Analyse de production des voyelles nasales françaises chez les étudiants serbophones de la Faculté de Philosophie, Université de Novi Sad
Résumé
This paper examines the production of French nasal vowels [ã], [ɔ̃] and [ɛ̃] by students speaking Serbian as a mother tongue attending the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Novi Sad). The corpus of our research has been collected within the subject Phonetics and phonology of the French language 1 during the winter semester of the 2019/2020 school year. Since the above-mentioned vowels are non-existent in the phonological system of Serbian, but are present only as combinatory variations (ex. Anka, kontrola, penzija) a Serbian native speaker isn't used to them – as shown by the results of several significant studies on contrastive analysis of the Serbo-Croatian and French phonological system (Pozojević-Trivanović, Desnica-Žerjavić, Gudurić, Šotra). This research is based on the analysis of the corpus made up of sound recordings containing the pronunciation of students of French language and literature with another Romance language and culture and English language and literature with another foreign philology that attended Phonetics and phonology of the French language 1 during the winter semester of their first year. The aim of this paper is to establish certain difficulties in the acquisition of the above-mentioned vowels. The analysis has shown a presence of total or partial denasalization in producing nasal vowels in more than 50 % of the cases. The results indicate that the participants encounter the most difficulties when pronouncing the front vowel [ɛ̃].