By Sylvain Detey, Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, Chantal Lyche
This booklet examines the adaptation present in smooth spoken French, in line with the examine programme 'Phonology of up to date French' (Phonologie du Francais Contemporain, PFC). wide info are drawn from all around the French-speaking international, together with Algeria, Canada, Louisiana, Mauritius, and Switzerland. even if the valuable concentration is on transformations in pronunciation, the authors additionally examine the spoken language in any respect degrees from sound to that means. The booklet is observed via an internet site webhosting audio-visual fabric for instructing reasons, information, and numerous instruments for operating with corpora.
The first a part of the booklet outlines a few key suggestions and techniques to the outline of spoken French. Chapters partly II are dedicated to the learn of person samples of spoken French from world wide, masking phonological and grammatical positive factors in addition to lexical and cultural points. A class-friendly ready-to-use multimedia model of those 17 chapters in addition to a whole transcription of every extract is supplied, with the sound records additionally on hand at the book's spouse site. half III seems to be at inter and intra-speaker version: it starts off with chapters that offer the methodological history to the research of phonological version utilizing databases, whereas within the moment part, authors current case reviews of a couple of PFC survey issues, together with Paris, the crucial African Republic, and Quebec. Varieties of Spoken French might be a useful source for researchers, lecturers, and scholars of all features of French language and linguistics.
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Although our list includes all the standard consonantal oppositions and the analysis of a few consonantal clusters, we have favoured vocalic contrasts in stressed position. g. Côté and Chapters and in this volume). The list ends with eight potential minimal pairs: . patte, . pâte, . épais, . épée, . jeune, . jeûne, . beauté, . botté, . brun, . brin. In conservative standard French, these words are said to be pronounced as follows: . /pat/, . /pɑt/, . /epɛ/, .
Applications and extensions The PFC programme has always included as one of its goals the devising of materials for the teaching of French as a foreign language. This pedagogical perspective, combined with the inclusion of plurilingual speakers in several of the PFC surveys, has resulted in an overall interest in non-native speakers of French: one oriented towards the educational exploitation of the PFC native corpus on the one hand (PFC-Enseignement du français), a second concerned with non-native phonology research (Interphonologie du français contemporain).
Exploring spoken usage, however, is no easy matter. the motivation for our approach and what we assume a modern corpus to be, before explaining in detail in the following sections the methodology followed in the construction of the PFC corpus. 1 Special thanks to Doug Walker for a careful rereading of the final version of this chapter and helpful suggestions for improving it. All remaining errors are our responsibility. Varieties of Spoken French. First edition. Sylvain Detey, Jacques Durand, Bernard Laks, and Chantal Lyche (eds).