“…For French in general, we have the ground-breaking work of the Programme 'Phonologie du Français Contemporain' ('"Phonology of Contemporary French" Programme': Durand, Laks, and Lyche (2009), http://www.projet-pfc.net). For areas in the North specifically, there are at least Reichstein (1960); Deyhime (1967aDeyhime ( ,1967b; Léon (1972); Peretz (1977); Lennig (1978); Mettas (1979); Jamin (2005) and Berit Hansen and Juillard (2011) on Paris, Lefebvre (1991) and Pooley (1996Pooley ( , 2004 on Lille, Hornsby (2006) on Avion (in the far Northern industrial region), Hall (2008) on Normandy, and some contributions from Salmon (1985) on Alsace. Many of the regional differences explored in these studies cannot be straightforwardly said to be connected with a regional autochthonous varietyin particular, the city of Paris has been thought of as a seat of Standard French for centuries.…”