A new milestone for the study of variation in Montréal French: The Hochelaga-Maisonneuve sociolinguistic survey

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This research was supported by SSHRC research grants #435-2019-0640 40 ans de changement linguistique à Montréal et à Welland: le rôle de l'individu et de la communauté (M. Tremblay) and #412-2011-1005 Le français à la mesure d'un continent (F. Martineau). We would like to thank our colleagues, France Martineau, Yves Frenette, and Paul-André Linteau, as well as Raymond Mougeon for their contribution to this research endeavor, our research assistants (Guillaume Beauchamp, Geneviève Gauthier, Philippe Morneau), the participants at the conference 50 ans de linguistique sur corpus oraux (U. of Orléans), NWAV48 2019 (U. Oregon) for their feedback, two anonymous reviewers and the editors of the volume for their useful comments. Any remaining errors are entirely our own.

The hidden dimensions of a change from below: Consequence markers in Montreal French

“…We saw in Table 2 that in 2012, CFQ was used 79% of the time. This is an increase of 26% from the 1971 data reported in Blondeau et al (2021b). The multivariate analysis provided in Table 4 shows that in 2012, as in 1971, this form is favoured by female speakers, young speakers, and individuals with a low SES.…”

“…The current analysis is based on speech data from sociolinguistic interviews collected in Hochelaga-Maisonneuve from 2012 to 2014 (Blondeau et al 2012, Martineau and Séguin 2016, Blondeau et al 2021b), hereafter referred to as ‘Montreal 2012’. These interviews are part of the larger FRAN corpus (Martineau and Séguin 2016).…”