• The distribution of syneresis and dieresis in contemporary French: Testing a methodological tool to identify patterns across varieties 

      Andreassen, Helene N.; Côté, Marie-Hélène; Eychenne, Julien; Racine, Isabelle; Detey, Sylvain (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2020-02)
      In French, the close vowels [i, y, u] are subject to alternation with the glides [j, ɥ, w] in given contexts, e.g. [myɛt] ∼ [mɥɛt] ‘muteFEM’ and [sye] ∼ [sɥe] ‘sweatINF’. Factors that have proven decisive for the selection of a variant are e.g. the inherent sonority of the vowel, its position in the word, and its left segmental context (see e.g. Côté, 2018; Klein, 1991; Lyche, 1979). Also, the ...
    • The French foot revisited 

      Andreassen, Helene N.; Eychenne, Julien (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This article aims to re-evaluate the relevance of the foot in French. After a critical review of the literature on the subject, with reference to both adult and child language, we argue that the prosodic structure of French is best understood within a grid-only framework. The model is couched in Stratal Optimality Theory and illustrated with naturalistic data drawn from southern French and Swiss ...
    • La distribution de synérèse/diérèse dans la phonologie du français contemporain & perspectives de codage 

      Andreassen, Helene N.; Racine, Isabelle; Côté, Marie-Hélène; Eychenne, Julien; Detey, Sylvain (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2019-12-04)
    • Le rôle de l’immersion dans l’apprentissage du schwa chez les apprenants alémaniques avancés de FLE 

      Isely, Romain; Racine, Isabelle; Detey, Sylvain; Andreassen, Helene N.; Eychenne, Julien (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-07-09)
      Mastering ‘schwa’ is one of the major challenges that non-native speakers face when learning French as a foreign language. The present study, set within the framework of the IPFC project (“Interphonologie du Français Contemporain”), describes the schwa-coding system applied to the IPFC corpus data and is illustrated here with data from Alemannic-speaking Swiss learners of French (two tasks: text ...
    • Le traitement du schwa dans IPFC : codage, décodage et illustration avec des données du projet IPFC-Suisse 

      Isely, Romain; Racine, Isabelle; Detey, Sylvain; Andreassen, Helene N.; Eychenne, Julien (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2017-11)