caa a22 4500 378928147 CHVBK 20180305123622.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20041015xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.365 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.365 Thomas Alain Phonetic norm versus usage in advanced French as a second language [Elektronische Daten] [Alain Thomas] This article is drawn from a large-scale ongoing study on linguistic progress in advanced French as a second language (FL2). The performance of 48 English-speaking students who spent their third year of university in France (the ‘experimental' group)has been compared to that of 39 classmates who chose to stay and study at home in southern Ontario, Canada (the ‘control' group). The analysis presented here will be limited to three morpho-phonemic variables where native speaker usage can differ considerably from official norms, i.e., ‘liaison', schwa and the negative particle ne. Results generally point to different pronunciation difficulties at the advanced level than at the beginners' level. Also, comparisons between the experimental and the control groups lead to a reappraisal of the notions of ‘norm' and phonetic ‘progress' in spoken French. © Walter de Gruyter Psycholinguistics nationallicence Language teaching theory & methods nationallicence Social groups & communities nationallicence IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Walter de Gruyter 42/4(2004-10-15), 365-382 0019-042X 42:4<365 2004 42 iral https://doi.org/10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.365 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/iral.2004.42.4.365 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Thomas Alain NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching Walter de Gruyter 42/4(2004-10-15), 365-382 0019-042X 42:4<365 2004 42 iral CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter