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Acquisition of the internal and external constraints of variable schwa deletion by French Immersion students
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2004)
This article is one among a series of studies on the acquisition of patterns of linguistic variation observable in the speech of native speakers of Canadian French by French immersion (FI) students. The present study is ...
Use of restrictive expressions juste, seulement, and rien que in Ontario French, in Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics
(ACLA_CAAL, 1998)
This work examines the social, geographic and syntactic distribution of the synonymous French restrictives SEULEMENT, RIEN QUE, and JUSTE in the speech of adolescent Franco-Ontarians, and compares its findings with two ...
Maintenance of French in Ontario: Is education in French enough?
(Springer Netherlands, 1979)
This paper demonstrates that French language maintenance in Ontario does not depend only on French language schooling. Other contributing factors include francophone concentration and institutional support for French in ...
Contact-induced linguistic innovations on the continum of language use: The case of French in Ontario
(Multilingual Matters & Channel View Publications, 2005)
In this paper we present a methodological approach that can be used to determine the likelihood that innovations observed in a minority language are the result of language contact. We then use this methodological approach ...
Emploi du "futur" dans le français parlé des élèves d'immersion française
(Cambridge University Press - Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press - Http://journals.canbridge.org, 2003)
Notre étude porte sur l'acquisition des variantes du futur par les élèves d'immersion. Tous comme les locuteurs L1, ces élèves emploient trois variantes (le futur périphrastique; le futur fléchi et le présent de l'indicatif) ...
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 ...
Minority Language Schooling without Home Language Maintenance: Impact on Language Proficiency
(Multilingual Matters, 1987)
Linguistic minority groups undergoing assimilatory pressure yet fortunate enough to have at their disposal an educational system in their own language expect the schools to play an important role in the maintenance of the ...
The social correlates and linguistic processes of lexical borrowing and assimilation
(Mouton de Gruyter, 1988)
Le français en situation de contact et la variation linguistique : le français parlé en Ontario (Canada)
(Publications de l'Université de Provence, 1986)
A sociolinguistic study of language contact, shift and change
(Mouton Publishers, 1985)
Bilingual speech communities provide linguists with a favorite laboratory to study the effects of language contact on linguistic structure. Without denying the interest or importance of this traditional contrastive approach ...