Etude du décours temporel de l'harmonie de voyelle à voyelle quand la durée vocalique varie : Une comparaison de deux cadres statistiques.

International audienceContext: Nguyen & Fagyal (2008) have shown that french “Vowel Harmony” (or vowel-to-vowel coarticulation) is actually produced by speakers as it had been described in classical accounts (Dell, 1972; Fouché, 1956; Grammont, 1933) — In previous work (Duniec & Crouzet, 2013, 2014), we adressed issuesregarding alternate accounts of these findings (namely pure short term coarticulatory transitions giving rise to what would “look like” V-to-V a harmonisation).We also adressed the issue of whether accounts of vowel harmony / vowel-to-vowel coarticulation should adopt discrete vs. continuous views of this fact. —Aims: Setting-up the requirements for the analysis of formant trajectories over time in order to investigate the relationship between discrete and continuousaccounts of this phenomenon