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The Phonologie du français contemporain project in Quebec

Methodological considerations and dialectometric application
  • Marie-Hélène Côté and Hugo Saint-Amant Lamy
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Corpus Dialectology
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Abstract

This chapter presents the PFC-Quebec corpus (440 speakers, 400+ hours of recordings) of French spoken in Quebec, especially its Laurentian variety. After a brief overview of Quebec’s geolinguistic research, it discusses the methodological adjustments adopted in the application of the general PFC (Phonologie du français contemporain) protocol to a specific variety that diverges in many respects from the French spoken in other areas. The relevance and potential of this corpus is illustrated by a dialectometric analysis of a small number of words whose pronunciation is subject to geolinguistic variation within Quebec. The data reveal quite complex geophonological structures and largely, but not completely, converge with the self-representation data from Avanzi and Thibault (2020).

Abstract

This chapter presents the PFC-Quebec corpus (440 speakers, 400+ hours of recordings) of French spoken in Quebec, especially its Laurentian variety. After a brief overview of Quebec’s geolinguistic research, it discusses the methodological adjustments adopted in the application of the general PFC (Phonologie du français contemporain) protocol to a specific variety that diverges in many respects from the French spoken in other areas. The relevance and potential of this corpus is illustrated by a dialectometric analysis of a small number of words whose pronunciation is subject to geolinguistic variation within Quebec. The data reveal quite complex geophonological structures and largely, but not completely, converge with the self-representation data from Avanzi and Thibault (2020).

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Data collection
  5. On the validity of crowdsourced data 10
  6. Variation in space and society 34
  7. Part II. Methodology
  8. The Phonologie du français contemporain project in Quebec 60
  9. “Going standard” on a blank page 84
  10. Sociogeographical differences in the pronunciation of Anglicisms in Spanish 106
  11. Part III. Case studies
  12. Historical corpora and linguistic geography of Spanish 134
  13. Dialectology as a matter of gradience 154
  14. Testing Twitter data on a morphosyntactic variable 176
  15. Part IV. Theory
  16. Sketching out a virtual framework for Romance geolinguistics 198
  17. Index 217
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.110.03cot

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction 1
  4. Part I. Data collection
  5. On the validity of crowdsourced data 10
  6. Variation in space and society 34
  7. Part II. Methodology
  8. The Phonologie du français contemporain project in Quebec 60
  9. “Going standard” on a blank page 84
  10. Sociogeographical differences in the pronunciation of Anglicisms in Spanish 106
  11. Part III. Case studies
  12. Historical corpora and linguistic geography of Spanish 134
  13. Dialectology as a matter of gradience 154
  14. Testing Twitter data on a morphosyntactic variable 176
  15. Part IV. Theory
  16. Sketching out a virtual framework for Romance geolinguistics 198
  17. Index 217
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