François Grosjean, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

François Grosjean

Swiss linguist

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1946

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Profession: university teacher, linguist

Nationality: Switzerland, France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About François Grosjean

  • François Grosjean is a Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Language and Speech Processing Laboratory at the University of Neuchâtel (Switzerland).
  • His specialty is psycholinguistics and his domains of interest are the perception, comprehension and production of language, be it speech or sign language, in monolinguals and bilinguals.
  • He also has interests in biculturalism, applied linguistics, aphasia, sign language, and natural language processing.
  • He is better known for his work on bilingualism in which he has investigated the holistic view of bilingualism, language mode, the complementarity principle, and the processing of code-switching and borrowing.
  • In one of his most-cited papers, Grosjean argues that hearing-impaired children have the right to grow up bilingual, learning two languages—namely, sign language and oral language.Grosjean was born in Paris (France) in 1946, son of Roger Grosjean, a French archaeologist and double-agent during World War II, and of Angela (Jill) Shipway Pratt, a British top model in Paris and then race horse breeder in Italy.
  • Grosjean spent his youth in France (Villiers-Adam), Switzerland (Aiglon College in Chesières) and England, where he attended Ratcliffe College.
  • He received his degrees up to the Doctorat d'Etat from the University of Paris, France.
  • He started his academic career at the University of Paris 8 and then left for the United States in 1974, where he taught and did research in psycholinguistics at Northeastern University.
  • While at Northeastern, Grosjean was also a Research Affiliate at the Speech Communication Laboratory at MIT.
  • In 1987, he was appointed professor at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland; he founded the Language and Speech Processing Laboratory and headed it for twenty years.
  • In addition to his academic appointments, Grosjean has lectured occasionally at the Universities of Basel, Zurich and Oxford.
  • In 1998, he cofounded Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, a Cambridge University Press journal. In 2019, Grosjean published his autobiography, "A Journey in Languages and Cultures: The Life of a Bicultural Bilingual" (Oxford University Press).

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