After providing an historical overview of the French spelling system and orthographic variation, this study analyzes selected internal (i.e., linguistic) factors and one external (i.e., social) factor that can influence the use of diacritics in online French-language chat sessions. From a corpus of synchronous computer-mediated communication, 3,855 tokens of graphemes capable of bearing diacritics were coded with the following scheme: Letter, Diacritic, Grapheme (i.e., Letter and Diacritic combined), Date of Participation, and Age Group of Participant. A multivariate (VARBRUL) analysis determined that Grapheme exerts the most influence on variation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc28382 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Al-Rashdan, Omar |
| Contributors | Williams, Lawrence, Koop, Marie-Christine, Kaplan, Marijin S. |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English, French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Al-Rashdan, Omar, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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