“…It is also in this position that tonal movements occur to distinguish the pragmatic meanings of an utterance. The alignment and slopes of these F0 movements have been linked to socioindexical meanings, for instance to signal the vernacular of urban Parisian youth (Fagyal, 2003(Fagyal, , 2005Stewart, 2012). Schwa-tagging, or the pronunciation or insertion of a word-final, posttonic schwa, as in bonjour [ǝ] or Yvett [ǝ] also occurs in prepausal position and has been seen, variously, to index a faubourien accent (Léon, 1973) or the speech of educated, young Parisian females (Armstrong & Unsworth, 1999;Hansen, 2001).…”