Jeff Tennant, Western University

Research

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Latest funding

Language contact and prosodic variation in Ontario French
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$132,685
La variation prosodique en français canadien sur l'exemple des variétés ontarienne et québécoise
SSHRC · 2010 · Co-investigator
$23,797
Temporal variables of speech and pronunciation variation in Ontario French
SSHRC · 1996 · Principal investigator
$13,500

All 3 grants and awards

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Language contact and prosodic variation in Ontario French

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Tennant, Jeff R.

Keywords: phonology; prosody; intonation; rhythm; French; Ontario

$132,685

La variation prosodique en français canadien sur l'exemple des variétés ontarienne et québécoise

Co-investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Kaminskaia, Svetlana

Keywords: prosodie; variation; dialecte; rythme; intonation

$23,797

Temporal variables of speech and pronunciation variation in Ontario French

Principal investigatorSSHRC1996Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Tennant, Jeff

Keywords: sociolinguistics; phonetics; phonology; tempo; speech-rate; Ontario-French; prosody; variation

$13,500

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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