Hall, Damien J. A Sociolinguistic Study of the Regional French of Normandy. Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) thesis, University of Pennsylvania. (KAR id:29541)
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Abstract
This dissertation is the first investigation of the Regional French of Normandy using
provides a partial characterisation of the regional variety of French spoken in Normandy,
La Bonneville (rural Lower Normandy) and Darnétal (urban Upper Normandy). This is
instrumental measurements for the investigation of phonological variables (the vowels in
been noted in the literature as characteristic of the Regional French of Normandy, are
of Normandy according to where they thought people spoke differently. They were then
whether they could give any examples of the accent and whether they thought the accent
compared with the phonological results speaker-by-speaker, to determine in particular
'goodness' of the accent and their own phonological results (whether or not they actually
Regional French of Normandy is limited at best, and that, in linguistic terms, Normandy
terms, Normandy is arguably not a single speech-community, since there is little shared
investigated here.
Reference
Labov, William. 2001. Principles of Linguistic Change, Volume 2: Social Factors.
Oxford, UK and Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell.
Item Type: | Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)) |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | France, French, Normandy, Norman, dialectology, history, linguistics, sociolinguistics, phonetics, sociophonetics, ethnography, francais, français, Normandie, normand, dialectologie, histoire, linguistique, sociolinguistique, phonétique, sociophonétique, ethnographie |
Subjects: |
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics P Language and Literature > PC Romance philology and languages |
Divisions: |
Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of European Culture and Languages Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of European Culture and Languages > Centre for Language and Linguistics |
Depositing User: | Damien Hall |
Date Deposited: | 18 May 2012 13:50 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 12:40 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/29541 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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