Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Section I. Phonological variation and leveling
5. Introduction 3
6. Perception and production in French dialect leveling 9
7. The sociolinguistic relevance of regional categories 25
8. Prosodic style-shifting as audience design 43
9. The immigrant factor in phonological leveling 63
10. A prototype-theoretic model of Southern French 77
11. The law of position revisited 95
12. Section II. Stylistic and syntactic variation
13. Introduction 115
14. Variation in first and second language French 121
15. French preadolescents’ perceptions of stylistic variation 141
16. Sociolinguistic variation in African French 159
17. Register variation in the non-standard use of non-finite forms 177
18. Section III. Lexical variation and semantic change
19. Introduction 195
20. Discourse markers and regional variation in French 201
21. Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French 215
22. From ‘luck’ to ‘wealth’ 231
23. Index 253