TY - BOOK ID - 5535845 TI - Phonological variation in French : illustrations from three continents AU - Gess, Randall Scott AU - Lyche, Chantal. AU - Meisenburg, Trudel. PY - 2012 SN - 9789027234919 9789027273185 9027273189 9781283894975 1283894971 9027234914 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, DB - UniCat KW - French language KW - Français (Langue) KW - Français (Langue) à l'étranger KW - Phonology. KW - Variation. KW - Phonologie KW - Variation KW - Phonétique KW - Prosodie (linguistique) KW - Grammaire KW - Langues KW - Français (Langue) KW - Français (Langue) à l'étranger KW - Phonétique. KW - Phonologie. KW - Grammaire. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5535845 AB - This volume presents a selection of French varieties representing the great diversity of this language along geographical, social, and stylistic dimensions. Twelve illustrations from regions as far removed as Western Canada and Central Africa represent widely divergent social contexts of language use. Each chapter is based on original surveys conducted within the framework of the Phonology of Contemporary French project, described in the Introduction. These surveys constitute an invaluable source of new data for researchers, as many of the varieties included are otherwise undocumented in any ER -