Arabic learners of French as a second language have been known to produce French hiatus sequences with an epenthetic glide between the two vowels such as in [pejaʒ] for "péage" and [nejɔ ] for "neon". This study attempts to investigate and document this phenomenon by looking at phonetic transcriptions of French words containing V-V sequences within and across word boundaries. The first part of this exploratory study required Arabic learners to transcribe a series of isolated words using IPA to see if they would insert glides. In the second part, learners were invited to record short sentences containing V-V sequences within and across word boundaries to confirm their presence acoustically. Results show a clear tendency for most learners to insert a glide in the phonetic transcription of V1V2 sequences; [j] is inserted if V1 is front and [w] is added if V2 is back. Those glides are also present in recorded sentences as demonstrated in the brief acoustical analysis performed on complete sentences. The final section discusses the possibility that these epenthetic segments may be due to differences between the syllable structures of L1 (Arabic) and French.

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A continuum was synthesized to span the words cop, cup, cob, and cub. Two cues were varied in six steps each. Vowel F2 ranged from 960 to 1160 Hz. Voice bar duration for the final consonant ranged from 10 to 60 ms. Other properties approximated the average the four words pronounced by a male speaker in the compound nouns: traffic cop, tea cup, corn cob, and bear cub. The four context words, traffic, tea, corn, and bear, were also synthesized. Thirteen listeners categorized ten replications of the stimuli in each of five contexts: as isolated words and following each of the context words. As expected, words are favored in appropriate contexts. Logistic regression indicates that about 96% of variance in listeners’ responses can be attributed to phoneme-level stimulus effects and to stimulus-independent (phonological and lexical) biases. There is also evidence for small changes in sensitivity to cues as a function of lexical context. The latter result is of interest for certain alternative models [D. Massaro, Cog. Psych. 23, 558–564 (1991)]. However, observed changes in sensitivity do not relate well to predictions from any existing theory. [Work supported by SSHRC.]

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