Existe-t-il une signification sociale stable et univoque de la palatalisation/affrication en français ? Étude sur la perception de variantes non standard

Cyril Trimaille (1) , Maria Candea (2) , Iryna Lehka-Lemarchand (3)

1 LIDILEM - LInguistique et DIdactique des Langues Étrangères et Maternelles
2 RFC - RFC - Recherche sur le français contemporain - EA 1483
3 DYSOLA - Dynamiques sociales et langagières

Previous socio-phonetic studies showed that palatalization and/or affrication of plosive dental consonants, often considered by phoneticians to be non-standard and working class variants, are widespread in contemporary French, suggesting an on-going phonetical change process. We investigate whether the use of these variants in a sizeable speech sample induces any particular conscious or unconscious evaluational reaction in ordinary young listeners from two different French big cities. Using broadcast news as a formal context for this study, a perceptual experiment was conducted. Results suggest that the mere presence of a high degree of palatalization/ affrication is not sufficiently salient to trigger off a stigmatizing reaction, and that perception is very dependent on the global context; a complex correlation with other co-occurring features could be inferred from our data.

Mots clés: sociophonetics; French; perception; social variation; palatalization

Mots clés: sociophonetiques; français; variation sociale; palatalisation.

Domaines: Linguistique; Linguistique

Cyril Trimaille, Maria Candea, Iryna Lehka-Lemarchand. Existe-t-il une signification sociale stable et univoque de la palatalisation/affrication en français ? Étude sur la perception de variantes non standard. pp.00, 2012. ⟨halshs-00766763⟩