Différent ou non?' Bidialectal French speakers' perception of gradient acoustic differences and language attitudes

当人们从他们的祖国搬到一个新的国家时，他们经常接触到语言和语言的多样性。对于接触一种新方言会在多大程度上影响一个人的母语，我们知之甚少。在我提出的研究中，我将使用实验方法来测试从一个法语国家搬到另一个国家(例如从加拿大魁北克到法国巴黎)的母语人士在继续接触一种新的法语方言后，其感知能力是否会发生变化。我还将探讨长期接触不同的方言是否会导致个人对新方言语音系统的差异表现出更多的感知敏感性。此外，鉴于法语中语言同质性的特别强烈的意识形态，我有兴趣探索我的法语参与者的语言态度是否会影响他们对法语方言差异的感知。我将通过使用创新的实验和调查方法来做到这一点。我的研究在一个移民和接触新语言的人不断增加的世界里很重要，因为它提出了一些问题，涉及我们获得新语言变体的能力，以及我们对使用新语言变体的人和国家的态度如何影响我们获得这些语言变体的方式。

When people move from their homeland to a new country,they are often exposed to languages and languagevarieties. We know very little about the extent to whichexposure to a new dialect impacts an individual's nativedialect. In my proposed study, I will use experimentalmethods to test whether the perceptual abilities of nativeFrench speakers who have moved from one francophonecountry to another (e.g. from Quebec, Canada to Paris,France) change with regard to their native dialect aftercontinued exposure to a new French dialect. I will alsoexplore whether prolonged exposure to a different dialectresults in individuals showing more perceptual sensitivityto differences in the sound system of their new dialect.Additionally, given the particularly strong ideologies oflinguistic homogeneity in French, I am interested inexploring whether the language attitudes of my Frenchspeaking participants will influence how they perceivedialectal differences in French. I will do so by usinginnovative experimental and survey methods. My study isimportant in a world in which migration and exposure tonew languages is constantly increasing, as it asksquestions related to both our ability to acquire newlanguage varieties, and how our attitudes towards thepeople and countries in which new varieties are spokeninfluences how we acquire these varieties.