Hélène Blondeau
Biographic Data
| ID | 3592399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hélène Blondeau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hélène |
| FAMILY NAME | Blondeau |
| SIGNATURE | BLONDEAU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0546-0674 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 176 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The hidden dimensions of a change from below: Consequence markers in Montreal French
This article examines the rise of vernacular consequence marker ça-fait-que (CFQ), often realized as [fɛk] or [fak], at the expense of its standard counterparts donc and alors in Montreal French. The apparent-time analysis is based on a 2012 corpus of semi-directed interviews collected in Montreal. Previous studies treated the CFQ/donc/alors alternation as a purely lexical sociolinguistic variable. Our analysis shows how a vernacular variant ( CF…
La dynamique de la variation pronominale: Micro-Diachronie Des Formes Simples Et Complexes en Français Montréalais
Cet article examine la variation entre les formes non clitiques simples ( nous , vous , eux ) et leurs correspondants complexes composés avec autres ( nous autres , vous autres , eux autres ). L’étude mesure l’avancée des formes simples sur une échelle micro-diachronique entre 1971 et 2012. L’analyse variationniste d’entretiens sociolinguistiques recueillis en 2012 indique un changement en faveur des formes simples (48 % contre 8 % en 1971). En 2…
Les francophonies et la variation
A new milestone for the study of variation in Montréal French: The Hochelaga-Maisonneuve sociolinguistic survey
This article introduces the 2012 Montréal FRAN-HOMA corpus, collected in the Francophone neighborhood of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, and how it relates to the heritage corpora of Montréal French collected since the 1970s. We discuss the methodological choices made regarding the composition of this corpus including the historical and demo-linguistic information that led to the selection of the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighborhood for fieldwork. A present…
De la rareté des formes simples des pronoms disjoints du pluriel dans le français parlé à Montréal
Cette étude qui porte sur un aspect du système des pronoms en français analyse la variation entre les formes simples et composées des pronoms personnels disjoints dans la communauté linguistique de Montréal. Les résultats présentés indiquent une nette tendance à favoriser les formes composées et ce, dans les deux contextes étudiés, soit les cas où le pronom disjoint apparaît en concomitance avec un élément clitique et ceux où le pronom disjoint s…
Québec French in Florida: North American Francophone Language Practices on the Road
This article explores the language practices of a group of speakers who experience a high degree of mobility and regular backand-forth contact between Francophone Canada and the US, namely Francophones speakers of Québécois origin who move in and out of South Florida. Using a case study approach, the analysis of interviews collected during fieldwork sheds light on the language practices from the point of view of both language use and language rep…
La référence temporelle au futur dans les bulletins météo en France et au Québec: Regard variationniste sur l'oral préparé
La distribution des variables utilisées pour l'expression de l'ultériorité a fait l'objet de nombreuses études, centrées sur l'oral conversationnel ou sur l’écrit. Cet article apporte un éclairage inédit sur la question en considérant les marqueurs du futur dans un contexte communicatif d'oral préparé (le bulletin météo télévisé), et dans une optique diatopique (comparaison d'un corpus français et d'un corpus québécois). L'analyse distributionnel…
Emerging Francophone Language Practices in a Global Montreal: A Case Study of Speakers of Latin American Descent
Adopting a case study approach, this article examines the language practices of Francophone speakers of Latin American descent and their contribution to the dynamics of Montreal French. The research focus is on discourse features, and the analysis demonstrates that, far more than only indexical, the choice of variants among the linguistic repertoire highlights how the agency of the speakers is at play in the context of their oral performance. In …
Future temporal reference in the bilingual repertoire of Anglo-Montrealers: A twin variable
This article focuses on the development of sociolinguistic competence in a second language, (here, French being acquired by young Anglo-Montrealers) in a naturalistic context where the target language is part of daily life. Sociolinguistic competence is assessed through analysis of Anglo-Montrealers’ use of a morphosyntactic variable, Future Temporal Reference (FTR), in both French and English. Variationist analyses reveal that Anglo-Montrealers …
Manifestations phonétiques de la dynamique des attributions ethnolinguistiques à Montreal
Montrealers are often categorized into three distinct groups: Anglophones, Francophones, and Allophones. However, within these groups there are individuals whose trajectories are complex, as reflected, for example, in their linguistic practices. Our interest lies in the relationship between these complex practices and the ethnolin-guistic attributions of the speakers. We concentrate on two groups of Francophones: those from Spanish-speaking famil…
Hybridité et variation dans les SMS: Le corpus Texto4Science et l’oralité en français montréalais
This article presents an analysis of a Montreal French corpus of text messages and considers the link between text messaging, and both spoken and written language. This corpus is part of a larger corpus of text messages sent by mobile phone (Texto4-Science). Our study focuses on two morphosyntactic variables for which an important sociostylistic variation has been reported in Montreal French: the alternation between the strong pronouns nous/nous …
L'Extrémité méridionale du français québécois en Amérique du Nord. Pratiques langagières des Québécois en Floride du Sud
The representations of French as part of the linguistic repertoire of young Anglo-Montrealers
Examining the linguistic repertoire of the Anglophone community living in Montreal, this article provides an analysis of the representations of the variety of French spoken by the first generation of young Anglophones who had experienced different types of contact with French. The relation between functional competence and usage of French is examined through a qualitative analysis of interviews collected from young Anglo-Montrealers, and an analy…
Language change across the lifespan: R/ in Montreal French
We address the articulation between language change in the historical sense and language change as experienced by individual speakers through a trend and panel study of the change from apical to dorsal /r/ in Montreal French. The community as a whole rapidly advanced its use of dorsal [R]. Most individual speakers followed across time were stable after the critical period, with phonological patterns set by the end of adolescence. A sizeable minor…
Second language acquisition and “real” French: An investigation of subject doubling in the French of Montreal Anglophones
We investigated the French of the first generation of Montreal Anglophones who had had access to French immersion schooling. Our aim was to determine the extent to which these Anglophones had acquired the variable grammar of their Francophone peers and how that was related to the type of French instruction received and to the types of exposure to French. In Montreal French, a subject NP may be “echoed” by a pronoun without emphatic or contrastive…
Real-time changes in the paradigm of personal pronouns in Montreal French
Based on the results of three variationist studies on personal pronouns used in Montreal French, this article shows how real-time data can shed light on 'apparent time interpretation' and increase our understanding of morphosyntactic changes. Longitudinal data for a 24-year period from three corpora of spoken French are used to discuss cases of variation: variation between the clitics on and nous, alternation between on and tu/vous, and variation…
Variation in the use of discourse markers in a language contact situation
Use of discourse markers by 17 speakers of Anglophone Montreal French (AMF) showed great variation in individual repertoires and frequency of use. Only five subjects manifested rates of usage comparable to those of native speakers or to their own LI usage in English. In decreasing order of frequency, the speakers used tu sais ‘y'know’; là ‘there’ (the most frequent among L1 Montreal French speakers); bon ‘good’, alors ‘so’, comme ‘like’, and bien…
Language change across the lifespan: R/ in Montreal French
We address the articulation between language change in the historical sense and language change as experienced by individual speakers through a trend and panel study of the change from apical to dorsal /r/ in Montreal French. The community as a whole rapidly advanced its use of dorsal [R]. Most individual speakers followed across time were stable after the critical period, with phonological patterns set by the end of adolescence. A sizeable minor…
Variation in the use of discourse markers in a language contact situation
Use of discourse markers by 17 speakers of Anglophone Montreal French (AMF) showed great variation in individual repertoires and frequency of use. Only five subjects manifested rates of usage comparable to those of native speakers or to their own LI usage in English. In decreasing order of frequency, the speakers used tu sais ‘y'know’; là ‘there’ (the most frequent among L1 Montreal French speakers); bon ‘good’, alors ‘so’, comme ‘like’, and bien…
Real-time changes in the paradigm of personal pronouns in Montreal French
Based on the results of three variationist studies on personal pronouns used in Montreal French, this article shows how real-time data can shed light on 'apparent time interpretation' and increase our understanding of morphosyntactic changes. Longitudinal data for a 24-year period from three corpora of spoken French are used to discuss cases of variation: variation between the clitics on and nous, alternation between on and tu/vous, and variation…
Second language acquisition and “real” French: An investigation of subject doubling in the French of Montreal Anglophones
We investigated the French of the first generation of Montreal Anglophones who had had access to French immersion schooling. Our aim was to determine the extent to which these Anglophones had acquired the variable grammar of their Francophone peers and how that was related to the type of French instruction received and to the types of exposure to French. In Montreal French, a subject NP may be “echoed” by a pronoun without emphatic or contrastive…
La dynamique de la variation pronominale: Micro-Diachronie Des Formes Simples Et Complexes en Français Montréalais
Cet article examine la variation entre les formes non clitiques simples ( nous , vous , eux ) et leurs correspondants complexes composés avec autres ( nous autres , vous autres , eux autres ). L’étude mesure l’avancée des formes simples sur une échelle micro-diachronique entre 1971 et 2012. L’analyse variationniste d’entretiens sociolinguistiques recueillis en 2012 indique un changement en faveur des formes simples (48 % contre 8 % en 1971). En 2…
De la rareté des formes simples des pronoms disjoints du pluriel dans le français parlé à Montréal
Cette étude qui porte sur un aspect du système des pronoms en français analyse la variation entre les formes simples et composées des pronoms personnels disjoints dans la communauté linguistique de Montréal. Les résultats présentés indiquent une nette tendance à favoriser les formes composées et ce, dans les deux contextes étudiés, soit les cas où le pronom disjoint apparaît en concomitance avec un élément clitique et ceux où le pronom disjoint s…
Québec French in Florida: North American Francophone Language Practices on the Road
This article explores the language practices of a group of speakers who experience a high degree of mobility and regular backand-forth contact between Francophone Canada and the US, namely Francophones speakers of Québécois origin who move in and out of South Florida. Using a case study approach, the analysis of interviews collected during fieldwork sheds light on the language practices from the point of view of both language use and language rep…
Variation in the use of discourse markers in a language contact situation
Use of discourse markers by 17 speakers of Anglophone Montreal French (AMF) showed great variation in individual repertoires and frequency of use. Only five subjects manifested rates of usage comparable to those of native speakers or to their own LI usage in English. In decreasing order of frequency, the speakers used tu sais ‘y'know’; là ‘there’ (the most frequent among L1 Montreal French speakers); bon ‘good’, alors ‘so’, comme ‘like’, and bien…
Real-time changes in the paradigm of personal pronouns in Montreal French
Based on the results of three variationist studies on personal pronouns used in Montreal French, this article shows how real-time data can shed light on 'apparent time interpretation' and increase our understanding of morphosyntactic changes. Longitudinal data for a 24-year period from three corpora of spoken French are used to discuss cases of variation: variation between the clitics on and nous, alternation between on and tu/vous, and variation…
Second language acquisition and “real” French: An investigation of subject doubling in the French of Montreal Anglophones
We investigated the French of the first generation of Montreal Anglophones who had had access to French immersion schooling. Our aim was to determine the extent to which these Anglophones had acquired the variable grammar of their Francophone peers and how that was related to the type of French instruction received and to the types of exposure to French. In Montreal French, a subject NP may be “echoed” by a pronoun without emphatic or contrastive…
Language change across the lifespan: R/ in Montreal French
We address the articulation between language change in the historical sense and language change as experienced by individual speakers through a trend and panel study of the change from apical to dorsal /r/ in Montreal French. The community as a whole rapidly advanced its use of dorsal [R]. Most individual speakers followed across time were stable after the critical period, with phonological patterns set by the end of adolescence. A sizeable minor…
The representations of French as part of the linguistic repertoire of young Anglo-Montrealers
Examining the linguistic repertoire of the Anglophone community living in Montreal, this article provides an analysis of the representations of the variety of French spoken by the first generation of young Anglophones who had experienced different types of contact with French. The relation between functional competence and usage of French is examined through a qualitative analysis of interviews collected from young Anglo-Montrealers, and an analy…
L'Extrémité méridionale du français québécois en Amérique du Nord. Pratiques langagières des Québécois en Floride du Sud
Future temporal reference in the bilingual repertoire of Anglo-Montrealers: A twin variable
This article focuses on the development of sociolinguistic competence in a second language, (here, French being acquired by young Anglo-Montrealers) in a naturalistic context where the target language is part of daily life. Sociolinguistic competence is assessed through analysis of Anglo-Montrealers’ use of a morphosyntactic variable, Future Temporal Reference (FTR), in both French and English. Variationist analyses reveal that Anglo-Montrealers …
Manifestations phonétiques de la dynamique des attributions ethnolinguistiques à Montreal
Montrealers are often categorized into three distinct groups: Anglophones, Francophones, and Allophones. However, within these groups there are individuals whose trajectories are complex, as reflected, for example, in their linguistic practices. Our interest lies in the relationship between these complex practices and the ethnolin-guistic attributions of the speakers. We concentrate on two groups of Francophones: those from Spanish-speaking famil…
Hybridité et variation dans les SMS: Le corpus Texto4Science et l’oralité en français montréalais
This article presents an analysis of a Montreal French corpus of text messages and considers the link between text messaging, and both spoken and written language. This corpus is part of a larger corpus of text messages sent by mobile phone (Texto4-Science). Our study focuses on two morphosyntactic variables for which an important sociostylistic variation has been reported in Montreal French: the alternation between the strong pronouns nous/nous …
La référence temporelle au futur dans les bulletins météo en France et au Québec: Regard variationniste sur l'oral préparé
La distribution des variables utilisées pour l'expression de l'ultériorité a fait l'objet de nombreuses études, centrées sur l'oral conversationnel ou sur l’écrit. Cet article apporte un éclairage inédit sur la question en considérant les marqueurs du futur dans un contexte communicatif d'oral préparé (le bulletin météo télévisé), et dans une optique diatopique (comparaison d'un corpus français et d'un corpus québécois). L'analyse distributionnel…
Emerging Francophone Language Practices in a Global Montreal: A Case Study of Speakers of Latin American Descent
Adopting a case study approach, this article examines the language practices of Francophone speakers of Latin American descent and their contribution to the dynamics of Montreal French. The research focus is on discourse features, and the analysis demonstrates that, far more than only indexical, the choice of variants among the linguistic repertoire highlights how the agency of the speakers is at play in the context of their oral performance. In …
Québec French in Florida: North American Francophone Language Practices on the Road
This article explores the language practices of a group of speakers who experience a high degree of mobility and regular backand-forth contact between Francophone Canada and the US, namely Francophones speakers of Québécois origin who move in and out of South Florida. Using a case study approach, the analysis of interviews collected during fieldwork sheds light on the language practices from the point of view of both language use and language rep…
Les francophonies et la variation
A new milestone for the study of variation in Montréal French: The Hochelaga-Maisonneuve sociolinguistic survey
This article introduces the 2012 Montréal FRAN-HOMA corpus, collected in the Francophone neighborhood of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, and how it relates to the heritage corpora of Montréal French collected since the 1970s. We discuss the methodological choices made regarding the composition of this corpus including the historical and demo-linguistic information that led to the selection of the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighborhood for fieldwork. A present…
De la rareté des formes simples des pronoms disjoints du pluriel dans le français parlé à Montréal
Cette étude qui porte sur un aspect du système des pronoms en français analyse la variation entre les formes simples et composées des pronoms personnels disjoints dans la communauté linguistique de Montréal. Les résultats présentés indiquent une nette tendance à favoriser les formes composées et ce, dans les deux contextes étudiés, soit les cas où le pronom disjoint apparaît en concomitance avec un élément clitique et ceux où le pronom disjoint s…
The hidden dimensions of a change from below: Consequence markers in Montreal French
This article examines the rise of vernacular consequence marker ça-fait-que (CFQ), often realized as [fɛk] or [fak], at the expense of its standard counterparts donc and alors in Montreal French. The apparent-time analysis is based on a 2012 corpus of semi-directed interviews collected in Montreal. Previous studies treated the CFQ/donc/alors alternation as a purely lexical sociolinguistic variable. Our analysis shows how a vernacular variant ( CF…
La dynamique de la variation pronominale: Micro-Diachronie Des Formes Simples Et Complexes en Français Montréalais
Cet article examine la variation entre les formes non clitiques simples ( nous , vous , eux ) et leurs correspondants complexes composés avec autres ( nous autres , vous autres , eux autres ). L’étude mesure l’avancée des formes simples sur une échelle micro-diachronique entre 1971 et 2012. L’analyse variationniste d’entretiens sociolinguistiques recueillis en 2012 indique un changement en faveur des formes simples (48 % contre 8 % en 1971). En 2…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (7 works) · French (7 works) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Humanities (6 works)