Speaker profile – Fabiola Henri

We are proud to announce that Dr. Fabiola Henri will give one of COLING 2018’s keynote talks.

Fabiola Henri is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky since 2014. She received a Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Paris Diderot, France in 2010. She is a creolist who primarily focuses on the structure and complexity of morphology in creole languages from the perspective of recent abstractive models, with insights from both information-theoretic and discriminative learning. Her work examines the emergence of creole morphology as proceeding from a complex interplay between sociohistorical context, natural language change, input from the lexifier, substratic influence, unguided second language acquisition, among others. Her main interests lie within French-based creoles, and more specifically Mauritian, a language which she speaks natively. Her publications and various presentations offer empirical and explanatory view of morphological change in French-based creoles, with a view on morphological complexity which starkly contrasts with Exceptionalist theories of creolization.

https://linguistics.as.uky.edu/users/fshe223

The slides from Prof. Henri’s talk are available here

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