Vivacité d'un régionalisme grammatical : le « y » bourguignon, on va vous expliquer

Fougères, Isabelle; Candea, Maria

doi:10.3406/igram.2011.4149

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“…Moreover, speakers with higher socioeconomic status who live outside the area where the variant is used, regard it as a stereotype (i.e., it is stigmatized and identified with the region). Therefore, the variation observed in the variable (Y) by both adults and children seems to be related mainly to geographical criteria and regional identity more than to traditional sociological categories (Martin et al, 2010 ; Fougères and Candea, 2011 ).…”

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“…The frequency of sociolinguistic variants also depends on internal linguistic constraints (Labov, 1994 ). The internal constraints of the variable (Y) remain poorly documented even in adults (Fougères and Candea, 2011 ) and how linguistic factors affect the production of the regional variant by children remains to be investigated. Future studies will have to consider the developmental dynamics of the variable (Y) in the light of a more thorough analysis of its functioning in adults.…”

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“…The first generation of Francoprovençal speakers to speak French conserved a three-gender pronoun structure rather than adopting the two-gender system of French (masculine and feminine). Because the French language does not have a neutral gender, they used the variant y of regional French to refer to inanimate objects and more generally to leave the referent undetermined with regard to gender and numerosity (Fougères and Candea, 2011 ). The sociolinguistic evaluation of this variant in a small town located 30 kilometers south of our study area showed that most speakers are aware that the variant y is not used throughout the French language area and that it is non-standard (Châtellain, 2004 ).…”

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The linguistic diversity enduring beyond institutional pressures and social prejudices against non-standard dialects questions the social forces influencing language maintenance across generations and how children contribute to this process. Children encounter multi-dialectal interactions in their early environment, and increasing evidence shows that the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation is not a side issue but an inherent part of the general acquisition process. Despite these recent advances in sociolinguistic acquisition, children's sociolinguistic uses remain under-studied in relation to peer social networks and the ability to use dialect for identity purposes. Our study focused on a grammatical sociolinguistic variable consisting of the alternation between a regional and a standard variant of the third person object pronoun in French. The regional variant is a remnant of the Francoprovençal language and its usage by adults is strongly associated with local identity in the French Alps. We described, using questionnaires, the social networks of 117 10–11 year-old girls and boys living in the same restricted rural area. Thirteen native target children (7 girls and 6 boys) were selected from the sample, as well as 39 same-sex friends chosen according to their place of birth (native vs. non-native) and the duration of their friendship with the targets (number of years they have known each other). The target children were recorded during spontaneous dyadic conversations during free play at school with each category of friends. Target boys, but not girls, used the regional variant significantly more frequently with their long-term native friends than with their non-native friends. This adjustment mirrored their partners' uses. Moreover, with long-term native friends, boys used the regional variant twice as frequently as girls. Boys appeared thus as key actors in the maintenance and the diffusion of regional cues in local social networks.

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Présentation d’une enquête pour l’étude des régionalismes du français

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Résumé. Dans cette contribution, nous présentons les premiers résultats d'une enquête visant à étudier la vitalité et l'aire d'extension de certains régionalismes du français parlé en Europe. Un questionnaire a été proposé et diffusé via les médias sociaux, mettant ainsi à profit la méthode dite du crowdsourcing, qui a permis de recueillir les réponses de plus de 10 000 francophones. L'enquête porte principalement sur des items lexicaux mais inclut également des régionalismes grammaticaux, plus rarement étudiés. Cet article présente les principes qui ont motivé la mise au point de cette enquête, la structure du questionnaire, les participants, ainsi que quelques résultats préliminaires. Nous nous interesserons ici en particulier à des faits linguistiques bien connus (l'idée étant de comparer nos données aux éléments fournis par les dictionnaires de régionalismes traditionnels). Nous présenterons une douzaine de questions du sondage, en précisant la tâche proposée et une visualisation des réponses sous forme de cartes. En regard des travaux précédents, plusieurs cas de figure se dessinent : certains régionalismes restent bien employés, alors que d'autres semblent en perte de vitesse. Dans d'autres cas, l'aire d'extension des variantes à l'étude est tellement large qu'on ne peut y voir un fait de variation régionale.Abstract. This paper presents the first results of a large survey which aimed at investigating the vitality and extension area of some regional expressions in spoken French in Europe. We took advantage of social media to broadcast our survey, using the crowdsourcing method. Therefore, we were able to gather responses from more than 10'000 French native speakers from France, Belgium and Switzerland. The survey not only investigates regional lexicon, but also regional syntactic features which have remained under-studied. In this paper, we explain how the survey has been built: its motivation, its structure, its participants; we also present preliminary results. We focus on the usual suspects: one of our aims is to compare our results with what specialised dictionaries generally state. We present a dozen questions of the survey with their results shown on maps. Compared to previous studies, our maps make clear that whereas the use of some regional expressions is enduring, the use of others is diminishing. Furthermore, the use of some items is distributed in such large areas that it makes difficult to continue considering them as regional variants., Web of Conferences 03001 (2016)

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Vivacité d'un régionalisme grammatical : le « y » bourguignon, on va vous expliquer

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The maintenance of regional dialects: a matter of gender? Boys, but not girls, use local varieties in relation to their friends' nativeness and local identity

The maintenance of regional dialects: a matter of gender? Boys, but not girls, use local varieties in relation to their friends' nativeness and local identity

Présentation d’une enquête pour l’étude des régionalismes du français

Le pronomyaccusatif en français régional et dans les dialectes galloromans

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