Peut-on distinguer perceptivement huit accents régionaux en français parlé en Europe ? Une réponse à base de crowdsourcing

Can eight regional accents be distinguished perceptually in European French? A crowdsourcing-based answer This paper presents the results of a survey addressing eight regional accents in European French: in the North, the South-East and the South-West of France, in Alsace, Brittany, Corsica, Switzerland and Belgium. A large-scale perception test was conducted, based on crowdsourcing, using the Internet to collect the responses of a thousand of participants, to examine whether listeners from the regions or countries mentioned are capable of distinguishing the corresponding accents. Results suggest that three broad categories of accents (North-West, South and East) can be distinguished. MOTS-CLES : accents régionaux, géolinguistique, dialectologie perceptive, crowdsourcing