Table of Contents

List of contributors
Map of survey points
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
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: Visual modality 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, 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
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
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 and Béatrice Akissi 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
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 the Chapters in Part II
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 the 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

About the Author

Sylvain Detey is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and French Studies at Waseda University, and was formerly Maître de Conférences 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
Français Contemporain, PFC) and co-editor of Les variétés du français parlé dans l'espace francophone. Ressources pour l'enseignement (2010). Jacques Durand is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toulouse -
Jean Jaurès 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 Défense (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. Since 2000 he has been co-director 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.

Reviews

The edited volume published by Detey et al. provides an excellent overview of the methodology developed by the team and numerous illustrations of the richness of the data elicited. It constitutes a timely and essential publication for any scholar interested in the diversity of French, whether based on location, speaker, or formality ... This book is accessible to a broad readership, but it is also essential reading for French linguists. There is no doubt in my mind that it is a resource to which I will often turn in my own teaching and research.
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