On place assimilation in French sibilant sequences

Oliver Niebuhr (1) , Leonardo Lancia (1) , Christine Meunier (1)

1 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage

A corpus of systematically constructed sentences read by 4 female speakers revealed the existence of place assimilation in sequences of French alveolar and postalveolar sibilants. The assimilation manifests itself gradually in time and frequency measurements and is directed towards 'postalveolar'. Thus, it can be regressive and progressive, depending on the order of the place features in the sibilant sequences.

Mots clés: Fricatives; French; place assimilation

Domaines: Linguistique; Linguistique

Oliver Niebuhr, Leonardo Lancia, Christine Meunier. On place assimilation in French sibilant sequences. International Seminar on Speech Production, Dec 2008, Strasbourg, France. pp.221-224. ⟨hal-00454446⟩