This article examines the progression of the counter-clockwise nasal vowel chain shift in Parisian French, investigating in particular the influence of biological sex and of sexuality on the propagation of this change from below. The research presented forms part of a study on the participation of sexual minorities in ongoing sound change; this study aims to address the continued exclusion of sexual minorities from sociolinguistic studies, which not only invisibilizes queer people, but underlines their behaviour, linguistic or otherwise, as gender-deviant. Using a sociophonetic methodology, an analysis of nasal vowel quality provides evidence for sex- and sexuality-differential linguistic behaviour in the advancement of the nasal vowel chain shift. The results confirm the progressive but non-conformative linguistic behaviour of women, both straight and queer, as outlined by Labov (1990) and numerous other sociolinguistic studies, but also indicate that queer men are centre-stage in driving the change forward. This research is a first step in formalizing data-driven principles about the linguistic behaviour of sexual minorities and their role in language change, akin to the principles advanced to account for the behaviour of women.

本文研究了巴黎法语中逆时针鼻元音链移位的进展，特别调查了生物性别和性行为对这种变化自下而上传播的影响。这项研究是关于性少数群体参与持续健全变革的研究的一部分；这项研究旨在解决社会语言学研究中持续将性少数群体排除在外的问题，这不仅使酷儿群体变得不可见，而且强调了他们的行为，无论是语言还是其他方面，都是性别异常的。使用社会语音学方法，对鼻元音质量的分析为鼻元音链转移的进展中的性别和性别差异语言行为提供了证据。结果证实了拉博夫（Labov，1990）和许多其他社会语言学研究所概述的女性（无论是异性恋还是酷儿）进步但不符合规范的语言行为，但也表明酷儿男性是推动这一变革的中心舞台。这项研究是将关于性少数群体的语言行为及其在语言变化中的作用的数据驱动原则正式化的第一步，类似于为解释女性行为而提出的原则。