Alternances vocaliques en français du midi et phonologie du gouvernement

Durand, Jacques

doi:10.1016/0024-3841(95)90100-0

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“…In addition to the studies cited above, there have, of course, been a large number of studies focusing on the phonological status and phonetic quality of the (European) French nasal vowels. These studies are largely based on laboratory speech and provide a wealth of descriptive detail on the nasal vowels, examining them from a variety of perspectives: speech perception (Delvaux et al, 2004;Woehrling and Boula de Mareüil, 2006;Delvaux, 2009); articulatory phonetics (Maeda, 1990;Teston and Demolin, 1997;Montagu, 2004;Delvaux et al, 2002;Delvaux et al, 2008;Carignan, 2013); acoustic phonetics (Longchamp, 1979;Maeda, 1982Maeda, , 1993Montagu, 2007); phonology (Durand, 1988(Durand, , 2009Delais-Roussarie and Durand, 2003;Durand and Eychenne, 2011). In the fields of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, there is much emphasis placed on the mapping of articulatory gestures onto acoustic cues for nasalization and thus many of the studies cited above fall into both categories.…”

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The role of speaker sex and sexuality in an ongoing sound change: Nasal vowels in Parisian French

Mooney

2023

J. Fr. Lang. Stud.

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This article examines the progression of the counter-clockwise nasal vowel chain shift in Parisian French, investigating in particular the influence of biological sex and of sexuality on the propagation of this change from below. The research presented forms part of a study on the participation of sexual minorities in ongoing sound change; this study aims to address the continued exclusion of sexual minorities from sociolinguistic studies, which not only invisibilizes queer people, but underlines their behaviour, linguistic or otherwise, as gender-deviant. Using a sociophonetic methodology, an analysis of nasal vowel quality provides evidence for sex- and sexuality-differential linguistic behaviour in the advancement of the nasal vowel chain shift. The results confirm the progressive but non-conformative linguistic behaviour of women, both straight and queer, as outlined by Labov (1990) and numerous other sociolinguistic studies, but also indicate that queer men are centre-stage in driving the change forward. This research is a first step in formalizing data-driven principles about the linguistic behaviour of sexual minorities and their role in language change, akin to the principles advanced to account for the behaviour of women.

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The role of speaker sex and sexuality in an ongoing sound change: Nasal vowels in Parisian French

Mooney

2023

J. Fr. Lang. Stud.

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“…The corpus for this study consists of a sub-corpus of the PFC corpus where over 220 speakers (for 22 investigation points), have been recorded, transcribed and coded (www.projetpfc.net). The recordings follow a strict Labovian methodology including two reading tasks (a word-list and a short passage) and two conversations (semi-directed and informal) [3].…”

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Looking at French schwa in initial position through the glasses of prosody

Lacheret-Dujour,

Lyche

2008

Speech Prosody 2008

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In the vast body of literature related to French schwa behavior, prosodic factors are sometimes mentioned, but never systematically studied. This paper proposes to investigate how the topological organization of a sequence influences schwa behavior. The empirical base for this study is extracted from the PFC (Phonologie du Français Contemporain) corpus where 20 speakers have been systematically coded for prosodic elements. In addition to obvious geographical differences, we show a clear distinction between so-called optional schwas in monosyllables and in polysyllables. This contrast will impact on the phonological analysis, favoring two distinct underlying representations.

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