Calvin Veltman (born 1941) is an American sociologist,

demographer Demography () is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings. Demographic analysis examines and measures the dimensions and dynamics of populations; it can cover whole societies or groups defined by criteria such as ed ...

and sociolinguist at the

Université du Québec à Montréal The Université du Québec à Montréal (English: University of Quebec in Montreal), also known as UQAM, is a French-language public university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Qué ...

. He previously worked at the

State University of New York at Plattsburgh The State University of New York College at Plattsburgh (SUNY Plattsburgh) is a public college in Plattsburgh, New York. The college was founded in 1889 and officially opened in 1890. The college is part of the State University of New York (SUN ...

. In the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

, his work on

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

use and acquisition among

Hispanics The term ''Hispanic'' ( es, hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad. The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties forme ...

is well known.

Publications

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 aux États-Unis, 1987 (Conseil de la langue française, Québec) * The Future of the

Spanish Language Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in th ...

in the United States, 1988 (Hispanic Policy Development Project) * "Modelling the Language Shift Process of Hispanic

Immigrants Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, a ...

", 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 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 is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the ...

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. (https://web.archive.org/web/20070323183821/http://www-aidelf.ined.fr/colloques/ Quebec/aidelf-2008/IMG/pdf/VELTMANT.pdf).

n French N, or n, is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''en'' (pronounced ), plural ''ens''. History ...

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) * "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)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Veltman, Calvin 1941 births Living people American sociologists Sociolinguists State University of New York faculty Academic staff of the Université du Québec à Montréal