Francois Grosjean
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 737776 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Francois Grosjean |
| NOMBRES | Francois |
| APELLIDO | Grosjean |
| FIRMA | GROSJEAN F |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Neuchâtel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1194-857X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 251 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1973 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Bilingual and Monolingual Language Modes
Bilinguals change their way of communicating when they are with monolinguals and when they are with bilinguals who share their languages. While they avoid using their other language(s) with monolinguals, they may call upon it (or them) when interacting with bilinguals, either by changing over completely to the other language(s) or by bringing elements of the other language(s) into the language they are speaking. In other words, they change their …
On Bilinguals and Bilingualism
François Grosjean is one of the world's best-known scholars in the study of bilingualism. Over a career spanning two continents, his holistic approach has made groundbreaking contributions to many areas of the field. This book surveys this lifetime of work, from the start of his career, to where it stands today. The first chapter sets the stage with his personal experience as a bilingual, and the chapters that follow then deal with his holistic v…
A Journey in Languages and Cultures
The author of this book is known the world over for his work on those who live with two or more languages. He has been called “one of the grand old men of research on bilingualism” because of his holistic view of bilingualism and his many studies undertaken over a span of some fifty years. And yet, little is known about François Grosjean. In what is a very human and at times touching work, he reveals how the vagaries of life took him from being a…
Journey in Languages and Cultures
Life with Two Languages
In 1979, the author taught a course on bilingualism for the first time. Since there was no adequate textbook on the topic, he contacted Harvard University Press and offered to write a book on the subject. They accepted and the book came out in 1982. It was original in many ways, among them the personal testimonies of bilinguals and the many examples of bilingual speech. During this time, the author met with the bilingualism specialist, Einar Haug…
Bicultural bilinguals
Although the terms “bicultural” and “bilingual” are often seen together in the same text, there is very little work that attempts to encompass them into one reality, bicultural bilinguals. This paper takes up a number of themes that pertain to bicultural bilinguals, most notably how they are described in the literature, how they become both bilingual and bicultural, and how their languages and cultures wax and wane over time. Other aspects discus…
The Security Service and a Family's Right to Know
Dialect Effects in Speech Perception
The current experiments examined how native Parisian French and native Swiss French listeners use vowel duration in perceiving the /ɔ/-/o/ contrast. In both Parisian and Swiss French /o/ is longer than /ɔ/, but the difference is relatively large in Swiss French and quite small in Parisian French. In Experiment 1 we found a parallel effect in perception. For native listeners of both dialects, the perceived best exemplars of /o/ were longer than th…
An attempt to isolate, and then differentiate, transfer and interference
Transfer/interference has a long history in bilingualism research with moments of clear interest and moments of disregard. We are currently entering a period of renewed interest. In the first part of this article, it is argued that the only way to isolate transfer/interference from other contact phenomena such as code-switching and borrowing is to put bilingual speakers in a strictly monolingual language mode. In the second part, an attempt is ma…
Bilingual
Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do bilinguals switch from one language to another in mid-…
Bilingualism, biculturalism, and deafness
This paper contains three parts. In the first part, what it means to be bilingual in sign language and the spoken (majority) language is explained, and similarities as well as differences with hearing bilinguals are discussed. The second part examines the biculturalism of deaf people. Like hearing biculturals, they take part, to varying degrees, in the life of two worlds (the deaf world and the hearing world), they adapt their attitudes, behavior…
Fido
Very few World War II double agents remain to be discovered. But one, FIDO (Roger Grosjean), 1 is little known and receives hardly any mention in the literature on double agents. 2 For example, Joh
Studying Bilinguals
Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, which draws on twenty-five years of the author's research, François Grosjean contributes significantly to redressing the balance. The volume covers four areas of research: the definition and characterization of the bilingual person, the perception and production of spoken language by bilinguals, the sign-…
Studying bilinguals
Because the field of bilingualism is still relatively new, studies in the linguistics, psycholinguistics, language development and neurolinguistics of bilingualism have often produced conflicting results. It will be argued in this paper that some of the difficulties encountered by researchers could have been lessened, if not avoided, had close attention been paid to methodological and conceptual issues. Among the issues covered are bilingual part…
Dialect Effects in Vowel Perception
The importance of vowel duration for specifying vowel contrasts differs across languages. In English, for example, a number of vowel pairs are acoustically differentiated by both temporal and spectral information, whereas in standard French temporal information plays a much more minor role. Gottfried and Beddor (1988) reported that the effectiveness of vowel duration in perception varies accordingly: For native speakers of English, but not native…
The bilingual individual
This article presents a general overview of the adult bilingual individual. First, the bilingual is defined and discussed in terms of the complementary principle, i.e. the fact that bilinguals acquire and use their languages for different purposes, in different domains of life, with different people. Next, the various language modes bilinguals find themselves in during their everyday interactions are examined. These range from the monolingual mod…
Going in and out of Languages
When bilinguals speak to one another, they choose a base language to interact in and then, depending on the need, code-switch to the other (guest) language for a word, a phrase, or a sentence During the perception of a code switch, there is a momentary dominance of base-language units at the onset of the switch, but it is unknown whether this base-language effect is also present in production, that is, whether the phonetics of the base language c…
Base-Language Effects on Word Identification in Bilingual Speech
The categorical perception paradigm was used to investigate whether French-English bilinguals categorize a code-switched word as French or English on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic information alone or whether they are influenced by the base-language context in which the word occurs, that is, by the language in which the majority of words are spoken. Subjects identified stimuli from computer-edited series that ranged from an English to a Fren…
Neurolinguists, beware! The bilingual is not two monolinguals in one person
The bilingual as a competent but specific speaker‐hearer
A particular view of bilingualism — the monolingual (or fractional) view — has been given far too much importance in the study of bilinguals. According to it, the bilingual is (or should be) two monolinguals in one person. In this paper, the monolingual view is spelled out, and the negative consequences it has had on various areas of bilingual research are discussed. A bilingual (or wholistic) view is then proposed. According to it, the bilingual…
Life with Two Languages
1. Bilingualism in the World The Extent of Bilingualism National Patterns of Bilingualism Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities The Origins of Bilingualism The Outcome of Bilingualism 2. Bilingualism in the United States Language Diversity and Bilingualism Aspects of the Life of Linguistic Minorities Bilingual Education Some Linguistic Minorities Language Maintenance and Language Shift 3. Bilingualism in Society Attitudes toward Language Grou…
Performance structures
Life with Two Languages
How long is the sentence? Prediction and prosody in the on-line processing of language
Sign Recognition Processes in American Sign Language
The effect of context on sign-recognition processes in American Sign Language (ASL) was studied by means of the gating paradigm (Grosjean, 1980). Individual signs were presented in two different conditions: a context condition in which signs were preceded by a context, and a no-context condition in which they were excised from the signing stream. A strong context effect was found: signs were isolated sooner in context, perfect confidence in the r…
Neurolinguists, beware! The bilingual is not two monolinguals in one person
The bilingual as a competent but specific speaker‐hearer
A particular view of bilingualism — the monolingual (or fractional) view — has been given far too much importance in the study of bilinguals. According to it, the bilingual is (or should be) two monolinguals in one person. In this paper, the monolingual view is spelled out, and the negative consequences it has had on various areas of bilingual research are discussed. A bilingual (or wholistic) view is then proposed. According to it, the bilingual…
The bilingual individual
This article presents a general overview of the adult bilingual individual. First, the bilingual is defined and discussed in terms of the complementary principle, i.e. the fact that bilinguals acquire and use their languages for different purposes, in different domains of life, with different people. Next, the various language modes bilinguals find themselves in during their everyday interactions are examined. These range from the monolingual mod…
An attempt to isolate, and then differentiate, transfer and interference
Transfer/interference has a long history in bilingualism research with moments of clear interest and moments of disregard. We are currently entering a period of renewed interest. In the first part of this article, it is argued that the only way to isolate transfer/interference from other contact phenomena such as code-switching and borrowing is to put bilingual speakers in a strictly monolingual language mode. In the second part, an attempt is ma…
How long is the sentence? Prediction and prosody in the on-line processing of language
Sign Recognition Processes in American Sign Language
The effect of context on sign-recognition processes in American Sign Language (ASL) was studied by means of the gating paradigm (Grosjean, 1980). Individual signs were presented in two different conditions: a context condition in which signs were preceded by a context, and a no-context condition in which they were excised from the signing stream. A strong context effect was found: signs were isolated sooner in context, perfect confidence in the r…
Dialect Effects in Vowel Perception
The importance of vowel duration for specifying vowel contrasts differs across languages. In English, for example, a number of vowel pairs are acoustically differentiated by both temporal and spectral information, whereas in standard French temporal information plays a much more minor role. Gottfried and Beddor (1988) reported that the effectiveness of vowel duration in perception varies accordingly: For native speakers of English, but not native…
Dialect Effects in Speech Perception
The current experiments examined how native Parisian French and native Swiss French listeners use vowel duration in perceiving the /ɔ/-/o/ contrast. In both Parisian and Swiss French /o/ is longer than /ɔ/, but the difference is relatively large in Swiss French and quite small in Parisian French. In Experiment 1 we found a parallel effect in perception. For native listeners of both dialects, the perceived best exemplars of /o/ were longer than th…
Base-Language Effects on Word Identification in Bilingual Speech
The categorical perception paradigm was used to investigate whether French-English bilinguals categorize a code-switched word as French or English on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic information alone or whether they are influenced by the base-language context in which the word occurs, that is, by the language in which the majority of words are spoken. Subjects identified stimuli from computer-edited series that ranged from an English to a Fren…
Psycholinguistique et langue des signes
Grosjean François. Psycholinguistique et langue des signes. In: Langages, 13e année, n°56, 1979. La langue des signes, sous la direction de François Grosjean et Harlan Lane. pp. 35-57
Exploring Some Properties of Foreign-Language Utterances That Control Their Comprehension
Exploring Some Properties of Foreign-Language Utterances That Control Their Comprehension
Psycholinguistique et langue des signes
Grosjean François. Psycholinguistique et langue des signes. In: Langages, 13e année, n°56, 1979. La langue des signes, sous la direction de François Grosjean et Harlan Lane. pp. 35-57
Spoken word recognition processes and the gating paradigm
Sign Recognition Processes in American Sign Language
The effect of context on sign-recognition processes in American Sign Language (ASL) was studied by means of the gating paradigm (Grosjean, 1980). Individual signs were presented in two different conditions: a context condition in which signs were preceded by a context, and a no-context condition in which they were excised from the signing stream. A strong context effect was found: signs were isolated sooner in context, perfect confidence in the r…
Performance structures
Life with Two Languages
How long is the sentence? Prediction and prosody in the on-line processing of language
Life with Two Languages
1. Bilingualism in the World The Extent of Bilingualism National Patterns of Bilingualism Language Policy and Linguistic Minorities The Origins of Bilingualism The Outcome of Bilingualism 2. Bilingualism in the United States Language Diversity and Bilingualism Aspects of the Life of Linguistic Minorities Bilingual Education Some Linguistic Minorities Language Maintenance and Language Shift 3. Bilingualism in Society Attitudes toward Language Grou…
The bilingual as a competent but specific speaker‐hearer
A particular view of bilingualism — the monolingual (or fractional) view — has been given far too much importance in the study of bilinguals. According to it, the bilingual is (or should be) two monolinguals in one person. In this paper, the monolingual view is spelled out, and the negative consequences it has had on various areas of bilingual research are discussed. A bilingual (or wholistic) view is then proposed. According to it, the bilingual…
Base-Language Effects on Word Identification in Bilingual Speech
The categorical perception paradigm was used to investigate whether French-English bilinguals categorize a code-switched word as French or English on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic information alone or whether they are influenced by the base-language context in which the word occurs, that is, by the language in which the majority of words are spoken. Subjects identified stimuli from computer-edited series that ranged from an English to a Fren…
Neurolinguists, beware! The bilingual is not two monolinguals in one person
Going in and out of Languages
When bilinguals speak to one another, they choose a base language to interact in and then, depending on the need, code-switch to the other (guest) language for a word, a phrase, or a sentence During the perception of a code switch, there is a momentary dominance of base-language units at the onset of the switch, but it is unknown whether this base-language effect is also present in production, that is, whether the phonetics of the base language c…
Dialect Effects in Vowel Perception
The importance of vowel duration for specifying vowel contrasts differs across languages. In English, for example, a number of vowel pairs are acoustically differentiated by both temporal and spectral information, whereas in standard French temporal information plays a much more minor role. Gottfried and Beddor (1988) reported that the effectiveness of vowel duration in perception varies accordingly: For native speakers of English, but not native…
The bilingual individual
This article presents a general overview of the adult bilingual individual. First, the bilingual is defined and discussed in terms of the complementary principle, i.e. the fact that bilinguals acquire and use their languages for different purposes, in different domains of life, with different people. Next, the various language modes bilinguals find themselves in during their everyday interactions are examined. These range from the monolingual mod…
Studying bilinguals
Because the field of bilingualism is still relatively new, studies in the linguistics, psycholinguistics, language development and neurolinguistics of bilingualism have often produced conflicting results. It will be argued in this paper that some of the difficulties encountered by researchers could have been lessened, if not avoided, had close attention been paid to methodological and conceptual issues. Among the issues covered are bilingual part…
Studying Bilinguals
Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, which draws on twenty-five years of the author's research, François Grosjean contributes significantly to redressing the balance. The volume covers four areas of research: the definition and characterization of the bilingual person, the perception and production of spoken language by bilinguals, the sign-…
Bilingual
Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do bilinguals switch from one language to another in mid-…
Bilingualism, biculturalism, and deafness
This paper contains three parts. In the first part, what it means to be bilingual in sign language and the spoken (majority) language is explained, and similarities as well as differences with hearing bilinguals are discussed. The second part examines the biculturalism of deaf people. Like hearing biculturals, they take part, to varying degrees, in the life of two worlds (the deaf world and the hearing world), they adapt their attitudes, behavior…
Fido
Very few World War II double agents remain to be discovered. But one, FIDO (Roger Grosjean), 1 is little known and receives hardly any mention in the literature on double agents. 2 For example, Joh
Dialect Effects in Speech Perception
The current experiments examined how native Parisian French and native Swiss French listeners use vowel duration in perceiving the /ɔ/-/o/ contrast. In both Parisian and Swiss French /o/ is longer than /ɔ/, but the difference is relatively large in Swiss French and quite small in Parisian French. In Experiment 1 we found a parallel effect in perception. For native listeners of both dialects, the perceived best exemplars of /o/ were longer than th…
An attempt to isolate, and then differentiate, transfer and interference
Transfer/interference has a long history in bilingualism research with moments of clear interest and moments of disregard. We are currently entering a period of renewed interest. In the first part of this article, it is argued that the only way to isolate transfer/interference from other contact phenomena such as code-switching and borrowing is to put bilingual speakers in a strictly monolingual language mode. In the second part, an attempt is ma…
The Security Service and a Family's Right to Know
Bicultural bilinguals
Although the terms “bicultural” and “bilingual” are often seen together in the same text, there is very little work that attempts to encompass them into one reality, bicultural bilinguals. This paper takes up a number of themes that pertain to bicultural bilinguals, most notably how they are described in the literature, how they become both bilingual and bicultural, and how their languages and cultures wax and wane over time. Other aspects discus…
A Journey in Languages and Cultures
The author of this book is known the world over for his work on those who live with two or more languages. He has been called “one of the grand old men of research on bilingualism” because of his holistic view of bilingualism and his many studies undertaken over a span of some fifty years. And yet, little is known about François Grosjean. In what is a very human and at times touching work, he reveals how the vagaries of life took him from being a…
Journey in Languages and Cultures
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