Intonation des questions totales en français langue étrangère : suffit-il d'enseigner et apprendre la montée finale ?

Takeki Kamiyama (1) , Megumi Sakamoto (2)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018
2 Sophia University Phonetics Laboratory

It is generally taught that yes-no questions in French are formed with a rising intonation at the end. A comparison of 5 short yes-no questions read by 8 Japanese learners and 3 French speakers shows that the learners tended: 1) to realise a smaller final rise than the native speakers, 2) not to realise the deletion or suppression of F0 declination tendency often observed with native speakers. A perception test was conducted with 25 native French listeners using Mbrola (to imitate the prosody produced by the Japanese learners). The results show that the subjects judged only 50% of the sentences with Japanese learners' duration and F0 patterns as questions. These findings suggest that the deletion of F0 declination plays an important role, and that it is worth being taught explicitly to learners.

Mots clés: intonation; total question; French as a foreign language; Japanese-speaking learners; F0 declination

Domaines: Linguistique

Takeki Kamiyama, Megumi Sakamoto. Intonation des questions totales en français langue étrangère : suffit-il d'enseigner et apprendre la montée finale ?. XXVIIIèmes Journées d'étude sur la Parole, May 2010, Mons, Belgique. pp.393-396. ⟨halshs-00678238⟩