Phonological variation and leveling. Introduction / Nigel Armstrong -- Perception and production in French dialect leveling / Nigel Armstrong and Zoë Boughton -- The sociolinguistic relevance of regional categories : some evidence from word-final consonant devoicing in French spoken in Belgium / Philippe Hambye -- Prosodic style-shifting as audience design : real-time monitoring of pitch range and contour types in Swiss French / Jessica Sertling Miller -- The immigrant factor in phonological leveling / Tim Pooley -- A prototype-theoretic model of Southern French / Elissa Pustka -- The law of position revisited : the case of mid-vowels in Briançon French / Anne Violin-Wigent -- Stylistic and syntactic variation. Introduction / Françoise Gadet -- Variation in first and second language French : the case of parce que / Mireille Bilger and Henry Tyne -- French preadolescents' perceptions of stylistic variation : a contrastive sociolinguistic study / Laurence Buson -- Sociolinguistic variation in African French : the Ivorian relative clause / Anne Moseng Knutsen -- Register variation in the non-standard use of non-finite forms / Nathalie Rossi-Gensane -- Lexical variation and semantic change. Introduction / Kate Beeching and Richard Waltereit -- Discourse markers and regional variation in French : a lexico-semantic approach / Gaétane Dostie -- Sociolinguistic factors and the pragmaticalization of bon in contemporary spoken French / Kate Beeching -- From 'luck' to 'wealth' : the stylistic (re)distribution of fortuné in modern French / Bruno Courbon.