Lexical Classes in Montreal French: The Case of (ε:)
Lexical Classes in Montreal French: The Case of (ε:)
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蒙特利尔法语的词汇类：(ε:) 的案例
DOI：
10.1177/002383099203500301
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发表时间：
1992
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
W. Kemp
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作者：
M. Yaeger;W. Kemp
对蒙特利尔法语白话 (MFV) 中 (εe:) 的使用的感知研究表明，不同说话者对该音系单位使用的元音颜色存在极大差异。大多数 1920 年之前出生的男性都使用凸起的 [e:] 认识，这一点已被上个世纪的骨科医师和本世纪的语音学家所证实。然而，年长的工人阶级女性经常使用较低的 [æ:] 或 [a:] 核心。二战后出生的人无论性别或社会地位如何，都使用更开放的发音。大多数年长的说话者在实现 (ε:) 时使用双元音的比例很高，特别是在重读音节和特定词汇类别中，而年轻的中产阶级男性和女性比年长的中产阶级说话者更一致地消除双元音化，当然也比他们的工人阶级同龄人更一致。因此，元音颜色和双元音化的变化被发现与说话者的年龄、性别、社会地位以及特定的词汇类别有关。结果与加拿大法语音系学的分析、词汇音系学理论和声音变化的社会语言学理论相关。
A perceptual study of the use of (εe:) in the Montreal French Vernacular (MFV) reveals that there is extreme variation in the vowel color used by different speakers for this phonological unit. Most men born before 1920 use a raised [e:] realization attested to by orthoepists for the last century, as well as by phoneticians in this century. Older working class women, however, often use a lowered [æ:] or [a:] nucleus. Speakers born after World War II use the more open pronunciation whatever their sex or social standing. Most older speakers use a high percentage of diphthongs in their realization of (ε:), especially in stressed syllables and in specific lexical classes, while younger middle class men and women eliminate diphthongization more consistently than older middle class speakers, and certainly more than their working class age mates. Thus, variation in vowel color and diphthongization are found to be related to a speaker's age, sex, and social standing, as well as to specific lexical classes. The results are relevant to the analysis of Canadian French phonology, as well as to the theory of lexical phonology and to sociolinguistic theories of sound change.