Varieties of Spoken French

• List of contributors


• Map showing of survey points


• 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

Sylvain Detey is 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. He is the co-founder 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

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