Allongements vocaliques en français de Belgique : approche expérimentale et perceptive (Vowel lengthening in Belgium French: an experimental and perceptual approach) [in French]
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Vowel lengthening in Belgium French: an experimental and perceptual approach This paper investigates the lengthening of certain vowels in Belgian French and its influence on the perception of a Belgian accent. Based on recordings made in Belgium, two perceptual experiments were conducted, involving Belgian and French listeners: the first one enabled us, in a robust way, to identify lengthened vowels perceived as regionally marked by experts; the second one, using prosody modification/resynthesis, tested the impact of vowel lengthening with respect to the perception of a Belgian accent among naïve listeners. The first experiment showed that the vast majority of vowels perceived as lengthened are in word-penultimate syllable or belong to monosyllabic words and that these vowels are generally nasal or mid-closed vowels. The second experiment suggests that, all other things being equal, speech samples including vowel lengthening phenomena are rated as having a higher degree of accentedness than their counterparts without vowel lengthening. MOTS-CLÉS : variation régionale, accent belge, perception, (re)synthèse de prosodie. KEYWORDS: regional variation, Belgian accent, perception, prosody (re)synthesis. 1
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Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, volume 1: JEP, pages 625–632, Grenoble, 4 au 8 juin 2012. c ⃝2012 ATALA & AFCP Allongements vocaliques en français de Belgique : approche expérimentale et perceptive Alice Bardiaux1, Philippe Boula de Mareüil2 (1) Université catholique de Louvain – FNRS, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique (2) LIMSI – CNRS, Orsay, France alice.bardiaux@uclouvain.be, philippe.boula.de.mareuil@limsi.fr RÉSUMÉ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Le présent article étudie l’allongement de certaines voyelles en français de Belgique ainsi que son influence sur la perception de l’accent belge. À partir d’enregistrements effectués en Belgique, deux expériences perceptives ont été menées, auprès d’auditeurs belges et français : l’une a permis d’identifier de façon robuste des voyelles allongées perçues comme régionalement marquées par des experts ; l’autre, utilisant la modification/ resynthèse de prosodie, a permis de tester l’impact de l’allongement vocalique dans la perception de l’accent belge chez des auditeurs naïfs. La première expérience a montré que la grande majorité des voyelles perçues comme allongées est en syllabe pénultième de mot ou appartient à des monosyllabes et que ces voyelles sont généralement nasales ou semi-fermées. La deuxième expérience suggère que, toutes choses égales par ailleurs, les échantillons de parole présentant des allongements vocaliques sont évalués avec un degré d’accent plus élevé que leurs contreparties sans allongement. ABSTRACT _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Vowel lengthening in Belgium French: an experimental and perceptual approach This paper investigates the lengthening of certain vowels in Belgian French and its influence on the perception of a Belgian accent. Based on recordings made in Belgium, two perceptual experiments were conducted, involving Belgian and French listeners: the first one enabled us, in a robust way, to identify lengthened vowels perceived as regionally marked by experts; the second one, using prosody modification/resynthesis, tested the impact of vowel lengthening with respect to the perception of a Belgian accent among naïve listeners. The first experiment showed that the vast majority of vowels perceived as lengthened are in word-penultimate syllable or belong to monosyllabic words and that these vowels are generally nasal or mid-closed vowels. The second experiment suggests that, all other things being equal, speech samples including vowel lengthening phenomena are rated as having a higher degree of accentedness than their counterparts without vowel lengthening. MOTS-CLÉS : variation régionale, accent belge, perception, (re)synthèse de prosodie. KEYWORDS: regional variation, Belgian accent, perception, prosody (re)synthesis. 1 Introduction Les accents régionaux sont une manifestation majeure de la variation dans la parole. Si des études antérieures ont mis en évidence la difficulté à discriminer finement différents accents en français (Woehrling, 2009 ; Armstrong et Pooley, 2010), les Belges francophones présentent généralement suffisamment de différences par rapport à des locuteurs d’autres variétés de français pour qu’on puisse parler d’un « accent belge ». Le présent article propose d’étudier un trait prosodique (suprasegmental) particulier de cet 625 accent : l’allongement de certaines voyelles. Plusieurs études (Hambye et Simon, 2004, 2009 ; Armstrong et Pooley, 2010) mentionnent l’allongement vocalique comme caractéristique du français de Belgique, à côté de traits segmentaux comme par exemple la prononciation [wit] pour huit. Plus facilement …
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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Vowel lengthening in Belgium French: an experimental and perceptual approach This paper investigates the lengthening of certain vowels in Belgian French and its influence on the perception of a Belgian accent. Based on recordings made in Belgium, two perceptual experiments were conducted, involving Belgian and French listeners: the first one enabled us, in a robust way, to identify lengthened vowels perceived as regionally marked by experts; the second one, using prosody modification/resynthesis, tested the impact of vowel lengthening with respect to the perception of a Belgian accent among naïve listeners. The first experiment showed that the vast majority of vowels perceived as lengthened are in word-penultimate syllable or belong to monosyllabic words and that these vowels are generally nasal or mid-closed vowels. The second experiment suggests that, all other things being equal, speech samples including vowel lengthening phenomena are rated as having a higher degree of accentedness than their counterparts without vowel lengthening. MOTS-CLÉS : variation régionale, accent belge, perception, (re)synthèse de prosodie. KEYWORDS: regional variation, Belgian accent, perception, prosody (re)synthesis. 1
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- Paper ID:
- 1796
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- 2012
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