La Prosodie des énoncés interrogatifs en français langue seconde (The prosody of questions in French as L2) [in French]
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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The prosody of questions in French as L2 This paper focuses on the acquisition of the tonal and prosodic structure of questions in French as a L2. Our study consists in a cross-comparison of utterances recorded in French and Spanish in various settings, and produced by 15 Mexican Spanish learners of French (L2), 10 French speakers and 10 Mexican speakers. In the yes-no questions as produced by the learners, some characteristics of their L1 are observed, which can be seen as a consequence of a transfer: (i) the nuclear contour consists in an extra-high F0 rise, and (ii) the internal prosodic structure at the level of the AP is not clearly marked. However, the tonal patterns observed in partial questions, where learners do use rising contours, cannot be attributed to a transfer. These findings prove that the acquisition of prosody in a L2 cannot be analyzed as a mere transfer from the learner’s first language. MOTS-CLÉS : Acquisition d’une L2, intonation, phrasé prosodique. KEYWORDS: L2 acquisition, intonation, prosodic phrasing. 1
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Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, volume 1: JEP, pages 265–272, Grenoble, 4 au 8 juin 2012. c ⃝2012 ATALA & AFCP La prosodie des énoncés interrogatifs en français L2 Fabian Santiago1 Élisabeth Delais-Roussarie2 (1) LLF, 161, Paris 7, 5, rue Thomas Mann 75205 Paris Cedex 13 (2) CNRS-UMR 7110, LLF, 161, Paris 7, 5, rue Thomas Mann 75205 Paris Cedex 13 rotinet@hotmail.com, elisabeth.roussarie@wanadoo.fr RESUME ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Cet article est consacré à l’acquisition de l’intonation des énoncés interrogatifs en français L2. L’étude repose sur une analyse contrastive d’énoncés français et espagnols produits par quinze étudiants Mexicains apprenant le français, dix locuteurs Français natifs et dix locuteurs Mexicains. Les patrons intonatifs observés dans les questions totales produites par les apprenants présentent plusieurs caractéristiques qui, sous certains points, les rapprochent de l’espagnol du Mexique, et pourraient les faire analyser comme résultat d’un transfert: emploi des contours montants terminaux et absence de marquage de la structure prosodique interne. En revanche, les formes prosodiques observées dans les questions partielles ne relèvent pas d’un transfert de la L1: les apprenants emploient majoritairement des contours montants, alors qu’en espagnol les contours montants et descendants sont utilisés dans des proportions comparables. Aussi, nous pensons que l’hypothèse du transfert n’est pas la plus adéquate pour rendre compte des patrons prosodiques observés en L2. ABSTRACT__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The prosody of questions in French as L2 This paper focuses on the acquisition of the tonal and prosodic structure of questions in French as a L2. Our study consists in a cross-comparison of utterances recorded in French and Spanish in various settings, and produced by 15 Mexican Spanish learners of French (L2), 10 French speakers and 10 Mexican speakers. In the yes-no questions as produced by the learners, some characteristics of their L1 are observed, which can be seen as a consequence of a transfer: (i) the nuclear contour consists in an extra-high F0 rise, and (ii) the internal prosodic structure at the level of the AP is not clearly marked. However, the tonal patterns observed in partial questions, where learners do use rising contours, cannot be attributed to a transfer. These findings prove that the acquisition of prosody in a L2 cannot be analyzed as a mere transfer from the learner’s first language. MOTS-CLÉS : Acquisition d’une L2, intonation, phrasé prosodique. KEYWORDS: L2 acquisition, intonation, prosodic phrasing. 1 Introduction La question du transfert de la L1 vers la L2 a été abordée dans de nombreux travaux consacrés à l’acquisition. Le phénomène de transfert a d’ailleurs souvent été considéré comme important lors de l’analyse de productions orales d’apprenants. Ainsi, dans de nombreuses études, les formes prosodiques erronées produites par les apprenants d’une L2 sont attribuées à un transfert (cf. Gut, 2009 pour une synthèse sur ce point). 265 Cependant, d’autres travaux (cf. Trouvain & Gut, 2007) montrent que le transfert ne peut pas expliquer toutes les formes prosodiques erronées observées dans les productions des apprenants: d’une part, certaines formes observées en L2 ne sont attestées ni dans la L1 des apprenants ni dans …
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__________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The prosody of questions in French as L2 This paper focuses on the acquisition of the tonal and prosodic structure of questions in French as a L2. Our study consists in a cross-comparison of utterances recorded in French and Spanish in various settings, and produced by 15 Mexican Spanish learners of French (L2), 10 French speakers and 10 Mexican speakers. In the yes-no questions as produced by the learners, some characteristics of their L1 are observed, which can be seen as a consequence of a transfer: (i) the nuclear contour consists in an extra-high F0 rise, and (ii) the internal prosodic structure at the level of the AP is not clearly marked. However, the tonal patterns observed in partial questions, where learners do use rising contours, cannot be attributed to a transfer. These findings prove that the acquisition of prosody in a L2 cannot be analyzed as a mere transfer from the learner’s first language. MOTS-CLÉS : Acquisition d’une L2, intonation, phrasé prosodique. KEYWORDS: L2 acquisition, intonation, prosodic phrasing. 1
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- Paper ID:
- 1836
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- 2012
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