The (slightly more) productive use of ne in Montreal French chat

Compernolle, Rémi A. van

doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2009.07.004

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“…Finally, in cases when the SP is dropped in speech (e.g., faut pas “one should not”; ya pas “there is not”), no variation is possible, and ne is categorically absent (Ashby, ; Coveney, ). Similar patterns emerge in studies of internet chat and text‐messages (Stark, ; van Compernolle, , ), whose sociolinguistic norms closely resemble those of casual speech despite the written medium (van Compernolle, ).…”

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“…The clearest finding is that pas triggers the least ne retention (Armstrong & Smith, ; Ashby, ; Coveney, ). Conversely, data from internet chat and text‐messages are less clear‐cut (Stark, ; van Compernolle, , ), leading van Compernolle () to suggest that the loss of ne has generalized to the point where the choice of postverbal negator no longer influences ne retention.…”

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“…Likewise, Sankoff and Vincent () reported that, because ne retention is generally a learned feature, it increases as a function of level of education. French children delete ne systematically (Coveney, ) prior to sufficient exposure to written French in school (Coveney, ; van Compernolle, ). Nevertheless, at present, omission of ne is generally not stigmatized, except perhaps by teachers (Coveney, ), and speakers of all social classes omit ne to varying degrees (Armstrong, ; Ashby, ).…”

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Negation in Near‐Native French: Variation and Sociolinguistic Competence

Donaldson

2016

Language Learning

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This study investigated how adult second language (L2) speakers of French with near‐native proficiency realize verbal negation, a well‐known sociolinguistic variable in contemporary spoken French. Data included 10 spontaneous informal conversations between near‐native speakers of French and native speakers (NSs) closely acquainted with them. Although some near‐native speakers retained ne more frequently than their interlocutors, others produced ne at rates indistinguishable from the NSs. A variationist analysis of 1,877 examples of negation revealed that the near‐native speakers had largely acquired the relevant linguistic and sociostylistic factors that condition NS use, although an important subset of the near‐native speakers did not vary their ne use according to whether the negation appears in a lexicalized or nonlexicalized phrase. The results contribute to understanding L2 near‐nativeness, specifically with respect to sociolinguistic competence in adult learners.

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Negation in Near‐Native French: Variation and Sociolinguistic Competence

Donaldson

2016

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“…There will be very low we-retention rates, as the corpus reflects Swiss French c. (Contradictory hypothesis:) There wiU be shghtly higher ne retention rates than in phonic corpora of unofficial, coUoquial French, in keeping with the regularities observed by R. van CompernoUe (2008CompernoUe ( , 2010 for graphic French in online chats. d. Observed language-internal regularities for ne deletion and ne retention wiU hold to the same extent in our corpus as in other corpora of contemporary French (cf R. van CompernoUe 2008van CompernoUe , 2010. This means that identified morphosyntactic ne-deletion triggers like clitic subjects wiU be relevant in our corpus, as previously shown in other types of private communication in French (e.g.…”

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“…For our work, the studies of R. van CompernoUe (2008CompernoUe ( , 2010 on French online chats are very important. This research is based on another form of computermediated communication, with the foUowing overaU results:…”

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Negation marking in French text messages

Stark¹

2012

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This study investigates the drop of the first clitic element, ne, of French sentential negation. It is based on 4,628 French text messages taken from the newly established corpus sms4science.ch. It shows that regional or stylistic factors do not play a major role in triggering ne deletion or ne retention, and that the only relevant language-internal factor is subject type, more precisely clitic subjects (also in subject doubling structures) and subject drop, which seem to favour or even trigger categorically ne deletion. Our findings are in keeping with those by R. van Compernolle (2008) on European French in online chats, and thereby indicate partially specific regularities in French computer-mediated communication (CMC). The findings question traditional assumptions on ne drop as a variety marker in French, irrespective of the phonic or graphic nature of the data (cf. P. Koch and W. Oesterreicher 2011). In fact, even in graphically deviant data, ne drop seems to follow the observed robust language-internal regularities. Some data seem to indicate that the graphic nature of SMSes plays a role also in ne-drop (cf. similar conclusions by R. van Compernolle 2008 for chats); this has to be checked by examining a larger number of French text messages.

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Profiling second language sociolinguistic development through dynamically administered strategic interaction scenarios

Compernolle

2014

Language & Communication

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The (slightly more) productive use of ne in Montreal French chat

Cited by 21 publications

References 22 publications

Negation in Near‐Native French: Variation and Sociolinguistic Competence

Negation in Near‐Native French: Variation and Sociolinguistic Competence

Negation marking in French text messages

Profiling second language sociolinguistic development through dynamically administered strategic interaction scenarios

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