• Mohammad Jafar JABBARI

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• Jalal RAHIMIAN

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In France, two distinct varieties of the French language are used. The two varieties serve
different social functions. One variety, referred to as High (H), is used only under formal and
public circumstances, while the other one, called Low (L), is used in normal daily-life events.
The two varieties are largely overlapping, but not totally identical. The (L) is acquired in early
childhood, while the (H) is learned at school, after the age of 6. This socio-linguistic
phenomenon is called diglossia. The present article, aims to compare the syntactic differences
between the Low and High varieties in the contemporary French. To this end, felicitous data,
collected from the two varieties, are compared and classified within the framework of Surface
Strategy Taxonomy.

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