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Univ., Diss.--Neuchâtel, 2005.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2010. / "A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Linguistics." Title from pdf file main screen (viewed on December 4, 2009). At head of title screen : University of Alberta. Includes bibliographical references.

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Following a review of the literature on French immersion, this thesis considers the implications of the systematic transcription of oral texts for linguistic analysis. In transcribing a corpus of spoken French by children attending a French immersion school and a corpus of children from Quebec (both from tape recordings and included in the appendice), the transcription conventions proposed by the Groupe Aixois de Recherche en Syntaxe were applied. In chapter III, some of the most common deviations from the norm that occur in the French immersion corpus are discussed, and for the most part these aberrations reflect the results of previous error analyses done on second language learners. In chapters IV and V, a study of "slip-ups" is undertaken. Slip-ups are repetitions or self-corrections, referred to as "rates" in this thesis. They occur frequently both in the Francophone and French immersion corpus. The purpose of this study is to analyse the intrinsic structure of these hesitations (that were previously brushed off as un-grammatical) and to discover whether the repetitions or self-corrections produced by the French immersion speakers share characteristics with or differ from the slip-ups identified in the Francophone corpus. Whereas an enumeration of grammatical errors will almost always show that the French spoken by French immersion pupils is not as "good" as that spoken by Francophone children, the analysis of slip-ups is a more objective endeavor. And indeed, the study reveals some unpredicted results. On certain parts of the sentence, such as the predicate, French native speakers surprisingly slip up more often than French immersion children, while the latter tend to hesitate more often on subjects and indirect objects. Further analysis reveals that native French speakers almost always repeat (or correct) entire word groups, or syntagms, although they don't always complete such groups. The French immersion children, on the other hand, do not always repeat the entire word group when they slip up, but they do seem to finish their construction (or sentence), once it has started. Finally, the situation (formal or informal) appeared to only affect the speakers in the Francophone corpus: they hesitated slightly more often in a formal setting, whereas the situation did not seem to affect the results for the French immersion speakers.

Cette etude a une envergure bipartite: outre qu'elle se consacre aux quantificateurs flous avec une forte concentration sur certain(s), diver(s), differents(s), plusieurs et quelque(s), elle compare leurs emplois avec ceux du Dictionnaire des frequences. Avant tout, elle se veut descriptive et synchronique. Dans cette optique, elle se base sur un corpus clos, celui de l'idiolecte de l'anthropologue francais Claude Levi-Strauss. Ce corpus numerise compte dix sous-corpus d'inegale longueur, couvrant cinq decennies de la deuxieme partie du XX[sup e] siecle et totalisant 1 251 792 mots. Par ailleurs, il englobe 3872 occurrences des cinq quantificateurs flous en question. Dans un premier temps, il s'agit d'une analyse distributionnelle a laquelle s'ajoute une analyse componentielle. Nous mettrons en evidence les contextes d'apparition de chacun des cinq quantificateurs flous dans le corpus en plus de leur appliquer une batterie de tests semantiques et syntaxiques pour deceler leur fonctionnement dans la langue francaise. Pour ce qui concerne le semantisme, nous presenterons ce que d'autres linguistes tels Arrive, Gadet & Galmiche, Chevalier, Curat, Damourette & Pichon, Gondret, Grevisse, Gross, Mitterand, Riegel, Pellat & Rioul et Wilmet ont a dire a propos1 de ces cinq quantificateurs flous. Ce chemin parcouru, nous pourrons tester l'hypothese que divers, differents et plusieurs forment un sous-systeme au sein de la classe de quantificateurs flous alors que certains(s) et quelque(s) en forment un autre. La seconde partie de cette etude consiste en une analyse statistique. II s'agit d'une comparaison des frequences relatives des cinq quantificateurs flous dans le corpus de Levi-Strauss avec celles du Dictionnaire des frequences qui livre l'equivalent d'une norme de la langue: il totalise 70 317 234 mots, dont 37 653 685 relevent du XX[sup e] siecle.

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