Establishing a model for a French phonetics course in Canada

In this article, it is proposed that the model for a French phonetics course in Canada be based on Canadian usage. Alter establishing an inventory of segmental features of this model by examining published descriptions of Canadian French, it is compared to the features common to all announcers in a corpus composed of video recordings of eleven French CBC television newsreaders and one from the 'Reseau de l'Information' in order to reveal the frequency of the selected features. The original inventory is modified in terms of the frequency and thus the implicit status of the examined features so as to yield a model of an unstigmatized Canadian French.