Variable Liaison, Diglossia, and the Style Dimension in Spoken French
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7778043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Hornsby (0000-0001-9541-2830, University of Kent, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 578-597 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1128 • E-ISSN: 1468-2931 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/fs/knz156 |
| OpenAlex | W2970457620 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
A focus of recent attention, and controversy, in French linguistics has been the diglossia hypothesis,1 according to which formal French has diverged to such a degree from everyday spoken language that native speakers now internalize two separate grammars, High (H) and Low (L), or in Benjamin Massot’s terms français classique tardif (FCT) and français démotique (FD) respectively.2 Variable liaison, which involves the realization in word-final, prevocalic position of consonants which have been lost in other environments, is particularly associated with elevated speech styles, and would appear to be a marker par excellence of FCT (or H variety) speech. Our purpose here, therefore, is to illuminate both the diglossia debate and our understanding of stylistic variation in French more generally, by examining variable liaison in two contrasting speech styles. We begin by reconsidering first the claims of the diglossic model, and then an influential model of liaison developed by...
Art · Diglossia · Dimension (graph theory) · Focus (optics) · Linguistics · Literature · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Physics · Realization (probability) · Spoken language · Style (visual arts) · Variable (mathematics) · Variety (cybernetics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |