Varieties of Spoken French
Published on 8. February 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
600 pages
978-0-19-881210-4 (ISBN)
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This book examines the variation found in modern spoken French, based on the research programme 'Phonology of Contemporary French' (Phonologie du Francais Contemporain, PFC). Extensive data are drawn from all over the French-speaking world, including Algeria, Canada, Louisiana, Mauritius, and Switzerland. Although the principal focus is on differences in pronunciation, the authors also analyse the spoken language at all levels from sound to meaning. The book is accompanied by a website hosting audio-visual material for teaching purposes, data, and a variety of tools for working with corpora.
The first part of the book outlines some key concepts and approaches to the description of spoken French. Chapters in Part II are devoted to the study of individual samples of spoken French from all over the world, covering phonological and grammatical features as well as lexical and cultural aspects. The book's companion website provides a class-friendly ready-to-use multimedia version of these 17 chapters, as well as the sound files and full transcription for each extract. Part III looks at inter and intra-speaker variation: it begins with chapters that provide the methodological background to the study of phonological variation using databases, while in the second section authors present case studies of a number of PFC survey points, including Paris, the Central African Republic, and Quebec. Varieties of Spoken French will be an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and students of all aspects of French language and linguistics.
The first part of the book outlines some key concepts and approaches to the description of spoken French. Chapters in Part II are devoted to the study of individual samples of spoken French from all over the world, covering phonological and grammatical features as well as lexical and cultural aspects. The book's companion website provides a class-friendly ready-to-use multimedia version of these 17 chapters, as well as the sound files and full transcription for each extract. Part III looks at inter and intra-speaker variation: it begins with chapters that provide the methodological background to the study of phonological variation using databases, while in the second section authors present case studies of a number of PFC survey points, including Paris, the Central African Republic, and Quebec. Varieties of Spoken French will be an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and students of all aspects of French language and linguistics.
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Language
English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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College/higher education
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Tables, Figures
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
974 gr
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978-0-19-881210-4 (9780198812104)
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Varieties of Spoken French
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Sylvain Detey is Professor of Applied Linguistics and French Studies at Waseda University, and was formerly Maitre de Conferences at the University of Rouen. His current research interests lie in the use of oral corpora for language education and the role of variation and multimodality in second language phonology acquisition. He is one of the coordinators of the research project Phonology of Contemporary French (Phonologie du Francais Contemporain, PFC) and co-editor of Les varietes du francais parle dans l'espace francophone. Ressources pour l'enseignement (2010).
Jacques Durand is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaures and an Emeritus Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His extensive publications are mainly in phonology (general and as applied to English and French). He is the co-founder of the PFC research project, editor of the OUP series 'The Phonology of the World's Languages' and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Corpus Phonology (OUP 2014).
Bernard Laks is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense (Research Laboratory MoDyCo UMR 7114) and a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Until 2012, he was Vice President (Research) of that university and formerly a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). His research and extensive publications mainly address phonology, formal and cognitive linguistics, the history of linguistics, and cognitive sciences. He is the co-founder of the PFC research project.
Chantal Lyche is Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Oslo. She has published widely on French phonology and is the co-founder of the PFC research project. Her research has focused most recently on varieties of French spoken outside France, particularly in Switzerland, Louisiana, Mauritius, and Africa. She is the co-author of a standard textbook on the phonology of French and is actively involved in the teaching of French as a foreign language.
Jacques Durand is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toulouse - Jean Jaures and an Emeritus Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. His extensive publications are mainly in phonology (general and as applied to English and French). He is the co-founder of the PFC research project, editor of the OUP series 'The Phonology of the World's Languages' and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Corpus Phonology (OUP 2014).
Bernard Laks is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense (Research Laboratory MoDyCo UMR 7114) and a Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Until 2012, he was Vice President (Research) of that university and formerly a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). His research and extensive publications mainly address phonology, formal and cognitive linguistics, the history of linguistics, and cognitive sciences. He is the co-founder of the PFC research project.
Chantal Lyche is Professor of French Linguistics at the University of Oslo. She has published widely on French phonology and is the co-founder of the PFC research project. Her research has focused most recently on varieties of French spoken outside France, particularly in Switzerland, Louisiana, Mauritius, and Africa. She is the co-author of a standard textbook on the phonology of French and is actively involved in the teaching of French as a foreign language.
Editor
Professor of Applied Linguistics and French StudiesProfessor of Applied Linguistics and French Studies, Waseda University
Emeritus Professor of LinguisticsEmeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Toulouse Jean Jaures
Professor of LinguisticsProfessor of Linguistics, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense
Professor of French LinguisticsProfessor of French Linguistics, University of Oslo
Content
List of contributors
Map showing of survey points
Sylvain Detey, Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, and Chantal Lyche: Introduction: How to use this book and accompanying digital material
Part I: Variation in Spoken French: Concepts and Approaches
1: Sylvain Detey, Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, and Chantal Lyche: The PFC programme and its methodological framework
2: Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, and Chantal Lyche: Variation and corpora: Concepts and methods
3: Sylvain Detey and Chantal Lyche: A framework for the pedagogical use of a corpus of spoken French
APPROACHES
4: Sylvain Detey, Chantal Lyche, Isabelle Racine, Sandra Schwab, and David Le Gac: The notion of norm in spoken French: Production and perception
5: Corine Astesano: Prosodic characteristics of Reference French
6: Nathalie Rossi-Gensane: Syntactic variation in spoken French
7: Lorenza Mondada and Veronique Traverso: Beyond orality: Multimodality and interaction
Part II: The French-Speaking World: Extracts and Analyses
8: Anita Berit Hansen: French in Paris (Ile-de-France): A speaker from the XIVth arrondissment
9: Dominique Nouveau and Martin Riegel: French in Bas-Rhin (Alsace): A speaker from Strasbourg
10: Alain Dawson, Cyril Auran, Caroline Bouzon, Laurence Delrue, Rudy Loock, Kathleen M. O'Connor, and Cedric Patin: French in Nord (Nord-Pas de Calais): A speaker from La Madeleine
11: Laurie Buscail and Chantal Lyche: French in Orne (Basse-Normandie): A speaker from Domfront
12: Damien Chabanal, Jacques Durand, and Corinne Ratier: French in Auvergne (Centre): A speaker from Clermont-Ferrand
13: Lea Courdes-Murphy, Jacques Durand, Corinne Ratier, and Nathalie Rossi-Gensane: French in Haute-Garonne (Midi-Pyrenees): A speaker from Toulouse
14: Elissa Pustka and Martin Vordermayer: French in Haute-Savoie (Rhone-Alpes): A speaker from Passy
15: Claudine Pagliano, Astrid Nome, and Lea Courdes-Murphy: French in Alpes-Maritimes (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur): A speaker from Nice
16: Philippe Hambye, Anne Catherine Simon, and Alice Bardiaux: French in Belgium: A speaker from Henri-Chapelle
17: Isabelle Racine, Helene N. Andreassen, and Laurence Benetti: French in Switzerland: A speaker from Neuchatel
18: Guri Bordal Steien, Beatrice Akissi Boutin, and Robert Beyom: French in the Central African Republic: A speaker from Bangui
19: Sarah Leroy: French in Algeria: A speaker from Chlef
20: Gudrun Ledegen and Chantal Lyche: French in Mauritius: A speaker from Quatre-Bornes
21: Marie-Helene Cote: French in Quebec: A speaker from Montreal
22: Douglas C. Walker and Rejean Canac-Marquis: French in Alberta: A speaker from Riviere-la-Paix
23: Jeff Tennant and Francois Poire: French in Ontario: A speaker from Hearst
24: Nathalie Dajko: French in Louisiana: A speaker from Ville Platte
25: Lorenza Mondada and Veronique Traverso: French in interaction: A multimodal study of a meeting in Paris
Part III: Aspects of Inter- and Intra-Speaker Variation
METHODOLOGY
26: Noel Nguyen: Approaching variation in PFC: The segmental level
27: Chantal Lyche: Approaching variation in PFC: The schwa level
28: Jacques Durand and Chantal Lyche: Approaching variation in PFC: The liaison level
29: Anne Catherine Simon and Anne Lacheret: Approaching variation in PFC: The prosodic level
30: Julien Eychenne, Sylvain Navarro, Atanas Tchobanov, and Jan-Willem van Leussen: Approaching variation in PFC: The tools
ILLUSTRATIONS
31: Anita Berit Hansen and Kathrine Asla Ostby: Variation in the capital city of France: Paris
32: Jacques Durand and Jean-Michel Tarrier: Variation in a rural village in southern France: Douzens
33: Helene N. Andreassen and Isabelle Racine: Variation in Switzerland: The behaviour of schwa in Martigny, Neuchatel and Nyon
34: Guri Bordal Steien and Akissi Beatrice Boutin: Variation in the Central African Republic : Stable and variable phonological features in a multilingual speaker's idiolect
35: Marie-Helene Cote: Variation in Canada: Trois-Rivieres in Quebec
36: Rejean Canac-Marquis and Douglas C. Walker: Variation in Canada: Effects of language contact in rural francophone Alberta
37: Nathalie Dajko and Darcie Blainey: Variation in Louisiana: Prairie Cajuns and Bayou Cajuns
38: Sylvain Detey, Isabelle Racine, Yuji Kawaguchi, and Francoise Zay: Variation among non-native speakers: The InterPhonology of Contemporary French
Atanas Tchobanov and Kjetil Ra Hauge: Appendix I: How to use the companion website
Appendix II: PFC text and word-list
References
Index
Contents of the Companion Website
A. Audio-visual illustrations
1: Prosody of Reference French (audio for Chapter 5)
2: A meeting in Paris (audio-visual for Chapter 25)
3: Non-native productions (audio for Chapter 38)
B. Multimedia versions of Part II Chapters
C. Printable PDF versions of the transcriptions of the conversations in Part II
D. Corpus-working tools and applications
1: Sylvain Navarro and Jan-Willem van Leussen: Praat within the PFC project: First steps
2: Jan-Willem van Leussen: Introduction to acoustic analysis of PFC data and scripting with Praat
3: Julien Eychenne and Roberto Paternostro: Analysing transcribed speech with Dolmen
E. Database
1: Audio and TextGrid files for Part II
2: Audio and TextGrid files for Part III
Map showing of survey points
Sylvain Detey, Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, and Chantal Lyche: Introduction: How to use this book and accompanying digital material
Part I: Variation in Spoken French: Concepts and Approaches
1: Sylvain Detey, Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, and Chantal Lyche: The PFC programme and its methodological framework
2: Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, and Chantal Lyche: Variation and corpora: Concepts and methods
3: Sylvain Detey and Chantal Lyche: A framework for the pedagogical use of a corpus of spoken French
APPROACHES
4: Sylvain Detey, Chantal Lyche, Isabelle Racine, Sandra Schwab, and David Le Gac: The notion of norm in spoken French: Production and perception
5: Corine Astesano: Prosodic characteristics of Reference French
6: Nathalie Rossi-Gensane: Syntactic variation in spoken French
7: Lorenza Mondada and Veronique Traverso: Beyond orality: Multimodality and interaction
Part II: The French-Speaking World: Extracts and Analyses
8: Anita Berit Hansen: French in Paris (Ile-de-France): A speaker from the XIVth arrondissment
9: Dominique Nouveau and Martin Riegel: French in Bas-Rhin (Alsace): A speaker from Strasbourg
10: Alain Dawson, Cyril Auran, Caroline Bouzon, Laurence Delrue, Rudy Loock, Kathleen M. O'Connor, and Cedric Patin: French in Nord (Nord-Pas de Calais): A speaker from La Madeleine
11: Laurie Buscail and Chantal Lyche: French in Orne (Basse-Normandie): A speaker from Domfront
12: Damien Chabanal, Jacques Durand, and Corinne Ratier: French in Auvergne (Centre): A speaker from Clermont-Ferrand
13: Lea Courdes-Murphy, Jacques Durand, Corinne Ratier, and Nathalie Rossi-Gensane: French in Haute-Garonne (Midi-Pyrenees): A speaker from Toulouse
14: Elissa Pustka and Martin Vordermayer: French in Haute-Savoie (Rhone-Alpes): A speaker from Passy
15: Claudine Pagliano, Astrid Nome, and Lea Courdes-Murphy: French in Alpes-Maritimes (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur): A speaker from Nice
16: Philippe Hambye, Anne Catherine Simon, and Alice Bardiaux: French in Belgium: A speaker from Henri-Chapelle
17: Isabelle Racine, Helene N. Andreassen, and Laurence Benetti: French in Switzerland: A speaker from Neuchatel
18: Guri Bordal Steien, Beatrice Akissi Boutin, and Robert Beyom: French in the Central African Republic: A speaker from Bangui
19: Sarah Leroy: French in Algeria: A speaker from Chlef
20: Gudrun Ledegen and Chantal Lyche: French in Mauritius: A speaker from Quatre-Bornes
21: Marie-Helene Cote: French in Quebec: A speaker from Montreal
22: Douglas C. Walker and Rejean Canac-Marquis: French in Alberta: A speaker from Riviere-la-Paix
23: Jeff Tennant and Francois Poire: French in Ontario: A speaker from Hearst
24: Nathalie Dajko: French in Louisiana: A speaker from Ville Platte
25: Lorenza Mondada and Veronique Traverso: French in interaction: A multimodal study of a meeting in Paris
Part III: Aspects of Inter- and Intra-Speaker Variation
METHODOLOGY
26: Noel Nguyen: Approaching variation in PFC: The segmental level
27: Chantal Lyche: Approaching variation in PFC: The schwa level
28: Jacques Durand and Chantal Lyche: Approaching variation in PFC: The liaison level
29: Anne Catherine Simon and Anne Lacheret: Approaching variation in PFC: The prosodic level
30: Julien Eychenne, Sylvain Navarro, Atanas Tchobanov, and Jan-Willem van Leussen: Approaching variation in PFC: The tools
ILLUSTRATIONS
31: Anita Berit Hansen and Kathrine Asla Ostby: Variation in the capital city of France: Paris
32: Jacques Durand and Jean-Michel Tarrier: Variation in a rural village in southern France: Douzens
33: Helene N. Andreassen and Isabelle Racine: Variation in Switzerland: The behaviour of schwa in Martigny, Neuchatel and Nyon
34: Guri Bordal Steien and Akissi Beatrice Boutin: Variation in the Central African Republic : Stable and variable phonological features in a multilingual speaker's idiolect
35: Marie-Helene Cote: Variation in Canada: Trois-Rivieres in Quebec
36: Rejean Canac-Marquis and Douglas C. Walker: Variation in Canada: Effects of language contact in rural francophone Alberta
37: Nathalie Dajko and Darcie Blainey: Variation in Louisiana: Prairie Cajuns and Bayou Cajuns
38: Sylvain Detey, Isabelle Racine, Yuji Kawaguchi, and Francoise Zay: Variation among non-native speakers: The InterPhonology of Contemporary French
Atanas Tchobanov and Kjetil Ra Hauge: Appendix I: How to use the companion website
Appendix II: PFC text and word-list
References
Index
Contents of the Companion Website
A. Audio-visual illustrations
1: Prosody of Reference French (audio for Chapter 5)
2: A meeting in Paris (audio-visual for Chapter 25)
3: Non-native productions (audio for Chapter 38)
B. Multimedia versions of Part II Chapters
C. Printable PDF versions of the transcriptions of the conversations in Part II
D. Corpus-working tools and applications
1: Sylvain Navarro and Jan-Willem van Leussen: Praat within the PFC project: First steps
2: Jan-Willem van Leussen: Introduction to acoustic analysis of PFC data and scripting with Praat
3: Julien Eychenne and Roberto Paternostro: Analysing transcribed speech with Dolmen
E. Database
1: Audio and TextGrid files for Part II
2: Audio and TextGrid files for Part III