Rehner, KatherineMougeon, Raymond2009-10-152009-10-1519981193-1493http://hdl.handle.net/10315/2874This work examines the social, geographic and syntactic distribution of the synonymous French restrictives SEULEMENT, RIEN QUE, and JUSTE in the speech of adolescent Franco-Ontarians, and compares its findings with two studies of Montreal French. The trends uncovered include: the increased frequency of the expression JUSTE favoured most by females, the working class, and infrequent users of French; the association of RIEN QUE with males; and the marginal use of SEULEMENT. Restriction of infinitives and circumstantial complements is associated with the use of JUSTE.enSociolinguistic variationFrenchFrench -- OntarioOntarioMinority Language VariationArticlehttp://www.aclacaal.org/