This paper addresses how gender and age, as macro-sociological factors, influence variation and change in the Northern Moroccan Arabic variety of Ouezzane, and how social meaning plays a role in this variation. To do so, it examines the high degree of variability in the realization of two phonetic variables, the voiceless alveolar plosive /t/ and the voiceless uvular plosive /q/, in a corpus of semi-scripted interviews with 20 local informants. The data for the study was gathered during several fieldwork campaigns carried out between 2014 and 2021. The analysis combines quantitative and qualitative methods. Quantitative comparisons are drawn across gender and three age categories (under 30, between 30 and 50, and over 50) to search for gender and/or age markers, while the data are qualitatively analyzed with regard to the increase in the use of certain allophones, attrition and loss of other variants, and metalinguistic comments made by informants on those traits. These two methods make it possible to identify how the phonetic variables analyzed contribute to the construction of various identities, such as an “older person” identity, as well as self-affiliation with particular social groups, such as “artisans” or “rural women”, from which other groups, such as male university graduates, are keen to distance themselves.

This volume contains over fifty articles related to various fields of modern Arabic dialectology.All the articles are revised and enhanced versions of papers read on the 12 th Conference of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA) held in Marseille in June 2017. Since its first conference in Paris in 1993, AIDA members gather every two years in different country. The collection of the AIDA proceedings offer an updated insight of the development of the field.During the past few decadesthe the study of Arabic dialects has become an important branch of research covering a wide range of subjects from phonological analyses, morphosyntax, semantics to pragmatics, sociolinguistics, folk linguistics, studies on literacy and writings, cultural and artistic practices, etc. As many articles of this volume illustrate, the study of Arabic dialects explores different aspects of the languages and cultures of the contemporary Arab world. A remarkable feature is the growing and constant participation of young scholars from all around the globe.

Dans cet article, on présente une réflexion sur les représentations d’animaux dans le patrimoine oral du Maroc. Un corpus de proverbes a été récolté et ceux-ci ont été comparés avec différentes sources, écrites et orales, telles que des textes sacrés, des « bestiaires » médiévaux, des sources littéraires ou des croyances populaires. L’intention de cette comparaison est d'élargir l'horizon des représentations d’animaux ainsi que d’essayer de trouver l’origine de ces proverbes. Ensuite, les proverbes ont été analysés à la lumière des concepts proposés par l'Anthropologie de la mémoire. Cette information va permettre de donner des réponses à des questions telles que : Pourquoi ces proverbes restent-ils dans la mémoire collective ? Les animaux jouent-ils un rôle spécifique dans le maintien du proverbe ? Pourquoi sont-ils caractérisés dans les proverbes d'une façon et non pas d'une autre ?

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