Occitan is a threatened Gallo-Romance language in a diglossic contact situation with French in Southern France. To examine the extent of prosodic interference we proceeded to a comparative analysis of semi-spontaneous speech recorded with bilingual speakers in both languages and monolingual… read more
The aim of this paper is to present a research project on the effects language contact has had on the intonation of Occitan and French, and especially on Southern varieties of the latter, which differ substantially from the Northern standard. The main hypothesis sees Occitan as a link between the… read more