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Perceptual assimilation of English dental fricatives by native speakers of European French

Michael D Tyler
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Eléonore Clot
  • Fonction : Directeur scientifique
Marie-Sophie Villain--Bailly
  • Fonction : Directeur scientifique
Chotiga Pattamadilok

Résumé

The phonetic characteristics of French-accented speech suggest that French native speakers often have difficulty producing dental fricatives in English. However, there is a surprising lack of empirical research on perception of those consonants. Canadian French speakers appear to assimilate /θ/ to /t/ and /ð/ to /d/, but loanword evidence suggests that European French speakers should assimilate them to /s/ and /z/, respectively. To test this, 151 native European French listeners categorised and rated the goodness-of-fit of English /θ, f, s, t, ð, v, z, d/ to French phonological categories. /θ/ was categorised as /f/, whereas /ð/ was uncategorised, with responses divided between /v/ and /z/. The remaining consonants were categorised as their corresponding French categories, with /θ/ rated as a poorer French /f/ than /f/. While the majority of individual participants categorised the dental fricatives as /f, v/, there were small subsets of participants who categorised them as /s, z/.
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hal-02494288 , version 1 (28-02-2020)

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Michael D Tyler, Eléonore Clot, Marie-Sophie Villain--Bailly, Chotiga Pattamadilok (Dir.). Perceptual assimilation of English dental fricatives by native speakers of European French. S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren. Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., pp. 2580-2584, 2019. ⟨hal-02494288⟩
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