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Andrea Hoa Pham

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Professor of Vietnamese and Linguistics
Ph.D., University of Toronto, Canada

Office Hours — Fall 2023

  • By appointment

Biography and Areas of Interest

Andrea Pham has been at UF since 2002. Her research interests include Vietnamese phonology, sound change, and language and gender. Her works cover various dialects of Vietnamese. She has published poems and translated a linguistic book and a bilingual poetry book.

Selected Publications

Books

  • 2022. Nguồngốc và sựhình thành giọng Quảng Nam-Quang Nam phonology and soundchange through contact. 2nd printing, written in Vietnamese with Table of Contents and English summary for each chapter. Danang city: Danang Publishing House.
  • 2018. Hãy nhảy cùng em – Dance with me. Bilingual collection of Pham, A. H. and Lola Haskins’ poems, translated from Vietnamese to English and English to Vietnamese by A. H. Pham, English adaptation by L. Haskins. Danang City: Danang Publishing House.
  • 2003. Vietnamese Tone: A New Analysis, New York: Routledge.
  • 1997. Tieng Me (Mother’s Voice), collection of poems. Toronto.

Book chapter

  • 2020. “Contact-induced change and the phonemicization of the vowel /a/ in Quang Nam Vietnamese.” In Bridget Drinka (ed.), Historical Linguistics 2017, pp. 432-451. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • 2020. “Productive Reduplication in Southern Vietnamese.” Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (JSEAL) 13:2, pp. i-x. (with Andrew Anh Pham).
  • 2020. “Sociolinguistic variation in attitudes to pronoun use among couples in southern Vietnam – a statistical analysis.” In Enfield, N., Sidnell, J., & Zuckerman, C. (eds.) The Anthropology of Language in Mainland Southeast Asia. Hawaii: Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistic Society, pp. 111-121 (with Andrew Anh Pham).
  • 2019. “Vietnamese dialects – A case of sound change through contact,” Duffel, Nigel, Trang Phan and Tue Trinh (eds.) Interdisciplinary perspectives in Vietnamese Linguistics, pp. 31-66. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • 2002. Gender in addressing and self-reference in Vietnamese, in Marlis Hellinger and Hadumod Bussman (eds) Gender Across Languages, 281-312, Vol 2, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Journal articles

  • (in press) Pham, A. H.& Mark Alves. “Vietnamese onomatopoeia”. In Onomatopoeia in the World languages, published in Mouton de Gruyter’s prestigious series Comparative Handbooks of Linguistics (CHL), edited by Edith Moravcsik and Andrej Malchukov
  • (in press) “Synchronic evidence for diachronic hypothesis: Vietnamese palatals.” In FORUM 39: 215-233, LACUS (Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States).
  • 2020. “Poetry Translation from a Tonal Language (Vietnamese) to a Non-tonal Language (English)”, Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, Vol. 35:2, pp. 128-140. University of Florida Press.
  • 2016. Kang, Yoonjung, Andrea Hòa Phạm and Benjamin Storme. “French loanwords in Vietnamese: the role of input language phonotactics and contrast in loanword adaptation”, in Adam Albright, Michelle Fullwood (eds.) Proceedings of the 2014 annual meeting on Phonology. Linguistic Society of America.
  • 2014. “Ngôn ngữ biến đổi và số phận của nguyên âm /a/ trong giọng Quảng Nam [Issues in Language change and the phonemic status of /a/ in the Quang Nam dialect].” Tạp Chí Ngôn Ngữ Học (Journal of Vietnamese Linguistics), vol. 6, 10-18. Hanoi.

Courses Taught

  • LIN 3201 Sounds of Human Language
  • VTN 1130: Beginning Vietnamese 1
  • VTN 1131: Beginning Vietnamese 2
  • VTN 2220: Intermediate Vietnamese 1
  • VTN 2221: Intermediate Vietnamese 2
  • VTT 3500: Vietnamese Culture
  • VTN 4905: Independent Study
  • VTN 4930: Special Topics in Vietnamese Studies
  • LIN 4930 / LIN 6571: Structure of Vietnamese