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Topic: Allophone (Quebec)


  
  Quebec Encyclopedia Article @ RodeoRegalia.com (Rodeo Regalia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The official language of Quebec is French; it is the sole Canadian province whose population is mainly French Canadian, and where English is not an official language at the provincial level.
Quebec's highest mountain is Mont D'Iberville, which is located on the border with Newfoundland and Labrador in the northeastern part of the province.
The avian emblem of Quebec is the snowy owl.
www.rodeoregalia.com /encyclopedia/Quebec   (4557 words)

  
 Allophone
In phonetics, an allophone is one of several similar speech sounds belonging to a phoneme.
For example p as in pin and p as in spin are allophones in the English language.
A phoneme as one of the abstract signals of the phonetic system of a language corresponds to a set of similar speech sounds which are perceived by speakers of the language to be a single distinctive sound in that language.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Allophone.html   (184 words)

  
 Allophone Encyclopedia Article @ Thereon.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We may distinguish complementary allophones, which are distributed regularly within the idiolect of the same speaker according to phonetic environment, from free variants, which are a matter of personal habit or regional accent.
In the case of complementary allophones, each allophone is used in a specific phonetic context and many times there is some sort of phonological process.
When there are two allophones for one phoneme in a given language, linguists use the "elsewhere condition" to determine which is the original allophone and which is the variation.
www.thereon.org /encyclopedia/Allophone   (584 words)

  
 Allophone Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Each allophone is the form of the phoneme used in a specific context.
A phone is a sound that has a definite shape as a sound wave, and an allophone is a phone considered as a member of one phoneme.
In Québec, an allophone is a person whose mother tongue is a language other than French (Francophone) or English (Anglophone).
www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/a/al/allophone.html   (258 words)

  
 Quebec Encyclopedia Article @ IWorke.com (I Worke)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Quebec Act giving recognition to French law, Catholic religion and French language in the colony; before that Catholics had been excluded from public office and recruitment of priests and brothers forbidden, effectively shutting down Quebec's schools and colleges.
Charlottetown Accord of 1992, was rejected by 56.7% of all Canadians and 57% of Quebecers.
French Canadians live in Quebec, though there are other concentrations of French-speakers throughout Canada with varying degrees of ties to Quebec.
www.iworke.com /encyclopedia/Quebec   (3159 words)

  
 Allophone Encyclopedia Article @ Shoulda.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
We may distinguish complementary allophones, which are distributed regularly within the idiolect of the same speaker according to phonetic environment, from
In the case of complementary allophones, each allophone is used in a specific phonetic context and many times there is some sort of
For example, [pʰ] as in pin and [p] as in cap are allophones for the phoneme /p/ in the
www.shoulda.org /encyclopedia/Allophone   (556 words)

  
 Allophone - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
In Quebec, an allophone is a person whose mother tongue is a language other than French or English.
Each allophone is used in a specific phonetic context.
For example, p as in pin and p as in spin are allophones for the phoneme p in the English language because they occur in complementary distribution.
www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=1834   (305 words)

  
 Allophone[s] - Events, Issues and Concepts - Quebec History
Allophone is a term used in Quebec, and in the rest of Canada, to describe people whose language is neither English nor French; the term is derived from Greek and simply means ‘other languages’.
Aside from natives, who continue to speak in majority their ancestral languages in Quebec, and who constitute a separate category, what allophones have in common is their fairly recent immigration to Quebec.
But starting from around 1896, immigration of allophones was to become important in Quebec, as it did in the rest of Canada.
www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/events/allos.htm   (519 words)

  
 Quebec English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quebec English is the common term for the set of various linguistic and social phenomena affecting the use of English in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian Province of Quebec and more specifically in the Greater Montreal Area.
While first-language speakers of English are a minority only in Quebec (under 10%), they form part of an overwhelming majority both in Canada (67%) and in North America north of the Rio Grande (over 98%), such that there is more American television and music available in Quebec than UK or English-Canadian cultural products combined.
French speakers, as are most Quebec English speakers, are on the other hand more likely to vary pronunciation of this type depending on the manner in which they adopt an English phonological framework.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_English   (1960 words)

  
 Allophone (Quebec) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the term used in Canada, principally in Quebec.
For the use of this term in linguistics, see allophone.
In Quebec, an allophone is someone whose first language or language of use is neither English nor French.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allophone_(Quebec)   (140 words)

  
 Marketing to Québécois - Sessions
Tony Lea will examine some of the new census data to see which ethnic groups are now significant in Quebec and explore several of the Quebec allophone clusters for evidence of attributes that make them different from the allophone clusters found in other areas of Canada.
Except for in the Prairies, Quebec has a larger percentage of persons that are seniors than any other area in Canada.
Quebec youth from 7-18 are quite different from other Canadian kids.
www.strategymag.com /quebec/2003/sessions.html   (1077 words)

  
 Quebec Encyclopedia Article @ Disregarded.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Critics say Dion will have tough time in Quebec
So he really has a lot of work to do in Quebec if he wants the support of Liberals themselves.".
La Tuque - Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine - Longueuil - Montreal - Quebec City
www.disregarded.net /encyclopedia/Quebec   (4558 words)

  
 CRIC - Canada's Portal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A significant majority of young Quebecers support key values and achievements of Canada.
Ninety-two percent of Quebecers aged 18 to 34 agrees that Canada has a positive reputation internationally.
These are some key findings from a major new survey of francophone, anglophone and allophone Quebecers aged 18 to 34 conducted by the Centre for Research and Information on Canada (CRIC).
www.cric.ca /en_html/index.html   (356 words)

  
 Allophone News @ Thereupon.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Were it not for the massive support of anglophone and allophone voters in the last election, the federal Liberals would have been shut out of Quebec.
In a typical undergraduate class in McGill's Faculty of Arts, students from Quebec (anglophone, francophone and allophone) will rub shoulders with students...
image of it that excludes many of its citizens, such as the Qubcois, the other French Canadians, the First Nations, even the various allophone ethnicities.
www.thereupon.org /news/Allophone   (157 words)

  
 CBC - Quebec Votes 2003
Last Updated Tue Apr 15 12:00:00 EDT 2003
This chart shows results from Quebec City and the surrounding region.
Click on the map to zoom in to this riding at the
www.cbc.ca /quebecvotes2003/ridings   (179 words)

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