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Results show the lax variant is extremely rare among immersion students and appears only in a small subset of speakers, suggesting a limitation in sociolinguistic competence. 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Our results show that the lax variant is vanishingly rare in the speech of immersion students and is used by only a small minority of individuals. This is interpreted as a limitation of French immersion students’sociolinguistic competence. Within the group of students who do use both variants, we document a positive correlation between female and middle-class students and use of the lax variant and suggest these speakers are generally more sensitive to sociolinguistic variation. A reverse correlation between English cognates and laxing was found. This is taken as evidence that the learning of laxing is lexically mediated.  \nRésumé  \nDans cette étude, nous examinons l’emploi de la voyelle relâchée /ɪ/ dans le parler des étudiants inscrits dans un programme d'immersion française et comparons la distribution decette variante à celle qu'on trouve chez les francophones au Canada. Nos résultatsdémontrent que les étudiants en immersion n’utilisent la variante relâchée que trèsrarement. Nous interprétons ce résultat comme une lacune dans la compétence sociolinguistique de ce groupe de locuteurs. Parmi ceux qui utilisent la variante relâchée, nous notons une corrélation positive entre l’emploi de cette variante et les étudiants de sexeféminin, aussi bien que les étudiants de la classe moyenne. Notre interprétation de cerésultat est que ces étudiants sont plus sensibles à la variation sociolinguistique en comparaison avec les autres groupes d’étudiants. Une corrélation inverse se trouve entre les mots pour lesquels il existe une forme similaire en anglais. Cela suggère quel’apprentissage du relâchement passe par l’acquisition lexicale.  \nThe Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, Special Issue: 20, 2 (2017): 18-31  \nCJAL * RCLA Nadasdi & Vickerman 19  \nOpening Up to Native Speaker Norms:  \nThe Use of /ɪ/ in the Speech of Canadian French Immersion Students  \nIntroduction  \nThe goal of this study is to examine the extent to which Canadian French immersion students use lax /ɪ/ in the same linguistic context as native speakers. This regional variant, considered socio-stylistically neutral, is used categorically by Québécois Francophones and should therefore be expected to enjoy wide currency in the speech of advanced second language (L2) learners of French in Canada. In addition to considering the overall distribution of variants, we examine the social and linguistics factors that may condition variant choice. Our general results suggest that French immersion students ’use of the variable differs greatly from that of their French native speaker (L1) peers since the majority of immersion students make no use of the lax variant in obligatory context. This is therefore yet another case where the sociolinguistic competence of immersion students is markedly different than that of the Canadian Francophones with whom they are compared. Our article begins with a presentation of the French immersion corpus used for the present study and a discussion of the main findings from previous research on this corpus. We then present our hypotheses and results concerning the variable in question in the current study, followed by a general discussion of results.  \nTheoretical Context  \nThe theoretical framework used in our research is that ofLabovian variationist linguistics. This approach makes use of the notion of the linguistic variable, which can generally be defined as two or more ways of saying the same thing. In other words, it examines cases of different linguistic forms (or variants) that are identical in terms of function or meaning, but whose use is influenced by various linguistic and social factors. 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