Norme officielle, insecurite linguistique et habiletes metalinguistiques : regards croises a partir de deux corpus d’adolescents d’Abidjan et de Niamey
Many authors have identified a notable linguistic insecurity in Africa, due to the difficulty of accessing standard French. In response to Pinto and El Euch's acceptability test (2015), 60 adolescents from Côte d'Ivoire and Niger gave metalinguistic explanations that were reliable regardless of how far from the prescriptive norm the items proposed to them were and regardless of their own (epi)linguistic performance.