Edited by Randall Gess, Chantal Lyche and Trudel Meisenburg
This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language… read more
Occitan is a threatened Gallo-Romance language in a diglossic contact situation with French in Southern France. To examine the extent of prosodic interference we proceeded to a comparative analysis of semi-spontaneous speech recorded with bilingual speakers in both languages and monolingual… read more
The aim of this paper is to present a research project on the effects language contact has had on the intonation of Occitan and French, and especially on Southern varieties of the latter, which differ substantially from the Northern standard. The main hypothesis sees Occitan as a link between the… read more