Interplay of sociolinguistic factors in rhythmic variation in a minority French dialect

Kaminskaïa, Svetlana

doi:10.21437/speechprosody.2016-245

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“…ARs in both localities were similar, and there were no effects on AR of age or gender. In a related study that focused on the minority locality (Windsor), Kaminskaïa (2016) found significant stylistic differences -a faster AR in spontaneous speech than in reading style -but observed no effects of age or gender. Lancien & Côté (2021) observed similar stylistic differences in a group of speakers from the Saguenay region of Quebec.…”

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“…It is important to note that in all the other previous studies AR was measured globally, that is, as an average of all syllables in the speech sample, without attention to smaller local units such as IPIs. Among these studies is Kaminskaïa's (2016) preliminary ANOVA-based analysis of the Windsor sample that we have presented in this paper. The author found the same stylistic difference -reading style is slower than conversation style -but did not identify the age-by-style interaction as a significant predictor when age was treated as a binary (that is, categorical) factor.…”

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Regional variation in articulation rate in French spoken in Canada

Cichocki¹,

Kaminskaïa²,

Hagar³

2023

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This study examines articulation rate in three varieties of Canadian French and includes consideration of speaking style (reading vs. spontaneous), speaker’s age and gender, and length of inter-pause intervals. The varieties are spoken in different geographic areas of Canada – Quebec City (Quebec), Tracadie (New Brunswick), and Windsor (Ontario) – where there are different degrees of French–English contact. The main research question asks how these different contact situations are related to variation in articulation rate. Results show that in both reading and spontaneous speech articulation rates were faster among Quebec City speakers, where French is in a low-contact setting, and slower among speakers from Tracadie and Windsor, where there are greater degrees of contact. The effects of other factors are the same across the three regions: AR was faster in spontaneous productions than in reading; AR decreased with age in the reading task; AR was faster as the length of the inter-pausal intervals increased. The discussion points to similarities and differences with varieties of French spoken in Europe and underscores the importance of language contact in accounting for variation in articulation rate.

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