Role of prosody in segmental perception in L2

Takeki Kamiyama (1) , Shigeko Shinohara (2)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018
2 Sophia University Phonetics Laboratory

This paper focuses on the role of prosody in segmental perception of CCV cluster vs. CVCV in French by Japanese speakers learning French. We studied Japanese speakers' perception of minimal pair words in French of the type /blɛt/ vs. /bulɛt/ embedded in different intonation contours, with higher or lower F0 on the cluster. Results indicate that tonal prominence facilitates the perception of segmental sequences in L2.

Mots clés: French; Prosody; L2 acquisition; Japanese

Domaines: Linguistique

Takeki Kamiyama, Shigeko Shinohara. Role of prosody in segmental perception in L2. Sophia University Working Papers in Phonetics 2010, 2010, pp.10-18. ⟨hal-00587963⟩