10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SWISS-FRENCH»
Discover the use of
Swiss-French in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Swiss-French and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Swiss French Prosody: Intonation, Rate, and Speaking Style ...
This study describes the prosody of French spoken in the Vaud canton, a francophone area of Switzerland.
Jessica Sertling Miller, 2007
2
Authenticity in the Art Market: A Comparative Study of ...
This book examines the scope of the seller's duty to inform the buyer of facts relevant to the issue of authenticity, together with the contractual force of any guarantees given by the seller or arising from the circumstances.
Unlike the other Swiss groups we have looked at, the Swiss French do not, on the
whole, speak dialect. In the three Protestant French-speaking cantons, Vaud,
Geneva and Neuchatel, the dialects are just about extinct. In their place there has
...
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... Swiss (French) Swiss linoleum block-printing USE Linoleum block-printing,
Swiss Swiss literature UF Switzerland-Literatures [Former heading] NT Italian
literature-Switzerland Ladin literature Raeto-Romance literature Swiss drama
Swiss ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2005
Swiss French is much less fraught with idiosyncracies than Swiss Germarc
dialect, though still used in the hiurerlands oi the Jura, has virtually died out.
Differences do remain from standard French - principally in acceur and irdlection
- but the ...
6
Advances in Phonetics: Proceedings of the International ...
The French digit recognition rate by itself might appear rather low, instead it
shows the intra-language variability of results due to the test database: With the
same Swiss French models, we achieve over 97% accuracy in digit tests on the
Swiss ...
7
Encyclopedia of the Novel
Never reaching the same international Stature as Madame de Staél and
Benjamin Constant, Madame de Charriere and Rodolphe TOpffer nonetheless
made significant contributions to the Swiss-French world of letters in the late 18th
and ...
8
Encyclopaedia of Contemporary
French Culture
This singularity has led to Swiss-French writers wishing to be seen as individuals
rather than as a group, and certain ambiguities towards the notion of nationality
can be discerned in their work. Distinctions between writers are today felt to be ...
Alex Hughes, Keith A Reader, 2002
9
Phonological Variation in
French: Illustrations from Three ...
Because of their shared past, the Swiss varieties cannot be linguistically
separated from the neighboring hexagonal French varieties (Knecht 1979).
Nevertheless, Swiss French is traditionally distinguished from le français de
référence ...
Randall Scott Gess, Chantal Lyche, Trudel Meisenburg, 2012
10
Grand Dictionnaire Hachette-Oxford
The French of Switzerland differs little from the French spoken in France and the
two linguistic communities have no trouble in understanding each other, though
many words and expressions in Swiss French would be unfamiliar to a French ...
Marie-Hélène Corréard, Valerie Grundy, Jean-Benoit Ormal-Grenon, 2007
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SWISS-FRENCH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Swiss-French is used in the context of the following news items.
Selfie ruffles Swiss-French relations – for a moment
Selfie ruffles Swiss-French relations – for a moment. By John Heilprin. Politics · Human interest. Reuse article. It is only permitted to use a hyperlink to specific ... «swissinfo.ch, May 15»
Legendary architect and designer Le Corbusier celebrated at …
... Charles-Edouard Jeanneret - known to most as Le Corbusier - the Centre Pompidou in Paris is paying tribute to the legendary Swiss-French architect and ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Apr 15»
Swiss-French banker remanded over Siemens kickbacks scandal
A Swiss-French banker alleged to be a key figure in the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal and implicated in corrupt arms deals is to spend Easter in Greek ... «Kathimerini, Apr 15»
Barcelona World Race - Victory for renowned Swiss-French duo
The Swiss-French IMOCA 60 completed the theoretical course 23,321 nautical miles (43.191,9 Kilometres) of the theoretical course nonstop (stops are ... «Sail World, Mar 15»
CERN scientists discover two new subatomic particles
... into each other in a 27-kilometre tunnel on the Swiss-French border to see what they can discover about the make-up of the universe and its tiniest particles. «swissinfo.ch, Nov 14»
Check out the Swiss-French and Swiss-Italian candidates!
The Swiss-German and Romansch broadcaster can together nominate 9 candidates, the Swiss-French broadcaster 6, and the Swiss-Italian 3. In the end, on ... «Eurovision.tv, Nov 14»
'The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair': Swiss-French thriller …
As I sat at my desk, finishing “The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair” by Joel Dicker, I was thinking I missed something. This couldn't be all there was. Maybe I ... «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Jun 14»
Hitzfeld and Deschamps expect tight Swiss-French duel
Hitzfeld and Deschamps expect tight Swiss-French duel. Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld and France counterpart Didier Deschamps expect a tight match ... «MaltaToday, Jun 14»
Silo Bringing a Swiss-French Twist to Mount Vernon Square
A new modern American restaurant with a "Swiss-French twist" called Silo is preparing to open in the Mount Vernon Square area sometime before the end of the ... «Washington City Paper, Dec 13»
Swiss-French team develop new concept for FEL gun laser
A team of researchers at Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland, in collaboration with Amplitude Systèmes, Bordeaux, France, have presented a new ... «Optics.org, Sep 13»
