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Hello! My name is Francesca Tangreti. I'm a Junior at Rutgers, and an English major with a Creative Writing minor.

this is just for myself to reference

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"Occitan (thus called today preferably language of oc) was in the Middle Ages, with the troubadours, a great language of culture, then relatively unified. However, the dialectal fragmentation began in the Middle Ages earned him wearing different names: Limousin, because the first troubadours xii e  s. were Limousins; Provençal , because, during the High Middle Ages, this word referred to all the inhabitants of the old Provincia Romanaou , or Narbonnaise, from Toulouse to the Alps."

Over 70% of the languages in the world are estimated to have interrogative intonation contours which end with rising pitch (Bolinger, 1978: 501–502), and “standard” (Parisian) French follows this scheme for yes/no questions. However, yes/no questions with initial high tones and final falls may be observed in the French variety spoken in Corsica as well as in the Corsican language. The same feature was found in Vivaro-Alpine Occitan (Romano et al., 2012). Albeit little documented, this pattern is used by humorists to caricature the corresponding accents in French.

"Occitano or Occitanico" is the Italian name of the Occitan dialect.

"the term 'Occitan' has become a source of ideological conflict in southern France, especially for those who consider local varieties of the langue d'oc to be languages in their own right..."