Full Description
This book examines the variation found in modern spoken French, based on the research programme 'Phonology of Contemporary French' (Phonologie du Français 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 Québec. Varieties of Spoken French will be an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and students of all aspects of French language and linguistics.
Contents
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 Astésano: Prosodic characteristics of Reference French
6: Nathalie Rossi-Gensane: Syntactic variation in spoken French
7: Lorenza Mondada and Véronique 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 Cédric 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: Léa Courdès-Murphy, Jacques Durand, Corinne Ratier, and Nathalie Rossi-Gensane: French in Haute-Garonne (Midi-Pyrénées): A speaker from Toulouse
14: Elissa Pustka and Martin Vordermayer: French in Haute-Savoie (Rhône-Alpes): A speaker from Passy
15: Claudine Pagliano, Astrid Nome, and Léa Courdès-Murphy: French in Alpes-Maritimes (Provence-Alpes-Côte 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 Neuchâtel
18: Guri Bordal Steien, Béatrice 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-Hélène Côté: French in Quebec: A speaker from Montréal
22: Douglas C. Walker and Réjean Canac-Marquis: French in Alberta: A speaker from Rivière-la-Paix
23: Jeff Tennant and François Poiré: French in Ontario: A speaker from Hearst
24: Nathalie Dajko: French in Louisiana: A speaker from Ville Platte
25: Lorenza Mondada and Véronique Traverso: French in interaction: A multimodal study of a meeting in Paris
Part III: Aspects of Inter- and Intra-Speaker Variation
METHODOLOGY
26: Noël 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 Østby: 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, Neuchâtel and Nyon
34: Guri Bordal Steien and Akissi Béatrice Boutin: Variation in the Central African Republic : Stable and variable phonological features in a multilingual speaker's idiolect
35: Marie-Hélène Côté: Variation in Canada: Trois-Rivières in Quebec
36: Réjean 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 Françoise Zay: Variation among non-native speakers: The InterPhonology of Contemporary French
Atanas Tchobanov and Kjetil Rå 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
