The Grammaticalization of the Discourse Marker genre in Swiss French

By conducting an apparent-time analysis of the OFROM corpus collected in Francophone Switzerland, this study examined use genre as discourse marker speech 306 French L1 speakers. First, we effect extralinguistic factors on discursive genre. The logistic mixed-effects regression results revealed that emerging is indeed ongoing change led by female speakers Swiss French. This was favored monolinguals Swiss. Second, vowel reduction DM corpus. Our who received only a high school education favor most. Given percentage phonological genre, believe grammaticalization particle has reached its advanced stage Compared to previous findings Hexagonal French, suggested may be independent much more than supplied comparable same two different countries.