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SUMMARY:Is there a Regional French of Normandy? - Dr Damien Hall (York)
DTSTART:20101116T180000Z
DTEND:20101116T191500Z
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CONTACT:Professor Mari Jones
DESCRIPTION:Studies of French in Normandy often talk of a single ‘Norman
 dy accent’ (Walter 1982\, Carton et al 1983\, Lepelley 1999) – that is
 \, when the French (as opposed to the Norman) spoken there is considered. 
 In this talk\, I will consider the points for and against this way of seei
 ng things\, taking evidence from my PhD work in Normandy in 2006-7 (Hall 2
 008). The talk will aim not to decide whether there is or is not a single 
 Regional French of Normandy\, but to present different ways of investigati
 ng the question\, and to show how each of them leads to valid and useful c
 onclusions (depending on the angle of the investigation). At the end of th
 e talk\, I will present a project on the dialectology of Northern France o
 n which I am about to embark\, and show how its phonetic and phonological 
 approach (which is an extension of the approach taken in my PhD) will brin
 g another angle to the discussion of regional varieties of French.
LOCATION:Henry Cavendish Room\, Peterhouse
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