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Saisir l'insaisissable ? Les mesures de longueur d'énoncés en linguistique appliquée
(Mouton Publishers, 2000)The utterance is a widely used linguistic unit. It seems, however, to escape every attempt to define it unequivocally. There seems to be a consensus in applied linguistics that a fuzzy combination of syntactic, semantic ... -
Second language acquisition and "real" French: An investigation of subject doubling in the French of Montreal Anglophones
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2002)ABSTRACT --We investigated the French of the first generation of Montreal Anglophones who had had access to French immersion schooling. Our aim was to determine the extent to which these Anglophones had acquired the ... -
Should the French Canadian minorities open their schools to the children of the Anglophone majority?
(Multilingual Matters, 1987)When the status of the minority language of an officially bilingual country undergoes positive changes, it is not unusual to observe members of the majority language group showing an interest in the institutions of the ... -
Sociodemographic, psychological and politico-cultural correlates in Flemish students' attitude toward French and English
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 2005)An analysis of 100 Flemish high-school students' attitudes towards French and English (both foreign languages) revealed complex links etween personality factors, gender, politicocultural identity, communicative behaviour ... -
Sociolinguistic heterogeneity in a French-speaking minority community: the Franco-Ontarians
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Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish y termino en español: toward a typology of code-switching
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Splendeurs et misères de la traductique
(Centre d'Etudes Franco-Canadiennes de l'Ouest; http://www.ustboniface.mb.ca/cusb/cefco/, 1995)La traductique, point de rencontre de la traduction et de l’informatique, couvre bien des domaines dont certains sont plus prometteurs que d’autres. Cette présentation propose un tour d’horizon des logiciels qui s’offrent ... -
Statut de langue et accommodation langagière le long d'une frontière linguistique
(Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1989)Il est désormais bien connu que les inégalités de pouvoir qu caractérisent les différents groupes d' une société se reflètent au niveau de la variabilité linguistique et des attitudes envers celle-ci. D'ordinaire, le groupe ... -
Subject NP Doubling, Matching and Minority French
(Cambridge University Press; http://www.cambridge.org/, 1995)Our study presents a variationist analysis of subject doubling in the French of Ontario, Canada. Two principal variants are distinguished: a non-doubled variant and a doubled variant containing a clitic agreement marker. ... -
Task outcomes: A focus on immersion students' use of pronominal verbs in their writing
(CAAL - ACLA - Association Canadienne de Linguistique Appliquee, 2000)Grade eight French immersion students worked in pairs to complete one of two tasks (jigsaw or dictogloss) based on the same story, both involving the production of a written narrative. Before completing one of these tasks ... -
The Acquisition of Community Speech Norms by Asians Immigrants Learning English as a Second Language: a preliminary study
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 1991)Investigation of Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants' acquisition of the English variable "ing" found that such production was constrained by phonological, grammatical, stylistic, and social factors. (39 references) (Author/CB) -
The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in French as a foreign language: An overview
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2004)The present contribution presents an overview of studies in French as a second (L2) and/or foreign language that consider the effects of extralinguistic variables (mostly instructional, experiential and situational factors) ... -
The emotional force of swearwords and taboo words in the speech of multilinguals
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 2004)This paper investigates the perception of emotional force of swearwords and taboo words (S-T words) among 1039 multilinguals. It is based on data drawn from a large database collected through a web questionnaire on ... -
The expression of evidentiality in French-English bilingual discourse
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)ABSTRACT --This study, drawing on data from a large sociolinguistic interview corpus for three Acadian communities of Atlantic Canada, concerns codeswitches involving verbs of opinion or belief (e.g. guess, think, imagine, ... -
The L2 acquisition of a phonological variable: the case of /l/deletion in French
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2006)This article is situated within the recent strand of SLA research which applies variationist sociolinguistic methods to the study of the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation by the L2 speaker. Whilst that research ... -
The learning of sociostylistic variation by advanced FSL learners: The case of nous versus on
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2003)This paper synthesizes research on the acquisition of linguistic variation by learners of French as a second language--an overview that, to our knowledge, is the first of its kind. It also presents a case study on French ... -
The Legitimate and Illegitimate Offspring of English
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The Lonely Londoners en français : l'épreuve du métissage
(Association Canadienne de Traductologie, 2000)En 1956, l'écrivain trinidadien Sam Selvon (1923-1994) publiait The Lonely Londoners, un roman rédigé intégralement dans une variété de langue jusque là stigmatisée et confinée au domaine dialogal : le vernaculaire créole ... -
The nature of constraints on contact-induced change
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)no abstract