Abstract
This paper aims to illustrate the potential of (spoken) sociolinguistic corpora for research studies in both synchronic and diachronic variation, with reference to French, and to suggest ways in which useful research corpora may be established for future generations of scholars. Spoken corpora and corpus tools are an excellent heuristic in charting distributional frequencies or probabilistic factors. Andersen (2000) suggests that the upsurge of innit and like in the COLT Corpus of adolescent English may be more than age-grading. The present paper will present broad-brush preliminary evidence with respect to the evolution of selected pragmatic particles in French.
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