Marc Brunelle
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: ARTS 429
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1771
E-mail: marc.brunelle@uOttawa.ca
Website: http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~mbrunell/
University degrees
2005 – PhD Linguistics, Cornell University
1998 – MA Linguistics, Université de Montréal
1995 – BA Anthropology, Université de Montréal
Fields of interest
- Phonology
- Phonetics
- Tone and register
- Language Contact
- Language Documentation
Ongoing research
- Phonetic realization of phonological register in Southeast Asia.
- Production and perception of tones, especially in East and Southeast Asia.
- Interaction of tone and intonation.
Courses taught
- LIN1720 Introduction à la linguistique : les sons du langage
- LIN2320 Introduction to Phonology
- LIN2720 Introduction à la phonologie
- LIN3720 Théorie phonologique
- LIN4370/7911 Field Methods
- LIN5915 Phonology I
- LIN6915 Phonology II
- LIN7933 The Phonetics-Phonology Interface
Selected publications
Brunelle, M., Hạ K.P. & M. Grice (to appear) Intonation in Northern Vietnamese, The Linguistic Review, 36 p.
Brunelle, M. & P. Pittayawat (to appear) Phonologically-constrained change: The role of the foot in monosyllabization and rhythmic shifts in Mainland Southeast Asia, Diachronica, 22p.
Brunelle, M. & S. Jannedy (to appear) The Cross-dialectal Perception of Vietnamese Tones: Indexicality and Convergence, The Linguistics of Vietnamese, D. Hole and E. Löbel (eds.), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 24p.
Brunelle, M. & J. Finkeldey (2011) Tone perception in Sgaw Karen, Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 372-375.
Brunelle, M. (2011) Perception in the field, Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 80-83.
Brunelle, M., Nguyễn D. D. & Nguyễn K. H. (2010) A Laryngographic and Laryngoscopic Study of Northern Vietnamese Tones. Phonetica, 67:147-169.
Brunelle, M. (2010) The role of larynx height in the Javanese tense ~ lax stop contrast, Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics , R. Mercado, E. Potsdam and L. Travis eds., John Benjamins, 7-24.
Brunelle, M. (2009) Contact-induced change? Register in three Cham dialects, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society , 2: 1-21.
Brunelle, M. (2009) Tone Perception in Northern and Southern Vietnamese, Journal of Phonetics, 37,1: 79-96.
Brunelle, M. (2009) Northern and Southern Vietnamese Tone Coarticulation: A Comparative Case Study, Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1: 49-62.
Brunelle, M. (2009) Diglossia and Monosyllabization in Eastern Cham: A Sociolinguistic Study. In J. Stanford & D. Preston, eds. Variationist Approaches to Indigenous Minority Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Brunelle, M. (2008) Diglossia, Bilingualism, and the Revitalization of Written Eastern Cham, Language Documentation and Conservation, 2,1: 28-46.
Brunelle, M. & S. Jannedy (2007) Social Effects on the Perception of Vietnamese tones. Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
Brunelle, M. (2006) A phonetic study of Eastern Cham register. In A. Grant & P. Sidwell, eds. Chamic and Beyond. Oceanic Linguistics, Series C, 1-36.
Brunelle, M. (2005) Register and tone in Eastern Cham: Evidence from a word game. Mon-Khmer Studies 35: 121-132.
Brunelle, M. (2003) Tone Coarticulation in Northern Vietnamese. Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2673-2676.
Brunelle, M. & A. Riehl (2003) Vowel Laxing in Ngaju Dayak. Working Papers of the Cornell Phonetics Laboratory 14: 1-16.
Brunelle, M. (1999) Tonogénèse, registrogénèse et traits laryngals binaires. Cahiers de Linguistique – Asie Orientale 28 (1) : 23-52.
