Introduction

Abstract

"Spoken language grammar" happens to be incomprensible or at leats unusual, nearby oxymoron: if grammar is firstly and etymologically the study of letters (grammata), how is a grammar of spoken language possible as it is composed by sounds? Thus it brings up to linguists and didactics specialists what concerns the oral norm of a language: it would contain an "orthoépie" (cf. Morel & Danon-Boileau, 1998) as well as a proposition of a standardized model of the stress and rhythmic system from Paris French...). All in all, what phonetics includes as (scientific and academic) discipline. So, why risking by using an ambiguous and problematic expression? Those are questions among others that this volume of Langue(s) & Parole intends to answer.