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Article published In: Segmental, prosodic and fluency features in phonetic learner corpora
Edited by Jürgen Trouvain, Frank Zimmerer, Bernd Möbius, Mária Gósy and Anne Bonneau
[International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 3:2] 2017
► pp. 223–249

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Towards a perceptually assessed corpus of non-native French

The InterPhonology of Contemporary French (IPFC) project illustrated with a longitudinal study of Japanese learners’ /b-v/ productions

 | Waseda University
 | University of Geneva
Published online: 4 December 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.3.2.06det
Abstract
In this article, we describe the main methodological steps taken in the InterPhonologie du Français Contemporain (IPFC) research project to build an international corpus of spoken French as a Foreign Language for research and educational purposes. We offer a brief illustration of our approach with a four-session longitudinal study of 12 beginner Japanese learners of French over two years, especially /b/ and /v/ consonants produced in two tasks (repetition and reading of an identical wordlist). Our results illustrate how our perception-based first-screening coding approach provides us with rich information about the developmental profile of the learners, taking into account the task (repetition vs reading), the position in the word (initial, medial, final), the perceptual phonetic characteristics, and ultimately the left and right phonological context of the structure under scrutiny. This work is the first step in an iterative approach to further test experimentally subsets of the non-target-like productions from an acoustic-perceptual point of view.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The IPFC research project
    • 2.1Genesis
    • 2.2Recording protocol and orthographic transcriptions
    • 2.3Coding protocol and Dolmen
    • 2.4Studies in IPFC
  • 3.The IPFC code for consonants illustrated with the production of /b/ and /v/ by Japanese learners
    • 3.1IPFC-Japanese and the CLIJAF project
    • 3.2The production of /b/-/v/: A corpus-based study
      • 3.2.1Methodology
      • 3.2.2The IPFC consonantal code illustrated for /b-v/
    • 3.3Aspects of /b-v/ production by Japanese learners of French in the CLIJAF corpus
      • 3.3.1The consonants: /b/ vs /v/
      • 3.3.2Task: Reading vs repetition
      • 3.3.3Position in the word: initial vs medial vs final
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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