Impacts du ratage de cible sur la production des voyelles nasales françaises par les apprenants iraniens

• Main Authors: Mohamd Hossein Otroshi, Kamyar Abdoltajedini, Marzieh Mehrabi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO 2019-06-01
• Series: Corela
• Subjects: FFL; nasal vowels; production undershoot model; nasal formant; gap in pronunciation
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/corela/8239

This research focuses on the impact of phonetic context on the formants 1, 2 and 3 of the French nasal vowels. The connected speech consists of the succession of oral and nasal vowels influenced by the consonant context. Using the Stevens’ and House’s model, production undershoot model, this study sought to investigate the effect of phonetic context on the three French nasal vowels. The aim was to check the following hypothesis : in the phonetic context, the consonant would not only affect the formants 1 and 2 but also the nasal formant (nF) of nasal vowel which causes separation from its own "hyperspace", however this would not lead to the disappearance of anti-formant. To do so, we analyzed the phonetic productions of 4 first-year French students at the University of Isfahan using Praat software while taking into account the acoustic variables of formants 1, 2 and 3. Our corpus consists of 2 sentences collected during the second semester of 2016-2017 academic year. The results revealed that the effect of phonetic context would lead to the undershoot of nasal vowels which prevents the formation of nasal formant or murmur nasal i.e., a gap in pronunciation.