Calvin Veltman is an American

United States

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 sociologist, demographer and sociolinguist at the Université du Québec à Montréal

Université du Québec à Montréal

The Université du Québec à Montréal is one of four universities in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Basic facts:The UQAM is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec , a public university system with other branches in Gatineau , Rimouski, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec City, Chicoutimi, and...

. He previously worked at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh

State University of New York at Plattsburgh

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. In the United States, his work on English language use and acquisition among Hispanics is well-known.

The United States

• "Anglicization in the United States: the Importance of Parental Nativity and Language Practice", 1981 (International Journal of the Sociology of Language)
• "Anglicization in the United States: Language Environment and Language Practice of American Adolescents", 1983 (International Journal of the Sociology of Language)
• Language Shift in the United States, 1983 (Mouton-de Gruyter)
• L'avenir du français
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
   aux États-Unis, 1987 (Conseil de la langue française, Québec)
• The Future of the Spanish Language
  Spanish language
  Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
  
   in the United States, 1988 (Hispanic Policy Development Project)
• "Modelling the Language Shift Process of Hispanic Immigrants", 1989 (International Migration Review)
• "The Status of the Spanish Language in the United States at the Beginning of the 21st Century", 1990 (International Migration Review)
• "The American Linguistic Mosaic: Understanding Languages Shift in the United States", 2000 (in McKay and Wong, eds)

Quebec (Canada)

• Les Grecs du quartier Parc Extension, 1984 (Institut national de la recherche scientifique: urbanisation)
• L'intégration sociolinguistique
  Sociolinguistics
  Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society...
  
   des Québécois d'origine portugaise, 1985 (Institut national de la recherche scientifique: urbanisation)
• L'adaptation des immigrants de la décennie 1980, 1993 (Ministère des communautés culturelles et de l'immigration, Québec)
• "Using Field Methods to Assess the Validity of the Canadian Census", 1985 (in P. Nelde, ed.)
• "The English Language
  English language
  English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
  
   in Quebec, 1940-1990", 1995 (in Fishman, ed.)
• "The Interpretation of the Language Questions of the Canadian Census", 1985 (Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology)
• "Assessing the Impact of Quebec's Language Legislation", 1986 (Canadian Public Policy
• Concentration ethnique et usages linguistiques en milieu scolaire, 1999 (Immigration et métropoles)
• Veltman, Calvin, and Andrew Hund. “Confirming Good Theory with Bad Data : l’anglicisation des hispano-

américains.” Demographie et Cultures. (http://www-aidelf.ined.fr/colloques/ Quebec/aidelf-2008/IMG/pdf/VELTMANT.pdf). [In French] 2008.

Alsace (France)

• Le déclin du dialecte alsacien, 1989 (Presses universitaires de Strasbourg)
• "La régression du dialecte", 1982 (Institut Nationale de la Statistique et des Études Économiques)
• "La transmission de l'alsacien dans le milieu familial", 1983 (Revue des sciences sociales de la France de l'Est
  Revue des Sciences Sociales
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• "L'usage de l'alsacien du milieu urbain", 1984 (Actes du IIe colloque internationale des démographes de langue française)
• "Assimilation linguistique des alsaciens: politiques officielles, évolution, tendances actuelles", 1987 (Éditions de l'ORSTOM)
• "Usages linguistiques en Alsace : présentation d'une enquête et premiers résultats", 1988 (International Journal of the Sociology of Language)