Stability and variation in the pronunciation of French: A corpus-based approach
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This contribution relates to the project "La Phonologie du Français Contemporain" (PFC), the largest and most ambitious survey of modern French ever conceived. The PFC project involves over thirty researchers from a variety of countries and aims at the recording, partial transcription and phonetic analysis of over 600 speakers from the francophone world. It aims at a broad coverage of varieties of contemporary French by selecting groups of speakers from approximately 60 different locations in the francophone world. So far around 600 speakers have already been recorded in various parts of the francophone world beside France, including Belgium, Burkina Fasso, Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, Louisianne, and Switzerland. The recordings involve formal and informal conversation, the reading aloud of a word-list and a passage. Current work conducted on the database ranges from auditory exploitation of the data to automatic speech recognition via classical experimental phonetics. We address theoretical and empirical issues related to liaison as well as vowel systems, and examine sociogeographical variation and changes in progress in these respects within French, using a variety of quantitative methods for the empirical assessment of phonological hypotheses.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".