Role of segmental and suprasegmental cues in the perception of Maghrebian-accented French

Philippe Boula de Mareüil (1) , Belynda Brahimi (1) , Cédric Gendrot (2)

1 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur
2 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

The general objective of this study is to clear up the relative
importance of prosody in the identification of a foreign accent.
The methodology we propose, based on the prosody
transplantation paradigm, can be applied to different
languages or language varieties. Here, it is applied to
Magrhrebian-accented French: we wanted to study what is
perceived when the segmental and suprasegmental
characteristics of Maghrebian and native French speakers are
crossed. Results obtained with French listeners (accent degree
rating task) and Algerian listeners (origin identification task)
converge and suggest that the articulation of phonemes
overrides prosody to account for Maghrebian accents in
French.

Mots clés: segmental; suprasegmental; perception; Maghrebian; French

Domaines: Linguistique

Philippe Boula de Mareüil, Belynda Brahimi, Cédric Gendrot. Role of segmental and suprasegmental cues in the perception of Maghrebian-accented French. International Conference on Speech and Language Processing, Oct 2004, South Korea. pp.341-345. ⟨halshs-00188087⟩