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Peer reviewedSankoff, Gillian; Thibault, Pierrette; Nagy, Naomi; Blondeau, Helene; Fonollosa, Marie-Odile; Gagnon, Lucie – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Points out that the use of discourse markers by speakers of Anglophone Montreal French shows great variation in individual repertoires and frequency of use. Argues that mastery of the appropriate use of discourse markers reveals the speakers' integration into the local speech community. (28 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Language Variation
Peer reviewedNagy, Naomi; Reynolds, Bill – Language Variation and Change, 1997
Examines a pattern of end-of-word deletion in Faetar, a Francoprovencal dialect spoken in southern Italy, and considers synchronic variants. The article uses the word "deletion" as a synchronic description of the fact that speakers do not always phonetically produce everything in the input form. Optimality Theory accounts for such…
Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Dialect Studies, Foreign Countries, French
