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This paper reports the first set of results of an investigation into the phonetic correlates of f... more This paper reports the first set of results of an investigation into the phonetic correlates of female altos’ singing (compared to the extensive research which has been done on males’ singing). Based on the author’s previous research (Hall 2003), predictions for this experiment were that when producing a ‘singing’ sound: - singers would increase the amplitude of H2 to a level above the amplitude of H1 - at least the most experienced of the singers would produce a ‘singer’s formant’ - some formant tuning of F1 and possibly F2 would be observed: that is, singers would change the locations of F1 and F2 in order to amplify their sound. The degree to which they needed to do this would depend on f0 frequency. (Two notes on terminology in this paper: 1) H1 here means ‘f0, the leftmost peak in the spectrum’; H2 refers to the peak above f0 in frequency. 2) The terms 'f0' and 'pitch' are interchangeable.) Data were collected from nine singers in this experiment. Analysis in th...
We report on a pilot analysis of two speakers—M, 33, and F, 24, both middle-class—from Le Havre, ... more We report on a pilot analysis of two speakers—M, 33, and F, 24, both middle-class—from Le Havre, France, part of the larger Towards A New Linguistic Atlas of France project. The aim is to isolate features to investigate in greater detail in the full analysis. Two vowel changes are analysed: the merger or separation of /a/ (as in patte /pat/ ‘paw’) and /ɑ/ (pâtes /pɑt/ ‘pasta’), and the fronting of /ɔ/. Most areas of France merge /a/ and /ɑ/ to /a/ [18, 24, 46], but some Normandy speakers separate them [21], as does the regional language Norman, the oral vowel system of which is very close to that of its sister language French [30]. Both speakers analysed here have significant word-list differences between /a/ and /ɑ/. The female speaker also has fronted /ɔ/, a well-known feature of modern informal French [3], but one which has not been found for Norman. The emerging picture is of an urban accent which combines regional features and more widespread urban ones, even among middle-class...
This paper presents findings on VOT variability in voiced and voiceless plosives produced by 159 ... more This paper presents findings on VOT variability in voiced and voiceless plosives produced by 159 speakers from four locations straddling the English-Scottish border. The analysis reveals key effects of both social and phonetic factors, highlighting the importance of both in accounting for variability.
The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.
Journal of French Language Studies
This Special Issue of the Journal of French Language Studies celebrates a recent surge in enthusi... more This Special Issue of the Journal of French Language Studies celebrates a recent surge in enthusiasm for sociolinguistic studies involving the regional languages of France. Taking our cue from the contributions to the volume, which we introduce here, we argue that a changing twenty-first century landscape offers an exciting new agenda for these regional languages (and minority languages more widely), and set out what we see as six key directions for contemporary research.
Journal of French Language Studies
ABSTRACTThis article uses the pronunciation of stressed Intonational Phrase-final /ε/ and /e/ in ... more ABSTRACTThis article uses the pronunciation of stressed Intonational Phrase-final /ε/ and /e/ in two communities in Normandy, France, to illustrate the convergence of two sociolinguistic processes on the same phonological result: increasing application of the Loi de Position. In both communities (one rural and further from Paris, one urban and closer to Paris), there is now no consistent community-wide phonetic distinction between the two phonemes in that environment. It is suggested that the Loi de Position is already widely applied in the rural site, but speakers are still conscious of the formal norm whereby it is not applied; for the urban site, apparent-time changes for this variable reflect changes in Parisian speech. The theoretical implications of the study concerning speakers’ organisation of their vowel-space, and concerning the increasing application of the Loi de Position in the French of France, are examined. These conclusions are reached by per-speaker analysis of F1 a...
SHS Web of Conferences, 2012
Cet article décrit un projet de dialectologie qui a pour but de produire une étude phonétiquephon... more Cet article décrit un projet de dialectologie qui a pour but de produire une étude phonétiquephonologique des accents urbains dans le français du nord de la France. Le projet s'intitule en anglais « Towards A New Linguistic Atlas of France » (TANLAF), ce qui peut se traduire « Vers un Nouvel Atlas Linguistique de la France ». 1 Des projets semblables n'étant habituels ni en dialectologie ni en sociolinguistique françaises, nous commencerons par un compte-rendu des raisons du projet, et ferons par la suite une description de sa méthodologie. Nous terminerons par un appel aux suggestions de la part de la communauté des linguistes qui travaillent sur le français et la France. 2 La linguistique du projet 2.1 Pourquoi faire une telle étude ? Ce projet représente certes un départ de l'approche traditionnelle de la dialectologie et la sociolinguistique en France. Sauf exceptions, la sociolinguistique française est beaucoup plus interactionnelle que variationniste, se situant beaucoup plus au niveau macrosociolinguistique qu'au niveau micro : elle fait appel aux interactions entre une langue, ses locuteurs et la/les société(s) où elle est parlée, beaucoup plus qu'à la variation linguistique entre individus. Le présent projet, qu'on pourrait appeler de la dialectologie sociolinguistique, cible davantage la variation linguistique entre individus. Nous nous pencherons un moment sur nos raisons de penser qu'une étude variationniste de grande échelle complètera la littérature sociolinguistique française de façon utile. Ensuite, dans les sections 2.2 et seq., nous approfondirons l'explication du projet en examinant de près la description qui en est énoncée cidessus : « une étude phonétique-phonologique des accents urbains dans le français du nord de la France ». Nous pensons que cette étude enrichira la littérature sur la langue française parce que, d'une certaine façon, l'étude se trouve dans la droite ligne de la tradition dialectologique française. Depuis l'Atlas Linguistique de la France (Gilliéron et Edmont 1902-10), la France est connue à juste titre comme le berceau de la dialectologie moderne. La tradition de cet atlas monumental continue jusqu'à ce jour dans la série des Atlas Linguistiques de la France par régions. Cela va sans dire que ces atlas sont d'une valeur inestimable aux linguistes et ethnologues qui s'intéressent à la France ; leurs techniques ne sont pourtant pas les nôtres. Au cours des cent derniers ans s'est établie la légende (véritable ou non : Brun-Trigaud et al. 2005 : 19-20) du dialectologue Edmont qui parcourait les campagnes françaises à vélo, à la recherche de ses prononciations et de ses dialectes, qu'il notait soigneusement ; telle est aussi (plus ou moins) la technique des dialectologues plus récents qui font les recherches des atlas par régions. Nous continuons cette tradition-nous dresserons le plan de la variation phonétique et phonologique que nous trouverons dans les villes d'intérêt-mais nous le ferons avec l'aide des techniques modernes d'enregistrement et d'analyse phonétique, qui n'étaient pas disponibles-ou du moins n'étaient pas faciles-pour les dialectologues des années passées.
15 5 30 3 At both sites, the majority of speakers think there is a local accent • Rural: the grou... more 15 5 30 3 At both sites, the majority of speakers think there is a local accent • Rural: the group thinking there is an accent is significantly younger than the group thinking there isn't • Urban: the group thinking there is an accent is of significantly higher socioeconomic class and occupation than the group thinking there isn't Reasoning: if you don't think there is a specific way of speaking which is different from elsewhere, that's because the local accent is the way you yourself speak. Thus:
- singers would increase the amplitude of H2 to a level above the amplitude of H1 - at least the ... more - singers would increase the amplitude of H2 to a level above the amplitude of H1 - at least the most experienced of the singers would produce a 'singer's formant' - some formant tuning of F1 and possibly F2 would be observed: that is, singers would change the locations of F1 and ...
Langage et société, 2011
Nous présentons ici aux sociolinguistes et dialectologues qui travaillent sur la France un projet... more Nous présentons ici aux sociolinguistes et dialectologues qui travaillent sur la France un projet de recherche en cours, Towards a New Linguistic Atlas of France (« Vers un Nouvel Atlas Linguistique de la France »), afin de solliciter leur opinion et éventuellement de raffiner le projet. Le ...
Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Selected Papers …, 2005
In parts of North-Western Normandy, our present historical knowledge does not show that the limit... more In parts of North-Western Normandy, our present historical knowledge does not show that the limits of Scandinavian settlement coincided with any natu-ral boundaries which might have enforced them, and yet the limits are still in evidence through the Regional French of Normandy ...
Page 1. A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE REGIONAL FRENCH OF NORMANDY Damien John Hall A DISSERTATIO... more Page 1. A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE REGIONAL FRENCH OF NORMANDY Damien John Hall A DISSERTATION in Linguistics Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy ...
This paper reports the first set of results of an investigation into the phonetic correlates of f... more This paper reports the first set of results of an investigation into the phonetic correlates of female altos’ singing (compared to the extensive research which has been done on males’ singing). Based on the author’s previous research (Hall 2003), predictions for this experiment were that when producing a ‘singing’ sound: - singers would increase the amplitude of H2 to a level above the amplitude of H1 - at least the most experienced of the singers would produce a ‘singer’s formant’ - some formant tuning of F1 and possibly F2 would be observed: that is, singers would change the locations of F1 and F2 in order to amplify their sound. The degree to which they needed to do this would depend on f0 frequency. (Two notes on terminology in this paper: 1) H1 here means ‘f0, the leftmost peak in the spectrum’; H2 refers to the peak above f0 in frequency. 2) The terms 'f0' and 'pitch' are interchangeable.) Data were collected from nine singers in this experiment. Analysis in th...
We report on a pilot analysis of two speakers—M, 33, and F, 24, both middle-class—from Le Havre, ... more We report on a pilot analysis of two speakers—M, 33, and F, 24, both middle-class—from Le Havre, France, part of the larger Towards A New Linguistic Atlas of France project. The aim is to isolate features to investigate in greater detail in the full analysis. Two vowel changes are analysed: the merger or separation of /a/ (as in patte /pat/ ‘paw’) and /ɑ/ (pâtes /pɑt/ ‘pasta’), and the fronting of /ɔ/. Most areas of France merge /a/ and /ɑ/ to /a/ [18, 24, 46], but some Normandy speakers separate them [21], as does the regional language Norman, the oral vowel system of which is very close to that of its sister language French [30]. Both speakers analysed here have significant word-list differences between /a/ and /ɑ/. The female speaker also has fronted /ɔ/, a well-known feature of modern informal French [3], but one which has not been found for Norman. The emerging picture is of an urban accent which combines regional features and more widespread urban ones, even among middle-class...
This paper presents findings on VOT variability in voiced and voiceless plosives produced by 159 ... more This paper presents findings on VOT variability in voiced and voiceless plosives produced by 159 speakers from four locations straddling the English-Scottish border. The analysis reveals key effects of both social and phonetic factors, highlighting the importance of both in accounting for variability.
The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users ar... more The version in the Kent Academic Repository may differ from the final published version. Users are advised to check http://kar.kent.ac.uk for the status of the paper. Users should always cite the published version of record.
Journal of French Language Studies
This Special Issue of the Journal of French Language Studies celebrates a recent surge in enthusi... more This Special Issue of the Journal of French Language Studies celebrates a recent surge in enthusiasm for sociolinguistic studies involving the regional languages of France. Taking our cue from the contributions to the volume, which we introduce here, we argue that a changing twenty-first century landscape offers an exciting new agenda for these regional languages (and minority languages more widely), and set out what we see as six key directions for contemporary research.
Journal of French Language Studies
ABSTRACTThis article uses the pronunciation of stressed Intonational Phrase-final /ε/ and /e/ in ... more ABSTRACTThis article uses the pronunciation of stressed Intonational Phrase-final /ε/ and /e/ in two communities in Normandy, France, to illustrate the convergence of two sociolinguistic processes on the same phonological result: increasing application of the Loi de Position. In both communities (one rural and further from Paris, one urban and closer to Paris), there is now no consistent community-wide phonetic distinction between the two phonemes in that environment. It is suggested that the Loi de Position is already widely applied in the rural site, but speakers are still conscious of the formal norm whereby it is not applied; for the urban site, apparent-time changes for this variable reflect changes in Parisian speech. The theoretical implications of the study concerning speakers’ organisation of their vowel-space, and concerning the increasing application of the Loi de Position in the French of France, are examined. These conclusions are reached by per-speaker analysis of F1 a...
SHS Web of Conferences, 2012
Cet article décrit un projet de dialectologie qui a pour but de produire une étude phonétiquephon... more Cet article décrit un projet de dialectologie qui a pour but de produire une étude phonétiquephonologique des accents urbains dans le français du nord de la France. Le projet s'intitule en anglais « Towards A New Linguistic Atlas of France » (TANLAF), ce qui peut se traduire « Vers un Nouvel Atlas Linguistique de la France ». 1 Des projets semblables n'étant habituels ni en dialectologie ni en sociolinguistique françaises, nous commencerons par un compte-rendu des raisons du projet, et ferons par la suite une description de sa méthodologie. Nous terminerons par un appel aux suggestions de la part de la communauté des linguistes qui travaillent sur le français et la France. 2 La linguistique du projet 2.1 Pourquoi faire une telle étude ? Ce projet représente certes un départ de l'approche traditionnelle de la dialectologie et la sociolinguistique en France. Sauf exceptions, la sociolinguistique française est beaucoup plus interactionnelle que variationniste, se situant beaucoup plus au niveau macrosociolinguistique qu'au niveau micro : elle fait appel aux interactions entre une langue, ses locuteurs et la/les société(s) où elle est parlée, beaucoup plus qu'à la variation linguistique entre individus. Le présent projet, qu'on pourrait appeler de la dialectologie sociolinguistique, cible davantage la variation linguistique entre individus. Nous nous pencherons un moment sur nos raisons de penser qu'une étude variationniste de grande échelle complètera la littérature sociolinguistique française de façon utile. Ensuite, dans les sections 2.2 et seq., nous approfondirons l'explication du projet en examinant de près la description qui en est énoncée cidessus : « une étude phonétique-phonologique des accents urbains dans le français du nord de la France ». Nous pensons que cette étude enrichira la littérature sur la langue française parce que, d'une certaine façon, l'étude se trouve dans la droite ligne de la tradition dialectologique française. Depuis l'Atlas Linguistique de la France (Gilliéron et Edmont 1902-10), la France est connue à juste titre comme le berceau de la dialectologie moderne. La tradition de cet atlas monumental continue jusqu'à ce jour dans la série des Atlas Linguistiques de la France par régions. Cela va sans dire que ces atlas sont d'une valeur inestimable aux linguistes et ethnologues qui s'intéressent à la France ; leurs techniques ne sont pourtant pas les nôtres. Au cours des cent derniers ans s'est établie la légende (véritable ou non : Brun-Trigaud et al. 2005 : 19-20) du dialectologue Edmont qui parcourait les campagnes françaises à vélo, à la recherche de ses prononciations et de ses dialectes, qu'il notait soigneusement ; telle est aussi (plus ou moins) la technique des dialectologues plus récents qui font les recherches des atlas par régions. Nous continuons cette tradition-nous dresserons le plan de la variation phonétique et phonologique que nous trouverons dans les villes d'intérêt-mais nous le ferons avec l'aide des techniques modernes d'enregistrement et d'analyse phonétique, qui n'étaient pas disponibles-ou du moins n'étaient pas faciles-pour les dialectologues des années passées.
15 5 30 3 At both sites, the majority of speakers think there is a local accent • Rural: the grou... more 15 5 30 3 At both sites, the majority of speakers think there is a local accent • Rural: the group thinking there is an accent is significantly younger than the group thinking there isn't • Urban: the group thinking there is an accent is of significantly higher socioeconomic class and occupation than the group thinking there isn't Reasoning: if you don't think there is a specific way of speaking which is different from elsewhere, that's because the local accent is the way you yourself speak. Thus:
- singers would increase the amplitude of H2 to a level above the amplitude of H1 - at least the ... more - singers would increase the amplitude of H2 to a level above the amplitude of H1 - at least the most experienced of the singers would produce a 'singer's formant' - some formant tuning of F1 and possibly F2 would be observed: that is, singers would change the locations of F1 and ...
Langage et société, 2011
Nous présentons ici aux sociolinguistes et dialectologues qui travaillent sur la France un projet... more Nous présentons ici aux sociolinguistes et dialectologues qui travaillent sur la France un projet de recherche en cours, Towards a New Linguistic Atlas of France (« Vers un Nouvel Atlas Linguistique de la France »), afin de solliciter leur opinion et éventuellement de raffiner le projet. Le ...
Penn Working Papers in Linguistics, Selected Papers …, 2005
In parts of North-Western Normandy, our present historical knowledge does not show that the limit... more In parts of North-Western Normandy, our present historical knowledge does not show that the limits of Scandinavian settlement coincided with any natu-ral boundaries which might have enforced them, and yet the limits are still in evidence through the Regional French of Normandy ...
Page 1. A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE REGIONAL FRENCH OF NORMANDY Damien John Hall A DISSERTATIO... more Page 1. A SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE REGIONAL FRENCH OF NORMANDY Damien John Hall A DISSERTATION in Linguistics Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy ...