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Phonetic norm versus usage in advanced French as a second language
(Mouton de Gruyter, 2004)
This article is drawn from a large-scale ongoing study on linguistic progress in advanced French as a second language (FL2). The performance of 48 English-speaking students who spent their third year of university in France ...
Le franco-ontarien: portrait linguistique
(Les Presses de L' Université Laval, 1989)
On sait qu'il a fallu attendre bien longtemps avant que le français parlé au Canada fasse l'object d'étude descriptives dépassant le niveau du bavardage impressionniste et des préjugés sociaux. Il a fallu attendre plus ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...