This article examines patterns of variation and change in the phonology of the regional French of Alsace, within an overarching framework of regional dialect levelling (Kerswill, 2003) in the French of France. Data are drawn from an original corpus gathered in Strasbourg and a small village in a rural area of the Bas-Rhin. We analyse two well-known regional features in spontaneous speech: (h), the variable realisation of initial [h], and (ʒ), the non-assimilatory devoicing of /ʒ/. We focus on the effect on the variation observed of the major extra-linguistic variables of age, gender and social class as well as urban or rural community. While the results for class and location follow expected patterns, whereby working-class and rural speakers show higher rates of traditional non-standard variants, the principal observation is the decline and, in the case of (ʒ), apparent loss of such features. We thus provide new evidence in support of supralocalization, not only in the urban context but also in the rural location. The results for gender are however less clear-cut: there is an interaction with age, class and location, and disruption of the usual pattern of female-led adoption of supralocal norms.

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阿尔萨斯地区法语的语音变异和变化：超本地化、年龄、性别和城乡二分法

本文在法国法语的区域方言分级 (Kerswill, 2003) 的总体框架内，研究了阿尔萨斯区域法语的音系变化和变化模式。数据来自收集在斯特拉斯堡和下莱茵农村地区的一个小村庄的原始语料库。我们分析了自发语音中两个众所周知的区域特征：(h)，初始 [h] 的可变实现，和 (ʒ)，/ʒ/ 的非同化去音化。我们关注年龄、性别和社会阶层以及城市或农村社区等主要语言外变量对观察到的变化的影响。虽然阶级和地点的结果遵循预期的模式，即工人阶级和农村人的传统非标准变体比例较高，但主要观察结果是下降，并且，在 (ʒ) 的情况下，这些特征明显丧失。因此，我们提供了支持超本地化的新证据，不仅在城市环境中，而且在农村地区。然而，性别的结果并不那么明确：与年龄、阶级和地点之间存在相互作用，并破坏了女性主导采用超地方规范的通常模式。