2019
DOI: 10.1017/s0952675719000198
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On the deletion of word-final schwa in Southern French

Abstract: Although a growing body of literature in formal phonology has espoused the view that phonological knowledge is gradient and probabilistic, this perspective remains somewhat controversial. This paper provides further empirical support for this strand of work: it offers an analysis of the gradient deletion of word-final schwa in Southern French, using a corpus containing 7787 data points obtained from 45 subjects spread over three dialectal areas (the Basque Country, Languedoc and Provence). In addition to confi… Show more

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“…the articulation of schwa that would be mute in standard French, i.e., at the end of 'voiture'. However, the schwa in this recording is not particularly marked and it is not clear whether this would necessarily block a banlieue reading: while there is tentative evidence that word-final schwa is perhaps deleted more frequently in urban rather than rural settings and by young males more than other groups, it remains nonetheless a widespread southern feature (Eychenne, 2019). A different possibility is that palatalization is indeed understood as indexing Marseille but that this is articulated by listeners as 'southern' more broadly.…”
Section: Example 4: a Classic Cuv Feature Does Not Appear To Index Ba...mentioning
confidence: 62%
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“…the articulation of schwa that would be mute in standard French, i.e., at the end of 'voiture'. However, the schwa in this recording is not particularly marked and it is not clear whether this would necessarily block a banlieue reading: while there is tentative evidence that word-final schwa is perhaps deleted more frequently in urban rather than rural settings and by young males more than other groups, it remains nonetheless a widespread southern feature (Eychenne, 2019). A different possibility is that palatalization is indeed understood as indexing Marseille but that this is articulated by listeners as 'southern' more broadly.…”
Section: Example 4: a Classic Cuv Feature Does Not Appear To Index Ba...mentioning
confidence: 62%
“…It is important to say also that the nasal vowels at the end of 'maison' and 'grand' are markedly southern in that they are oral vowels with a 'nasal appendage ', i.e. [ŋ] (Eychenne, 2019). For this clip, region is the dominant social meaning for listeners across the focus groups in all regions, the speaker being clearly identified as southern.…”
Section: Example 5: Apparently Contradictory Indexicalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En effet, si on ne regarde que les groupes de locuteurs et locutrices les plus jeunes, tous et toutes né*es entre 1970 et 1985, on trouve des taux de réalisation de schwa qui varient entre 5% chez les locutrices de Tourrettes-sur-Loup (06) (Thomas, 2006) et presque 80% chez les locuteurs et locutrices de Septèmes-les-Vallons (13) (Coquillon et Turcsan, 2012). Néanmoins, un effet d'âge a pu être observé dans chaque étude dont les participant*es appartenaient à plusieurs générations, en règle générale des membres d'une même famille (Durand et al, 1987 ;Thomas, 2006 ;Coquillon et Turcsan, 2012 ;Eychenne, 2019). Il semble donc que ce trait caractéristique du français méridional est en train de se perdre, à quelques exceptions près.…”
Section: L'effet D'âgeunclassified
“…Il semblerait donc que ce soit un cadre pertinent pour interroger le statut du schwa final car nous disposons désormais de données incluant de nombreuses occurrences, couvrant différents styles de parole et impliquant plusieurs locuteurs et locutrices. Une telle approche, permise par les grands corpus et l'alignement automatique, a fait ses preuves dans l'analyse détaillée du schwa interne (Bürki et al 2007, Wu et al 2016, 2017 ou même du schwa final soit après coda branchante seulement (Brand & Ernestus 2018), soit dans des variétés non-standard (Durand & Eychenne 2004, Ranson & Passarello 2012, Eychenne 2019. La seule étude, à notre connaissance, traitant du schwa final de mot après tout type de coda en français standard grâce à des grands corpus est celle menée par Purse (2019).…”
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