The production of French nasal vowels by advanced Japanese and Spanish learners of French: a corpus-based evaluation study

Abstract

In the past, few studies have investigated the production of French nasal vowels by non-native speakers, and none of these -as far as we know -have been corpus-based.In this study, productions of /ɑ/, /ɔ/ and /ɛ/ by Japanese and Spanish advanced learners of French, collected from the multitask IPFC corpus (InterPhonology of Contemporary French), have been assessed in a three-step process: 1) a non-expert native assessment of the vowel quality through a lexical identification task and a goodness task; 2) an expert native assessment of the postvocalic excrescences of the learners' productions; 3) an acoustic analysis of the postvocalic excrescences on a subset of productions.The results are discussed in light of the psycholinguistically distinct processes involved in the different tasks.

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