“…This also corresponds to the boundary between the dialects of Oïl in the north, east, west, and south-central regions and the dialects of Oc, which cover the south part of France. A third family is identified as the Franco-Provençal dialects, which include the region between Grenoble, Lyons, and Geneva as well as the Suisse Romande part of Switzerland and the Aoste Valley in Italy (Battye, Hintze, & Rowlett, 2000; Rash, 2002; Singy, 2002). Further diversity is also evident within each of these regions and is now being evaluated as part of a database collected under the framework of the international Francophone project, “Contemporary French Phonology” (Durand, Laks, & Lyche, 2002).…”