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Full-Text Articles in French Linguistics
Dream Dinner Or Dinner Disaster? French And American Cultures Collide, Wendy W. Amato Ph.D.
Dream Dinner Or Dinner Disaster? French And American Cultures Collide, Wendy W. Amato Ph.D.
French Model Lesson Plans
Sociocultural Model Lesson Plan centered on a translinguistic and transcultural analysis of French and American dinner party conventions.
A Diachronic Analysis Of Schwa In French, Joshua M. Griffiths
A Diachronic Analysis Of Schwa In French, Joshua M. Griffiths
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Since the beginning of the formal study of language, linguists have struggled with the phonological problems posed by the mid-central vowel sound schwa. Schwa poses a series of challenges for linguists who study many languages, and this is particularly true for phonologists and phoneticians who specialize in French. Most of the challenges that come from analyzing the articulations of schwa in French arise from the overlap it has with mid- and open-mid-front-rounded vowels in French such as in the second vowel in the word “atelier” (workshop) and the second vowel in the word “appeler” (to call.) In this study a …
French Language Legislation In The Digital Age: The Use Of Borrowed English Telecommunication Terms And Their Official French Replacements On Twitter And In The American Foreign Language Classroom, Gina Caruso
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How effective is language legislation? In the age of digital communication and increased globalization, is it possible to create vocabulary and enforce its use? In an effort to continue to develop and modernize the French language to compete with the influx of English technology terms, the French government creates replacement terms for borrowed relevant technological English vocabulary. To determine the use and result of these French replacement terms in "real-time" communication, the micro-blogging social media website, Twitter, was used as a means of gathering linguistic data from Twitter users within 15 miles of Paris, France. Then, three leading introductory French …