds.), Historical Romance Linguistics: Retrospectives and Perspectives, 305-326. Amerstdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Bullock, Barbara E., Dalola, Amanda & Gerfen, Chip. 2006. Mapping the patterns of maintenance versus merger in bilingual phonology: The preservation of [a] vs. [A] in Frenchville French. In J-P Montreuil (ed.), New Perspectives on Romance Linguistics, 15-30. Amerstdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Bullock, Barbara E. & Gerfen, Chip. 2005. The preservation of schwa in the converging phonological system of Frenchville French. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 8.2: 117-130.
Bullock, Barbara E., Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline, Botero, Christopher G. & Davis, Kristopher Allen. 2005. Preservative phonetic effects in bilingual code-switching. In Randall Gess and Edward Rubin (eds.), Theoretical and laboratory approaches to Romance linguistics, 291-206. Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Bullock, Barbara E., Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline, Davis, Kristopher Allen & Botero, Christopher G. 2005. Phonetic convergence in bilingual Puerto Rican Spanish. WCCFL 23: 113-125.
Bullock, Barbara E. & Gerfen, Chip. 2004. Frenchville French: A case study in phonological attrition. International Journal of Bilingualism 8.3: 303-320.
Bullock, Barbara E. & Gerfen, Chip. 2004. Phonological convergence in a contracting language variety. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 7.2: 95-104.
Bullock, Barbara E. & Toribio, Almeida Jacqueline. 2004. Introduction: Convergence as an emergent property in bilingual speech. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 7.2: 91-93.
Bullock, Barbara E.2004. The phonological mediation of morphological complexity: Verb stem leveling in the history of French. Probus 16.1 (2004): 1-19.
Bullock, Barbara E. & Lord, Gillian. 2003. Analogy as a learning tool in the acquisition of L2 phonology. In Ana Teresa Pérez-Leroux & Yves Roberge, Romance Linguistics Theory and Acquisition, 281-298. John Benjamins.
Bullock, Barbara E. 2002. On constraining the vagaries of glide distribution. Caroline Wiltshire & Joaquim Camps (eds). Romance Phonology and Variation. John Benjamins Publishing, 11-25.
Bullock, Barbara E. 2001. The use of 'ils' for 'elles': Gender syncretism in the history of French The French Review 74:4: 700-711.
Bullock, Barbara E. & Provencher, Denis. 2001. The linguistic representation of femininity and masculinity in Jean Genet's Notre-Dame des Fleurs.. French Cultural Studies 12: 43-58.
Bullock, Barbara E. 2001. Double prosody and the Proto-Romance stress shift. Probus 13.2: 173-192.
Bullock, Barbara E. 2001. Review Article: René Kager, Harry van der Hulst and Wim Zonneveld. The prosody-morphology interface. Cambridge Press. Journal of Linguistics 37: 210-215.
Bullock, Barbara E. 2000. Consonant gemination in Neapolitan. In Lori Repetti (ed.), Phonological theory and the dialects of Italy, 45-59. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins.