This study undertakes to assess the evolution of the phonological acquisition of the English /ɪ/-/i:/ and /ʊ/-/u:/ contrasts by French students. The corpus is made up of recordings of spontaneous conversations with native speakers. 12 students, 9 females and 3 males, were recorded over 4 sessions in six-month intervals. The approach adopted here is resolutely quantitative, and agnostic with respect to theories of second language acquisition such as Flege's, Best's or Kuhl's. In order to assess the potential changes in pronunciations, an automatic procedure of alignment and extraction has been devised, based on PRAAT (Boersma 2001). Phonemic and word alignments had been carried out with SPPAS (Bigi 2012) and P2FA (Yuan & Liberman 2008) befor...
International audienceThis work deals with the phenomenon of vowel reduction in spontaneous speech. ...
International audienceThe acoustic characteristics of the vowels in continuous speech are affected b...
International audienceThe present research addresses the question whether an automated analysis of l...
This study undertakes to assess the evolution of the phonological acquisition of the English /ɪ/-/i:...
This study undertakes to assess the evolution of the phonological acquisition of the English /ɪ/-/i:...
Ce travail entreprend d'évaluer l'évolution de l'acquisition phonologique par des étudiants français...
National audienceLike every late L2-learner, French native speakers are characterized by a foreign a...
National audienceLike every late L2-learner, French native speakers are characterized by a foreign a...
International audienceFormant analysis of French oral vowels in isolation: in search of a reference ...
International audienceFormant analysis of French oral vowels in isolation: in search of a reference ...
International audienceFormant analysis of French oral vowels in isolation: in search of a reference ...
International audienceMethods for achieving automatic speaker recognition may be classified into two...
Methods for achieving automatic speaker recognition may be classified into twocategories: pattern re...
Le but de cette thèse est de mieux comprendre le phénomène de renforcement initial pour les voyelles...
This work is part of the online informal learning of English and explores practices related to vario...
International audienceThis work deals with the phenomenon of vowel reduction in spontaneous speech. ...
International audienceThe acoustic characteristics of the vowels in continuous speech are affected b...
International audienceThe present research addresses the question whether an automated analysis of l...
This study undertakes to assess the evolution of the phonological acquisition of the English /ɪ/-/i:...
This study undertakes to assess the evolution of the phonological acquisition of the English /ɪ/-/i:...
Ce travail entreprend d'évaluer l'évolution de l'acquisition phonologique par des étudiants français...
National audienceLike every late L2-learner, French native speakers are characterized by a foreign a...
National audienceLike every late L2-learner, French native speakers are characterized by a foreign a...
International audienceFormant analysis of French oral vowels in isolation: in search of a reference ...
International audienceFormant analysis of French oral vowels in isolation: in search of a reference ...
International audienceFormant analysis of French oral vowels in isolation: in search of a reference ...
International audienceMethods for achieving automatic speaker recognition may be classified into two...
Methods for achieving automatic speaker recognition may be classified into twocategories: pattern re...
Le but de cette thèse est de mieux comprendre le phénomène de renforcement initial pour les voyelles...
This work is part of the online informal learning of English and explores practices related to vario...
International audienceThis work deals with the phenomenon of vowel reduction in spontaneous speech. ...
International audienceThe acoustic characteristics of the vowels in continuous speech are affected b...
International audienceThe present research addresses the question whether an automated analysis of l...