L’assimilation de voisement en français : elle vaut pour les non-mots autant que les mots (Voice assimilation in French: It applies to nonwords just like to words) [in French]

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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Voice assimilation in French: It applies to nonwords just like to words Recent studies on voice assimilation in French have addressed several important issues. Firstly, is this assimilation process gradient or categorical? Recent analyses of how distributions of voicing ratio change with assimilating to non-assimilating contexts suggest that assimilation is optional but is complete when it occurs. It would therefore be categorical. In this study, we refine these observations with the analysis of some secondary cues to voicing (e.g., closure duration). We also address the issue of whether the occurrence of assimilation is motivated by phonological rules that can be generalized to any item or, rather, is determined by internalized statistics on heard or produced utterances. We use the extreme situation of nonwords in assimilating vs. non- assimilating context. In read speech, voice assimilation affects nonwords as much as words, supporting rule-based rather than statistical accounts. MOTS-CLES : assimilation de voisement, français, parole lue, non-mots. KEYWORDS : voice assimilation, French, read speech, nonwords. 1

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Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, volume 1: JEP, pages 441–448, Grenoble, 4 au 8 juin 2012. c ⃝2012 ATALA & AFCP L’assimilation de voisement en français : elle vaut pour les non-mots autant que les mots Pierre Hallé,1,2 Kaja Androjna3 et Juan Seguí 2 (1) LPP (CNRS-Paris 3), 19 rue des Bernardins, 75005 Paris (2) LMC, 71 Avenue Édouard Vaillant, 92774 Boulogne Billancourt (3) DEC (ENS), 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris pierre.halle@univ-paris3.fr, kaja.androjna@ens.fr, juan.segui@parisdescartes.fr RESUME ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Des études récentes sur l’assimilation de voisement en français ont tenté de répondre à plusieurs questions essentielles. Tout d’abord, s’agit-il d’un processus graduel ou catégoriel ? Des analyses récentes basées sur les changements distributionnels de taux de voisement (v-ratio) lors de l’assimilation suggèrent que l’assimilation est optionnelle mais est complète lorsqu’elle a lieu. Elle serait donc catégorielle. Dans cette étude, nous raffinons ces observations par l’analyse d’indices secondaires de voisement (e.g., durée d’occlusion). De plus, nous abordons la question de savoir si la réalisation de l’assimilation est motivée par des règles phonologiques généralisables plutôt que par une connaissance réductible à la compilation statistique des énoncés produits ou entendus. Nous utilisons pour cela une situation extrême : celle de non-mots en situation ou non d’assimilation. En parole lue, ils sont assimilés autant que les mots, ce qui est en faveur des règles plutôt que des statistiques. ABSTRACT_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Voice assimilation in French: It applies to nonwords just like to words Recent studies on voice assimilation in French have addressed several important issues. Firstly, is this assimilation process gradient or categorical? Recent analyses of how distributions of voicing ratio change with assimilating to non-assimilating contexts suggest that assimilation is optional but is complete when it occurs. It would therefore be categorical. In this study, we refine these observations with the analysis of some secondary cues to voicing (e.g., closure duration). We also address the issue of whether the occurrence of assimilation is motivated by phonological rules that can be generalized to any item or, rather, is determined by internalized statistics on heard or produced utterances. We use the extreme situation of nonwords in assimilating vs. non- assimilating context. In read speech, voice assimilation affects nonwords as much as words, supporting rule-based rather than statistical accounts. MOTS-CLES : assimilation de voisement, français, parole lue, non-mots. KEYWORDS : voice assimilation, French, read speech, nonwords. 1 Introduction Beaucoup d’aspects de l’assimilation de voisement en français sont assez consensuels : elle est régressive et restreinte aux contacts entre obstruantes. Elle est plus systématique (ou plus complète) à l’intérieur des mots qu’entre les mots. Enfin, l’idée que les 441 obstruantes assimilées conservent leur caractère lenis ou fortis originel a fait place à la notion d’assimilation partielle au niveau phonétique, suggérée par l’observation de taux de voisement intermédiaires (Gow et Im, 2004 ; Snoeren, Hallé et Segui, 2006). Mais cette notion même a été remise en question récemment par des analyses distributionnelles du taux de voisement, ou v-ratio (Hallé et Adda-Decker, 2007, 2011), suggérant, du moins pour le français, un processus …

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_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Voice assimilation in French: It applies to nonwords just like to words Recent studies on voice assimilation in French have addressed several important issues. Firstly, is this assimilation process gradient or categorical? Recent analyses of how distributions of voicing ratio change with assimilating to non-assimilating contexts suggest that assimilation is optional but is complete when it occurs. It would therefore be categorical. In this study, we refine these observations with the analysis of some secondary cues to voicing (e.g., closure duration). We also address the issue of whether the occurrence of assimilation is motivated by phonological rules that can be generalized to any item or, rather, is determined by internalized statistics on heard or produced utterances. We use the extreme situation of nonwords in assimilating vs. nonassimilating context. In read speech, voice assimilation affects nonwords as much as words, supporting rule-based rather than statistical accounts. MOTS-CLES : assimilation de voisement, français, parole lue, non-mots. KEYWORDS : voice assimilation, French, read speech, nonwords. 1

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Paper ID:
1817
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2012
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