Variabilité, variation, variété: le français d'Europe

Gadet, Françoise

doi:10.1017/s0959269500004981

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“…On the other hand, the French language differs from the situations of other European languages of colonization, because France remains the largest francophone country, with 66 million inhabitants — the second native French-speaking community in the world is Quebec, with only 8 million speakers. This is undoubtedly an element that makes French a mono-centered language, unlike English, Spanish and Portuguese, for example (Gadet, 1996).…”

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Identification of regional French accents in (northern) France, Belgium, and Switzerland

Avanzi

Mareüil

2017

J. of Ling. Geography

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This paper investigates whether European Francophone subjects are able to distinguish between regional French accents from (northern) France, Belgium, and Switzerland, and at what level of granularity. In total, samples from 120 speakers (from five different areas in each country under study) were presented to hundreds of native French listeners from these three countries. In a first set of experiments, listeners were asked to identify the speakers’ country of origin: they achieved 60% correct identification on average, with significant effects of listeners’ region of origin, speakers’ age, socioeconomic status, and region of origin. In a second set of experiments, listeners from Belgium, France, and Switzerland were asked to identify the speakers’ region of origin within each country (5-alternative forced choice). Results, albeit above chance, proved to be poorer than they were in the first set of experiments (31% correct identification on average). Complementary analyses were conducted to evaluate the role of listeners’ region of origin, speakers’ age, speakers’ region of origin, and their interaction. They showed asymmetrical response patterns across the three countries under investigation: France (or, within France, Paris, which represents the norm) seems to act as a magnet and a catalyst of unification. Younger generations, especially, are more often associated with its way of speaking when their accent is not clearly identifiable. Switzerland, though, resists this homogenizing process better than Belgium does.

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Identification of regional French accents in (northern) France, Belgium, and Switzerland

Avanzi

Mareüil

2017

J. of Ling. Geography

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“…Il permettrait ®nalement d'analyser la variation a Á l'inte Ârieur de l'oral et de l'e Âcrit et de de Âcouvrir les chevauchements e Âventuels (Marty, 1991) entre les deux modalite Âs: l'e Âcrit dans l'oral et l'oral dans l'e Âcrit. L'abondante litte Ârature sur ce sujet (voir Gadet, 1996c) pourrait sugge Ârer que la dif®culte Â de de Â®nir et d'isoler ces cate Âgories a e Âte Â affronte Âe et re Âsolue.…”

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Une distinction mesurable: corpus oraux et écrits sur le continuum de la deixis

Dewaele

2001

French Language Studies

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“…: 8–9; Sociolinguistique Urbaine group). Aside from ‘a reluctance to be seen to embrace transatlantic innovations with undue alacrity’ (Green & Ayres‐Bennett : 2; see also Gadet : 84), the relative neglect of morphosyntactic variation in this variety may also be due to the long‐standing existence in France of an unrivalled tradition of dialectological investigation, and a certain unwillingness to acknowledge the existence of variation (Bauvois : 9). This imbalance has, however, begun to be addressed in recent years.…”

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Diachronic Change in Verbal Agreement Patterns withMajorité

Tristram

2013

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This article is concerned with the description of data relating to a case of morphosyntactic variation and change in French: verbal agreement patterns with the noun majorit e 'majority'. Quantitative analysis of apparent-time data from cloze ('gapfill') tests suggests that plural agreement with this noun is increasing; data from a diachronic corpus study confirm that this is the case. A number of factors are found to constrain this variation and change, including most importantly the presence and number of a post-modifying noun phrase (e.g. la majorit e des hommes). The implications of these findings for the definition of collective nouns in French are discussed.

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Variabilité, variation, variété: le français d'Europe

Cited by 16 publications

References 46 publications

Identification of regional French accents in (northern) France, Belgium, and Switzerland

Identification of regional French accents in (northern) France, Belgium, and Switzerland

Une distinction mesurable: corpus oraux et écrits sur le continuum de la deixis

Diachronic Change in Verbal Agreement Patterns withMajorité

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