Perceptual relevance of long-domain phonetic dependencies

Noël Nguyen (1) , Zsuzsanna Fagyal (2) , Jennifer Cole (3)

1 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage
2 Department of French
3 Department of Linguistics

This study is concerned with the perceptual relevance of regressive vowel harmony in French. Two experiments were conducted. The first experiment showed that acoustic variations in a non-final vowel depending on the final vowel can be detected by listeners. The second experiment revealed that vowel harmony can facilitate the identification of the final vowel. Implications for current models of speech perception are discussed.

Mots clés: vowel harmony; French; speech perception

Domaines: Linguistique

Noël Nguyen, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Jennifer Cole. Perceptual relevance of long-domain phonetic dependencies. Journées d'Etudes Linguistiques (JEL), May 2004, Nantes, France. pp.173-178. ⟨hal-00244498⟩