The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels
This paper reports the results of two experiments on the acoustics of French mid vowels in a variety in which close-mid vowels ([e], [ø], [o]) occur in open syllables and open-mid vowels ([ɛ], [oe], [ɔ]) in closed syllables, according to the loi de position. Open-mid allophones have consistently hig...
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| description | This paper reports the results of two experiments on the acoustics of French mid vowels in a variety in which close-mid vowels ([e], [ø], [o]) occur in open syllables and open-mid vowels ([ɛ], [oe], [ɔ]) in closed syllables, according to the loi de position. Open-mid allophones have consistently higher F1 realizations and more central F2 realizations than their close-mid counterparts, but are not consistently shorter. These results are problematic for accounts of the loi de position as a pattern of vowel reduction, with mid-vowel lowering and centralizing being caused by shortening. F1 and F2 distances between close-mid and open-mid allophones vary across different prosodic and consonantal contexts and these variations can be analyzed as resulting from duration-based undershoot. More broadly, the results have implications for the typology of closed-syllable vowel laxing: they suggest that tense and lax realizations cannot generally be derived from the same acoustic target via closed-syllable vowel shortening but have distinct acoustic targets. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1244562022-09-29T14:47:58Z The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels Storme, Benjamin Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy This paper reports the results of two experiments on the acoustics of French mid vowels in a variety in which close-mid vowels ([e], [ø], [o]) occur in open syllables and open-mid vowels ([ɛ], [oe], [ɔ]) in closed syllables, according to the loi de position. Open-mid allophones have consistently higher F1 realizations and more central F2 realizations than their close-mid counterparts, but are not consistently shorter. These results are problematic for accounts of the loi de position as a pattern of vowel reduction, with mid-vowel lowering and centralizing being caused by shortening. F1 and F2 distances between close-mid and open-mid allophones vary across different prosodic and consonantal contexts and these variations can be analyzed as resulting from duration-based undershoot. More broadly, the results have implications for the typology of closed-syllable vowel laxing: they suggest that tense and lax realizations cannot generally be derived from the same acoustic target via closed-syllable vowel shortening but have distinct acoustic targets. 2020-03-31T18:42:47Z 2020-03-31T18:42:47Z 2017-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2397-1835 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124456 Storme, B. "The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels." Glossa 2,1 (July 2017): 64 © 2017 The Author en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.300 Glossa Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Ubiquity Press, Ltd. Glossa |
| spellingShingle | Storme, Benjamin The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels |
| title | The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels |
| title_full | The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels |
| title_fullStr | The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels |
| title_full_unstemmed | The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels |
| title_short | The loi de position and the acoustics of French mid vowels |
| title_sort | loi de position and the acoustics of french mid vowels |
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