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This book reports the findings of an extensive research project on
the acquisition of the native norms of spoken French variation by
French immersion students who have learnt their second language
primarily in an educational context. The project focused on a range
of phonetic, lexical and grammatical sociolinguistic variants
documented in studies of contemporary first language varieties of
spoken French, and assessed the extent to which the students master
the linguistic and extra-linguistic factors which govern variant
choice. The book also discusses pedagogical strategies to improve
the students' mastery of spoken French variation. The book
represents an important contribution to an under-researched aspect
of advanced Second Language Acquisition in an institutional
setting.
The description of minority or threatened languages with a view to
documenting the linguistic consequences of language contact and
restriction has now emerged as a distinct area of investigation
within sociolinguistics. In this book, Raymond Mougeon and Edouard
Beniak present a series of analyses of the impact that contact with
English on the one hand, and language-use restriction on the other,
have had on the evolution of the French dialect spoken in the
predominantly English-speaking province of Ontario, Canada. As a
background to the analyses, the authors provide sociohistorical and
sociolinguistic information on the Franco-Ontarian community, and
make comparisons with other varieties of French both within and
outside North America. They address fundamental theoretical issues
such as the interplay between linguistic and extralinguistic causes
of structural change and the mechanisms of linguistic change in
bilingual as opposed to unilingual speech communities.
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