Phonological Variation in French: Illustrations from three continentsRandall Gess, Chantal Lyche, Trudel Meisenburg This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language use. Each chapter is based on original surveys conducted within the framework of the Phonology of Contemporary French project, described in the Introduction. These surveys constitute an invaluable source of new data for researchers, as many of the varieties included are otherwise undocumented in any systematic way. The chapters follow a similar format: presentation of the survey(s) and the sociolinguistic dimensions of the variety studied; description of the phonological inventory of the system(s), principal allophonic realizations, phonotactic constraints, behavior of schwa, behavior of liaison consonants, and other notable characteristics. The book opens with an informative introduction and closes with a chapter providing a synthesis of the major findings by continent. |
Contents
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A phonological study of Wolof speakers French | 45 |
A sociolinguistic approach | 73 |
Part II Europe | 103 |
Data from two Marseil | 105 |
From segmental phonology to prosody | 129 |
Part III North America | 209 |
9 An overview of the phonetics and phonology of Acadian French spoken in northeastern New Brunswick | 211 |
Extra vowels missing schwas and surprising liaison consonants | 235 |
A phonological study of the French of Ville Platte L | 275 |
Observations from the PFC Hear | 313 |
French in an anglophone context | 341 |
Unity and diversity across continents | 369 |
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Some trends in pronunciation | 151 |
Data from the canton of Neuchâtel | 173 |
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absence Acadian French accent affrication allophones assibilation assimilation Bamako Bambara Bangui behavior Bernard Laks Bordal c’est categorical Chantal Lyche clitics closed syllables cluster coda confirm context contours contrast conversations corpus deletion devoicing diphthongs distinction Durand duration English example final final syllables find first five français francophone French spoken frequent fricative Hearst high vowels influence intonation inventory Jacques language langue Laurentian French Léon lexical liaison consonant linguistic linguistique Louisiana Mali mid vowels mid-high mid-low minimal pairs monosyllables nasal vowels Neuchatel noun observed occurrences ofthe open syllables oral vowels Paris PFC survey phonemic phonological position present pronounced pronunciation prosodic Quebec Quebec French reading realized reflect region rhotic Sango schwa Section segmental sequences significant Skattum Songhay speakers specific spontaneous speech stress Swiss French Table Tamachek tion Tracadie Tracadie French Trois-Rivieres Université variable liaison variation varieties of French verb Ville Platte vowel length Wolof word list word-final word-initial