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LIAISON AND "ENCHAINEMENT" IN FRENCH: A COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

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1973
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The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether the processes of liaison and enchainement, in otherwise phonemically identical pairs, would produce phonetically identical utterances as tested by an auditory discrimination test and a spectrographic analysis of contrasting pairs. In addition, single versus geminate consonants of union and one versus two word utterances with the same phonological structures were compared. While no phonemic distinctions were proven between union by liaison and encha1nement or between one versus two word utterances, results would seem to indicate a phonemic length distinction between single versus geminate consonants. The test items were identified with varying degrees of accuracy depending on the extent to which the paired utterances contrasted in the following ways: 1) length of the consonant of union; 2) length of the vowel preceding union; 3) quality of the vowel preceding union and 4) length of the vowel following union.
Title: LIAISON AND "ENCHAINEMENT" IN FRENCH: A COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY.
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Name(s): GUIDO, GARY A.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Trammell, Robert L., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1973
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 46 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether the processes of liaison and enchainement, in otherwise phonemically identical pairs, would produce phonetically identical utterances as tested by an auditory discrimination test and a spectrographic analysis of contrasting pairs. In addition, single versus geminate consonants of union and one versus two word utterances with the same phonological structures were compared. While no phonemic distinctions were proven between union by liaison and encha1nement or between one versus two word utterances, results would seem to indicate a phonemic length distinction between single versus geminate consonants. The test items were identified with varying degrees of accuracy depending on the extent to which the paired utterances contrasted in the following ways: 1) length of the consonant of union; 2) length of the vowel preceding union; 3) quality of the vowel preceding union and 4) length of the vowel following union.
Identifier: 13610 (digitool), FADT13610 (IID), fau:10451 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.
Subject(s): French language--Phonemics.
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