Combien y a-t-il d’accents en français ? Pourquoi les francophones ne parlent-ils pas tous pareil ? Est-ce qu’il y a un « bon » accent français, comme les Parisiens ont tendance à le croire ? Le linguiste Marc Chalier, qui s’est intéressé aux normes de prononciation du français, nous en apprend plus sur nos façons de parler. #francophonie#accents#français
How's your jaw?
It's fine, I have no doubt.
I can assure you, your neighbours are very particular.
I represent Jeanne Desprez, I'm a neighbour in France.
You were the one who climbed the fence earlier.
Yes, maybe it was me, but I didn't make it.
You came very quickly.
It's because I ran.
How many accents are there in French?
It's very difficult to say.
I would say that there are as many accents as there are French speakers.
French has not been spoken in France, in Belgium, or in Switzerland for a very long time.
Before, we spoke more of dialects,
but there are small remnants of these old dialects
that can be found in regional accents in North America,
so in Quebec, in Acadie.
It's explained a little differently.
The colonists who went to colonize present-day Canada,
they brought with them certain pronunciations,
for example, the R-roulé.
And this R-roulé, we find it in Montreal today.
You can't refuse the most beautiful thing that can happen in your life,
to have children.
When a sub-Saharan speaker uses French,
we will often have a melody that comes from languages that are spoken on the spot.
We call them tonal languages.
These are languages that use the melody to create meaning in what is said,
which is not the case at all in French.
In Senegal, the Minister of the Interior went on site and in a statement,
he stated that the state has made all the arrangements.
The good French accent, I would say that it does not exist,
but that there are a number of stereotypes that are associated with certain accents.
The Parisians have an accent,
but this accent is associated with values of prestige, power.
These are old stereotypes that hold up quite well,
unfortunately at the moment.
There are no new accents, it's always a matter of perspective.
Glottophobia is a very recent term that comes to us from French sociolinguistics.
It is the phenomenon of discrimination by the use of certain languages
or by the use of certain accents.
It has nothing to do with Africa.
It is a very banal phenomenon that we find in many languages.
It is simply the fact of pronouncing certain consonants, like the T and the D,
in a slightly different way than what we are used to hearing in the standard.
We would have sentences like
Monday, I'm going to the canteen.
Or without Afrikaans, Monday, I'm going to the canteen.
In Quebec French, you have people who say Tsutsi or Kansen.
It works pretty well.
The problem is that it does not eliminate the source of discrimination.
It only eliminates the symptom.
But to come back to standardization,
this kind of application has almost no influence on the current linguistic change.
The linguistic change is not done in conditions that are, let's say, so unnatural.
It is done in everyday life.
I like to think that in the end it is something quite natural
and that we should try to put value judgments on it as little as possible.
