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Airelle THÉVENIAUT serves as a Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Southern Brittany (Lorient), affiliated with the Faculty of Letters, Languages, Humanities & Social Sciences and the Department of English. She is an active researcher within the Heritage and Creation in Text and Image laboratory (HCTI, EA 4249), focusing on English-speaking world studies with specific regional expertise in Irish English dialects.
Her educational qualifications include an LLCER Degree (2015), Research Master (2017), MEEF Master (2019), and Doctorate in Language Sciences (2023) from Aix-Marseille University. Her doctoral thesis examined The intonation of County Galway English: an east-west comparison of a variety in contact with the Irish language, establishing her core research trajectory.
THÉVENIAUT's research centers on phonetic analysis of Irish English varieties, particularly prosody, intonation patterns, and language contact phenomena in Gaeltacht regions like County Galway and Connemara. She employs rigorous methodologies including the PAC-prosody protocol for speech elicitation and corpus-based analysis of regional variations across Dublin, Galway, and Cork. Her work consistently investigates how Irish language contact shapes English phonetic structures, with emphasis on falling contours, peak alignment, and supra-segmental features.
Analysis of her 2020-2024 publications reveals a cohesive research program focused exclusively on Irish English phonetics. All works demonstrate methodological consistency through PAC protocol applications, with increasing geographic scope from Galway-specific studies to cross-regional comparisons. Key trends include the examination of sentence-type variations, prosodic emphasis, and metadata's role in sociolinguistic analysis, all contributing to understanding language contact dynamics in endangered linguistic environments.
As an educator, she teaches phonetics across all undergraduate levels (LLCER L1-L3) and leads linguistic phonetics seminars for the Master's in Cultural Studies program, including potential supervision of research theses. Her academic service includes regular presentations at international forums such as the Conference on New Perspectives on Irish English and the Colloque de Villetaneuse sur l'anglais oral.
She maintains active collaboration within the HCTI research laboratory, contributing to projects at the intersection of linguistic analysis, textual studies, and cultural representation, with ongoing fieldwork in Irish Gaeltacht regions informing her teaching and research outputs.
