FRENCH /y/-/u/ CONTRAST IN JAPANESE LEARNERS WITH / WITHOUT ULTRASOUND FEEDBACK: VOWELS, NON-WORDS AND WORDS

Claire Pillot-Loiseau (1) , Takeki Kamiyama (2, 1) , Tanja Kocjančič Antolík (1)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018
2 LECSeL - Linguistique Empirique : Cognition, Société et Langage

This study investigated French /y/ and /u/ produced by one native speaker (NS) and seven Japanese-speaking learners; four of them received lessons on /u/ with ultrasound visual feedback of the tongue shape and position. Acoustic measurements of 10 repetitions of six words (coronal context) are compared to those of isolated /y/ and /u/, and of the non-words /tyty/ and /tutu/, both before and after the ultrasound lessons, in terms of i) Euclidean distance (ED) between /y/-/u/; ii) the distance F2-F3 of /y/; and iii) the distance F1-F2 of /u/. The isolated vowels were closest to NS's, followed by monosyllabic words, disyllabic ones, and then non-words. The values of all learners are significantly different from NS's at the first recording, but those of the learners having received ultrasound lessons approached NS's after the lessons.

Mots clés: L2 vowel learning; French; Japanese; Ultrasound as visual feedback; Acoustics

Domaines: Linguistique

Claire Pillot-Loiseau, Takeki Kamiyama, Tanja Kocjančič Antolík. FRENCH /y/-/u/ CONTRAST IN JAPANESE LEARNERS WITH / WITHOUT ULTRASOUND FEEDBACK: VOWELS, NON-WORDS AND WORDS. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2015, Université de Glasgow, Aug 2015, Glasgow, United Kingdom. pp.1-5. ⟨hal-01188307⟩