Dialects are constantly changing, and due to increased mobility in more recent years,
European dialects have'levelled', making it difficult to distinguish a native of Reading from a …

The aim of the present work is to examine the orientation of French speakers towards their
standard or non-local language, as shown by their behaviour on different levels of linguistic …

This paper considers the socio-stylistic distribution of the French variable morpho-syntactic
particle ne. The interspeaker axes of variation in ne are summarised first, prior to a …

At its inception, the sociolinguistic enterprise focused on research on phonological variability
and only later broadened its remit to include 'variability [that] occurs and can be dealt with at …

Linguists who analyse spoken language have often commented on the challenge that it
poses for conventional analyses of syntactic structure. An early comment of this kind was …

Cet article défend l'hypothèse que le français (toutes zones géographiques confondues)
présente aujourd'hui les propriétés caractérisant la situation diglossique, selon la définition …

The metaphor of a 'language island'1 was coined with reference to the 'colonies' of German-
speaking settlers in Eastern, Central, and South Eastern Europe, which were mostly founded …

Cette thèse aborde l'acquisition des variables sociolinguistiques par des enfants
francophones âgés de 2 à 6 ans. La principale question qui a gouverné notre recherche …

Corpus et variation en phonologie du français: méthodes et analyses Page 1 PRESSES
UNIVERSITAIRES DU MIRAIL CORPUS ET VARIATION EN PHONOLOGIE DU FRANÇAIS …

Résumé Cette étude cherche à comprendre la multiplicité des formes interrogatives directes
en français parlé. Après un examen des contraintes syntaxiques pesant sur l'interrogation …