Abstract

In a language identification task, native Belgian French and native Swiss French speakers identified French from France as their own variety. However, Canadian French was not subject to this bias. Canadian and French listeners didn’t claim a different variety as their own.

Highlights

  • In a language identification task, native Belgian French and native Swiss French speakers identified French from France as their own variety

  • We conducted an online survey consisting of small excerpts of 20 to 25 s of read speech of French from France and Canadian French

  • The fragments were selected from the online corpus Phonologie du Francais Contemporain (Durand, Laks, & Lyche, 2002)

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Introduction

In a language identification task, native Belgian French and native Swiss French speakers identified French from France as their own variety. (3) the identification of the respondent’s native variety (i.e., French from France or Canada) as a different French variety.

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