AP/FR 4152 3.0 Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Approach to Canadian French

AP/FR 4152 3.00

Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Approach to Canadian French

Through the empirical analysis of speech samples from different regions and registers, this course provides a linguistic description of Laurentian French, the variety of French spoken in Quebec and Ontario, from linguistic, historical and sociocultural perspectives.  Particular attention is given to phonetic, morpho-syntactic and lexical variants, and to the question of norms and variants. 

Prerequisites: AP/FR 2100 6.00 (with a minimum grade of C). 

Course credit exclusions: AP/FR 4150 6.00.