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French in Quebec

2016· book-chapter· en· W2537045387 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistics and Discourse Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSchwaLinguisticsDemonstrativeVariety (cybernetics)InterrogativeConversationSituatedSalientGermanContext (archaeology)HistoryComputer scienceSociologyArtificial intelligenceVowelPhilosophy

Abstract

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Abstract This chapter introduces Laurentian French, the main variety spoken in Canada, as used in a majority setting in the province of Quebec. Situated in the historical and sociolinguistic context of French in Quebec, the most salient linguistic features of the Laurentian variety are presented on the basis of a three-minute conversation involving a 40-year-old middle-class speaker from Montréal. The lexical analysis of the conversation, about winter and sport activities during the speaker’s high school years, reveals a number of archaisms, dialectalisms, and contact effects with English. Morpho-syntactic and discursive features include the regularization of certain verbal paradigms, specific demonstrative and interrogative constructions, aspects of the pronominal system, and the use of the particule là. The Laurentian phonological system is characterized by a rich set of vocalic oppositions and allophonic processes and specific rules for the realization of schwa, liquid consonants, word-final consonants, and liaison.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.802
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1370.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

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Citations42
Published2016
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