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The acquisition of French nasal vowe...

Marquez Martinez, Miguel Angel.

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The acquisition of French nasal vowels: From first language allophony to second language phonological contrast.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The acquisition of French nasal vowels: From first language allophony to second language phonological contrast./
作者:	Marquez Martinez, Miguel Angel.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	169 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International78-08A.
標題:	Linguistics. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10250447
ISBN:	9781369452501

The acquisition of French nasal vowels: From first language allophony to second language phonological contrast.
Marquez Martinez, Miguel Angel.

The acquisition of French nasal vowels: From first language allophony to second language phonological contrast. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 169 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 78-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2016.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation examines the acquisition of French nasal vowels by American college students who are learning French as a second language. Nasal vowels in French are common and important, since they are phonemic. French has a phonemic contrast between oral and nasal vowel categories, e.g. pain [pϵ] "bread" vs. paix [pϵ] "peace". English does not: nasalized vowels are allophonic variants of the oral vowel categories. Nasal vowels present a persistent difficulty for learners, and their acquisition from the perspective of perception and representation is not well understood. To explore the developmental steps involved in this acquisition, this dissertation analyzes the connection between phonetic categorization and phonological contrasts in lexical representations for learners at various levels of proficiency. Naive (no French knowledge) participants as well as intermediate and advanced learners of French and French native speakers participated in phonological processing tasks involving perceptual mapping, ABX categorization, and lexical decision. Since nasal vowels are not part of the English phonological grammar - as opposed to French /ka/ 'quand'-, learners will likely first "repair" such a disallowed feature combination (nasal+vowel) in perception, before being able to acquire a new underlying representation. Two possible acquisition strategies are outlined: nasal unpacking, in which learners attribute perceived nasality to a neighboring nasal consonant, and will assume the presence of a nasal consonant (e.g., they will "repair" /ka/ as /kan/); an alternative strategy is nasal-stripping, in which learners ignore nasality from the vowel representation, hence turning the nasal vowel into an oral vowel ("repairing" /ka/ into /ka/). The application of either strategy is probed via a discrimination task contrasting the predicted difficult pairs (/ka/ vs. /kan/); /ka/ vs. /ka/). The steps needed for the initial (repaired) representation to finally resemble the French native speakers' representations are outlined for each strategy. The results indicate that naive listeners mostly heard French nasal vowels as sequences of oral vowel+nasal consonant, applying nasal unpacking. However, exposure to French instruction appears to modify the strategy: intermediate learners initially heard French nasal vowels as oral, thus applying the nasal stripping strategy. Eventually, advanced learners successfully perceive and acquire nasal vowels in terms of their phonological underlying representation. This dissertation makes significant contributions to the field by advancing our understanding of the underlying phonological representation of these complex sounds, and of their perceptual similarity across languages. It also deepens our understanding of the steps involved in acquiring a phonemic category in L2 for a class of sounds that are not phonemic (allophonic) in L1. Finally, it also provides theoretically important data on the relationship between perception and lexical representation of segments, an area which is currently understudied.

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