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)
Summary
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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