New England French Vocabulary

Brault, Gerard J.

Brault's essay is an explanation of the results of language tests taken by nine Franco-American French speakers, his evaluation of their levels of vocabulary, and his observations of their speech habits. The overall conclusion of his study partially reads: "The following partial tabulation of a Preliminary Classification Test administered to all nine informants demonstrates the fact that the two levels in the Franco-American phonetic system normally have a lexical correlation. In other words, if a Franco-American at Level 1 (i.e. that level farthest from standard French) succeeds in raising his speech phonetically to Level 2 (i.e. an intermediate level between Level 1 and standard French), his vocabulary will normally reveal a similar degree of switching to modern French."

1961-12

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Journal Article

1950-1960; New England

The French Review

35