Raymond Mougeon
Biographic Data
| ID | 101178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raymond Mougeon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raymond |
| FAMILY NAME | Mougeon |
| SIGNATURE | MOUGEON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1126-2113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Acquisition of Variation in the Use of alors, donc, fait que by Advanced French-as-a-Second-Language Learners in Ontario, Canada
This study examines the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in the use of French connectors alors/donc/fait que ‘so’ by two groups of advanced French-as-a-second language (FL2) learners in Ontario: (i) high school French Immersion (FI) students and (ii) university students. It considers two types of functions fulfilled by these connectors: (i) the grammatical function of expressing consequence between two clauses and (ii) a range of discursi…
Participation in (non)salient linguistic change over the lifespan
This paper addresses linguistic change over the lifespan by examining two cases of variation in the speech of the minority Francophone community of Welland, Ontario: (i) consequence markersso, fait que, alors, anddonc("therefore") and (ii) markers of restrictionjuste,seulement que, (r)ien que, and (ne...)que("only"). Using two sociolinguistic corpora collected 40 years apart, this paper first examines the impact of social factors on both cases at…
Patterns of sociolinguistic variation in teacher classroom speech
This study investigates sociolinguistic variation in teacher classroom speech. Based on a spoken‐French corpus produced by 59 teachers while teaching secondary school students (aged approximately 14–17 years) in four Ontario localities, it examines five cases of variant alternations. First, the study uses two comparative corpora to establish the social marking of the variants in the wider community. Second, it examines the teachers’ repertoire an…
Stylistic and discursive functions of French negative particlenein an educational context
This study examines use/non-use of negative particleneby students and teachers in the high schools of four Ontario Francophone communities. The students were recorded in semi-directed interviews and in the classroom. The teachers recorded themselves in the classroom. In the interviews,neuse is marginal and its non-use ubiquitous and not influenced by social class, gender or topic formality. Overall, students do not usenesignificantly more in the …
The Interplay of Internal and External Factors in Grammatical Change
In contemporary spoken European French, on meaning 'we' is the predominant first-person plural variant, having largely supplanted its competitor, nous . There is, however, considerable debate as to whether the domination of on is the result of fairly rapid change in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries or whether there is actually a robust tradition of on usage going back several centuries. In this article, we trace the trajectory of fir…
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The learning of spoken French variation by immersion students from Toronto, Canada
This study on the learning of sociolinguistic variants by 41 adolescents from a French immersion program in Toronto, Canada, synthesizes the findings of our research on this topic. This article provides answers to the following questions. First, do the immersion students use the same range of sociolinguistic variants as do speakers of Quebec French, who are used in our research as a first language (L1) benchmark? Second, do they use variants with…
Expression de la notion de «vehicule automobile» dans le parler des adolescents de l'Ontario
Expression de la notion de « véhicule automobile » dans le parler des adolescents francophones de l’Ontario
Expression de la notion de « véhicule automobile » dans le parler des adolescents francophones de l’Ontario. Un article de la revue Francophonies d'Amérique (Numéro 17, printemps 2004, p. 1-203) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
A Sociolinguistic Study of the Origins of ne Deletion in European and Quebec French
We present and discuss the results of a sociolinguistic historical study of variable deletion of the preverbal negative particle ne ‘not’, a phenomenon observable in many contemporary varieties of spoken French, but which has not yet made its way into standard written French. Our study's two main goals are (i) to contribute to the resolution of a debate over the point in time when ne deletion became a prevalent feature of nonstandard spoken Frenc…
Sociolinguistic Discontinuity in Minority Language Communities
We discuss the Labovian view of the speech community against the backdrop of data from research on variation in minority languages. While members of the same speech community normally share a set of norms for social and stylistic constraints on variation and normally share a common grammar, a number of researchers have noted that some speech communities include subgroups of speakers that are unlike the rest of the community in that they observe d…
Diversité sociolinguistique au sein d'une communauté francophone minoritaire
Au sein de la minorité francophone de l'Ontario, on observe actuellement des différences interindividuelles considérables relativement au degré de contact avec l'anglais, à la différence d'emploi du français et aux modes d'appropriation de cette langue. La présente étude examine l'ensemble des données socio-démographiques relatives à ces différences. Elle fait ensuite un survol des résultats de la recherche sociolinguistique sur la variation du f…
Bilingualism, language shift, and institutional support for French
Article Bilingualism, language shift, and institutional support for French: the case of the Franco-Ontarians was published on January 1, 1994 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1994, issue 105-106)
Interventions gouvernementales en faveur du français au Québec et en Ontario
Un bilan des francophonies québécoise et ontarienne évalue l'impact des mesures favorables au fançais et s'interroge sur leur justifications politiques et philosophiques. Au Québec, elles ont créé un environnement favorable. La position démographique, économique et psycho-sociologique du français s'est améliorée, même si plusieurs inégalités ne sont pas redressées. La communauté franco-québécoise développe avec le (reste du) Canada des rapports m…
Du québécois à l’ontarois
Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction
Introduction Socio-historical background French-language spread Methodology Simplification Children and linguistic change Sociolectal reduction Aborted sociolectal reduction Covert interference Overt interference Core lexical borrowing Conclusion References Index
Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction
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 Édouard 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 spok…
The social and historical context of minority French language education in Ontario
This paper discusses the development of the minority French‐speaking population in Ontario from its origins in the seventeenth century to the present day, focussing on the changing circumstances affecting minority French‐language education. Political, economic and demographic processes are shown to influence the role French‐language schools have been expected to and have been able to play in contributing to the maintenance of French language and …
A sociolinguistic study of language contact, shift, and change
Bilingual speech communities provide linguists with a favorite laboratory to study the effects of language contact on linguistic structure. Without denying the interest or importance of this traditional contrastive approach to the problem of bilingualism, attention is attracted to the often concomitant problem of language shift and to the linguistic consequences of the resultant restriction in subordinate language use: grammatical simplification …
Forensic Linguistics
The application of linguistics to legal issues—what some have labelled “forensic linguistics”—has become increasingly common, varied and consequential (see Brackenridge 1981 for a brief overview). Recently, we three served as language experts in Toronto’s first bilingual jury trial (Regina vs. Lapointe and Sicotte, 1981). Since each of us was assigned a different linguistic problem and since our roles were partially adversary ones (two of us work…
Morphologie et évolution des pronoms déterminatifs dans le français parlé à Welland (Ontario)
Les études plus ou moins récentes consacrées expressément ou en partie au système des pronoms déterminatifs en français parlé européen ou canadien ont mis à jour l’étonnante diversité des formes qui peuvent coexister au sein de ce système. Si ces travaux contiennent parfois en plus d’un simple inventaire des formes relevées, des explications sur les origines possibles de ces formes, ils laissent cependant de côté plusieurs questions qui intéresse…
Linguistics
L’usage de la préposition “sur” en franco-ontarien
Après avoir examiné successivement l’usage de l’auxiliaire avoir ou être au passé composé et plus que parfait et l’usage de la préposition POUR (Mougeon et Carroll, 1976; Canale, Mougeon, Bélanger, Ituen, 1976), nous allons dans la présente étude décrire l’usage de SUR et DESSUS dans le français parlé et écrit d’élèves bilingues fréquentant des écoles secondaires de langue française à Sudbury, Welland et dans le canton de Rayside/Azilda. Notre de…
The learning of spoken French variation by immersion students from Toronto, Canada
This study on the learning of sociolinguistic variants by 41 adolescents from a French immersion program in Toronto, Canada, synthesizes the findings of our research on this topic. This article provides answers to the following questions. First, do the immersion students use the same range of sociolinguistic variants as do speakers of Quebec French, who are used in our research as a first language (L1) benchmark? Second, do they use variants with…
A Sociolinguistic Study of the Origins of ne Deletion in European and Quebec French
We present and discuss the results of a sociolinguistic historical study of variable deletion of the preverbal negative particle ne ‘not’, a phenomenon observable in many contemporary varieties of spoken French, but which has not yet made its way into standard written French. Our study's two main goals are (i) to contribute to the resolution of a debate over the point in time when ne deletion became a prevalent feature of nonstandard spoken Frenc…
The social and historical context of minority French language education in Ontario
This paper discusses the development of the minority French‐speaking population in Ontario from its origins in the seventeenth century to the present day, focussing on the changing circumstances affecting minority French‐language education. Political, economic and demographic processes are shown to influence the role French‐language schools have been expected to and have been able to play in contributing to the maintenance of French language and …
A sociolinguistic study of language contact, shift, and change
Bilingual speech communities provide linguists with a favorite laboratory to study the effects of language contact on linguistic structure. Without denying the interest or importance of this traditional contrastive approach to the problem of bilingualism, attention is attracted to the often concomitant problem of language shift and to the linguistic consequences of the resultant restriction in subordinate language use: grammatical simplification …
Bilingualism, language shift, and institutional support for French
Article Bilingualism, language shift, and institutional support for French: the case of the Franco-Ontarians was published on January 1, 1994 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1994, issue 105-106)
Participation in (non)salient linguistic change over the lifespan
This paper addresses linguistic change over the lifespan by examining two cases of variation in the speech of the minority Francophone community of Welland, Ontario: (i) consequence markersso, fait que, alors, anddonc("therefore") and (ii) markers of restrictionjuste,seulement que, (r)ien que, and (ne...)que("only"). Using two sociolinguistic corpora collected 40 years apart, this paper first examines the impact of social factors on both cases at…
Stylistic and discursive functions of French negative particlenein an educational context
This study examines use/non-use of negative particleneby students and teachers in the high schools of four Ontario Francophone communities. The students were recorded in semi-directed interviews and in the classroom. The teachers recorded themselves in the classroom. In the interviews,neuse is marginal and its non-use ubiquitous and not influenced by social class, gender or topic formality. Overall, students do not usenesignificantly more in the …
The Interplay of Internal and External Factors in Grammatical Change
In contemporary spoken European French, on meaning 'we' is the predominant first-person plural variant, having largely supplanted its competitor, nous . There is, however, considerable debate as to whether the domination of on is the result of fairly rapid change in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries or whether there is actually a robust tradition of on usage going back several centuries. In this article, we trace the trajectory of fir…
Sociolinguistic Discontinuity in Minority Language Communities
We discuss the Labovian view of the speech community against the backdrop of data from research on variation in minority languages. While members of the same speech community normally share a set of norms for social and stylistic constraints on variation and normally share a common grammar, a number of researchers have noted that some speech communities include subgroups of speakers that are unlike the rest of the community in that they observe d…
Patterns of sociolinguistic variation in teacher classroom speech
This study investigates sociolinguistic variation in teacher classroom speech. Based on a spoken‐French corpus produced by 59 teachers while teaching secondary school students (aged approximately 14–17 years) in four Ontario localities, it examines five cases of variant alternations. First, the study uses two comparative corpora to establish the social marking of the variants in the wider community. Second, it examines the teachers’ repertoire an…
Diversité sociolinguistique au sein d'une communauté francophone minoritaire
Au sein de la minorité francophone de l'Ontario, on observe actuellement des différences interindividuelles considérables relativement au degré de contact avec l'anglais, à la différence d'emploi du français et aux modes d'appropriation de cette langue. La présente étude examine l'ensemble des données socio-démographiques relatives à ces différences. Elle fait ensuite un survol des résultats de la recherche sociolinguistique sur la variation du f…
L’usage de la préposition “sur” en franco-ontarien
Après avoir examiné successivement l’usage de l’auxiliaire avoir ou être au passé composé et plus que parfait et l’usage de la préposition POUR (Mougeon et Carroll, 1976; Canale, Mougeon, Bélanger, Ituen, 1976), nous allons dans la présente étude décrire l’usage de SUR et DESSUS dans le français parlé et écrit d’élèves bilingues fréquentant des écoles secondaires de langue française à Sudbury, Welland et dans le canton de Rayside/Azilda. Notre de…
Linguistics
Forensic Linguistics
The application of linguistics to legal issues—what some have labelled “forensic linguistics”—has become increasingly common, varied and consequential (see Brackenridge 1981 for a brief overview). Recently, we three served as language experts in Toronto’s first bilingual jury trial (Regina vs. Lapointe and Sicotte, 1981). Since each of us was assigned a different linguistic problem and since our roles were partially adversary ones (two of us work…
Morphologie et évolution des pronoms déterminatifs dans le français parlé à Welland (Ontario)
Les études plus ou moins récentes consacrées expressément ou en partie au système des pronoms déterminatifs en français parlé européen ou canadien ont mis à jour l’étonnante diversité des formes qui peuvent coexister au sein de ce système. Si ces travaux contiennent parfois en plus d’un simple inventaire des formes relevées, des explications sur les origines possibles de ces formes, ils laissent cependant de côté plusieurs questions qui intéresse…
A sociolinguistic study of language contact, shift, and change
Bilingual speech communities provide linguists with a favorite laboratory to study the effects of language contact on linguistic structure. Without denying the interest or importance of this traditional contrastive approach to the problem of bilingualism, attention is attracted to the often concomitant problem of language shift and to the linguistic consequences of the resultant restriction in subordinate language use: grammatical simplification …
The social and historical context of minority French language education in Ontario
This paper discusses the development of the minority French‐speaking population in Ontario from its origins in the seventeenth century to the present day, focussing on the changing circumstances affecting minority French‐language education. Political, economic and demographic processes are shown to influence the role French‐language schools have been expected to and have been able to play in contributing to the maintenance of French language and …
Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction
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 Édouard 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 spok…
Linguistic Consequences of Language Contact and Restriction
Introduction Socio-historical background French-language spread Methodology Simplification Children and linguistic change Sociolectal reduction Aborted sociolectal reduction Covert interference Overt interference Core lexical borrowing Conclusion References Index
Du québécois à l’ontarois
Bilingualism, language shift, and institutional support for French
Article Bilingualism, language shift, and institutional support for French: the case of the Franco-Ontarians was published on January 1, 1994 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1994, issue 105-106)
Interventions gouvernementales en faveur du français au Québec et en Ontario
Un bilan des francophonies québécoise et ontarienne évalue l'impact des mesures favorables au fançais et s'interroge sur leur justifications politiques et philosophiques. Au Québec, elles ont créé un environnement favorable. La position démographique, économique et psycho-sociologique du français s'est améliorée, même si plusieurs inégalités ne sont pas redressées. La communauté franco-québécoise développe avec le (reste du) Canada des rapports m…
Diversité sociolinguistique au sein d'une communauté francophone minoritaire
Au sein de la minorité francophone de l'Ontario, on observe actuellement des différences interindividuelles considérables relativement au degré de contact avec l'anglais, à la différence d'emploi du français et aux modes d'appropriation de cette langue. La présente étude examine l'ensemble des données socio-démographiques relatives à ces différences. Elle fait ensuite un survol des résultats de la recherche sociolinguistique sur la variation du f…
Sociolinguistic Discontinuity in Minority Language Communities
We discuss the Labovian view of the speech community against the backdrop of data from research on variation in minority languages. While members of the same speech community normally share a set of norms for social and stylistic constraints on variation and normally share a common grammar, a number of researchers have noted that some speech communities include subgroups of speakers that are unlike the rest of the community in that they observe d…
A Sociolinguistic Study of the Origins of ne Deletion in European and Quebec French
We present and discuss the results of a sociolinguistic historical study of variable deletion of the preverbal negative particle ne ‘not’, a phenomenon observable in many contemporary varieties of spoken French, but which has not yet made its way into standard written French. Our study's two main goals are (i) to contribute to the resolution of a debate over the point in time when ne deletion became a prevalent feature of nonstandard spoken Frenc…
The learning of spoken French variation by immersion students from Toronto, Canada
This study on the learning of sociolinguistic variants by 41 adolescents from a French immersion program in Toronto, Canada, synthesizes the findings of our research on this topic. This article provides answers to the following questions. First, do the immersion students use the same range of sociolinguistic variants as do speakers of Quebec French, who are used in our research as a first language (L1) benchmark? Second, do they use variants with…
Expression de la notion de «vehicule automobile» dans le parler des adolescents de l'Ontario
Expression de la notion de « véhicule automobile » dans le parler des adolescents francophones de l’Ontario
Expression de la notion de « véhicule automobile » dans le parler des adolescents francophones de l’Ontario. Un article de la revue Francophonies d'Amérique (Numéro 17, printemps 2004, p. 1-203) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Présentation
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Interplay of Internal and External Factors in Grammatical Change
In contemporary spoken European French, on meaning 'we' is the predominant first-person plural variant, having largely supplanted its competitor, nous . There is, however, considerable debate as to whether the domination of on is the result of fairly rapid change in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries or whether there is actually a robust tradition of on usage going back several centuries. In this article, we trace the trajectory of fir…
Stylistic and discursive functions of French negative particlenein an educational context
This study examines use/non-use of negative particleneby students and teachers in the high schools of four Ontario Francophone communities. The students were recorded in semi-directed interviews and in the classroom. The teachers recorded themselves in the classroom. In the interviews,neuse is marginal and its non-use ubiquitous and not influenced by social class, gender or topic formality. Overall, students do not usenesignificantly more in the …
Patterns of sociolinguistic variation in teacher classroom speech
This study investigates sociolinguistic variation in teacher classroom speech. Based on a spoken‐French corpus produced by 59 teachers while teaching secondary school students (aged approximately 14–17 years) in four Ontario localities, it examines five cases of variant alternations. First, the study uses two comparative corpora to establish the social marking of the variants in the wider community. Second, it examines the teachers’ repertoire an…
Participation in (non)salient linguistic change over the lifespan
This paper addresses linguistic change over the lifespan by examining two cases of variation in the speech of the minority Francophone community of Welland, Ontario: (i) consequence markersso, fait que, alors, anddonc("therefore") and (ii) markers of restrictionjuste,seulement que, (r)ien que, and (ne...)que("only"). Using two sociolinguistic corpora collected 40 years apart, this paper first examines the impact of social factors on both cases at…
Acquisition of Variation in the Use of alors, donc, fait que by Advanced French-as-a-Second-Language Learners in Ontario, Canada
This study examines the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation in the use of French connectors alors/donc/fait que ‘so’ by two groups of advanced French-as-a-second language (FL2) learners in Ontario: (i) high school French Immersion (FI) students and (ii) university students. It considers two types of functions fulfilled by these connectors: (i) the grammatical function of expressing consequence between two clauses and (ii) a range of discursi…
Linguistics (17 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · History (10 works) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · Humanities (8 works) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (8 works)