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Hansen, Anita Berit – Language Variation and Change, 2001
Explores the notion of lexical diffusion in relation to an ongoing change in modern French nasal vowels. Data are interviews with 42 Parisians. Reveals an independent lexical and grammatical conditioning, one not entirely explicable in terms of stress or phonetics. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: French, Grammar, Interviews, Language Variation