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Carol A. Ready – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2025
In my research I examine the linguistic practices of Moroccans in Spain, many of whom speak Moroccan Arabic as well as Modern Standard Arabic, Tamazight, French, English and Spanish at varying levels of proficiency. As part of my research, I conducted a 10-month linguistic ethnography. I was able to rely on my native English and near-native…
Descriptors: Sociolinguistics, Arabic, Language Variation, Immigrants
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Walsh, Olivia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2021
Quebec has a tradition of language columns, articles discussing questions related to the French language produced by a single author and published regularly in the periodical press. This study examines the content and discourse of a sample of these language columns produced by six authors in Quebec during the twentieth century to explore possible…
Descriptors: French, Language Attitudes, Language Variation, Standard Spoken Usage
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Von Holzen, Katie; van Ommen, Sandrien; White, Katherine S.; Nazzi, Thierry – Language Learning and Development, 2023
Successful word recognition requires that listeners attend to differences that are phonemic in the language while also remaining flexible to the variation introduced by different voices and accents. Previous work has demonstrated that American-English-learning 19-month-olds are able to balance these demands: although one-off one-feature…
Descriptors: Pronunciation, Vowels, Phonology, Phonemes
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Drackley, Patrick – Language Policy, 2019
This paper addresses the role of bottom-up prescriptive pressures in language policy debates and their interplay with institution-driven, top-down influences. I approach this issue through an analysis of social media data concerning debates surrounding recent orthographic reform in France. Building on Heyd's (Lang Soc 43: 489-514, 2014) discussion…
Descriptors: French, Spelling, Social Media, Language Planning
Bylin, Maria; Tingsell, Sofia – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2022
The study compares the uses of the native-speaker concept as a legitimizing resource in language-standard ideologies and normative discourse in five languages of European origin. Much research and international discussion has focused on the native speaker of English, a symbolically international language. We aim to show how the native-speaker…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Native Speakers, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
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McInerney, Erin – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2023
The many permutations of spoken English have called for an interrogation into the notions of 'standard English' and 'native accents'. Despite their problematic nature, these terms remain commonly used, and familiarity with 'standard', inner-circle varieties of English is typical among L2 English speakers, differences in education and language…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Variation
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Dragojevic, Marko; Goatley-Soan, Sean – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2022
This study examined Americans' attitudes toward standard American English (SAE) and nine, non-Anglo foreign accents: Arabic, Farsi, French, German, Hindi, Hispanic, Mandarin, Russian, and Vietnamese. Compared to SAE speakers, all foreign-accented speakers were rated as harder to understand, more likely to be categorised as foreign (rather than…
Descriptors: North Americans, Language Attitudes, Standard Spoken Usage, Pronunciation
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Licata, Gabriella – L2 Journal, 2021
Appropriateness-based models of language learning and teaching are rooted in a pervasive neocolonial agenda informed by Eurocentric epistemologies of "standard" or "academic" language (Flores & Rosa, 2015). In examining the normalized limitations of a language program through a raciolinguistic lens, we can better comprehend…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Variation
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Paquet-Gauthier, Myriam; Beaulieu, Suzie – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016
For the past three decades, momentum has gathered in favour of a multilingual turn in second language acquisition research and teaching. "Multicompetence" has been proposed to replace "nativeness" and "monolingualism" to measure L2 learners' success. This proposed shift has not made its way into L2 teaching settings.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Multilingualism, Teaching Methods
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Sayahi, Lotfi – Arab Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016
The present paper analyzes the challenges of literacy development in cases of classical diglossia and bilingualism. The main argument is that the diverse levels of proficiency in the varieties present in a given linguistic market have implications for and are shaped by processes of literacy development, feelings of linguistic insecurity, and the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Literacy, Semitic Languages, Standard Spoken Usage
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Dufour, Sophie; Brunelliere, Angele; Nguyen, Noel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2013
This combined ERP and behavioral experiment explores the dynamics of processing during the discrimination of vowels in a non-native regional variety. Southern listeners were presented with three word forms, two of which are encountered in both Standard and Southern French ([kot] and [kut]), whereas the third one exists in Standard but not Southern…
Descriptors: Phonemics, French, Language Variation, Language Processing
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Brunelliere, Angele; Dufour, Sophie; Nguyen, Noel – Brain and Language, 2011
Using the mismatch negativity (MMN) response, we examined how Standard French and Southern French speakers access the meaning of words ending in /e/ or /[epsilon]/ vowels which are contrastive in Standard French but not in Southern French. In Standard French speakers, there was a significant difference in the amplitude of the brain response after…
Descriptors: Standard Spoken Usage, Semantics, Word Recognition, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Poplack, Shana; Dion, Nathalie – Language, 2009
Because many of the forms participating in inherent variability are not attested in the standard language, they are often construed as evidence of change. We test this assumption by confronting the standard, as instantiated by a unique corpus covering five centuries of French grammatical injunctions, with data on the evolution of spontaneous…
Descriptors: Speech, Language Variation, Grammar, Multivariate Analysis
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van Compernolle, Remi A.; Williams, Lawrence – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2009
This article reports on the variable omission of the French negative particle "ne" (the first marker of verbal negation) in synchronous (i.e., real-time) electronic communication environments. Patterns of variation in a corpus of non-educational chat (i.e., free, public-access Internet chat) are analyzed and compared to data produced by first-,…
Descriptors: Language Variation, French, Computational Linguistics, Synchronous Communication
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Barrera-Vidal, A. – Zielsprache Franzosisch, 1975
The foreign learner should be taught standard French, but also something about the principal social variants (plus perhaps one regional--southern French, because of its importance). He should use a restricted standard French at first, moving cautiously toward the appropriate variant, according to circumstances. (Text is in French.) (IFS/WGA)
Descriptors: French, Language Instruction, Language Variation, Second Language Learning
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