Instructional Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Summary

Viola V. Green is an instructional assistant professor of French in the department of modern and classical languages. Her research centers primarily on the phonology of binominals in French and English, psycholinguistics and bilingualism. Green completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has taught at the University of Utah, Minsk State Linguistic University, Northeastern University and The University of Texas at Austin. Green has also worked as a Russian, French and Belarusian translator.

Teaching 

Dr. Green teaches beginner, intermediate and advanced levels of French. She has taught courses on French language structure, translation, and phonetics. 

Research Interests 

Psycholinguistics, corpus linguistics, bilingualism, language perception and production 

Publications

• Green, V., Wilson, C., Hounfodji, R., & Tolliver, J-F. (2022-2024). Improvisations 1-4. Libretexts.  https://human.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_Houston
• Green, V. & Birdsong, D. (2024). Binomials in English and French: ablaut, rhyme and syllable structure. Linguistics, 62(4), 849-888. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2020-0115/html
• Green, V. & Birdsong, D. (2018). Intuitions for phonological constraints in binomials: A psycholinguistic investigation. Language Sciences, 66, 116-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2018.02.004 

Recent Honors, Awards

• Empowering French and Francophone Studies Grant, French Embassy in the United States and FACE Foundation, 2023
• Alternative Textbook Incentive Program Grant, University of Houston Libraries, 2022 – 2024