Language (Auto)Biographies as a Tool for Reading the Postcolonial Situation in New Caledonia and as an Empowerment Tool in a Sociodidactic Approach

Fillol, Véronique

doi:10.4000/ced.615

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“…Arguably, New Caledonia’s linguistic diversity, together with an increased social mobility and greater access to the French school system (Vernaudon, 2015), have led to a series of contact situations between French and local Kanak, as well as immigrant languages. Although studies claim that some urban varieties associated with linguistic contact situations are stigmatised (Colombel-Teuira et al, 2017; Fillol, 2016), one ethnographic study on linguistic attitudes of young urban Oceanic speakers suggests that these varieties of French can be the source of pride (Barnèche, 2005). Taking into account the latter observations and previous studies on minoritised populations (Labov, 1986; Mendoza-Denton, 2014), it is conceivable that phonetic traits of French contact varieties can be carriers of covert prestige.…”

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Fundamental Frequency and Regional Variation in Lifou French

2020

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This study presents two experiments aimed at investigating tune-to-text alignment and pitch scaling in Lifou French, a variety spoken by bilingual speakers of French and Drehu. Descriptions of New Caledonian French have focussed on language use of European descendants or the variety spoken in the urban region, neglecting emergent varieties spoken by the indigenous population in rural areas, like the island Lifou. Due to the reduced inventory of pitch accents, dialectal variation in French intonation has proved to be difficult to detect, which has led to the assumption that French has a relatively homogeneous intonation system across its varieties. This study shows that fine-grained phonetic differences in speaking tempo and at the level of tonal alignment as well as in the scaling of AP-final peaks can be attributed to dialectal variation.

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confidence: 99%