On the acquisition of French speech rhythm in a multilingual classroom: Evidence from linguistic and extra- linguistic data

Gabriel, Christoph; Stahnke, Johanna; Thulke, Jeanette

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20140801097

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“…2 To our knowledge, the only study which directly addresses this particular case is by Gabriel et al (2014Gabriel et al ( , 2015, who investigated the acquisition of the syllable-timed rhythm of L3 French in multilingual learners who speak (syllable-timed) Mandarin Chinese as a HL in addition to their dominant language German, which is characterized by a typical stress-timed rhythm. 3 Based on a corpus of read data, the authors found that multilingual learners who show a high degree of cross-linguistic and phonological awareness and a positive attitude towards both the foreign language (French) and the HL (Mandarin Chinese) produced the speech rhythm of FFL more target-like than their monolingual German counterparts, who had no experience with a syllable-timed language.…”

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“…As VOT is a durational property linked to the production of plosives, it should have a direct impact on speech rhythm, in that the longer vs. shorter VOT values of aspirated vs. unaspirated stops should be mirrored in higher values for consonantal variability as compared to languages without aspirated stops. We thus ask whether the results of previous rhythmic analyses with the same speakers (Gabriel et al 2014(Gabriel et al , 2015 can be replicated for VOT.…”

Section: Vot In French German and Mandarin Chinesementioning

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“…(ii) Can the results of previous rhythmic analyses performed on data produced by the same speakers (Gabriel et al 2014(Gabriel et al , 2015 be replicated for VOT?…”

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VOT in French as a foreign language: A production and perception study with mono- and multilingual learners (German/Mandarin-Chinese)

Gabriel

Kupisch

Seoudy

2016

SHS Web of Conferences

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Abstract. This study addresses the production of Voice Onset Time (VOT) in French as a foreign language (FFL). The learners are young multilingual learners who speak Mandarin Chinese as a heritage language along with German. To determine potential effects of the learners' multilingual background, these multilingual learners were compared to three control groups: (1) monolingual German learners of FFL, (2) monolingual Mandarin Chinese learners of FFL, and (3) native speakers of French (L1). In addition, a perception experiment was carried out to find out to what extent the VOT values measured in the production data contribute to the perception of foreign accent. Our results show that multilingual learners perform similar to monolingual learners, suggesting that multilingual learners are neither advantaged nor disadvantaged when acquiring the phonology of a foreign language. Furthermore, the learners' perceived accent in the perception data study mirrors the results from the production study.

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Section: Vot In French German and Mandarin Chinesementioning

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VOT in French as a foreign language: A production and perception study with mono- and multilingual learners (German/Mandarin-Chinese)

Gabriel

Kupisch

Seoudy

2016

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“…Le transfert rythmique du chinois mandarin au français est peu étudié (Gabriel et al 2014), mais mérite de l'être, car ces deux langues participent à la même classe rythmique du point de vue perceptif et acoustique mais se distinguent l'une de l'autre en termes de propriétés phonologiques relatives au rythme. Notre objectif est d'investiguer le rythme des énoncés en français produits par des apprenants sinophones du FR LE .…”

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“…De plus, la différence CM LM /FR LM atteint également le seuil de significativité, ce qui peut être supposé d'après les propriétés phonologiques relatives au rythme de ces deux langues. Gabriel et al (2014) ont montré que, dans un contexte scolaire allemand, des apprenants sinophones parlant le CM LM pouvaient plus facilement acquérir le FR LE que des germanophones natifs, car le chinois mandarin peut être positivement transféré au FR LE , mais aussi à cause de facteurs extralinguistiques (attitude et conscience phonologique).…”

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Transfert rythmique du chinois mandarin au français dans l’apprentissage du Français Langue Étrangère : acoustique et perception

Pillot-Loiseau

Xie

2018

SHS Web Conf.

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Cette étude concerne le transfert rythmique du chinois mandarin au français dans le cadre de l'apprentissage du Français Langue Étrangère. Le rythme de phrases françaises produites par dix apprenants sinophones de niveau de français intermédiaire-avancé, est comparé avec celui de leurs productions en chinois mandarin et celui en français produit par des natives. Acoustiquement, les mesures quantitatives du rythme mettent en lumière la différence significative entre les patterns rythmiques du chinois mandarin et du français produit par les sujets sinophones. Les valeurs des mesures rythmiques appliquées au français langue étrangère sont plus proches de celles appliquées au français natif, ce qui est en contradiction avec les résultats de l'étude perceptive selon lesquels le transfert rythmique du chinois mandarin au français peut être identifié par huit locuteurs natifs du français. La disparité entre acoustique et perception met en doute l'emploi de ces mesures dans cette étude sur le transfert rythmique. Abstract. Rhythmic transfer from Mandarin Chinese to French in the learning of French as a foreign language: acoustics and perception.This study concerns the rhythmic transfer of Mandarin Chinese to French in the context of French as a Foreign Language learning. The rhythm of French spoken sentences produced by ten Chinese-speaking learners at an intermediate-advanced French level, is compared with that of their Mandarin Chinese productions, and with the rhythm of the same French sentences produced by native subjects. Acoustically, quantitative measures of rhythm show significant differences between the rhythmic patterns of Mandarin Chinese and French produced by Chinese subjects. The values of rhythmic measures applied to French as a foreign language are closer to those applied to native French, which is in contradiction with the results of the perceptual study according to which the rhythmic transfer of Mandarin Chinese to French can be identified by eight native speakers of French. The disparity between acoustics and perception casts doubt on the use of rhythmic measures in this rhythmic transfer study.

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Production of French final stressed syllables in Accentual Phrase by Chinese learners: A pilot study

Xi¹,

Wachs²,

Ridouane³

2020

Speech Prosody 2020

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Rhythm plays an essential role in the segmentation of speech, a fundamental process in encoding and decoding messages for speakers and listeners. This study compared productions of French stressed syllables at different rhythmic boundaries, by French native speakers (NS) and Chinese learners (CL). The study started by retrieving duration of vowels and syllables within the examined utterances, with special focus on the last stressed syllables in Accentual Phrase (AP), for which temporal and non-temporal parameters were examined. Results concerning the temporal patterns showed that both NS and CL produced final lengthening in AP final syllables. However, CL's durations were much longer than the NS'. At the utterance level, CL with low proficiency had a wide temporal variation among segments, while high proficient CL had an isochrony tendency, similar to NS' performance. Results concerning the non-temporal parameters showed that low proficient CL produced a pitch fall between rhythmic units, which was not the case in NS' production. We considered this finding as a negative transfer from resetting of pitch register in Mandarin Chinese. Distribution of pauses was also analyzed, and some inappropriate pauses inserted within sense groups were found in CL. These pauses may weaken listener's decoding process in speech.

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On the acquisition of French speech rhythm in a multilingual classroom: Evidence from linguistic and extra- linguistic data

Cited by 6 publications

References 27 publications

VOT in French as a foreign language: A production and perception study with mono- and multilingual learners (German/Mandarin-Chinese)

VOT in French as a foreign language: A production and perception study with mono- and multilingual learners (German/Mandarin-Chinese)

Transfert rythmique du chinois mandarin au français dans l’apprentissage du Français Langue Étrangère : acoustique et perception

Production of French final stressed syllables in Accentual Phrase by Chinese learners: A pilot study

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